Our new mole-rat paper is now out in Evolution Letters 🥳: "Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival" 🧵 and link ⬇️ Jack Thorley

Well, what can we say? This kid can bat!!!! Baylee Foote smashed his way to an unbeaten 167no this evening in our T20 encounter with Hayfield. His score came in only 68 balls and included 13 fours and an amazing 14 sixes at a strike rate of 245.59!!!!

New paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology, and my first during my time SEGUL with Samantha Patrick! We look at #personality-related foraging behaviour in wandering #albatross, and find diffs in (1) foraging time investment and (2) responses to wind conditions doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

📝Published! Tash Gillies et al. show that wandering albatrosses types differ in responses to wind conditions, suggesting that plasticity variation limits the extent to which individuals can adjust behaviour to changing environments. Find out more👉doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge theguardian.com/environment/20…

🚨New SEGUL blog post🚨 Go check out the latest addition to the blog by Eve Merrall ! A beautifully written account of life (and death) in the field on the Isle of May. seguliverpool.wixsite.com/home/post/isla…

Good morning! A series of tweets (I miss the bird) which start with climate change warnings and politicians thinking about whether it is in their own interests to do anything about it. If they thought their seats and salaries depended on it things would be different. If large

MEERKAT PAPER 🎉 Dominance tenure is the strongest determinant of lifetime reproductive success for meerkats. Our new paper explores the ways in which males & females lose dominance, and identifies the factors that affect tenure maintenance in either sex. tinyurl.com/2e3r7ahf

[Thread] I will now explain our new study about people cooperating with honeyguide birds, using Lego and graphs (and Lego graphs). This study was a great team effort: Honeyguide Research Project Claire Spottiswoode Jessica van der Wal Jess Lund + many not on Twitter.

Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from the NCCR Evolving Language with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.

🥳 Another paper from my #PhD is out in @JZoology, together with markus zöttl, Jack Thorley and K Finn investigating sex ratios of wild social mole-rats! A short  🧵👇

Out today in Royal Society Publishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 🧵👇

The wonders of ecological succession. These 250 experimental raised beds (1.5x1.5m) were created in 1995 (below) and scrupulously weeded for the next 11 years, with every plant of every species counted and recorded. Weeding stopped at the end of 2006.

Wiley Ecology & Evolution Many thanks to my co-authors for their hard work on this project including Jack Thorley Henri Weimerskirch and Samantha Patrick (who also takes 📸 credit for this albatross!)