Wonderful couple of days of sun, fun and science: watch this space! @AndrewFoote2 Ellen Garland Darren Croft

📣🌟PhD and Post-doc🌟📣 with Pete Buston 🐟, Mike Cant and I working on Kimbe Bay anemonefish. Official ads coming soon. Start Sept 23/Jan 24. Some details below. DM me if interested!

Deploy camera tags on bull sharks off Fiji. Part of a new study on bull shark sociality by BeqaAdventureDivers and Natasha Marosi. Certainly no shortage of sharks to choose from. FIU Marine Biology Predator Ecology & Conservation Lab

Another wonderful study from this hugely talented group: Charli Grimes Darren Croft University of Exeter Lauren Brent 🐬Michael Weiss🐋 @DanFranksRsrch and Whale Research Killer whale moms protect their sons from fights with other whales | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Really enjoyed chatting with Becky Ripley and Emily Knight 💚🌎 about killer whale grannies and the amazing work done by Whale Research you can hear more here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… @ExeterMarine CRAB University of Exeter News ExeterPsychology

Killer Whales and the Mystery of the Menopause - fascinating #NatureBang BBC Radio 4 programme featuring Darren Croft of ExeterPsychology CRAB University of Exeter bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A huge thanks to the academic rockstars who have supported me, particularly Darren Croft and Pheasants@Exeter at Exeter, and Christos Ioannou and the folks in Camo Lab in Bristol. Can't wait for the next chapter!

There is a lot of misunderstanding about the evolution of menopause in animal (and human) societies - a new preprint just out today (with @sn_chapman Sam Ellis Mirkka Lahdenpera and Virpi Lummaa) addressing some points from a recent commentary in Cell

Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Menopause explains why some female whales live so long - new study by University of Exeter University of York & Whale Research Full paper 👉 nature.com/articles/s4158… Read more 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-hea… Darren Croft Sam Ellis @DanFranksRsrch @ExeterMarine CRAB

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.…

New PhD opportunity: harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 Wytham Tit Study yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/under… feel free to get in touch for more info. Please share!

Migratory hoverflies fly further – but not faster – than their non-migratory relatives according to research from University of Exeter CEC. brnw.ch/21wP3fH Uni of Exeter's ESI Dr Will Leo Hawkes

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers with me, Barbara Tschirren and our brilliant collaborators @ APHA, at University of Exeter CEC in Cornwall. 50 year data sets+immune analyses. PLEASE SHARE! See animalsocieties.org and apply here: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Exciting new PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research Whale Research exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… - deadline 13th January 2025

I am making the move👇🏻

Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees, foxes or other animals at CRAB? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk/programme/proj…(closes 11.12.) & NERC GW4+ nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-2024-… (13.01. Sean Rands Dr Beth Nicholls- find me on Bluesky!) Safi Darden Darren Croft Pheasants@Exeter Sam Ellis Lauren Brent

Exciting opportunities to join us at the university of Exeter as an MSc student

Off to #LundyIsland on the field course tomorrow! Excited to guide the MSc students as they explore this beautiful place and study puffins and fulmars. The weather even looks lovely! Here's an old video to give you an idea. youtube.com/watch?v=Hkek5n… The Landmark Trust National Trust

Souvenirs of a wonderful time are the only thing students spend money on during the #LundyIsland field course, which is a fully-funded ecologically sustainable week of practising field skills in a stunning location. #MSc CRAB #AnimalBehaviour