Charlotte Christensen

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Dwarf Mongooses Lose Body Mass in Hot Weather due to Limited Behavioural Plasticity Using long-term data from wild dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula), we demonstrate that on hot days (≥ 35°C) compared to matched cooler ones (≤ 33°C), mongooses emerged and commenced foraging earlier ...

🚨NEW paper🚨 out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social from the brilliant #Masters of @laurenvane.bsky.social
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
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WE ARE HIRING RESEARCH INTERN - VULTURINE GUINEAFOWL RESEARCH PROGRAMME The VGRP is an ongoing scientific study investigating the behavior and ecology of the vulturine guineafowl. Since 2016, the team has banded over 1,000 individuals and fitted 250 with GPS tags. With some team members moving on to postgraduate studies, we are seeking to hire a motivated Kenyan intern to join our field research team for a duration twelve (12) months About the Role As a Research Intern, you will assist in daily research activities, contributing to ongoing field studies and data collection. This role offers hands on experience in wildlife research and an opportunity to develop fieldwork and scientific skills while working in a collaborative environment. Key Responsibilities • Conduct bird census surveys and record data • Deploy biologging tags on guineafowl • Collect fecal samples for hormone analysis • Assist in maintaining research equipment and records • Work closely with other researchers and field assistants Requirements • Kenyan citizenship • Valid driving license and strong driving skills • Diploma or BSc in Biology, Environmental Sciences, or related field • Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team • Competence in written and spoken English • Basic computer skills (emails, Excel) and willingness to learn more • Experience in wildlife research or livestock handling (bird-handling experience is an advantage) We Offer Immersive, hands-on field research experience Opportunity to work with an experienced international research team Skills development in wildlife monitoring, data collection, and analysis A supportive learning environment How to Apply Email: jobs@mpala.org with a single PDF document containing: • A brief introduction of yourself • A statement of motivation • Your CV • 1–2 recommendation letters • Copies of school and university certificates • Copy of your driving licence Application Deadline: 27th August 2025 Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

A picture of a vulturine guineafowl (a large bird with a bald head and long blue feathers) wearing colour-bands for individual identification in the field at Mpala Research Centre PC: Jonathan Gray

Come join the Vulturine Guineafowl Research Programme at Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia!

We are hiring a motivated, Kenyan intern to contribute to our long-term data collection. An awesome opportunity to gain hands-on research experience in a beautiful place!

See post for details & please share

My first paper co-authored with Robert Irwin! doi.org/10.1093/conp... @sjcfishy.bsky.social @conphysjournal.bsky.social

I should count my blessings… though hyena poops would be easier to spot 👀

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Opportunities — ASAB

📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable.

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I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.

If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.

Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.

Cover of the book 'Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications'.

Hurrah - it's arrived! 🎉 Congratulations to @bbmwong.bsky.social & @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social (Editors) and all the authors. Delighted to have contributed the #noise #pollution chapter, enlivened with beautiful drawings by Martin Aveling.

#ChangingWorld #behaviour
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-Connecting scientists w/ classrooms around the world
-Spreading science w/ events, street art, & community projects
-Helping other scientists make local connections where they live

Donate $5 a month so I can continue this work!
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‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

If your senators are: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Maggie Hassan (NH), Mark Kelly (AZ), John Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA)

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Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Antagonistic co-evolution can be asymmetric, where one species lags behind another. Asymmetry in a predator–prey context is expressed by the ‘life–dinner principle’, a classic informal model predictin...

Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩

Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...

Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

El Niño drought reveals survival advantage in monkeys with robust stress response White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

2025. El Niño drought reveals survival advantage in monkeys with robust stress response phys.org/news/2025-01...

Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences In vertebrates, glucocorticoids can be upregulated in response to both psychosocial and energetic stressors, making it difficult to identify the cause of elevated glucocorticoid concentrations when both types of stressors are present. This problem has ...

2025. Energetic costs of social dominance in wild male baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

⏰📢 One week to go to apply for these #lectureship 🌟JOBS🌟 with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’.

That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour

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Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching

Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching':
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Please read and implement.
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Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours Pairing a 40-year behavioural dataset with long-term environmental data, we find support for correlations in individual plasticity across behaviours (a) in a free-ranging population of Magellanic pen....

2024. Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

TWS Journals Based on an experiment in Arctic tundra we demonstrate that nest cameras attracted predators, which caused an extremely, positively biased predation rate that was consistent over a range of experimen...

Be Careful with How Data are Recorded!! 2024. Trail cameras can greatly inflate nest predation rates. "trail cameras attracted corvids (in particular ravens [Corvus corax]), which caused an extreme and positively biased predation rate" wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dusky langurs - an example of primate natal colouration

🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!

www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.

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Are you a student or academic in a STEM subject? Please consider completing the survey of my PhD student. We are especially looking for global majority participants and people with caring responsibilities (amazon vouchers up for grabs in a prize draw) aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Deadline extended until 30th Nov!! Send your application through if you’re interested 🙌🏽

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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025.

OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠
Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd

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Story about a US history class. Teacher asks who discovered America and students answer Columbus. Teacher asks "Right. So who did he find when he came here?" Students answer Indians but can't name the tribe. Teacher tells them Taìnos. Then asks "How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first ... Why haven't ypu heard of them? This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing - rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples." From Rethinking Columbus: towards a true people's hstory by Bill Bigelow via bestoffates

Happy Indigenous people's day!

Food supplementing peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) nests increase reproductive success with no change in mean parental provisioning rate | royalsocietypublishi... | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology

Hey! First post on Blue Sky 🎉. I just gave a seminar on a paper from my PhD: "More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons" 🐒. If you prefer listening over reading (guilty) and are intrigued by the title, then... :
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