Ambre Salis
@ambresalis.bsky.social
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Https://ambresalis.wordpress.com Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. Working on animal linguistics and behavioural ecology, mostly on house sparrows' calls 🔊
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YEAHH FIRST POST✨

I'm Ambre, working on birds and mostly house sparrows, trying to understand what they say and why they say it.

New year resolution: I'll share one picture each week about my project: SPANTICS.

(SPArrows semaNTICS.. yeah.. never was and never will be good at acronyms 🥸)
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ambresalis.bsky.social
NEW PAPER 🐦🎵💬

The same type of ordering rule (high frequency calls followed by noisy broadband notes) is found in almost all living Paridae: very likely, this combination already existed in the common ancestor of tits and chickadees, 11 mya !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#bird #mobbing #call
Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago
www.nature.com
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An evening’s thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social
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Genuinely astonished at this decision. It makes no sense at all. My love and unwavering support go out to every trans person in the UK facing uncertainty, fear and exclusion as a result of this. As far as I can tell we just deliberately created an anomaly in law to satisfy transphobes. But it won't.
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The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
ambresalis.bsky.social
This Monday, we talked about birds, their calls, and so much more with my colleague Agnes, in a workshop open to families at the Invention Rooms (white city campus).

Kids (and their fun parents) are always the best public - honestly I could do that all day 🥹

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social
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I love these details so much - Natural History Museum, London 🦖🦕
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Nice memories from our February fieldwork on Lundy Island 🐦
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Handmade miniature book

- A very efficient way to relax after seeing the comments from Reviewer 2 🧘-
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#StandUpForScience
Ce vendredi 07 mars, nous aurons l’occasion d’affirmer collectivement notre solidarité aux scientifiques et universitaires travaillant aux États-Unis, en Argentine et dans tous les pays où la liberté académique est menacée.
ambresalis.bsky.social
I would love that, thank you ! ☺️
ambresalis.bsky.social
That's what I call quality time 🐦

This week I had the opportunity to stay in Auchinlek, one of the wonderful buildings of the Landmark Trust

Surrounded by six incredible, kind and talented women working in bird ecology ⭐

This sets the stage for future collaborations together 🪺
ambresalis.bsky.social
A beautiful case of BDRP : a Bad Day to Record Sparrows 🥲
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Celebrating Darwin's birthday today (and his brilliant ideas, did you get the pun in the picture? 😇)

#CEEDarwin2025

The debate of today is "How would Darwin do fieldwork today ?"

@ceevol.bsky.social
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Trying to record house sparrows without them noticing... I love a good challenge !
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Ahah that's a good question, I am currently working on this ! I would say yes, the chirp is probably used in several contexts such as contact/social calling, but quite often in specific sequences for territory defense and mating. So, from what we know, song is a good guess !
ambresalis.bsky.social
Hm i would say not for peer review, unsure about scholar, and yes for the CV ! You invested time to do it, so it should appear somewhere :)
ambresalis.bsky.social
Honestly I don't know, most advice says that placing them in October/November is better... I guess it depends on tons of factors ! Fingers crossed 😁
ambresalis.bsky.social
Pspspsp sparrows, come here 😇

(Yep, probably a bit late to place it, but hopefully next year they will use it 🤞)
ambresalis.bsky.social
Beginning of PhD (2019) versus End of PhD (2022) ...

Can you spot the 7 differences? 🙃
ambresalis.bsky.social
Have you heard about Lundy Island ? 🏝️

This small island is in the South West of England. It is the home not only of puffins and sheep, but also of a population of house sparrows (lucky me!).
They have been the focus of tons of awesome research (i'll talk about it someday 🤸)
ambresalis.bsky.social
YEAHH FIRST POST✨

I'm Ambre, working on birds and mostly house sparrows, trying to understand what they say and why they say it.

New year resolution: I'll share one picture each week about my project: SPANTICS.

(SPArrows semaNTICS.. yeah.. never was and never will be good at acronyms 🥸)