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Russell Hill

@prof-r-hill.bsky.social
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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Durham University. Runs Primate & Predator in South Africa exploring primates, predators and human-wildlife interactions, and MammalWeb in the UK. Views my own.

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so excited to finally see the special issue "Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour" fully published: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Huge thanks to my brilliant co-editors @viveknityananda.bsky.social & @nicolakoyama.bsky.social. Special issue grew from @asab.org's 2024 Winter Meeting 🧵
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Sian Green @drsiangreen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Super excited to share that my latest paper from my PhD is now published! 🎉 If you're into camera traps, citizen science, animal individual ID or pine martens this ones for you! 😆 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Big thanks to my co-authors and everyone who in the MammalWeb community who contributed! 📷
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Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage
Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time-consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a....
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
📢 Our latest newsletter has just gone out! Find news on our transition to a charity, info on platform updates, news on projects, an updated spotters league and an image sequence to test your bird-watching prowess. Read it here: eomail1.com/web-version?...
Brown hare. Image: NHMP WarwickshireBadger. Image: BadgerBrigadeRed fox. Image: oldjulesA festival of birds. Image: NHMP Ayrshire
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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Male White rhinoceros walking in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia Photo by Giles Laurent
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Some nice coverage of the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme involving @mammalweb.bsky.social. Sign up to get involved! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends
Hedgehogs’ habitat is shrinking, they’re vulnerable to cars, and pesticides are affecting their food supply. Here’s how we can help them pull through
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
1 week left to apply for this PhD. ✅ Field surveys ✅ Cutting-edge modelling ✅ Collaboration with @ptes-org.bsky.social 🗓 Deadline: 5-1-26 #PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #WildlifeMonitoring @prof-r-hill.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social
Stoat (Credit: Rattus)Badger (Credit: Scottish Wildcat Action)Red fox (Credit: TCV Scotland / NHMP)Roe deer (Credit: Pen Yuan Hsing)
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A fantastic PhD opportunity with the MammalWeb team and PTES. Get in touch if you are interested.
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We recently sent out our November newsletter. Read about a new deer ID guide, the latest platform developments, a tempting offer for training, news of a new competition, and more! If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: tinyurl.com/MWNOV25 #cameratraps #ukwildlife #mammals
Sika deer and pine marten (C) Peter ArchdaleMuntjac (C) NHMP WarwickshireAnnotated red deer (C) NHMP Cornwall (annotated by Marc Baldwin)Red fox (C) NHMP Durham
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A glorious day for the start of the academic year. Let’s hope it is a sign for the year ahead!
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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social ! @prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies Don’t miss it! 👀 youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...
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Russell Hill - EHBEA 2025
YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Great to spend time with Amy White and her dump baboons. So many interesting dimensions to their behaviour!
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Following from the publication of Rahman’s excellent paper he has written a blog about his PhD journey durham-student.org/my-phd-journ...
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My PhD journey: From Bangladesh to Durham and the African Bush – The Durham Student
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 19/06/2025
Read the full research paper, published in People and Nature 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 19/06/2025
Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social ‬ have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our June newsletter is out. It has an NHMP competition update, news on site developments, and a mystery deer to classify. If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ #cameratraps
Fox cubs (Image: NWKCP / NHMP Kent)A mystery stag (Image: jess.marshall / NHMP Dorset)
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Fantastic new paper led by @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social exploring the integration of Ai and citizen science through @mammalweb.bsky.social with @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CJ8QP4...
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Increasing citizen scientist accuracy with artificial intelligence on UK camera‐trap data
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Our May newsletter has just gone out, featuring - among other things - news of a competition happening now, with prizes awarded by @ptes-org.bsky.social! If you don't yet subscribe, check it out here eomail1.com/web-version?... #mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
Roe deer and badger, red fox and rabbit.  Images: NHMP DurhamGrey squirrel and magpie, jay and domestic dog (we think). Images: NHMP Durham.
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A quick post to announce that MammalWeb has finally arrived on Blue Sky! Check out our latest (April) newsletter at tinyurl.com/MW-April or visit the site at www.mammalweb.org. #citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
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MammalWeb Update April 2025
The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
A great opportunity to get involved with MammalWeb and the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme in collaboration with @PTES and @hedgehogsociety x.com/durham_uni/sta…
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MammalWeb @mammalweb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Being new to Blue sky gives us a chance to emphasise that all our wonderful contributors have been recognised by not 1 but 2 awards over recent months! Thanks to @nbntrust.bsky.social for the 2024 group award for wildlife recording, and @durhamcouncil.bsky.social for the 2024 volunteer group award!
Sammy Mason and Russell Hill made it to Liverpool to collect the National Biodiversity Network Group award for wildlife recording, 2024, on behalf of all of our contributors.Members of the MammalWeb team were at the County Durham Environment Awards ceremony to collect the Volunteer Group of the Year award on behalf of all our contributors. Left-to-right: Phil Stephens, Graham Smith, Jim Cokill, Sammy Mason and Russell Hill.
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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Really enjoyed first #EHBEA2025 plenary Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒 Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great first plenary @ehbea2025.bsky.social by @prof-r-hill.bsky.social, who reflected on how the STRANGE framework, devised by @mikemwebster.bsky.social and Christian Rutz, relates to primate fieldwork (e.g. the impact of tolerance of human observers on social network datasets).
Slide on a projector with Russell Hill speaking in front of it.
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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨 We’re so excited to welcome you to #EHBEA2025 — starting THIS MONDAY in Newcastle! 🎉 We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm! What worked, what didn't & more! 📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam... #TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ... tinyurl.com/MWApr25
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MammalWeb Update April 2025
The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Durham river banks looking glorious today as I head to the station London bound.
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Durham University Anthropology @durhamanthropology.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Durham Anthropology are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research & Education). For more information, and to apply, click the link below. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Slightly disturbed to discover that I may have been doing this 30 years, but it was great to talk to the students: qeliz.nalp.org.uk/durham-unive...
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Durham University’s Professor Russell Hill Inspires Biology Students with Insights from 30 Years of Research - Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
Biology students were given a unique opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the world of primatology and wildlife research when Professor Russell Hill from Durham University visited to share his ...
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Russell Hill @prof-r-hill.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Glorious skies this morning for the start of term!
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Le nid de pie @leniddepie.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Different studies show that the presence of human observers is not neutral at all : in some cases, the monkeys are more calm and reassured when humans are present (especially in relation to the presence of predators). These biases need to be taken into account #ASABWinter2024
slide showing the conclusions of the studies : even when habituated the researcher presence has impact on the primate behavior, also these potential biases need to be investigated
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ASAB @asab.org · 12/12/2024
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