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Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann

@fhillemann.bsky.social

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. behavioural ecologist . Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs) . von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham . SORTEE co-chair DEI committee . Preprint Editor ProcB . General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research 🌱♻️🌈🧠🌶️ ✊ally to 🏳️‍⚧️ and BLM fhillemann.github.io

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Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · Oct 16

Hi, I'm freddy [she/her], a behavioural ecologist who studies how individuals’ decisions, driven by social, economic, and ecological factors, affect the structure of groups and activities within social networks, like food sharing and social information use.
more on my research: fhillemann.github.io

me and the terriers Siro and Mellori posing for a portrait during an evening walk along a beach.
Baltic Sea, late summer 2023

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Liisa Hämäläinen @lhamalainen.bsky.social · 2d

Late to the party but finally migrating here after some social media break - excited to have a new platform to keep up with the latest research!

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 6d

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

ESLR | Membership

www.eslrsociety.com

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · Aug 18

ESLR is currently undergoing a transition, and a new committee (@alexschakowski.bsky.social, @ahnisnaahsi.bsky.social, @katebonner.bsky.social, @lucahahn.bsky.social, @mariapykala.bsky.social) is working on reinstating its presence and shaping its future. Please feel free to get in touch!

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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 9d

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 13d

Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 14d

We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. 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.

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15d

📣 PSA I've been wanting to say for a while.

Not everyone is an expert programmer or coder, and that's okay. People can still do good, reproducible research without using the fanciest methods or the coolest tools.

Low tech tools ≠ You can't do good work

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15d

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW

I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 15d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 15d

There are just two weeks left to apply for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme! ⏰🌏

If you're based in the Global South and interested in learning about the peer review process through hands-on experience then learn more below 🧪👇

bit.ly/47uwYlD

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 15d

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

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Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.social · 16d

But over these days I’ve been deeply moved by the many responses to my Nature World View @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com on equity in science. It has sparked conversations I never imagined, across continents and disciplines. If you haven’t read it yet, I invite you to do so👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

rdcu.be

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · May 23

New Substack post

It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work

As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending

thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

Happy In Theory

This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

thomscottphillips.substack.com

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 20d

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

Dryad partnership brings easier data sharing to bioRxiv

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

connect.biorxiv.org

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Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · 23d

PS @sheinalew.bsky.social currently has 3 PhD-studentships advertised!!

Apply by December 15th 2025 to join her @erc.europa.eu-funded project "Children as Agents of Cultural Evolution"!

Highly recommended PI and an excellent environment for research and personal development!

Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · 23d

👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures

Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social

Seven people standing outside Durham University's Department of Psychology, smiling for a group photo. Lab PI Sheina is on the right in wearing a mint green jumper; I am third from the left wearing a burgundy jumper

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 23d

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham

Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Jul 18

The first papers from our special collection on vocal communication in corvids are now live. Most are still under review, stay tuned for more updates as they’re published! link.springer.com/collections/...

Vocal communication in corvids

In the field of vocal communication, research has mostly focussed on birds because of their vocal learning capacity and non-human primates due to their ...

link.springer.com

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · Jul 31

How much does it cost to caw?

@wascherclaudia.bsky.social @masonyoungblood.bsky.social report that in 3 crow species, there is a strong negative relation b/t call sequence length & call duration --> they obey Menzerath's law of efficiency

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#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social: crows follow Menzerath’s law showing vocal efficiency in their communication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Vocal efficiency in crows - Animal Cognition

Many communicative systems have been selected for efficiency, shaped by the trade-off between information transmission and energetic or temporal constraints. Linguistic laws such as Menzerath’s law—pr...

link.springer.com

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orsolars.bsky.social @orsolars.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠

Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species

Very fond of the neurobiology part :)

📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

Numerical cognition in birds

Nature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and...

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Joanna Redfeather @joannaredfeather.bsky.social · 24d

Dr Jess Wade, multiple award-winning British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, has written and contributed to more than 2,000 Wikipedia pages about female scientists and scientists of colour.

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www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists

Despite some advances, men still dominate science but one academic is working hard to get women and peers of colour the recognition they deserve

www.theguardian.com

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interested in animal welfare, education policy & social research? Fully funded PhD (UK home) on dog welfare in schools. Get in touch & apply: www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...
(Dog photo purely for attention and moral support)
#PhDopportunity #AnimalWelfare #DogsInSchools #CamDTP #SocialResearch

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Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic news, congrats Oleg!!

Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · Aug 1

Aym, I only just saw this! Sending belated but heartfelt congratulations!! You both look so happy, the photos are just full of joy and love. What a gorgeous day that must’ve been! 💕

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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · Jul 20

In ADHD science podcast's new episode we talk to @maxdavie.bsky.social about our paper on women's experiences being late diagnosed with ADHD

Thanks so much for having us!

Listen to the ep here:
zencastr.com/z/Jr_wK-NO
Find the paper here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.nature.com

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