Feeling bamboozled by R? If so, you're not alone.
Join me & @jbbrask.bsky.social in Copenhagen for an intro course that will give you the foundation I wish I'd had as a PhD student.
Friendly & accessible with lots of time for your own questions & coding projects.
Deadline extended to May 15. 🎉
Join us—mentee or mentor—for our next mentorship matching event! 🐝 We'll briefly introduce the ABC mentorship scheme & then there's plenty of time for mentees & mentors to get to know each other and decide if they'd like to start mentorship!
Erin Siracusa
Delphine De Moor
Join us in Copenhagen in June for our summer course on programming in R!
- Aimed at PhD students in behavioural ecology, others also welcome
- No prior programming knowledge needed
Deadline for sign-up: May 1
More info here:
programmingintrocph.weebly.com
New paper out in BEAS! Co-first with @j-dunning.net : we compared three different ways of defining social associations from RFID data across four avian study systems.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Josefine Bohr Brask
Social networks of birds are often constructed from spatio-temporal data streams of feeder visits, but how do we define ‘connection’ and does it matter?
While common definitions yield similar patterns, do consider context of systems and research Qs!
Well led by co-first authors Alex and Jamie!
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TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
📢 Paper alert! 📢 🐑🪱📝Our latest work studying the immune system of the Soay sheep in St Kilda has just been accepted and is available online on the special collection "Ecoimmunology" of Discovery Immunology! #SoaySheep #Thelpercells #parasites #SoaySheepProject
Alex Chan
Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
Yolanda Corripio-Miyar
Bake your paper! Research tech extraordinaire, Macaela Skelton, made a cake of (some of) the study sites in the MacaqueNet database. She ran out of decorations before she could do them all 😆. Link to the paper that's been cake-ified: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann
Lauren Brent
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
In this paper, we compared three approaches: (1) strict time-window, (2) co-occurrence, and (3) arrival time methods to define associations for house sparrows on Lundy Island, UK, and Broken Hill, Australia; great tits in Wytham Woods, UK; and sociable weavers in Benfontein National Park.
Alex Chan
A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".
The interconnecting links between individuals in an animal social network are often defined by discrete, directed behaviours, but where these are difficult to observe, a network link (edge) may instea...
AbstractBackground. T-helper (Th) cells co-ordinate immune responses to ensure that infections with diverse parasites are controlled effectively. Helminth
It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching!
This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us!
Mentee sign up here: forms.gle/zPgk4Nwq2znE...
Mentor sign up here: forms.gle/cD3cEqoXHaLT...
