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Eamonn Wooster

@predator-smarts.bsky.social
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Charles Sturt University Interested in why and how animals behave the way they do www.eifwooster.org

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney: To publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I am recruiting for a 2-year postdoc position with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3n88uv2p Deadline: 20 Dec 2026 Start date: Flexible in 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) | Oceanic Collective Intelligence
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join this collective effort in 2027, focusing in particular on questions concerning social foraging and collective behavior in two oceanic predator-prey sys...
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Do i have anyone on here who is an expert on Anomalurus species? Particularly interested in diet. Send me a DM : )
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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cool video by National Geographic Society on the dolphin-fisher wildlife intelligence project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbV... Great footage from our latest field season 'blocking out all the noise' to discover how dolphins and fishers work together. @oregonstate.edu @scienceanu.bsky.social
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Understanding how dolphins and humans cooperate
YouTube video by National Geographic Society
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS
In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...
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Measuring the edges of species' geographic ranges
The fundamental unit of spatial ecology is a species range: the geographical area that it occupies. Species ranges are delineated by range edges (also known as boundaries or limits). Why range edg...
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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David Kikuchi @birdsnakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Long-marinating project with Maggie Simon is finally out in Ecology today! We ask how social learning changes predator-prey population dynamics: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Social learning in predators: Indirect effects let novel prey exclude familiar prey
Predation is a fundamental ecological process. Social learning by predators is ubiquitous. However, social learning is not incorporated into most ecological theories of predator–prey dynamics. We rep...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/09/2026
Learning over an extended childhood has been fundamental to survival during human evolutionary history. Researchers show how Sumatran orangutans use their 8 years of dependency to master a broad diet, necessary for independent survival. Read more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/4xDjOfh
Learning over an extended childhood has been fundamental to survival during human evolutionary history. Researchers show how Sumatran orangutans use their 8 years of dependency to master a broad diet, necessary for independent survival. They find that infants have individual tendencies to engage in social and individual learning, which together determine diet profile breadth acquired by independence. The finding offers insights into the evolutionary roots of the complex learning mechanisms that characterize humans.

Photo: Suzi Eszterhas/Minden
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Autumn in Gariward/Grampian National Park : )
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.
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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...
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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist
The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read this paper! Very cool
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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excited to share our new paper on Fundamental and Realised Behaviours - a new way to think about assemblage-level behavioural variation through space (+time) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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Fundamental and realised behaviours structure geographic variation in ecological assemblages
Animal behaviours shape ecological dynamics, from species distributions to ecosystem function. These dynamics emerge from the behaviours of multiple i…
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How are fire regimes changing and how will animals adapt to these changes? @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and I use "fire regime velocity" to try and predict how animals might adapt to rapidly changing fire regimes. Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Congrats Bob!
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New opinion paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on “Evolutionary spandrels in collective animal behaviour”: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nffxcZ3X7...
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday was subjected to a racially driven witch hunt. Far worse accusations or even confirmed cases of academic misconduct have received scant media attention. There should be an inquiry into media behaviour, bias and ethics. This can’t go unaccounted or happen again www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is something I hadn't thought about explicitly before but now once you do, how could you ever willingly expose yourself to this risk?? "Using generative AI (for writing) inherently exposes to the risk of (potentially) career-ending accusations of plagiarism"
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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Science peeps, please re-share! We're hiring for a level D, research-only position. Despite the weird job title it's very broadly molecular ecology, evolution, or -omics more broadly. Must already have the right to work in Australia. external-jobs.csu.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...
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Vacancies - Jobs @ Charles Sturt - Details - Associate Professor of Molecular Diagnostics
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Coltman www.nature.com/articles/nat... just passed 1000 cites GoogleScholar. Brought to the fore that selective hunting can lead to evolutionary change, leading to much debate, gnashing of teeth. Pigeon et al's update answered stats objections, is better paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 06/08/2026
Our August issue is out now! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🌊 Algal blooms 🦋 Butterfly range shifts 🐦 Passerine body plan evolution Cover image from Arbon et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image for the August 2026 issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution  showing a dwarf mongoose standing on a tree branch. The headline reads "Intergroup rivalries"
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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📣New paper! How does the sleeping brain help us to integrate new experiences while managing memories from the past? For his PhD work, @sabbaspoor.bsky.social recorded hippocampal ensembles in freely moving monkeys and found something unexpected. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧠📈👩‍🔬#OpenAccess
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Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques - Nature Neuroscience
In macaques, old memories, relative to new ones, are supported by more stable and interconnected cell assemblies. New-biased and old-biased assemblies reactivate during overnight sleep and can sometim...
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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@pattfinnerty.bsky.social might be able to help - he just got an Aus/US one
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The ARC has released their new set of grant schemes ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... Before implementing them, they’re now going to “consult with the sector”. Hopefully genuinely, not just with a few disengaged DVCRs. In the meantime, there’ll be another round of Discovery Projects (DP28).
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I love the follow along!! Feel like i'm missing out slightly less
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
jungle bat, Panama
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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out today. Interested in how animal groups pre-emptively adjust their behaviour to a landscape of intergroup conflict? The culmination of almost daily chats with @andyradford.bsky.social throughout my postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Biological sex is binary, except when it’s not (isogamy). It’s defined by gamete size, except in large-spermed males. It’s binary, but one can be both at once (hermaphrodites), neither (sterile) or switch (clownfish), and it might depend on temperature (crocodiles) or parasites (Wolbachia). (1/3)
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…
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Jenny Green @jennygreen1121.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My 1st first-author paper is out now in Journal of Wildlife Management! 🎉 Using GPS collar data, we investigated how black bears 🐻respond to recreation and development in #YosemiteNationalPark 🧗‍♀️🥾🏕️🏠 Huge thanks to my #UBC and #NPS co-authors! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Using GPS collar data from black bears in Yosemite National Park, we examined how bear spatiotemporal activity in relation to human development shifted during the COVID-19 park closure in 2020. In th...
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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dwarf mongooses change their pre-emptive behaviour relative to the size of their neighbouring rivals🐻🥊 We leveraged 10 years of behaviour and GPS data to investigate the pre-emptive behavioural changes mongooses make to navigate a landscape of intergroup conflict: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
👏Our new paper uses #long-term data... 📚Over 1,600 daily movement tracks, 16,000 sentinel observations & 2,000 sleeping burrow returns 🙏HUGE thanks to the 83 research assistants, 12 field managers, 13 MSc students & 5 PhD students who contributed to the datasets. #awesome doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Dwarf mongooses climbing over data-collection notebooks at field site in South Africa
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Why would you give this any airtime at all?
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New mechanism for magnetic sensing in pigeons 🧭 Homing pigeons use magnetically responsive immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, helping them navigate without visual cues like the sun. Published in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @unibonn.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
✨REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!✨ Join us in December for 🧬𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗴🧬- A joint conference by Australasian Evolution Society (AES) and The Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB)🤝. Register at this link: aes.corsizio.com/portal/aes Follow the thread for Key Rego Dates (1/1)
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 17/05/2026
If you’re getting shitty about arxiv penalising obvious AI slop that the authors have not checked then maybe you should rethink academia as being a place for you. As an EIC of a journal I can tell you that this stuff is ridiculously pervasive and takes time away from reviewing actual human work.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Didn't think i'd see a Saga ref on here
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
May issue of TREE out online now! www.cell.com/ecology-evol... Cover article from Eamonn Wooster et al. Featured articles from Kou et al, Morente et al and Noble et al Articles from Chan et al, Chen & Siemann, Lee et al, Oestreich et al, Perrier et al.
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Our paper about how resource variability shapes the ecology of social information is out in this issue of TREE! This eco-evolutionary lens helps explain why collective sensing has evolved across such a wide range of lifeforms, from microbes to blue whales. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Beyond hero and villain narratives in ecology and conservation science 🌎 @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Beyond hero and villain narratives in ecology and conservation science
Abstract. Storytelling is an essential part of science writing. To craft compelling stories, scientists are taught to think of their variables as character
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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust
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