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Andy Radford
@andyradford.bsky.social
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology @ Bristol | social behaviour, vocal communication, cooperation, conflict, global change biology | love teaching and mentoring | love family time more
https://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/behavior/Vocal_Communication/
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · Dec 21
Hello Bluesky 👋

In our group, we study cooperation, conflict, vocal communication, social behaviour, noise & light pollution and coral reef restoration. #animalbehaviour #globalchangebiology

We work around the world on land and in the sea.

And we study a range of wonderful creatures, including...
andyradford.bsky.social
📢 Amazing #PDRA opportunities.
Exciting and important questions with a stellar and supportive team, plus cool fieldwork options.
Check it out NOW!
#coralreefs #jobs #restoration #research
timlamont.bsky.social Tim Lamont @timlamont.bsky.social · 6d
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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timlamont.bsky.social
We're hiring! 🥳 Come and join our team in Lancaster - we're looking for two senior postdocs to work on corporate sustainability and restoration ecology. 🌳 🪸 ♻️ (1 of 2)
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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animal-sounds.bsky.social
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🌟Hurrah for #MongooseMonday🌟

The rich vocal repertoire of dwarf mongooses includes calls to:

Warn of danger: dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Recruit help: dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Announce sentinel duty:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Caller id affects how receivers respond.

#animalcommunication #mammals
Dwarf mongoose on sentinel duty in South Africa. Dwarf mongoose emerging from a termite mound.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
andyradford.bsky.social
📢JOB alert
Excellent opportunity with fantastic team and study system. 🐬
What are you waiting for???
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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royalsocietypublishing.org
In a stunning display of coordinated movement, male Swallow-tailed Manakins dance together in groups of up to five to attract females. Researchers studied display consistency, group size effects and implications for female choice: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS #AnimalBehaviour
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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alexisjbreen.bsky.social
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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animalecology.bsky.social
New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️
buff.ly/neW6LHH
@krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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bbmwong.bsky.social
Check out new paper led by @jackmanera.bsky.social on impacts of noise pollution. @monashscience.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social #BobWongLab
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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#animalcommunication
#birds
andyradford.bsky.social Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 12d
Out 🌟TODAY🌟 in the #new volume of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour, is latest #PhD chapter from the fantastic #Chun-ChiehLiao:
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs
#fieldwork #experiments
With #RobMagrath #RobHeinsohn
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
1/
Two wild white-winged choughs in Canberra, Australia; the study species in the newly published paper. Lead author Chun-Chieh Liao presenting the published work at the Behaviour 2025 conference in Kolkata.
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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#bioacoustics
New paper of relevance to #noise #pollution
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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sofiaforss.bsky.social
Interested in early life learning and cognitive development ? In our new pre-print we present data on developmental trajectories of three cognitive traits spanning wild meerkat pups critical life transitions 👇🏼
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Developmental trajectories of cognitive traits in meerkats match socio-ecological demands
Understanding cognitive development is fundamental to contextualize adult cognitive phenotypes, and thus the operational pathways for cognitive evolution. The ontogeny of specific cognitive traits is ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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animalecology.bsky.social
"Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding systems across taxa..."
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
@co-breed.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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cyanistesnord.bsky.social
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa

Would appreciate a re-post!

@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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jennifer-morinay.bsky.social
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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harrysiviter.bsky.social
PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'.

Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions.

tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physio...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal beh...
www.findaphd.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
andyradford.bsky.social
It's #MongooseMonday 🎉

Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour
Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa. Habituated wild dwarf mongoose staring into a camera. Habituated wild dwarf mongoose on a balance scale weighing itself.
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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profstevesimpson.bsky.social
Keeping it cruisy gives reef residents space to hear!

Our latest paper, led by @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social, explores how motorboat noise can be minimised by adopting sensible cruising speeds around coral reefs:

doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

@sophienedelec.bsky.social
@andyradford.bsky.social
Recording motorboat noise
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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sharkslikejazz.bsky.social
How noisy are small boats underwater?
Our new paper shows that slower speeds aren’t always quiet and the importance of particle motion!
doi.org/10.1121/10.0... @asa-news.bsky.social @sophienedelec.bsky.social
@andyradford.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social
#Bioacoustics #OceanNoise
a boat that has a license plate that says lc 8816 n.
ALT: a boat that has a license plate that says lc 8816 n.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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📢NEW paper out TODAY 👏
🎉Congratulations @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social
🛥️Motorboat sound in shallow waters and implications for mitigation
🫂 @sophienedelec.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social #MichaelAinslie #HarryHarding #JamesCampbell

#pollution #noise #speed #acoustics

doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Motorboat sound in shallow waters and implications for mitigation
Small motorboats are a pervasive source of underwater noise pollution in many coastal regions of the world. The environmental impacts of motorboat noise include
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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krishsubramaniam.bsky.social
‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure

doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Impact of animal socioecology on gut microbial communities: Insights from wild meerkats in the Kalahari
Our study addresses critical gaps at the nexus of animal and microbial ecologies, adding much-needed empirical support to recent theoretical frameworks that have conceptualised gut microbiomes as bei...
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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emilymsanford.bsky.social
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
andyradford.bsky.social
#Conflict is rife in the natural world & lots of animals use #vocal #signals before & during #contests. But what about in their aftermath? Wonder no more - read our #review on post-contest acoustic signalling:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Animal contests often involve acoustic signals at different stages, but empirical work has primarily focused on usage before and during antagonistic interactions. Far less attention has been paid to post-contest acoustic signals (PCAS): those occurring ...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
andyradford.bsky.social
Out 🌟TODAY🌟 in the #new volume of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour, is latest #PhD chapter from the fantastic #Chun-ChiehLiao:
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs
#fieldwork #experiments
With #RobMagrath #RobHeinsohn
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
1/
Two wild white-winged choughs in Canberra, Australia; the study species in the newly published paper. Lead author Chun-Chieh Liao presenting the published work at the Behaviour 2025 conference in Kolkata.
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM