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Elisa Fernández Fueyo

@elisaffueyo.bsky.social

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PhD student researching baboon communication at RHUL & UCL with LIDo🐒 Interested in animal social behaviour, cognition and ethics🐜 Open and inclusive science✨

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Apr 25

Such a honour to be awarded #ASABSpring2025 student plenary talk, esp after seeing the amazing work everyone presented. I really enjoyed the opportunity to share my research in detail & the interesting questions I got! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to chat more about baboon communication✨🐒

ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Apr 25

What an incredible talk on baboon gesturing and intentionality from our student plenary speaker Elisa Fernandez Fueyo 🐒

#ASABSpring2025

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Ben Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them?

A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).

Five misunderstandings in animal social network analysis

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Aug 30

#Behaviour2025 plenary talk

Dr. Toshitaka Suzuki is giving the plenary talk on the topic "Animal linguistics: syntax and semantics in the communication system of a wild passerine" at hall 1 (level 4), on the concluding day of the conference

#plenarytalk
#conference

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 31

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism

1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes
2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes
3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences
4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula
5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Jul 23

2019. #DEI - Unpaid work and access to science professions dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Unpaid work and access to science professions

Unpaid work in the sciences is advocated as an entry route into scientific careers. We compared the success of UK science graduates who took paid or unpaid work six-months after graduation in obtainin...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Jul 23

"such [unpaid] positions undoubtedly provide valuable work experience, but only for those who can afford them, and this can prevent scientists from less-well-off backgrounds from entering the field"

Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Jul 23

2015. Unpaid research jobs draw criticism. The practice of using free labour to do field work sparks online discussion. #DEI - www.nature.com/articles/522...

Unpaid research jobs draw criticism - Nature

The practice of using free labour to do field work sparks online discussion.

www.nature.com

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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · Jul 17

We need your help to raise money for our Field Skills Workshop! 🤝 Our workshop provides critical training for emerging primatologists who otherwise would not have opportunities to gain field experience. Consider donating to support this goal via the 🔗: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £1000 to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025 – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Marco Portillo @raciondeser.bsky.social · Jun 16

✦ 1. ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si el tiempo es ilusorio? ¿O si el futuro está abierto? Mi #HiloTesis explora si la biología puede ayudarnos en estas disputas metafísicas sobre la naturaleza del tiempo.

@crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social ky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social

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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Protect higher education!! Stop the redundancies! www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · May 2

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today was day 1 of @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium 2025. Our MSc and PhD students presented their work and Prof Anne Magurran from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on biodiversity change. Looking forward to more exciting science tomorrow!

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Apr 30

Presenting my research on baboon gestures at my last postgraduate symposium at @rhulbiology.bsky.social, and it does feel like starting to close a chapter, sadly!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Apr 26

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

UK university redundancies: latest updates

As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

www.timeshighereducation.com

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Apr 25

#conferencegoals #ASABSpring2025

What an amazing bunch 🦤

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Apr 25

@asab.org @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social @islabotting.bsky.social

Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks again to the organisers for being so supportive, you really made the experience of my 1st plenary talk great. Especial thanks to the students ofc for selecting me! This opportunity meant a lot, helping me see the progress I’ve made (which isn’t easy to see sometimes) and share it with others🧡

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Elisa Fernández Fueyo @elisaffueyo.bsky.social · Apr 25

ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Apr 25

What an incredible talk on baboon gesturing and intentionality from our student plenary speaker Elisa Fernandez Fueyo 🐒

#ASABSpring2025

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ASAB @asab.org · Apr 25

Thank you to all the organizers and volunteers who made #ASABSpring2025 happen! An especial shout out to Susanne Zajitschek and @islabotting.bsky.social for all your extraordinary work. It was a truly wonderful conference! 👏🏻

Thanks also to @ljmuofficial.bsky.social for hosting us in Liverpool!

A collage with the volunteers in blue t shirts, Susi at worn at the computer and Isla with her knees up in the auditorium

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ASAB @asab.org · Apr 25

Our first ever student plenary, and it was excellent! Great work by @elisaffueyo.bsky.social #ASABSpring2025

Elisa Fernandez Fueyo in front of a slide with a seated baboon which reads “What can baboons tell us about the evolution of language?
A quantitative approach to intentionality and flexibility in animal communication
Elisa Fernandez Fueyo*, Sarah Papworth, Elise Huchard, Guy Cowlishaw, and Alecia J Carter”

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ASAB @asab.org · Apr 24

Summary of today’s #ASABSpring2025 talks:
🪲🐘🐦🦐🦍🐠👯‍♀️🪳🐝🦌💻🦍🐝🐦🐄🐟🐸🐗🐦‍⬛

Great job all! 👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

The best part of the day, is (in my opinion) our dinner at Bundobust! 🍲

Has been great to see everyone here 🕺

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ASAB 2025 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

In the second half of our day our Chris Bernard Award Winner Liran wowed with her talk on bonobo and chimp cooperative behaviours 🐵

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