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Will Rogers
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phd student yale eeb | disease and behavioral ecology | animals 🐃, parasites 🪱🦠, social networks 🍻, and movement 🛰️
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* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK.
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See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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November 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Such a long journey! My second PhD chapter is out! - We review approaches for incorporating memory into step-selection analyses (SSAs), a frequently used movement modeling framework.

Thanks to all of my collaborators and my advisor, John Fieberg!

doi.org/10.1186/s404...
Identifying signals of memory from observations of animal movements - Movement Ecology
Incorporating memory (i.e., some notion of familiarity or experience with the landscape) into models of animal movement is a rising challenge in the field of movement ecology. The recent proliferation...
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system?

Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's.

e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
November 28, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Vocal consensus building for collective departures in wild western gorillas royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 20, 2024 at 2:41 AM