I am beyond excited to see fishers in our trial submitting the first videos of them safely releasing #CriticallyEndangered wedgefish 💙 this is a pretty big one from Lombok, probably worth ~$140 at the port #FlatSharkFriday #sharks Save Our Seas ConservationOptimism EJ Milner-Gulland

The ability to learn from one another — and not just rely on natural selection to acquire new skills — could help some animals survive as humans change the planet. knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

such a cool study! imagine having radio tags small enough to fit onto moths and chasing them with an airplane to track their migration path! 🦋✈️ even cooler that these hawkmoths maintain a straight line trajectory despite turbulent winds trying to knock them off course!!

A super insightful read by Anoushka Dasgupta as she paints vivid pictures of the changes in Bengaluru’s landscape. While I was dejected reading about all the human impacts on the city’s rich biodiversity, Anoushka shows that all hope’s not lost through her eloquent writing!

Thrilled to contribute to naked mole-rat research as a graduate student in the Barker Lab. Head over for a great read and to hear some chirps 🎶

Could you eat 300 hamburgers every day? That’s how many humans would have to eat to match the equivalent of what hummingbirds consume to survive! Hear from #NatGeoExplorer Anusha Shankar Anusha Shankar to learn more about these busy birds. #NationalHummingbirdDay

One of the most interesting videos I’ve ever seen.

What makes Daboia russelii one of the most deadliest snake in world? Or ever wonder if snakes produce distinct venom in their venom gland pair? Find out more in our latest study featuring the Indian and Palestine viper 🐍 Evolutionary Venomics Lab

Wonderful talk this evening by Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. So many cool shark facts & anecdotes! TIL that some female sharks can just birth clones of themselves🦈 they don’t need no man 🫢 Great insights on irresponsible conservation actions due to misinformation too

The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild rdcu.be/cZiVq @Ben_Sheldon_EGI, @LoeskeKruuk & @susan_alberts celebrate anniversaries of Wytham Tit Study, @RumDeerResearch, @AmboseliBaboons and others, and discuss recent advances in long-term studies.

13 Excellent 30min Seminars on Age & Sociality available here: age-and-society.royalsociety.org/Home/SessionOne A massive Thank You to all participants, speakers & poster presenters at our The Royal Society conference this week. A very enjoyable, enlightening and exciting couple of days!

Presented my first ever poster at the The Royal Society conference on age and sociality this week and immensely enjoyed 2 days of really cool research and chatting with even cooler people 🤩 Massive thanks to the organisers for such an enlightening meeting ✨

Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Turns out social phenotypes are not heritable in great tits! Presenting this at #ECBB2024 tomorrow (10 am, Meerkat room). Please come along if you like social networks and birds! @Ben_Sheldon_EGI İrem Sepil

Had such a wonderful time at #ECBB2024 where I had the privilege of presenting my PhD work at an international conference for the first time ever! Beautiful city & campus and absolutely brilliant people & research 🤩 Thanks to everyone for being so encouraging about my work 🐣

Using a dataset of 800,000+ observations and decades of breeding records, Dr Satarkar and team employ multi-matrix quantitative genetic ‘animal models’ to show that genes play a minimal role in shaping individual social phenotypes in an avian system 🪽 buff.ly/423hthR

Super excited to see my first DPhil paper and my first first-author paper in print! 🪶🪺 Many thanks to my awesome supervisors, İrem Sepil and Ben Sheldon ✨ and my favourite artist, Pari Satarkar for the endless supply of great tit illustrations 🐣

New research shows that the early-life environment of great tits shapes their adult behaviour more than their genetics 🐦🍃. Read more here ⬇️ bit.ly/40SkDDT 📖Devi Satarkar, İrem Sepil 📷David López-Idiáquez