This year everyone is getting a tail sock

“Sociability as a personality trait in animals” In a new MS led by Christos Ioannou, we review how social behaviour can be considered as an individual-level trait, & what we can learn from this (with special focus on social networks & collective behaviour) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

A nice little piece on dynamic pecking order formation in networks of hens, mice, and cichlids from James Curley Ivan Chase and friends. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Spotted in line at UvA Amsterdam

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Excited to see our new review on genetic network analysis is now out in Biological Conservation! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The crows have learned how to dig up recently potted plants and declared it the new worm-finding meta. While we were out sipping hot chocolates, they studied the spade.

Whoa! European Shag in perfect breeding plumage adorned with a furious turquoise current of the Pentland firth. The Seabird Group RSPB Chris Packham

🚨Extended deadline🚨 The deadline to register for the workshop or to submit a poster has been extended until June 13! Looking forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam! You can sign up here: eslrsociety.org/5th-workshop-2…

European Shag

Looking for Camera Trappers in Europe! Last year we had the first #SnapshotEURO camera trap survey with 50K wildlife detections across 1200 locations in 23 countries. Sign-up is now open to join in 2022 by running cameras in Sept & October app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/20…

Wanted: Citizen scientists🧦How much #microplastic is released from our clothes into waste water? Contribute to research while doing laundry! ⤵️

Awesome to see this finally out! We’ve been sat on this for a while! Visualisation of microalgal-virus interactions by HS-AFM. Featuring one of my favourite #AFM images ever… the apex pentasymmetron of the coccolithovirus. Gorgeous work from Christopher T. Evans frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

There will be #PhD opportunities available to join my lab – the first one (for UK students only) advertised here soon! And I will have a #postdoc position available from next year. Please get in touch if you might be interested.

Do you live in the city of #Zürich, have a garden & wonder which mammals visit your garden? We are looking for locations to set up wildlife cameras for 10 days! DM Anouk-Lisa, if you live in one of the blue areas: google.com/maps/d/u/0/edi…

A new #openaccess paper from my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship in @asab_tweets - an introduction to different ways of representing animal social networks and how we can use them to answer questions in behavioural ecology doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…