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Sam Ellis

@samellisq.bsky.social

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Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Interested in general but especially in life history evolution and social behaviour.

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Brilliant talk from. @libbychaps.bsky.social presenting her work on sociality ontogeny, and vigilance in rabbits at @isbe2026.bsky.social in an absolutely huge room!

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Brilliant plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social at #ASABSpring2026 . Science! Advice! Ants! And a mention of me! In short everything you could want in a talk.

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

It was a real pleasure to have accidently been involved in Joe Wilde's (not here) paper published last week: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... It has terrifying Bayesian Hidden Markov Models, important insights about dynamic sexual signalling, and a robot crab called "Wavey Dave"- what's not to love?

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Using this method we were able to estimate the lifespans of 32 Female and 33 Male species of toothed whale. Data and methods in these R packages: github.com/samellisq/ma... github.com/samellisq/ma...

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In the paper we develop Bayesian methods to infer the underlying mortality function of toothed whales from age-structured data, while carrying through potential sources of error into the final estimates.

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Very excited to see our paper using historical data to infer toothed whale lifespans published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (@biojlinnsoc.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/biol... w. @darrencroft.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Dan Franks

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Project supervised by me with Andy Young and Lauren Brent based at the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour in Exeter. Get in touch if you have any questions The project is funded by @SWBio_DTP . More details here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behav...

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Excellent cetaceans of the Azores in the Guardian today. But I do feel the need to point out that this male is not "escorting" the group from "300m behind". Females lead the group. And males are reliant on their female group mates to survive. The escorting is the other way round

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Sam Ellis @samellisq.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Come and join our vibrant research community in the Centre for Research in animal Behaviour at Exeter . Get in touch s.ellis@exeter.ac.uk if you have any questions, queries or inquiries. Application deadline 29th October to start in ~Jan 2025

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