Samuele Ramellini

@sramellini.bsky.social

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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

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill, Catherine J. Frieman, Melanie O’Brien , and 2 more Simon J. Greenhill, Catherine J. Frieman, Melanie O’Brien, Michelle Arrow, Samuele Ramellini

The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 1d

Australian University Census of Staff Wellbeing is now out - some shocking stats!

Census WEBSITE for more info and full report: stresscafe.net/census/

#AcademicSky #AustralianUnis

Highlighted statistics:
69% disagreed that 'Senior management considers employee psychological health to be as important as productivity.'
73% disagreed that risks to their psychological health are actively monitored.
82% of participants ranked high or very high in emotional exhaustion.

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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 1d

⭐The ASSAB 2026 conference registrations are now open⭐

Early bird registrations are open until 15 May 2026

Click here to register: www.assab.org/assab-2026

We are also open for abstract submissions!

23-25 June, Adelaide, South Australia
Flinders University

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Julia Nowack @julianowack.bsky.social · 2d

Consider joining us at the #SEB2026 in Florence. Abstract deadline: 6th March. With Monica Trondrud and Matt Noakes.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Samuele Ramellini

Daphne Cortese @cortesedaphne.bsky.social · 4d

When studying animal physiology we carefully control temperature, oxygen…but often ignore who animals live with.

Social context such as parents (1), social environment (2), litter mates (3) can shape physiology and later plasticity (4). We discuss it in this commentary 👉 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Anne Peters @annempeters.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 8d

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!

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 8d

Award issue: @kamyabio.bsky.social and colleagues review how urban noise, lights, and stress can disrupt birds’ sleep. Highlighting our fragmented knowledge about sleep disturbance in birds and calling for more studies on this topic

➡️ vist.ly/4qfzm

#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶

Fig. 1 from the article: A representation of the state of research on the impacts of sleep disturbance on birds. The size of the arrows represents the relative abundance of studies between the connected concepts. Blue arrows indicate that data are available, with thicker arrows indicating a greater amount of data. The grey dotted line represents a relative lack of empirical data.

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini, Benjamin Wildermuth

Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 10d

‘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 · 10d

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 Maria Paniw, Samuele Ramellini

Individual-based Ecology @ibe.pensoft.net · 10d

📣Call for Abstracts: Individual-Based #Conservation

🦁Explore how individual #heterogeneity drives conservation success in this new topical #collection from our💎Diamond #OA journal.

📅Deadline: 15 March 2026

More information can be found here⤵️

New topical collection 'Individual-Based Conservation' calls for abstracts

While conservation science often focus on the 'big picture' of populations and ecosystems, the unique traits of the individual are frequently overlooked. To address this, the diamond open-acce...

ibe.pensoft.net

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

Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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.

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International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 11d

📢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

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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 · 12d

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)

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 15d

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

Read the blog here 👇

Studying social transmission using STbayes

Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

buff.ly

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Nature @nature.com · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 15d

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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....