dad / evolutionary (behavioral) ecologist
group leader at MPI-AB and STRI research associate
social learning, cultural evolution, extragenetic inheritance, dispersal.
field & stats & math.
cyclist & runner / doom metal aficionado.
he/him.
Brendan Barrett
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and Odd also wrote a research briefing here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
many a DAG and weird index notations were written out on my white board in the build up process
this was a tremendous effort with well documented reproducible code and analyses. if you are impressed by this and conduct similar research (and are hiring in the UK) and looking for postdocs, reach out to Odd!
Post Peer-review pub out from my former PhD student @oddjacobson.bsky.social dissertation. Im proud of their integration of longitudinal demographic, behavioral, historical, remote sensing, climate & movement data under a causal inference framework using hierarchical social relations models & CTMM
🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉
Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ?
We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)
We are launching a global initiative on translocation & animal movement - to learn more about roles of memory, the environment and other drivers of space use, and about what works and what doesn't in conservation. But we want to do it collaboratively, so see Inès' post below! We need and want you!
🚨Last week to apply for a 3 year postdoc with me and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social, embedded in theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de Focus is on developing innovative experiments and computational models to understand social & cultural learning. Deadline is March 30th 👉 hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni...
1 week left to apply for scholarships ! If you are based at an institution in an ODA recipient country (e.g. Brazil, South Africa, India, Mexico; full list: tinyurl.com/5dv7vvs8), you can get all expenses covered to attend the summer school in Lausanne for a week.
