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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 15h

💡 Can we count elephants from space? 🐘 Wilks et al. share their experience investigating the potential use of satellite surveys to identify elephants in the heterogeneous terrain of Botswana, Africa. 👇 Read here! buff.ly/v9c8ox7

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thankful to be awarded a Parkes Foundation Small #Grant to help me with the #research costs of conducting my #PhD #fieldwork in the beautiful Makgadikgadi-Nxai Pans National Park!! 🩵🇧🇼 grateful for my tent life here with Elephants for Africa 🏕️🤩🐘

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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our very own @tapintothewild.bsky.social presented work from two of her PhD chapters on #elephant #postures and human-elephant interactions at @ecbb2026.bsky.social last week!! Amazing work and fabulous talk 🐘🌍👏🏻 #ECBB2026

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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📣 Call for Papers! Guest Editors (Victor Ajuwon, Laura S. Lewis, and Tiago Monteiro) for Animal Cognition are seeking papers for a special issue on curiosity and information-seeking in animals. Manuscripts due November 30, 2026! Curious already? Check it out 👇🏼 link.springer.com/collections/...

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Curiosity and Information-Seeking in Animals

Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to investigate and gain information, is fundamental to human intelligence. However, like other cognitive capacities that ...

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A sunny morning in Winchester presenting a workshop at the @theatp.bsky.social Teaching Psychology Conference on animals in #psychology and how students could use zoos to bolster knowledge of research design! 🐘🍎🧠👩🏻‍🏫

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Grateful to present some of my research about #elephant #personality and its applications for zoo welfare and conservation at the 28th @biaza.bsky.social Research Conference at Colchester Zoo!! An amazing conference to attend and meet incredible scientists at on a brief fieldwork interlude 🐘🩵🧠

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fieldwork dreams: attending @uop-ccep.bsky.social journal club (a super interesting talk by Titir Debnath on #macaques and #human–wildlife #conflict in the Indian Himalayas)… and some grey friends also wanted to listen!! 🐒🏔️🐘

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Grateful to have won a second Jana Robeyst Trust Fund #Grant to help support my research assistant hire 🩵 shoutout to Thatayaone (TT) and his incredible knowledge; from helping me find elephants, to filming them - and for being a calm presence when they come a little too close!! 🤣🐘🎥

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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

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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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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#Fieldwork highlights so far - the commute to work becoming highly flooded with the Boteti River making its first return in years 🚙☔️ camera-trapping and tracking crop-raiding elephants through fields 📸🌽🌾 and elephant focal sampling in the national park! 🐘📹 @scdtp.bsky.social

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Tapinder Sidhu @tapintothewild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We've extended this study to see how many responses we can get in one week! 👉 tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr Don't miss out on fun #science participation right at your fingertips. Help us understand how we perceive and interpret #elephant behaviour 🐘 💻 🌍 Study link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

First day at school vibes!! Starting Easter visiting the #Okavango Research Institute, meeting my affiliated supervisor Dr. Tempe Adams for lots of exciting chats, and attending fascinating talks on #indigenous #knowledge in social sciences research 🩵🐘🇧🇼

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In this study of behavioural syndromes in giant pandas 🐼, proactive pandas had lower stress hormone levels 📈 and were better at exploring and problem solving💡. These findings can help identify pandas best suited for reintroduction and translocation. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

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Panda profiles: integrating personality, cognition, and physiology for conservation success

Abstract. The alarming decline in biodiversity necessitates a comprehensive understanding of animal adaptations to environmental changes. Behavioural syndr

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🚨📣 Calling everyone who lives or works with #elephants !! 📣🚨 help us to share, spread the word and find those to complete a short study on #elephant #posture for some fab research by @tapintothewild.bsky.social 🩵 how many responses can we get in a week? 🐘🌍🧠 Link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr

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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It was our #CCEPScienceDay yesterday!! We put on a fab day of presentations, poster sessions and activities to talk to students about our staff and student projects 📚🌍👩🏻‍🔬 and showcase the range of research happening across our centre!! 🐴🐶🐘🙊🦧

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Landed in Botswana for my new fieldwork season !! Picked up my car, drove to the bush and settled into my tent. Now to wait for the eles!! 🐘🩶🇧🇼 @scdtp.bsky.social

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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We had a fab journal club today featuring the work of Jennifer Linden - a PhD student from @zslofficial.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk - talking to us all about her research on African #wilddog conservation and climate change! 🌍🐶🐆

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I used to read these A-Level Review magazines all the time at 6th Form… and now I’m published in one!! Check out the latest #PsychologyReview to read all about ethics in animal research, with stories from all my study species and discussion points for students! 🐭🐘🔬🙊 @hachettelearning.bsky.social

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Global Sanctuary for Elephants @globalelephants.org · 11/12/2025

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, passed away on Monday at the age of 83. Iain's work showed the world how deeply intelligent, social, and important wild elephants are, laying the groundwork for their protection. ow.ly/40L250XHymc

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Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant conservationist, dies aged 83

His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Fab day yesterday at the SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference listening to a range of fab research presentations - shoutout to my research centre pals who smashed their talks! 😍🐘🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Prepping some (colourful!) slides to chat to some @liverpooluni.bsky.social undergraduate students later!! 🐘🎓

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Grateful to have been given the chance to present some captive elephant personality results at the @biaza.bsky.social Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Conference 2025 🐘🐼🦁 a really inspiring couple of days and fab first conference!! ✨ @scdtp.bsky.social

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Starting to look at the data from my zoo visits looking at captive elephant personality! 🧠 Throwback to visiting Blackpool Zoo with my research assistant thanks to a generous @animal-welfare.bsky.social grant 🤩🐘🐾

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thrilled to have won Best Poster at the Uni of Portsmouth’s Festival of Doctoral Research #UoPDocFest last week! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat 🐘🧠💜 @scdtp.bsky.social

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Face to face with my study species: the African savanna elephant 🩶🐘 #SCDTP

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very grateful for my Jana Robyest Trust Fund grant and Portsmouth Psychology grant for getting me on a plane to Botswana - and to the Elephants for Africa research camp! 🐘🩶 Here to scope out the national park for my PhD field season next year; what a beautiful place 🌍🇧🇼 #SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social

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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Throwback to the start of the year when I helped organise the @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference! Can confirm designing the programme is not as stressful as helping open the whole thing 😂🌅🎤💜 #scdtp

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