Faye Thompson
@fayejthompson.bsky.social
NERC Independent Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Cornwall
Intergroup conflict | Cooperation | Social evolution | Termites | Banded mongooses
Intergroup conflict | Cooperation | Social evolution | Termites | Banded mongooses
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
September 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
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We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
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🚨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
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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 ...
doi.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨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
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Hot temperature effects on behaviour & body mass.
Aided by dream #mongoose team of @josharbon.bsky.social Amy Morris-Drake & @juliekern.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
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🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
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📢NEW funding criteria for ASAB Research Grants📢
From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants.
Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary.
Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help
From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants.
Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary.
Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help
June 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
📢NEW funding criteria for ASAB Research Grants📢
From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants.
Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary.
Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help
From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants.
Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary.
Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help
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💑 Relationships can be hard work. In fact, the challenges of maintaining social relationships are often thought to have favoured the evolution of intelligence in humans and other social animals.
Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social
Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
💑 Relationships can be hard work. In fact, the challenges of maintaining social relationships are often thought to have favoured the evolution of intelligence in humans and other social animals.
Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social
Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social
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Two extremely important articles
Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And why field studies are important:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And why field studies are important:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this on…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Two extremely important articles
Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And why field studies are important:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And why field studies are important:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 Big news everyone! 🚨
We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉
Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉
Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
February 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🚨 Big news everyone! 🚨
We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉
Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February! That gives you two more weeks to send us your applications🎉
Register here: tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
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PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
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Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching
www.sciencedirect.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Each January, @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour publishes its 'Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching':
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please read and implement.
#AnimalEthics #AnimalBehaviour
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New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢
Well done team!
Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍
#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
Well done team!
Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍
#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 AM
New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢
Well done team!
Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍
#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
Well done team!
Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍
#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
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JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#exetercec
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December 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#exetercec
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Just over 1 month left to apply to do a PhD with me in @crab-exeter.bsky.social!
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
December 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Just over 1 month left to apply to do a PhD with me in @crab-exeter.bsky.social!
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⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
SWBio-funded PhD position on
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
December 9, 2024 at 12:40 PM
⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
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I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 11th 2024
SWbio application link: https://www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular-and-biophysical-studies/ For inquiries, please email: [email protected] Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK....
mahansonresearch.weebly.com
November 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
More info:
mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...
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Two days left to apply for this! Please share.
I'm advertising a PhD studentship (open to international students) on understanding how temperature may alter the ecology and evolution of AMR. Might suits someone with a microbiology/wet lab background who wants to expand into ecoevo. Or vice versa! But interest more important than experience.
December 9, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Two days left to apply for this! Please share.
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Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
December 6, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
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Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
December 5, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
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Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
November 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
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Corvids calling! New PhD opportunity on corvid communication in the wild. Sep 2025 start. Fully funded by
@swbiodtp.bsky.social. Application deadline 11 December. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yw785v75.
@swbiodtp.bsky.social. Application deadline 11 December. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yw785v75.
November 29, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Corvids calling! New PhD opportunity on corvid communication in the wild. Sep 2025 start. Fully funded by
@swbiodtp.bsky.social. Application deadline 11 December. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yw785v75.
@swbiodtp.bsky.social. Application deadline 11 December. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yw785v75.
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Interested in cognition, conservation and choughs? This PhD is for you! Fully funded by NERC GW4+. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social; co-supervised by @drrmiller.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/58s9kb4k
November 29, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Interested in cognition, conservation and choughs? This PhD is for you! Fully funded by NERC GW4+. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social; co-supervised by @drrmiller.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/58s9kb4k
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Less than a week!
Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter.
Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age.
Deadline: 11th Dec
More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age.
Deadline: 11th Dec
More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
December 6, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Less than a week!
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5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
December 5, 2024 at 11:01 PM
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...