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Eamonn Wooster
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Gulbali Institute postdoctoral fellow, Charles Sturt University
Behavioural Ecology + predator-prey interactions
https://www.eifwooster.org
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Nov 17
Over 130,000 years Australia's predator community has been radically reorganised, what does this mean for ecological function and food webs? In @currentbiology.bsky.social, we show that modern food webs resemble those of the Late Pleistocene, but only when dingoes are present.

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stephanielking.bsky.social
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...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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
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katelaskowski.bsky.social
Our new paper offers an explanation for the universal law that "under carefully controlled conditions.... an animal behaves as it damn well pleases." We explore how stochastic mechanisms may play an underappreciated role in generating individuality. (1/7 🧵)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Playing dice with behavior: drivers of stochastic individuality
Animal behavior is often viewed as stemming from predictable genetic and environmental factors. However, despite our best attempts to control genetic …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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coleburton.bsky.social
I haven't posted here for awhile but we've had several papers come out that I'm excited about, so check out this #WildCo roundup of recent publications! @wildco.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca (thread: 1/6)
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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delphinedemoor.bsky.social
Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?

In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.

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The Adaptive Relationships Framework illustrating how broad socioecological pressures shape the social solutions animals use to meet these challenges, and how these lead to social strategies and emergent structures that help them gain access to those solutions.
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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natrevbiodiv.nature.com
New online! The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens
The functional adaptations of mammalian brain structures through a behavioural ecology lens
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 15 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00095-0Palaeontologists and comparative neurobiologists share a common interest in the evolution of the mammalian brain, but often fail to realize the benefits of this shared interest. This Review draws these fields together, demonstrating the utility of a cross-disciplinary, synergistic approach.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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wendelvandersluis.bsky.social
📣 Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy 🧠🐒
The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour.
🏆 Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14)
⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026!
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
Call for Submissions for the Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation prize 2026
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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julianschrader.bsky.social
Why are polar animals compact, while tropical ones are lean with long limbs and ears?

Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule explained in our new #EcolClips

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKG6...

#Ecology #biodiversity #climatechange #teaching #theory #species #animals
Bergmann’s & Allen‘s rule | EcolClips
YouTube video by EcolClips
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October 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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sciencex.bsky.social
Juvenile songbirds acquire key life skills primarily from siblings and non-parent adults, with sibling influence surpassing that of parents in species with limited parental care. doi.org/g9578b
These songbirds learn more from siblings than from parents
Siblings are special. Whether a sibling serves as protector or tormentor, friend or foe, the relationship between siblings is like no other.
phys.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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ferransayol.bsky.social
🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands

Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳

Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

More info:
🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity
CREAF - Job offers, offices and team
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October 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social
Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...
2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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ferransayol.bsky.social
🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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drblakemorton.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest paper from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that encounters with wild red #foxes could be an important gateway to broader #nature connectedness in people, particularly in cities. 🦊🍃🏙️ Link here: doi.org/10.1080/1087...
Experiencing the wild: red fox encounters are related to stronger nature connectedness, not anxiety, in people
Frequent and positive wildlife experiences can strengthen people’s physical and mental connection with nature, potentially improving public health and pro-environmental behaviors. Red foxes are the...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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talicaspi.bsky.social
📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife
Urbanisation Facilitates Intrapopulation Dietary Niche Diversity in a Generalist Carnivore
We compared stable isotope profiles of urban and nonurban coyote populations to test whether urbanisation fosters niche diversification among individuals. Urban coyotes had narrower dietary niches an...
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
predator-smarts.bsky.social
Making the most of the weekends in Vancouver visiting UBC with some weekend boulders in perfect Squamish : )
September 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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richardjbutler.bsky.social
Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
predator-smarts.bsky.social
Very happy to share that I've been awarded the 2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social "Next Generation Ecologist" award. I'll be giving a plenary at the ESA2025 in Adelaide. See you there!!

www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2025-ne...
2025 Next Generation Ecologist Award Winner Announced - Ecological Society of Australia
We are very pleased to announce Dr Eamonn Wooster as the 2025 Next Generation Ecologist Award winner! Dr Eamonn Wooster holds an independent fellowship at Charles Sturt University. His work spans beha...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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nadiah.bsky.social
Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.
August 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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sebroques.bsky.social
🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩
Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS
Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...
www.pnas.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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erleellis.bsky.social
Native Species? 🌎🌐🐺🦉
Cultural Paradigms in Conservation @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social
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August 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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gilbert-lab.bsky.social
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.
Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day
Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.
n.pr
August 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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josharbon.bsky.social
New @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social paper out today in @royalsociety.org Biology Letters. We found adult jackdaws can learn to tolerate usually bullied or ignored juveniles when they provided information about a new foraging resource.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Wild jackdaws learn to tolerate juveniles to exploit new foraging opportunities | Biology Letters
Social tolerance can enhance access to resources and is thought to be crucial in facilitating the evolution of cooperation, social cognition and culture, but it is unknown whether animals can optimize...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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clevercockierp.bsky.social
Lab member Lara Blumenstiel is currently wrapping up the last stage of training before moving on to cognitive testing. Sydney's clever cockies are playing her custom puzzle-box like pros!
August 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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carlzimmer.com
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
August 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM