I applaud you Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social! You eloquently summarize what so many of us are thinking 👏👏👏 "It would be tragic if today’s important insights suffered the same fate because of irresponsible claims and a narrow focus on language."

We have a new paper in PNASNews led by Kathryn G Holmes - Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🐬🐬🐬 Shark Bay Dolphin Research Dr Simon J Allen Michael Krützen Dolphin Alliance Project Amanda Ridley Livia Gerber

I'll be chairing “Why do dogs wag their tails?”, a “Behind the paper” seminar with Royal Society journals on 26 Jun. Join us! Details here: cassyni.com/events/Su2eaJF…

Many young animals play. A study of bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, finds that young males that engage in play versions of adult-like reproductive behaviors, such as herding females, go on to father more offspring. In PNAS: ow.ly/UCSq50SkIQ0

Wonderful to see the Shark Bay dolphins on the cover of PNASNews! Juvenile social play predicts adult reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Shark Bay Dolphin Research University of Bristol Biological Sciences UZH Science School of Biological Sciences, UWA

In this issue: Social play and reproduction in wild dolphins; efficient and reproducible retinal organoid production; sex-dependent differences in cold sensing. ow.ly/EXtO50SmoK5

Love our furry friends

A special moment as I head to Shark Bay on my first day as a Professor of Animal Behaviour 🍾 What a journey it's been! A huge part of this journey are the wonderful people + animals I work with as part of Shark Bay Dolphin Research, my fellow #lifers University of Bristol Biological Sciences, + my boys 🐾 🙏🙏🙏

Shark Bay 🫶 #fieldworkgoals

Here Come the Girls #SharkBay #Gathaaguda

End of another successful day on the water 🙌🏻 📸 Alice Bouchard Pernille M Sørensen

What a view 🫶 Looking back at Monkey Mia from Red Bluff #SharkBay 📸 credit Richard Connor Dolphin Alliance Project

Just another day in the bay #DirkHartog #SharkBay

My favourite day of the year #NationalDogDay - shout out to my boys and their cousin Harry.

A new paper by some of me friends and me :) Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Latest preprint w/ Ettore Camerlenghi on multilevel societies: different tasks at different levels. To appear soon in a Phil Trans B special issue. doi.org/10.32942/X27C90

Postdoc position on my FriendOrigins project. 10mos but could be 16mos with lots of low-hanging (but interesting!) fruit to be tackled in this replacement post for someone who got a permanent job elsewhere. See here, ref # S73438: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…. Due Sept 18, start Jan

Congratulation to Pernille M Sørensen for another cracking paper from her PhD. Read about our new findings here 👇🏻 University of Bristol Biological Sciences Shark Bay Dolphin Research