Phyllis Lee
@pili-scotland.bsky.social
Elephant follower for 40+ years, with the odd primate and bird (especially birds) thrown in. Mentor.
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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
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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
@lec-reefs.bsky.social @pentlandcentre.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
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UNESCO has declared the floodplain around Malaysian Borneo’s Kinabatangan River a biosphere reserve, linking the Heart of Borneo to the Lower Kinabatangan–Segama Wetlands.
Conservationists warn that the landscape remains heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations and faces persistent threats.
Conservationists warn that the landscape remains heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations and faces persistent threats.
UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain
Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain, home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys, has officially joined UNESCO’s global network of biosphere reserves, protected areas of high biological…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
UNESCO has declared the floodplain around Malaysian Borneo’s Kinabatangan River a biosphere reserve, linking the Heart of Borneo to the Lower Kinabatangan–Segama Wetlands.
Conservationists warn that the landscape remains heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations and faces persistent threats.
Conservationists warn that the landscape remains heavily fragmented by oil palm plantations and faces persistent threats.
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🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
#bioacoustics 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich.
#bioacoustics 🧪
#bioacoustics 🧪
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📻19h
Biologiquement, les hommes sont-ils vraiment moins disposés que les femmes à s'occuper des bébés ?
Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, autrice de “Le temps des pères. Une histoire naturelle des hommes et des bébés” aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social
Biologiquement, les hommes sont-ils vraiment moins disposés que les femmes à s'occuper des bébés ?
Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, autrice de “Le temps des pères. Une histoire naturelle des hommes et des bébés” aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social
Biologiquement, les hommes sont-ils vraiment moins disposés que les femmes à s'occuper des bébés ?
Le Gouvernement prévoit la création d’un nouveau congé, appelé "congé supplémentaire de naissance" pour 2026/2027, afin de favoriser la conciliation entre vie familiale et vie professionnelle mais aus...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Biologiquement, les hommes sont-ils vraiment moins disposés que les femmes à s'occuper des bébés ?
Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, autrice de “Le temps des pères. Une histoire naturelle des hommes et des bébés” aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social
Biologiquement, les hommes sont-ils vraiment moins disposés que les femmes à s'occuper des bébés ?
Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, autrice de “Le temps des pères. Une histoire naturelle des hommes et des bébés” aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social
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RESEARCH: Social associations and habitat selection delineate two subpopulations of west coast transient killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) in the California Current System. Authors: Josh McInnes & Dr. Andrew Trites (@ubcmarinemammal). journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... via @plosone.org
Social associations and habitat selection delineate two subpopulations of west coast transient killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) in the California Current System
West coast transient (mammal-eating) killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) inhabit the California Current off the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia, Canada to southern Cali...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
RESEARCH: Social associations and habitat selection delineate two subpopulations of west coast transient killer whales (Orcinus orca rectipinnus) in the California Current System. Authors: Josh McInnes & Dr. Andrew Trites (@ubcmarinemammal). journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... via @plosone.org
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NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research | NINA Tromsø is recruiting Researchers/Senior Researchers in Arctic Ecology and Environmental Social Science
The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is aiming to further strengthen our dynamic Arctic research group through recruitment of several researchers/senior researchers within Arctic ecology...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
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This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …
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Although seabirds spend most of their lives at sea, they return to land to breed, often forming colonies of thousands of individuals. This influx of birds — bringing their guano, or droppings, feathers and eggshells to land — constitutes a transfer of ocean-derived nutrients, helping to feed soil.
Researchers define the importance of the ‘circular seabird economy’
In a review article published in Nature, researchers have introduced a new term to describe the importance of seabirds across land and marine ecosystems: the circular seabird economy. Although…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Although seabirds spend most of their lives at sea, they return to land to breed, often forming colonies of thousands of individuals. This influx of birds — bringing their guano, or droppings, feathers and eggshells to land — constitutes a transfer of ocean-derived nutrients, helping to feed soil.
What an exciting study! And marked effects, even when reproduction is spread over a long period.
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
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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
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@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What an exciting study! And marked effects, even when reproduction is spread over a long period.
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All 7 chapters of the #NexusAssessment Report are now available! 🏡
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
All 7 chapters of the #NexusAssessment Report are now available! 🏡
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
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#PhD position!
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?
iapetus.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#PhD position!
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
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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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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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Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video
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Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video | Focusing on Wildlife
A juvenile humpback whale has been found dead after becoming entangled in a shark net off the New South Wales coast.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Humpback whale calf entangled in shark nets dies off NSW coast – video
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Aging gracefully among our ancestors (and the #tsimane). On Michael #gurven 's excellent book
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-reframing-aging-evolutionary-success.html
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-reframing-aging-evolutionary-success.html
Reframing aging as evolutionary success
In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the young, using the young to gauge trends and styles, and targeting their spending power. Meanwhile, the anti-aging industry is booming, with billions of dollars trading hands in the form of creams, pills and nip/tuck treatments to stave off the look and feel of getting old.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Aging gracefully among our ancestors (and the #tsimane). On Michael #gurven 's excellent book
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-reframing-aging-evolutionary-success.html
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-reframing-aging-evolutionary-success.html
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Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men:
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
The Ideology versus the Science of Evolved Sex Differences - Replicability-Index
1. Introduction: Competing Stories About Gender Debates about sex differences often swing between extremes. One narrative, familiar from strands of radical feminism, portrays masculinity as dangerous—...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men:
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
“In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”
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Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy & the green transition.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
Congo Basin communities bear the costs of industrial expansion
Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy and the green transition. However, communities that have lived in the world’s…
news.mongabay.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Governments and investors are seeking minerals, timber and oil in the Congo Basin to fuel the global economy & the green transition.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
However, communities that have lived in the world’s second-largest rainforest for generations are paying the highest price for extraction, according to a new report.
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
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FINALLY we understand why lactase persistance spread!
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans
Cox et al. combine polygenic scores and skeletal metrics to show that Neolithic Europeans
were not substantially shorter than earlier or later groups. They also show a strong
gene-environment interact...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
FINALLY we understand why lactase persistance spread!
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
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vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus
Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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This has been on the cards since Tatcher decided that the best way to buy your vote was to give you the carrot of 1% basic interest cut while hitting you with the stick of paying directly for every public utility and service she sold or privatised. Indirect living costs now outweigh taxation burden.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This has been on the cards since Tatcher decided that the best way to buy your vote was to give you the carrot of 1% basic interest cut while hitting you with the stick of paying directly for every public utility and service she sold or privatised. Indirect living costs now outweigh taxation burden.
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🦇ICYMI: a great video on our work developing a "probiotic" to help bats survive white-nose syndrome infections. This beautifully shot video also gives a good primer on what the probiotic is all about. This was 2yrs ago -good news...our studies show the probiotic is working!
youtu.be/VOtuiB6aiLE?...
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WCS Bat Probiotics YouTube
YouTube video by WCSCanada Western Bat Program
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November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Very amazing work. Lots to enjoy and even to contest!
"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
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Read the full paper here: buff.ly/pIjeNRR
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November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Very amazing work. Lots to enjoy and even to contest!
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A 'menagerie' of illegal exotic animals was discovered after police raided an abandoned property in the Highlands 😮
Police uncover 'menagerie' of illegal animals during Highland house raid
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November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A 'menagerie' of illegal exotic animals was discovered after police raided an abandoned property in the Highlands 😮