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Helen Mylne

@helephantmylne.bsky.social

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How long do monkeys live? 🐒 Turns out we don't really know! Postdoc in Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at UoExeter modelling primate lifespans. Also elephant social network analyst 🐘 running entirely on sugar and a love of African wildlife 🌍

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Nov 26

Resharing for new users to find collaborations or just people posting cool #animal #research! I think I've got a decent mix of taxonomic groups of interest, so hopefully this will be useful 🐟🦍🐠🦎🦗🦈🐧🦂🐬🕷️🐌🐢🐙🦟🐳🦁🦋🐊🐜🦆🐘🦃🦘🐛

DM to be added 😊

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#Behavior

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 5d

This week on #PhotographyFriday is a bad photo taken through my friend's binoculars.... But I saw an Osprey at the Otter Estuary! 😁 This handsome juvenile male has come down from the Tweed valley in Scotland, at the start of his migration, and seems very content in Devon 🦅

A young male osprey set in a dead tree, taken through a pair of binoculars. He is visible against a hill in the background, but a long way off so very small!

Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 14d

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 18d

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Sep 4

A lively and light hearted moth vs butterfly discussion on The Infinite Monkey Cage with @janehillyork.bsky.social, @chrisjiggins.bsky.social, Katy Brand, @profbriancox.bsky.social & Robin Ince.

Are you team butterfly or team moth 🦋💡?

Listen to the episode in full: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Infinite Monkey Cage - Series 33 - Moths v Butterflies - Katy Brand, Jane Hill and Chris Jiggins - BBC Sounds

Brian Cox and Robin Ince adjudicate a fluttery face off!

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's #FieldworkFriday! One of the things that I don't post much about is the people I've worked with. In the Australian outback, we went more than a little insane while watching the babblers, but the craziness was so much fun that I made friends I will never forget ❤️ @babblingbirds.bsky.social

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Aug 29

Somehow it's already #PhotographyFriday again... Not quite sure where this week has gone!

This one is from last Sunday, when I finally made it up to #Dartmoor for probably the first time since Covid! Sheep following an old mining cart track in front of Haytor Rocks, amongst the heather and gorse 🐑

4 sheep walking along a granite track in front of Haytor on Dartmoor. There is gorse and heather in flower. The sky is cloudy but with blue showing through. The sheep have black faces and legs, and curling horns.

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Aug 22

All of my usual #FieldworkFriday photos come from old trips, but this one is just from my own garden last weekend. I made the mistake of hand-digging a new flowerbed in a heatwave 🥵 and then planting it with plants that all like different soil types... But they have survived 5 days so far! 🏵️🌹🌸🕷️🐌🌿

Flower bed containing a pink rose, 2 heathers, 3 small lavenders and a daphne

Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Aug 21

Maybe someone at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social can help identify?

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · Jul 4

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm cheating for #FieldworkFriday because it's not my photo... I'm officially Dr Mylne! 🎓🎉

Thanks again to Dan Franks, @cmbeale.bsky.social, @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, @elephantkate, Julia Ferrari, Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, and Uni of York for all your support and guidance ❤️

#graduation #longboi

Me, on a bridge over the lake at the University of York. I'm wearing the York PhD graduation cap gown, which is grey, with a red hood and a red tassle on the sleeve. I am holding a plushie version of Long Boi, the famous campus duck. There are willow trees in the background

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Jul 16

I've learnt a valuable lesson this morning: don't watch Deadpool and Wolverine the night before reading a paper on data pooling....

I'm now curious to know what the Deadpool variant "Datapool" would be like 🤔

deadpool is sitting at a desk reading a magazine with the words back to work written below him

Alt: Gif of Deadpool sitting at a desk reading a magazine with the words back to work written below him. He then turns to a computer and starts typing

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 16

A lot of academics’ political beliefs are indeed tied to their research, but not in a “I’m a liberal lefty and I suppress conservative views for fun” way, more in a “I do research on climate so I think net zero is important” way

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Jun 25

Please share.
We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social

#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

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Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · Jul 14

#WorldChimpanzeeDay seems a great time to share 2 #PhD opportunities on creativity in wild #chimps and #bonobos at University of Zurich @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social

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Samantha Batty @yorkshireeden.bsky.social · Jul 11

Spot the Moth 🧐

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Jul 11

This week on a slightly late #FieldworkFriday, I present a blueberry. Enjoy 😁

Blue waxbills are one of my favourite birds in southern Africa for the simple reason that they're just so cute!

Blue waxbill sitting on a stick on the ground. Blue waxbills are very small birds with a greyish brown back and crown while their front, belly, rump, tail and face are a bright powder blue. The bird is looking straight at the camera.

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · Jul 10

Earlier this year @charlielem.bsky.social undertook a 3 month @britishecologicalsociety.org POST Fellowship at the Houses of Parliament where she worked as a Committee Specialist for the Environmental Audit Committee.

Find out about her experience & what she learnt:
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Lessons from a POST Fellowship

PhD student Charlie Le Marquand reflects on her three month POST Fellowship at the Houses of Parliament.

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · Jul 9

Colossal are likely trying to ‘de-extinct’ the moa by tweaking an emu genome. There’s 62 million years of evolution between an emu and a moa.

For context, there’s only 42 MY between humans and howler monkeys. You simply can’t make a human with a GM howler monkey
www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird

www.newscientist.com

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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · Jul 1

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!

Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!

Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Jun 26

Some good news for Ash trees! 🥳🌳

Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · Jun 26

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shoots of hope for Britain's cherished ash trees

Scientific evidence suggests ash trees are ‘fighting back’ against a deadly disease.

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · Jun 20

It's Friday! Have a happy hippo enjoying their Friday pond day 😁

#FieldworkFriday

Hippo in a waterhole yawning. There are two other hippos also visible with their eyes and ears just above the waterline.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · Jun 7

Trying to figure out how fishing might be something where trans women have a competitive advantage, and all I've got is that the chemicals that make the frogs gay also make fish into chasers.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · Jun 7

The exclusion of trans women from public life in the UK continues.
www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/29/t...

Trans women banned from England Ladies team angling

The Angling Trust has announced its trans participation policy will ban trans anglers from competing for England in the women’s category.

www.thepinknews.com

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