Samuele Ramellini

@sramellini.bsky.social

4.2K followers 990 following 76 posts

PhD student at ANU (Ecology and Evolution) studying social behaviour of superb fairy-wrens

MSc in Biogeosciences, BSc in Natural Sciences @LaStatale, Milano

#birds #animalbehaviour #sociality

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Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hey! Got a bunch of new followers, so time for an intro!

I'm a PhD student studying the multilevel society of the Superb fairy-wren. Passionate about all things birds, ecology and behaviour!

Stay tuned for science content and fieldwork stories!

#ornithology #behaviour #birds #sociality #ecology

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Anne Peters @annempeters.bsky.social · 19h

This is one of the most beautiful areas of the world. Please read and consider to add your support and appeal WA EPA's recommendation for fracking in the Kimberley. Deadline is 10 February 2026!

Anne Peters @annempeters.bsky.social · 19h

www.environskimberley.org.au/epa_submissi...

The WA EPA have recommended in favour of fracking in the Kimberley

Saving the nature of the Kimberley

www.environskimberley.org.au

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Samuele Ramellini

Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 2d

The principles of experimental design in ecology and evolution has 20k downloads, but unfortunately I still have to reject ~20% of papers without review because they lack replication at the right level. More discussion among mentors and mentees please.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution

Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 4d

I hope to see some of you in Bielefeld for this upcoming workshop on measuring and modeling plasticity. ECRs in and around Germany with a penchant for statistics should consider applying while spots remain available!

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini, Benjamin Wildermuth

Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 5d

Highly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social

Apply now:
apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Catriona Seth, Richard Moorhead , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Catriona Seth, Richard Moorhead, Samuele Ramellini

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Abstract
Al assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of Al.
We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that Al-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation - particularly in safety-critical domains.

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini, Sarah L. Dobney

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

New research from #BiologyLetters: Why do birds construct nest tails? A test of disruptive camouflage in the blue manakin royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #Behaviour #Evolution

Reposted by Christoph Scherber, Stephen D. Murphy, Samuele Ramellini

Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 6d

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg.
Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Job advertisement

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 6d

Dinomyrmex gigas, the giant forest ant (large workers are ca. 28mm) dissolves territorial disputes with other colonies via a ritualized behavior called “front leg boxing”. This allows the ants to maintain territorial boundaries while avoiding escalated conflict. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 7d

The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems.

Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 7d

📢NEW paper: Out today in #BehavioralEcology is the latest result of dedicated #fieldwork by brilliant #PhD student #YouZhou from @biologyanu.bsky.social

To Flee or Wait and See? Response of Incubating White-browed Scrubwrens to Information about Danger

#birds #bioacoustics

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

White-browed scrubwren in Australia looking to attend cryptic nest; photo by Robert Magrath

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 7d

A comparative analysis of trait data combined with a mathematical model suggests that dietary specialization drives selection towards the smallest and largest body sizes in terrestrial mammals, as generalists outcompete specialists at intermediate sizes🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diverging selection on body size in specialist terrestrial mammals - Nature Ecology & Evolution

www.nature.com

Reposted by Ben C. Sheldon, Simon Roux, Craig R. Primmer , and 3 more Ben C. Sheldon, Simon Roux, Craig R. Primmer, Valeria Mazza, Orlando Schwery, Samuele Ramellini

Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 7d

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · 8d

There seems to be no specific pattern. High nests on trees seem to be more likely towards the end of the season but no real pattern for ground ones. They still place the nest in shrubs/grassy plants. So I guess it might depend on the structure of the specific plant

Reposted by Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Samuele Ramellini

Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in doing a #PhD? Passionate about biodiversity monitoring and technology development?? Def check out this advertisement from Uni #Bonn and #LIB! Deadline Feb 17th - 4 year position!

Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · 8d

They so are! Very rarely on the ground though. Normally around 40-50cm, but it can really vary, from 0cm to 5/6 m (occasionally)

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Nature @nature.com · 11d

Nature research paper: Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa

go.nature.com/4a0Ae7X

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa - Nature

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria burden in Africa by 2050 highlight the urgent need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems to safeguard progress towards malaria eradication.

go.nature.com

Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · 11d

A small summary of the huge effort for the @fairywrensanu.bsky.social project!! The 2025 breeding season has just ended and we're already preparing for the next non breeding season!

ANU Superb Fairywren Project @fairywrensanu.bsky.social · 11d

Today, the last fledgies successfully left their nest, marking the end of the 2025 breeding season! We monitored 57 nests and banded 71 chicks this year 🐣 let's hope all the young balls of dust do well 💪🏻 #SFW_ANU #birds #ecology #superbfairywren @sramellini.bsky.social @franhckr.bsky.social

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ANU Superb Fairywren Project @fairywrensanu.bsky.social · 11d

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 12d

Me rolling up to the landfill ready to misidentify a bunch of gulls

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Simon Roux, Craig R. Primmer , and 6 more Brian J. Enquist, Simon Roux, Craig R. Primmer, Per Ahlberg, Jason Stajich, Stephen D. Murphy, Jesse R. Lasky, Susanne Lachmuth, Samuele Ramellini

Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 12d

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Samuele Ramellini

Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 12d

Wow, this is spectacular! Evolution of beak size in an urban population of juncos in response to the loss of supplementary food (bird feeders) during the COVID pandemic, and subsequent regression. Is the UCLA campus the new Daphne Major?
pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Geneviève Gore, Pavel Pipek , and 1 more Margot C. Finn, Geneviève Gore, Pavel Pipek, Samuele Ramellini

Nature @nature.com · 12d

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem

go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

go.nature.com

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 12d

Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Phylogenetic regression and structural equation modelling of environmental, social and life history traits across the primate clade indicates correlates for same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB), and sugges...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Joseph A. Tobias, Richard D. Gregory, Stephen D. Murphy , and 4 more Joseph A. Tobias, Richard D. Gregory, Stephen D. Murphy, Romain Lorrillière, Joan Dudney, Neil A. Gilbert, Samuele Ramellini

Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 13d

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini, Billur Bektaş

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 14d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 1 Geographic distribution of phenological observation sites across Europe captured in the PEP725 database.

Reposted by Simon Roux, Samuele Ramellini

Diana Kwon @dianakwon.bsky.social · 14d

Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Eleanor Bath @eleanorbath.bsky.social · 14d

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

Reposted by Thilina D. Surasinghe, Samuele Ramellini

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16d

📖 Published!

CISO, a deep learning-based method for species distribution modelling Conditioned on Incomplete Species Observations 🖥️ 🦌 🌍

🔎 Find out more:

buff.ly

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

Konrad Lorenz Research Center @klf-univienna.bsky.social · 17d

📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Reposted by Romain Lorrillière, Samuele Ramellini

Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 19d

New paper links Salmonellosis disease dynamics to avian irruptions mediated by transmission at bird feeders - with subsequent spillover to humans causing severe illness and death 🪶🌎 #ornithology #UKBirding
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #BirdFeeding #Rethink @mwtingley.bsky.social

A climate-mediated ecological cascade leads to salmonellosis outbreaks in the United States. Temperature differences in successive summers are associated with differences in tree cone production in high-elevation and high-latitude forests (Top row), such that a warm summer followed by a cold summer is associated with a drop in cone production the following year (Top Right panel). Cone production is negatively associated with facultative bird migrations (irruptions) of eight seed-eating species (Middle row), such that when cone numbers are low, birds are more likely to irrupt in large numbers (Middle row, Right panel). When irruptions of pine siskins (S. pinus) occur, more songbirds are often found infected with, or dead from, salmonellosis (Bottom Right panel).

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