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🐦 Our work on higher-order network approaches to study animal (vocal) communication is now out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B🐦‍⬛ Thanks again to the amazing team! Matthew Silk Dr. Jenn Foote Nina Fefferman @ederry1 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Should infected hosts sacrifice to protect kin? Even weak kin selection can drive this because of coevolution of avoidance by susceptibles and self-isolation by infecteds! And coevolution depends on whether its social behavior or immunity. Open acc.: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Check out this great special issue of Phil Trans B featuring lots of very cool behavioural and networks research!

I had a lot of fun working with a wonderful interdisciplinary team on this paper. If you want to learn about using hypergraphs to study animal social behaviour and communication then take a look!

The more, the merrier. Your mates count for adaptive potential. New preprint: ‘Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours: a #metaanalysis’ 📜 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 💻 data & code: github.com/ASanchez-Tojar…

Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐦🐒🐭🐝🐜🐙🦋 Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB🦀! There are still 10d left to submit an abstract and join us in Exeter at #CCS2024. 👉sites.google.com/view/crab2024/…

A reminder that the abstract deadline for our Conference on Complex Systems satellite meeting on animal behaviour is fast approaching. Would be great to have a diverse set of talks and attendees! Any questions then get in touch.

Last few days to submit an abstract for our Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite at Conference on Complex Systems

My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint! Together with @danielj_redhead, Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛, and Primate Behavioral Ecology @primbehavecol.bsky.soc, we propose a general analytical framework to study the causes of animal social network structure, using Bayesian & Causal modelling. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m looking for a postdoc (quantitative wildlife ecologist) to join our team to estimate white-tailed deer density and group size using camera traps (with implications for pathogen spread). hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/361827

I'm looking forward to next week and the International Statistical Ecology Conference 😍 Catching up w/ friends, colleagues and awesome science 🥳 The International Statistical Ecology Conference chrissuthy.quarto.pub/international-… We'll be presenting our latest work 😇 Check it out 🧵👇 #ISEC_2024_Swansea #ISEC2024

We recently preprinted our meta-analysis of spatial and social behaviour in wild animal systems! Have a read if you're interested in density dependence, disease transmission, network scaling and structuring, or comparative behavioural work: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/4)

I'm looking for a 3 yr postdoc to work on evo genetics and genomics of guppy behaviour with @erik_postma @BonnieFraser8 Based in Cornwall at Exeter's @cec. Think behavioural ecology meets quant gen in the genomics era. Info + links to app forms at sites.exeter.ac.uk/wilson-group/o…

Growing old with 'Prides'🦁New paper using 30yrs of wild lion social networks to examine sex-specific social ageing & consequences for survival🦁 Press release: biology.ox.ac.uk/article/growin… Paper #OA in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… led brilliantly by Lauren Rudd

⭐️New preprint⭐️ In the first half, we give a general introduction to generative network models. In the second half, we consider the use of generative network models in investigations of animal social systems. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… with Matthew Silk 🐬Michael Weiss🐋

Post Doc available We are looking for someone to come and work here at University of Exeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me, Lauren Brent , Noah Snyder-Mackler and Kenny Chiou . The aim of the post is to help us investigate comparative primate life history. Details here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

🚨 The second article of my PhD is out 🥳 We integrated commute-time distance⚡ into dynamic occupancy models using R-nimble to model carnivore recolonisation 🦦🐱. Curious why we're using hierarchical models for connectivity analyses? Check out the blog post!

Do you want to share your #AudioMoth devices? My student (USA based) would need some for their research project!🐦🦉🐦‍⬛ (We'd pay for all costs) The group order from the official website is currently sold out and I thought to ask fellow scholars before going for expensive options

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/… A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share