🚨🚨🚨 Field Assistant positions - four of them!! - working with the long-term Wytham project this coming spring. Details below. Previous year's field team - come and join us! Details below ⬇️
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
A fun use of our open-access bird song data: helping argue that the results of a widely publicised study on individually specific, name-like calls in African elephants may instead reflect spuriously learned structure in the acoustic data.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/🧵My first preprint!🐛🌡️
We examine how environmental effects experienced during one life-history stage persist and modulate environmental responses in later life-history stages.
With Lea Beaupere, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @rona-learmonth.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Machine learning (ML) tools can detect patterns in complex high-dimensional data sets, providing new ways to obtain insights into animal behaviour. Ho…
For herbivorous insects whose fitness depends on tight phenological synchrony with host plants, spatial variation in plant phenology can impose strong selective pressures and promote local adaptation ...
Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk
Sonja Wild
Sienna Rattigan
Rona Learmonth
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Variation in colour complexity in the Paridae is linked to climate, climate variability and several biotic factors. The strength of the associations is patch specific. Variables related to resource c...
We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing
David López-Idiáquez
Oh, the joys of fieldwork this time of the year!
Keith McMahon
Reading this blog post made me sad and uneasy. We shouldn’t so uncritically celebrate tools that can accelerate the spread of poor scientific practices and distance our students from understanding. This hype will only worsen existing problems in academia: more noise, less quality, fewer secure jobs.
Nilo
Nilo
Nilo
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
scienceforeveryone.science
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
