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Our new study on the diet of one of Europe's more controversial animals, racoon dog provides no evidence that it is a threat to ground-nesting #birds nor to endangered #amphibians🐾🦆🐸 link.springer.com/article/10.100… #racoondog #mesopredator #alienspecies #dknatur

Nocturnal migration isn't as lonely as it sounds! >18000hrs of recordings from >370nights at 26sites reveals interspecific social interactions between migrating birds 🐦 Out now in Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… led by Benjamin Van Doren 🐦

There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow ASAB 2025 & Behaviour 2025 for updates 😄

📦{simulist} package is on CRAN! 🎉 🔍Simulate an epidemic in the form of linelist and contacts using branching process! 🛠 Use epidemiological parameters, age structure, age-stratified hospitalisation, death risk and case fatality risk. 🌟 Try it out! cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s…

Wondering what you have to look forward to for our Spring ASAB Conference 🤔 📣 Don't forget: Registration for the ASAB grant is closing THIS WEEK, so don't miss your chance to get a grant! #ASABSpring2025 #Behaviour2025 #LJMU

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at Network Science Institute London working with me and the NPLab on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems. Application deadline: 16th February 2025. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO866/phd…

Don't miss this week's seminar on #urbanecology and #wildanimalwelfare — Wednesday at 3 pm GMT. Hear from experts in the field from Royal Veterinary College (RVC), ZSL Science, and Applied Animal Ecology. Attendance is online and in person at the RVC in London. Register here: buff.ly/4gBx7VP

Our last contribution to understand how fish adjust their behaviour to underwater human presence. It seems that fieldwork alone is not sufficient to fully reveal the role of group size in modulating flight initiation distance 🤔...link.springer.com/article/10.100… ICM-CSIC iMARES

We have a position available for a research assistant to join our team to test our rationally designed malaria vaccines. A fun job with a lovely team of people and an important project funded by the Gates Foundation. Come and join us! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

📦{superspreading} is on CRAN 🎉 🔍Analyze individual-level variation in disease transmission using secondary case data. 🤔What's the probability that a disease turns epidemic or goes extinct? What proportion of cases cause X% of transmission? 🌟More: cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/s…

🚨 Big news everyone! 🚨 We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉 Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy

We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at GECCO 2025! Submission deadline: March 26, 2025 More information: …-self-organisation-workshop.github.io

We are pleased to announce our new book: The World of Zero-Inflated Models: Using GLLVM. Zuur and Ieno (2025) This book explores modern statistical methods for analyzing complex datasets, focusing on multivariate models, mixed-effects models, and latent variable models.

Honored to give the Keynote at Sunbelt 2024 in Edinburgh—my first Sunbelt! 🌍🎤 📺 Watch "Network Science: From Structure to Network Resilience" here: 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=W-cv4f… #NetSci #Sunbelt2024 #NetworkScience

In this week’s School of Biology seminar series, brilliant talk from Ivan Jaric | from now on at @ivanjaric.bsky.social from Biology Centre CAS Université Paris-Saclay on harnessing online digital data for ecology & conservation #iEcology #Culturomics #Conservation #Ecology

Looking forward to the 11th ICT-4-Ageing Well conference in Porto Portugal next week! A first-ever ICT conference for me, and also the first-ever where me & my identical twin give keynotes on the same day (finally proving we aren’t just the same person!) ict4awe.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeaker…

A pleasure to chair #ICT4AWE in Porto 🇵🇹 with Josh Firth introducing #Keynote Joseph Firth speaking on "Digital tech and mental health: improving outcomes across the lifespan" ict4awe.scitevents.org 1/2

...and an equal pleasure to chair #ICT4AWE in Porto 🇵🇹 with Joseph Firth introducing #Keynote Josh Firth speaking on "Optimising social connections across the life-course in real-world populations" ict4awe.scitevents.org 2/2

Please RT! If you/someone in your lab is still looking for a PhD for Fall 2025 due to having an offer rescinded, etc. I have funding for up to 2 PhD students in my lab at Mizzou. Contact me if you're interested in studying California quail social behavior biology.missouri.edu/people/allison…

A new Science Robotics study highlights how an insect-inspired leg design and control strategy allows the Harvard University RoboBee to execute safe, controlled, and accurate landings as it flies between the leaves of a plant. scim.ag/3RTTISW