Awani
@awanib.bsky.social
PhD candidate at @univie.ac.at working on social integration and object play in common ravens. Interested in social behaviour, cognition, evolution.
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Awani
@awanib.bsky.social
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✨New paper✨
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
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Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦⬛
Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦⬛
Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
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New paper out!
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
New paper out!
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
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Paper alert ⚠️⚠️⚠️. Check out our last preprint on bird gestures. Great work By Mylene and collegue and my first empirical paper on non-primates :-). Not only do we confirm that the "after-you" gesture is indeed symbolic in tits but we also found that nestlings use this gesture for another function.
New preprint on visual communication!
Ontogenic shift in the usage and function of a symbolic bird gesture.
With my student Valentine Ouvry and colleagues Thierry Lengagne & @tozbu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Ontogenic shift in the usage and function of a symbolic bird gesture.
With my student Valentine Ouvry and colleagues Thierry Lengagne & @tozbu.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Paper alert ⚠️⚠️⚠️. Check out our last preprint on bird gestures. Great work By Mylene and collegue and my first empirical paper on non-primates :-). Not only do we confirm that the "after-you" gesture is indeed symbolic in tits but we also found that nestlings use this gesture for another function.
✨New paper✨
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
✨New paper✨
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?
We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
Avian Ecologist
Salary - £31,942 - £33,898 Depending on experience Hybrid working (50/50) Location: Edinburgh Closing date: 16th January 2026 We are looking for an enthusiastic Avian Ecologist to join our team in Edi...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
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Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
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I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis
Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherite...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A very nice end to the year: my PhD work on the development of differentiated social relationships in wild Asian elephants is now published in Ethology!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Young Asian Elephant Calves Show Differentiated Social Relationships With Conspecifics
We studied spatial and behavioural interactions between young calves (< 6 months old) and conspecific females to understand social ontogeny in a wild Asian elephant population. We found differentiate...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A very nice end to the year: my PhD work on the development of differentiated social relationships in wild Asian elephants is now published in Ethology!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
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Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
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Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026:
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD
2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD
#AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
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Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
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JOB ALERT! 🦜🔭🌿
Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research?
The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK.
More info & how to apply 👇
Hurry! Closes 15 Dec
@salforduni.bsky.social
Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research?
The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK.
More info & how to apply 👇
Hurry! Closes 15 Dec
@salforduni.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
JOB ALERT! 🦜🔭🌿
Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research?
The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK.
More info & how to apply 👇
Hurry! Closes 15 Dec
@salforduni.bsky.social
Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research?
The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK.
More info & how to apply 👇
Hurry! Closes 15 Dec
@salforduni.bsky.social
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The University of Exeter has 4 fully funded PhD studentships starting September 2026. Details and deadlines: "Weaponry in Fiddler Crabs" (1/8/26) https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=5758. More info on other projects available. #phd
NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship | University of Exeter
NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The University of Exeter has 4 fully funded PhD studentships starting September 2026. Details and deadlines: "Weaponry in Fiddler Crabs" (1/8/26) https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=5758. More info on other projects available. #phd
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The Newton International Fellowships will open on 15 January.
Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Newton International Fellowships will open on 15 January.
Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way:
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
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PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!
We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.
Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84
#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!
We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.
Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84
#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!
We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.
Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84
#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!
We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.
Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84
#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
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Affenberg Research Station is looking for motivated students ready for their master internship! Want to work with Japanese macaques in Austria? Write to us at affenberg.lewi@univie.ac.at and apply! affenberg.univie.ac.at
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Affenberg Research Station is looking for motivated students ready for their master internship! Want to work with Japanese macaques in Austria? Write to us at affenberg.lewi@univie.ac.at and apply! affenberg.univie.ac.at
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The problems with academic publishing in one graph. The big for-profit publishers get product for free and sell it back to us. Their profits rival those from the big tech companies. This is money that could have supported research, teaching and graduate students.
From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The problems with academic publishing in one graph. The big for-profit publishers get product for free and sell it back to us. Their profits rival those from the big tech companies. This is money that could have supported research, teaching and graduate students.
From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
From: danielroelfs.com/pos...
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We kindly invite every PhD candidate to present their research to the CoBeNe community at the PhD academy. It is an excellent opportunity to practice presenting in a friendly environment and receive input on the topic.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025!
ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025!
ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We kindly invite every PhD candidate to present their research to the CoBeNe community at the PhD academy. It is an excellent opportunity to practice presenting in a friendly environment and receive input on the topic.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025!
ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...
Abstract Submission Deadline: 01.12.2025!
ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
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PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
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Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!
We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!