Hansraj Gautam
@hansraj88.bsky.social
Postdoc @University of Turku, 🇫🇮 | animal behaviour, ecology and climate change | Working on Asian elephants, focusing on social behaviour, functional ecology & demography 🐘🌿🌳
Past: PhD @JNCASR and postdoc@NCBS, 🇮🇳.
https://linktr.ee/hansraj.g
Past: PhD @JNCASR and postdoc@NCBS, 🇮🇳.
https://linktr.ee/hansraj.g
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Use coal for over two centuries. Close the last plant in 2024 and claim 'climate leadership'. Drill the North Sea for oil and gas to near-depletion. Then announce a 'ban' with relaxations to drill more in existing fields. No one does 'climate leadership' like the UK
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Use coal for over two centuries. Close the last plant in 2024 and claim 'climate leadership'. Drill the North Sea for oil and gas to near-depletion. Then announce a 'ban' with relaxations to drill more in existing fields. No one does 'climate leadership' like the UK
Happy to share my new paper on the nutritional ecology of elephants🌿🐘
Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy to share my new paper on the nutritional ecology of elephants🌿🐘
Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
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🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal
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There is another Masters project in our group:
Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘
More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...
sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...
Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘
More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...
sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There is another Masters project in our group:
Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘
More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...
sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...
Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘
More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...
sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...
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Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!
We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!
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Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!
We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!
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🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales
➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo
@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo
@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales
➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo
@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo
@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
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We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.
Study system could be humans 👨👩👧👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.
✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
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1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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The Swedish King stepping in it today in Brazil by suggesting that the multilateral climate change process is likely to fail and that Europe does not have any responsibility to pay for climate change impacts on the Global South. He is wrong and should be prevented from making such statements.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Swedish King stepping in it today in Brazil by suggesting that the multilateral climate change process is likely to fail and that Europe does not have any responsibility to pay for climate change impacts on the Global South. He is wrong and should be prevented from making such statements.
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
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Wow this is good on inequality, especially at minute 5.30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEnf...
Is inequality inevitable?
YouTube video by TED-Ed
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wow this is good on inequality, especially at minute 5.30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEnf...
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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
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Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...
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‼️ 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...
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
‼️ 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...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Senior Research Fellow - conservation & finance
bit.ly/4oRzibT
Part of Oxford EARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat), we're seeking someone with interdisciplinary expertise in conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, and nature finance
bit.ly/4oRzibT
Part of Oxford EARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat), we're seeking someone with interdisciplinary expertise in conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, and nature finance
Job Details
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October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Senior Research Fellow - conservation & finance
bit.ly/4oRzibT
Part of Oxford EARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat), we're seeking someone with interdisciplinary expertise in conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, and nature finance
bit.ly/4oRzibT
Part of Oxford EARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat), we're seeking someone with interdisciplinary expertise in conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, and nature finance
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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chickadeecognition.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare.
🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered.
🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science
🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered.
🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science
Grants — Wild Animal Initiative
We have an open call for proposals on all grant types. Learn how to apply.
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare.
🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered.
🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science
🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered.
🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science
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Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
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They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World
The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...
The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...
They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World
The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...
The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons
apply.interfolio.com/173938
📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons