6 days left for PhD opportunity: Competitive funded NERC studentship on investment decisions in #greysquirrels supervised by me, Lisa Leaver, Sean Rands, Tim Fawcett. Deadline 10th Jan 2022. @CRABExeter ExeterPsychology @BristolBioSc. Please RT!
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PhD Studentship! We have a fully funded NERC NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership studentship on investment decisions in #greysquirrels supervised by me, Sean Rands and Tim Fawcett @CRABExeter ExeterPsychology University of Exeter University of Bristol @BristolBioSc
Deadline Jan 8, 2021. Please RT!

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Millions join in huge call for the EU to use its muscle to bring Europe’s nature back, starting with this beautiful short animation.

Squirrel research - the outtakes Helen University of Exeter NatureSpy® #squirrel s #squirrel #cameratrap

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I had the opportunity to write a The Conversation article with David Tosh on our new The Royal Society paper on pine marten and squirrel behavioural interactions QUBEcology George Monbiot Chris Packham School of Biological Sciences Irish Wildlife Trust

Read it here :bit.ly/32u7p0g

In collaboration with Lisa Leaver, we are also exploring this phenomenon...

Glad to finally be able to share this one! Here we show how the thorax scales of moths absorb the sound energy of bat echolocation calls, acting as a type of acoustic stealth coating. Hurrah!

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New gull paper out today in Royal Society Publishing - herring gulls use human behavioural cues to locate food. bit.ly/38YxKWM Led by Madeleine Goumas with Neeltje Boogert #TeamGull

Great use of Microsoft Teams to hold an assembly with Lisa Leaver for #WomenInScienceDay with all of Broadclyst Primary & WestclystCPS. Fascinating to hear about her work with Squirrels & how we can look after our #redsquirrels

Fantastic assembly across the three schools today for #WomenInScienceDay by Alexandra Pulfer with Lisa Leaver #STEM assembly using Microsoft Teams Office 365

It was a real pleasure to talk to ~1000 local pupils Broadclyst Primary and WestclystCPS about being a #WomanInScience for #InternationalWomenInScienceDay ! #LovedTheQuestions #MrsPulfersSquirrelAssembly #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInSTEM

Social connections are important for fitness, tastefully portrayed with smarties by Sam Ellis
#BakeYourPaper CRAB
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Field-based interns wanted to help collect behavioural data for a project in Puerto Rico led by excellent UPenn PhD student Camille Testard. Link for details: pin.primate.wisc.edu/jobs/listings/…

A nice article about MSc courses to take if you're interested in a career working with animals, featuring our very own #MScAnimalBehaviour ! ExeterPsychology CRAB University of Exeter

Animal behaviour: Learn to master the subtle art of communication theguardian.com/global/2020/ja…

Thanks to Vincent Wildlife for helping me and Smulders Lab gather data on the #GreySquirrel #PineMarten interface in Wales, and to the British Ecological Society for funding! #squirrels #RedSquirrels #conservation

Strongly lateralized squirrels do not learn as quickly as those which are less lateralized. Interesting work from Lisa Leaver @stephford93 Tilda and others from CRAB #Handedness #Pawedness

Surprising fact for your #MondayMorning : Ambidextrous squirrels learn more quickly than those that strongly favour their left/right.
In the video below, Lisa Leaver explains more...

Ta da! I finally realised my childhood ambition and became a marine biologist!

Fab cake from Paul Rose for today's CRAB lab meeting - each layer representing a different paper, multimedia toppings representing the variety of species covered therein #BakeYourPaper #InterpretiveBaking #flamingos #giraffes #ducks #JustBakeUsFourCakesPaul !