George Hodgson
@ghodgson.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at City University of Hong Kong, studying sociality and animal behaviour... Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄
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George Hodgson
@ghodgson.bsky.social
· Jul 9
Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social
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Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
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“His parents said their last conversation with their son was a couple days before his death. They talked about repairs he had done to the garage door of his home. The worker was a Latino man, and they said with all that was happening in Minneapolis he gave the man a $100 tip.”
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”
@washingtonpost.com
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January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
“His parents said their last conversation with their son was a couple days before his death. They talked about repairs he had done to the garage door of his home. The worker was a Latino man, and they said with all that was happening in Minneapolis he gave the man a $100 tip.”
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January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Kew Gardens offers travel bursaries for delegates from low-income countries to attend the symposium on plants and fungi from June 29-July 1, 2026. Apply by March 16, 2026. More info: kew.org/sotwpf-symposium #conference
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Kew Gardens offers travel bursaries for delegates from low-income countries to attend the symposium on plants and fungi from June 29-July 1, 2026. Apply by March 16, 2026. More info: kew.org/sotwpf-symposium #conference
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The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
www.ucu.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.
This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
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🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species
"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf
"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf
January 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species
"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf
"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf
👀 congrats @zekerowe.bsky.social !
🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩
🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰
Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.
🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰
Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 AM
👀 congrats @zekerowe.bsky.social !
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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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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Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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2026. Drones reveal how feral horse units keep boundaries phys.org/news/2026-01...
Drones reveal how feral horse units keep boundaries
For social animals, encounters between rival groups can often lead to conflict. While some species avoid this by maintaining fixed territories, others, like the feral horses, live in a "multilevel soc...
phys.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:23 AM
2026. Drones reveal how feral horse units keep boundaries phys.org/news/2026-01...
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Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
January 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Thread of photos from Tamolitch Falls (Blue Pool) trail in Oregon.
January 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Thread of photos from Tamolitch Falls (Blue Pool) trail in Oregon.
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Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor)
January 20, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor)
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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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I’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week!
Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines.
As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social
Get em at SquidFacts.net
Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines.
As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social
Get em at SquidFacts.net
January 18, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week!
Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines.
As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social
Get em at SquidFacts.net
Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines.
As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social
Get em at SquidFacts.net
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📣 Delighted to share that my inaugural lecture, Social by nature, from animal social minds to inclusive science cultures, is coming up.
📅 11 Feb 2026, 18:00 GMT | 💻 Online & Cambridge (www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...). A fitting way to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
📅 11 Feb 2026, 18:00 GMT | 💻 Online & Cambridge (www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...). A fitting way to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Social by nature: from animal minds to inclusive Science communities - ARU
Inaugural lecture at ARU, Professor Claudia Wascher, explores what it means to be social in the animal kingdom and in the scientific community.
www.aru.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 PM
📣 Delighted to share that my inaugural lecture, Social by nature, from animal social minds to inclusive science cultures, is coming up.
📅 11 Feb 2026, 18:00 GMT | 💻 Online & Cambridge (www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...). A fitting way to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
📅 11 Feb 2026, 18:00 GMT | 💻 Online & Cambridge (www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...). A fitting way to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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I don't think I'm being dramatic when I say that workloads going from 5 person teams to 1 person has the potential to harm. It's egregious.
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I don't think I'm being dramatic when I say that workloads going from 5 person teams to 1 person has the potential to harm. It's egregious.
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Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Hello, I’m Jas!
I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂↕️
I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.
I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚
#portfolioday
I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂↕️
I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.
I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚
#portfolioday
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Hello, I’m Jas!
I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂↕️
I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.
I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚
#portfolioday
I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂↕️
I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures.
I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚
#portfolioday
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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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January 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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I'm late but I figured I might as well join #portfolioday
I'm Fen/Valv and I make #reptile figurines, paint minis, sometimes talk about DnD and Kpop while also reposting cool artists!
I'm Fen/Valv and I make #reptile figurines, paint minis, sometimes talk about DnD and Kpop while also reposting cool artists!
January 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I'm late but I figured I might as well join #portfolioday
I'm Fen/Valv and I make #reptile figurines, paint minis, sometimes talk about DnD and Kpop while also reposting cool artists!
I'm Fen/Valv and I make #reptile figurines, paint minis, sometimes talk about DnD and Kpop while also reposting cool artists!