Sam Walmsley
@sfwalmsley.bsky.social
Long-term research | Social evolution | Whales | Causal inference
PhD Student at Dalhousie University
He/Him
PhD Student at Dalhousie University
He/Him
Reposted by Sam Walmsley
The Ontario government is proposing destructive changes to species at risk legislation that will harm species at risk and their habitat. Please read our op ed and consider writing to your MPP and providing public comment before May 17: thepointer.com/article/2025...
Proposed Bill 5 threatens Ontario wildlife and ecosystems
Proposed Bill 5 threatens Ontario wildlife and ecosystems.
thepointer.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Ontario government is proposing destructive changes to species at risk legislation that will harm species at risk and their habitat. Please read our op ed and consider writing to your MPP and providing public comment before May 17: thepointer.com/article/2025...
Reposted by Sam Walmsley
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...