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Chris Faulkes

@moleratsarego.bsky.social
229 followers 220 following 6 posts

Evolutionary Ecologist at Queen Mary University of London, working on social evolution in mammals, especially mole-rats. Other likes: mosh pits, drawing and trying to shoot longbow.

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Chris Faulkes @moleratsarego.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Mole-rats are go! More super powers😃
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Dr Cara Croft @caracroft.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20... A few comments about our work on tau in naked mole rats with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social @moleratsarego.bsky.social and how we hope it will bring us closer to new dementia treatments. Part of #aruk christmas campaign #neuroskyence #alzsky #dementia
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How the cognitively resilient can swerve dementia
Scientists are looking at how DNA differences could protect people from dementia – and how this can help others
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Chris Faulkes @moleratsarego.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Always exciting to see our local (North London) urban Kingfisher today on a favourite perch, blending in with the graffiti!😃 Often possible see 10-15 bird species on a 20 minute walk with the dog along the New River.
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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
go.bsky.app/QKajPgc A starter pack for social evolution! Lots of space left for anyone who would like to be added
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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Rather late to the party with today's #TerribleLizards, but here's the new episode which is all about the new pterosaur Skiphosoura and what it tells us about pterosaur #evolution. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls10e11-ski...
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Terrible Lizards: TLS10E11 Skiphosoura - the pterosaur of the gaps
Skiphosoura – the pterosaur of the gaps So last week Dave had a new paper out and this time it’s a new pterosaur, named Skiphosoura bavarica (the sword tail of Bavaria) and it is both really interesti...
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Chris Faulkes @moleratsarego.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I must agree with this post, I'm now listening to this podcast for the second time and perhaps surprisingly there is some very cool science discussed in it too. I have bought three books off the back of it! Currently reading the excellent "Losing Eden" by Lucy Jones (discussed in Episode 2).
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BBC Radio 4 - Witch
India Rakusen finds out what it means to call yourself a witch today.
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Chris Faulkes @moleratsarego.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Moving from "Twatter" over to here now, it will take time to build up followers again. I haven't posted for ages there as it just got so awful! In an attempt to kickstart things again, here is not a newly emerged alien, but a recently new born naked mole-rat (with another in the background)!😃
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Alma Mary @amaryfr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉 We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀 Read in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄 #AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
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Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Positive effect of a diggable substrate on the behaviour of a captive naked mole rat colony
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