Charlotte Christensen
@c-christensen.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist - Eternal optimist - Big sister 24/7
Post doc @ University of Zurich, Switzerland & Mpala Research Centre, Kenya
Research page: https://www.charlottechristensenresearch.com
Post doc @ University of Zurich, Switzerland & Mpala Research Centre, Kenya
Research page: https://www.charlottechristensenresearch.com
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📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
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🚨NEW paper🚨 out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social from the brilliant #Masters of @laurenvane.bsky.social
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Dwarf Mongooses Lose Body Mass in Hot Weather due to Limited Behavioural Plasticity
Using long-term data from wild dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula), we demonstrate that on hot days (≥ 35°C) compared to matched cooler ones (≤ 33°C), mongooses emerged and commenced foraging earlier ...
doi.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨NEW paper🚨 out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social from the brilliant #Masters of @laurenvane.bsky.social
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Come join the Vulturine Guineafowl Research Programme at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia!
We are hiring a motivated, Kenyan intern to contribute to our long-term data collection. An awesome opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a beautiful place!
See post for details & please share
We are hiring a motivated, Kenyan intern to contribute to our long-term data collection. An awesome opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a beautiful place!
See post for details & please share
August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Come join the Vulturine Guineafowl Research Programme at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia!
We are hiring a motivated, Kenyan intern to contribute to our long-term data collection. An awesome opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a beautiful place!
See post for details & please share
We are hiring a motivated, Kenyan intern to contribute to our long-term data collection. An awesome opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a beautiful place!
See post for details & please share
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My first paper co-authored with Robert Irwin! doi.org/10.1093/conp... @sjcfishy.bsky.social @conphysjournal.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
My first paper co-authored with Robert Irwin! doi.org/10.1093/conp... @sjcfishy.bsky.social @conphysjournal.bsky.social
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Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
www.uni-bielefeld.de
July 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
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📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable.
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
Opportunities — ASAB
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July 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable.
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
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I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.
March 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
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Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling.
#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling.
#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#ChangingWorld #behaviour
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Do you think the work I do is valuable?
-Connecting scientists w/ classrooms around the world
-Spreading science w/ events, street art, & community projects
-Helping other scientists make local connections where they live
Donate $5 a month so I can continue this work!
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-Connecting scientists w/ classrooms around the world
-Spreading science w/ events, street art, & community projects
-Helping other scientists make local connections where they live
Donate $5 a month so I can continue this work!
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March 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Do you think the work I do is valuable?
-Connecting scientists w/ classrooms around the world
-Spreading science w/ events, street art, & community projects
-Helping other scientists make local connections where they live
Donate $5 a month so I can continue this work!
buff.ly/ybwGcOj
-Connecting scientists w/ classrooms around the world
-Spreading science w/ events, street art, & community projects
-Helping other scientists make local connections where they live
Donate $5 a month so I can continue this work!
buff.ly/ybwGcOj
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The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
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If your senators are: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Maggie Hassan (NH), Mark Kelly (AZ), John Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA)
Then read this and start calling!
Then read this and start calling!
Here's how we can stop the SAVE Act. indivisibleteam.medium.com/maga-has-a-b...
MAGA has a bill that would disenfranchise someone you know
If we’re going to come out of the next four years with our democracy somewhat intact, we’ve got to do everything within our power to ensure…
indivisibleteam.medium.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If your senators are: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Maggie Hassan (NH), Mark Kelly (AZ), John Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA)
Then read this and start calling!
Then read this and start calling!
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Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Antagonistic co-evolution can be asymmetric, where one species lags behind another.
Asymmetry in a predator–prey context is expressed by the ‘life–dinner principle’,
a classic informal model predictin...
royalsocietypublishing.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Reposted by Charlotte Christensen
2025. El Niño drought reveals survival advantage in monkeys with robust stress response phys.org/news/2025-01...
El Niño drought reveals survival advantage in monkeys with robust stress response
White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.
phys.org
January 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
2025. El Niño drought reveals survival advantage in monkeys with robust stress response phys.org/news/2025-01...
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2025. Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In vertebrates, glucocorticoids can be upregulated in response to both psychosocial and energetic stressors, making it difficult to identify the cause of elevated glucocorticoid concentrations when both types of stressors are present. This problem has ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
2025. Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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⏰📢 One week to go to apply for these #lectureship 🌟JOBS🌟 with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’.
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’.
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
bristol.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
⏰📢 One week to go to apply for these #lectureship 🌟JOBS🌟 with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’.
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’.
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching
www.sciencedirect.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
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2024. Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours
Pairing a 40-year behavioural dataset with long-term environmental data, we find support for correlations in individual plasticity across behaviours (a) in a free-ranging population of Magellanic pen....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
2024. Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Be Careful with How Data are Recorded!! 2024. Trail cameras can greatly inflate nest predation rates. "trail cameras attracted corvids (in particular ravens [Corvus corax]), which caused an extreme and positively biased predation rate" wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
TWS Journals
Based on an experiment in Arctic tundra we demonstrate that nest cameras attracted predators, which caused an extremely, positively biased predation rate that was consistent over a range of experimen...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Be Careful with How Data are Recorded!! 2024. Trail cameras can greatly inflate nest predation rates. "trail cameras attracted corvids (in particular ravens [Corvus corax]), which caused an extreme and positively biased predation rate" wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM
🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
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Are you a student or academic in a STEM subject? Please consider completing the survey of my PhD student. We are especially looking for global majority participants and people with caring responsibilities (amazon vouchers up for grabs in a prize draw) aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 21, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Are you a student or academic in a STEM subject? Please consider completing the survey of my PhD student. We are especially looking for global majority participants and people with caring responsibilities (amazon vouchers up for grabs in a prize draw) aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
Two fully funded PhD positions.pdf
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November 20, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
Two fully funded PhD positions.pdf
shorturl.at
October 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd
Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪
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Happy Indigenous people's day!
October 14, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Happy Indigenous people's day!
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Food supplementing peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) nests increase reproductive success with no change in mean parental provisioning rate | royalsocietypublishi... | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology
September 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Food supplementing peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) nests increase reproductive success with no change in mean parental provisioning rate | royalsocietypublishi... | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology