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Sarah Dalesman
@sarahdalesman.bsky.social
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Researcher in animal behaviour and cognition, mostly working with aquatic snails and dogs. And sometimes both!
Dog agility trainer, judge and competitor in my spare time.
Lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
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Cotton came to work to demonstrate skills taught by Eszter Monostori on her #OneZoo PhD project - teaching dogs to locate the intermediate hosts of parasites. She loved meeting our students, inspiring the next generation of scientists.
@aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social
#OneHealth #UKRI
Person in a lecture theatre holding up a small piece of kong that the dog will be searching for. The border collie is focused on her rewards sat on the desk in front of her.
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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explanimals.bsky.social
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: Megan.Lambert@vetmeduni.ac.at
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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ellileadbeater.bsky.social
PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | TREES DLA
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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animalbehaviour.live
The program of day 2 of #ABL2025 is here!

Another exciting lineup of plenaries, talks, poster sessions and exchanges on animal behaviour 🦋🐙

💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide
🚨Don’t miss it, it’s the last day to register! 🚨
🔗https://ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork

👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🙏Share widely
Dwarf mongoose Rhesus macaques grooming Meerkat
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Teamwork in action 😁 Reeling in 40 m of oxygen/temperature sensor cable on the @aberdlsagb.bsky.social Freshwater Field Course at Llyn Tegid. Love boat work in the sunshine! And we also found some of the very rare glutinous snails shore sampling which made my day 🥰 🐌
Students working together to reel in an oxygen sensor cable
September 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Fantastic new study by @meg-alicemay.bsky.social using eDNA to monitor marine biodiversity at Tristan da Cunha. It identified species missed by traditional surveys, and demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique for use in challenging remote locations.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The First eDNA‐Based Assessment at the World's Most Remote Inhabited Islands: Investigating Marine Vertebrate Diversity at Tristan da Cunha
This study employed eDNA to characterize marine vertebrate biodiversity at Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote archipelago. The multi-assay approach successfully detected 51 Operational Taxonom...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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hannahvallin.bsky.social
Diving into #BritishScienceWeek with our dolphin diets project at @aberuni.bsky.social showcasing DNA extractions, fish otoliths, dolphin skulls, and learning about echolocation, marine food chains and much more! @cbmwc.bsky.social @lauracaryse.bsky.social @sarahperry.bsky.social 🐬🐠🦑🐚🧬
March 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I am really looking forward to the opportunity to talk about my favourite things at the University of Chester today. Animal cognition, snails, and dogs 😊
February 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social
Looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits and behaviour will be used. At University of Birmingham campus, UK. Application deadline 19 March.
Pls RT.
February 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Fantastic PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities in aquatic animal welfare available at the University of West Scotland with Prof. Kath Sloman
Postdoctoral position: Shrimp aquaculture www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
PhD position: Ornamental fish welfare
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, School of Health and Life Sciences - G72 0LH, Glasgow job with UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND | 387309
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland working in the research group ...
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ccioannou.bsky.social
Two more weeks to get your abstracts in: if funding the conference is an issue, check out @asab.org's conference attendance grants, open to ALL seniorities: www.asab.org/kolkata-conf...
behaviour2025.bsky.social Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Jan 25
📣🚨 Abstract submission deadline extended!!! 🚨📣

In response to continued interest from prospective contributors, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended.

🗓New submission deadline: 15th February 2025.

🗒️Submission requirements: A 300-word abstract.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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wlallen.bsky.social
New article by Roger Santer and myself 'Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges' available to read in Current Opinion in Insect Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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January 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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asab.org
There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025

ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in

Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄
ASAB Important Upcoming Dates Logo of animals crossing the street as in the Beatles Abbey Road 2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK Apr 23-25 Feb 1: ASAB travel grants due Feb 12: Abstracts due Apr 1: Registration ends Logo of a stylised tiger looking up at a tree and sun Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30 Jan 31: Abstracts due Feb 28: Early bird registration ends Apr 1: ASAB travel grants due Apr 30: Regular registration ends
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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conservbytes.bsky.social
@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#eXit
Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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martingiurfa.bsky.social
Check out our latest work on transitive inferences (A > B, B > C, therefore A > C) in honey bees, just published in Frontiers in Psychology: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
January 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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ukceh.bsky.social
Did you know the study of environmental DNA (eDNA) of microbes could transform how we understand and protect freshwater ecosystems?

Dr Amy Thorpe, a molecular ecologist at UKCEH, shares insights from the first national survey of microbial eDNA in English rivers 🦠🔬
Exploring the hidden microbial diversity of England’s rivers
In a blog, Dr Amy Thorpe, a molecular ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses the findings of the first national survey of microbial eDNA in English rivers, involving the…
buff.ly
January 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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annalandre.com
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
January 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪
Flier for PhD position. Text with a lab logo at the bottom with a cricket silhouette of a cricket with antenna that look like normal curves. Also has a picture of a cricket (Acheta domesticus) on a white background. Text: Crickets! Behavior! Genetics! Statistics! The Dochtermann Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking to fill a PhD assistantship examining how selection has shaped phenotypic plasticity and patterns of genetic variance. The position will start Fall Semester 2025 and the incoming student will be joining a dynamic department (www.ndsu.edu/biology) and an interdisciplinary graduate program that provides a broad foundation for success (www.ndsu.edu/ecs). For more information about the lab visit www.neddochtermann.com If interested, please contact me at ned.dochtermann@gmail.com with a brief synopsis of your research interests. @neddochtermann.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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behaviour2025.bsky.social
📣🚨Call for Workshops: Behaviour 2025! 📣🚨

🗓️Last date for workshop proposal submission: 15 January 2025

Are you ready to share your expertise, spark meaningful conversations, and inspire change?
December 22, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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Highlights of 2024 #6

Took the leap and deleted my Twitter account 🎉

Looking forward to the new year on 🦋🙂
December 31, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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Highlights from 2024 #5

My first dog research project led by MRes student Nerys Mellor published www.mdpi.com/2656782 The data indicates scent work training can improve inhibitory control in pet dogs. Nerys is planning future work to carry out more manipulative research on scent work and behaviour.
December 30, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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sigwartae.bsky.social
Nominate your favourite mollusc for

International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀

A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!

Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...

@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
December 19, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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Hilights from 2024 #4

Re-homing a gorgeous border collie girl whose owner is no longer well enough to keep her. And most importantly my fussy dog reactive Welsh sheepdog boy has fully accepted her into our little family 😁
Border collie and Welsh sheepdog sitting in a wood
December 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Highlights from 2024 #3

Getting involved in the amazing world of Ecodetection Dogs www.ecologydetectiondogwg.org This has included helping Holly Peek training her dog Marnie to detect invasive Chinese mitten crabs (video) & starting an exciting new PhD, training dogs to detect parasite hosts 😁
December 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM