Russell Hill
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social
Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Durham University. Runs Primate & Predator in South Africa exploring primates, predators and human-wildlife interactions, and MammalWeb in the UK. Views my own.
A glorious day for the start of the academic year. Let’s hope it is a sign for the year ahead!
October 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
A glorious day for the start of the academic year. Let’s hope it is a sign for the year ahead!
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🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
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Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
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Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
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Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
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We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social !
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies
Don’t miss it! 👀
youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies
Don’t miss it! 👀
youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...
Russell Hill - EHBEA 2025
YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
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August 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social !
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies
Don’t miss it! 👀
youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies
Don’t miss it! 👀
youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...
Great to spend time with Amy White and her dump baboons. So many interesting dimensions to their behaviour!
July 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Great to spend time with Amy White and her dump baboons. So many interesting dimensions to their behaviour!
Following from the publication of Rahman’s excellent paper he has written a blog about his PhD journey durham-student.org/my-phd-journ...
My PhD journey: From Bangladesh to Durham and the African Bush – The Durham Student
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June 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Following from the publication of Rahman’s excellent paper he has written a blog about his PhD journey durham-student.org/my-phd-journ...
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Read the full research paper, published in People and Nature 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Read the full research paper, published in People and Nature 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
June 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Our June newsletter is out. It has an NHMP competition update, news on site developments, and a mystery deer to classify.
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ
If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ
#cameratraps
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ
If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ
#cameratraps
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Our June newsletter is out. It has an NHMP competition update, news on site developments, and a mystery deer to classify.
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ
If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ
#cameratraps
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ
If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ
#cameratraps
Fantastic new paper led by @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social exploring the integration of Ai and citizen science through @mammalweb.bsky.social with @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CJ8QP4...
Increasing citizen scientist accuracy with artificial intelligence on UK camera‐trap data
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May 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fantastic new paper led by @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social exploring the integration of Ai and citizen science through @mammalweb.bsky.social with @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CJ8QP4...
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Our May newsletter has just gone out, featuring - among other things - news of a competition happening now, with prizes awarded by @ptes-org.bsky.social! If you don't yet subscribe, check it out here eomail1.com/web-version?...
#mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
#mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
May 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Our May newsletter has just gone out, featuring - among other things - news of a competition happening now, with prizes awarded by @ptes-org.bsky.social! If you don't yet subscribe, check it out here eomail1.com/web-version?...
#mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
#mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
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A quick post to announce that MammalWeb has finally arrived on Blue Sky! Check out our latest (April) newsletter at tinyurl.com/MW-April or visit the site at www.mammalweb.org.
#citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
#citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
MammalWeb Update April 2025
The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project
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April 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A quick post to announce that MammalWeb has finally arrived on Blue Sky! Check out our latest (April) newsletter at tinyurl.com/MW-April or visit the site at www.mammalweb.org.
#citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
#citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
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A great opportunity to get involved with MammalWeb and the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme in collaboration with @PTES and @hedgehogsociety
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April 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A great opportunity to get involved with MammalWeb and the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme in collaboration with @PTES and @hedgehogsociety
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Being new to Blue sky gives us a chance to emphasise that all our wonderful contributors have been recognised by not 1 but 2 awards over recent months! Thanks to @nbntrust.bsky.social for the 2024 group award for wildlife recording, and @durhamcouncil.bsky.social for the 2024 volunteer group award!
April 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Being new to Blue sky gives us a chance to emphasise that all our wonderful contributors have been recognised by not 1 but 2 awards over recent months! Thanks to @nbntrust.bsky.social for the 2024 group award for wildlife recording, and @durhamcouncil.bsky.social for the 2024 volunteer group award!
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Really enjoyed first #EHBEA2025 plenary
Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒
Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒
Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
#EHBEA2025 officially kicks off with our first plenary - Prof Russell Hill!
How strange are your animals?!? Bias is talked about in human research, but what about animals?? 🙈 🐦
👉 Opportunity, human exposure, habituation & observer effects create bias in animal research 👀
#PrimateResearch
How strange are your animals?!? Bias is talked about in human research, but what about animals?? 🙈 🐦
👉 Opportunity, human exposure, habituation & observer effects create bias in animal research 👀
#PrimateResearch
April 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Really enjoyed first #EHBEA2025 plenary
Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒
Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒
Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
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Great first plenary @ehbea2025.bsky.social by @prof-r-hill.bsky.social, who reflected on how the STRANGE framework, devised by @mikemwebster.bsky.social and Christian Rutz, relates to primate fieldwork (e.g. the impact of tolerance of human observers on social network datasets).
April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Great first plenary @ehbea2025.bsky.social by @prof-r-hill.bsky.social, who reflected on how the STRANGE framework, devised by @mikemwebster.bsky.social and Christian Rutz, relates to primate fieldwork (e.g. the impact of tolerance of human observers on social network datasets).
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🚨 We’re so excited to welcome you to #EHBEA2025 — starting THIS MONDAY in Newcastle! 🎉
We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm!
What worked, what didn't & more!
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
#TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm!
What worked, what didn't & more!
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
#TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
Home | EHBEA2025
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April 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 We’re so excited to welcome you to #EHBEA2025 — starting THIS MONDAY in Newcastle! 🎉
We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm!
What worked, what didn't & more!
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
#TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm!
What worked, what didn't & more!
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
#TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
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The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ...
tinyurl.com/MWApr25
tinyurl.com/MWApr25
MammalWeb Update April 2025
The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project
tinyurl.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ...
tinyurl.com/MWApr25
tinyurl.com/MWApr25
Durham river banks looking glorious today as I head to the station London bound.
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Durham river banks looking glorious today as I head to the station London bound.
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Durham Anthropology are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research & Education).
For more information, and to apply, click the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
For more information, and to apply, click the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
February 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Durham Anthropology are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research & Education).
For more information, and to apply, click the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
For more information, and to apply, click the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research %26 Education) (ANT_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
February 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Slightly disturbed to discover that I may have been doing this 30 years, but it was great to talk to the students: qeliz.nalp.org.uk/durham-unive...
Durham University’s Professor Russell Hill Inspires Biology Students with Insights from 30 Years of Research - Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
Biology students were given a unique opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the world of primatology and wildlife research when Professor Russell Hill from Durham University visited to share his ...
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February 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Slightly disturbed to discover that I may have been doing this 30 years, but it was great to talk to the students: qeliz.nalp.org.uk/durham-unive...
Glorious skies this morning for the start of term!
January 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Glorious skies this morning for the start of term!
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Different studies show that the presence of human observers is not neutral at all : in some cases, the monkeys are more calm and reassured when humans are present (especially in relation to the presence of predators). These biases need to be taken into account #ASABWinter2024
December 12, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Different studies show that the presence of human observers is not neutral at all : in some cases, the monkeys are more calm and reassured when humans are present (especially in relation to the presence of predators). These biases need to be taken into account #ASABWinter2024
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Talk 4 by Russell A.Hill discussed the impacts of habituation & tolerance of human observers during behavioural data collection. Many historical research with primates and with other animals (suricates, vulture guineafowl) used habituation. But what are the consequences ? #ASABwinter2024
December 12, 2024 at 4:46 PM