Rachel Thomson 🐘
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Rachel Thomson 🐘
@rachelliephant.bsky.social
🌍 PhD Elephant Cognition, Personality & HEC
🧠 Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology
🐘 University of Portsmouth / Elephants for Africa
🎓 1+3 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership
🐭 MRes Neuroscience / MSc Research Methods
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
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Rachel Thomson 🐘
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...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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 🤩🐘🐾
September 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Face to face with my study species: the African savanna elephant 🩶🐘 #SCDTP
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
May 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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
April 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM