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Eamonn Wooster

@predator-smarts.bsky.social

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Gulbali Institute postdoctoral fellow, Charles Sturt University Behavioural Ecology + predator-prey interactions https://www.eifwooster.org

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Nov 17

Over 130,000 years Australia's predator community has been radically reorganised, what does this mean for ecological function and food webs? In @currentbiology.bsky.social, we show that modern food webs resemble those of the Late Pleistocene, but only when dingoes are present.

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats mate!!

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 6d

🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands

Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳

Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

More info:
🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity

CREAF - Job offers, offices and team

Check out all the job offers at CREAF. Get to know the team, see our offices, learn about our values, and discover the benefits of working at CREAF

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Kaitlyn Gaynor @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · 11d

Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...

2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 13d

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

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Dr Blake Morton @drblakemorton.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to share our latest paper from our on-going #BritishCarnivoreProject, showing that encounters with wild red #foxes could be an important gateway to broader #nature connectedness in people, particularly in cities. 🦊🍃🏙️ Link here: doi.org/10.1080/1087...

Experiencing the wild: red fox encounters are related to stronger nature connectedness, not anxiety, in people

Frequent and positive wildlife experiences can strengthen people’s physical and mental connection with nature, potentially improving public health and pro-environmental behaviors. Red foxes are the...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats!! Study species tattoos are the best

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Tali Caspi @talicaspi.bsky.social · 22d

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

Urbanisation Facilitates Intrapopulation Dietary Niche Diversity in a Generalist Carnivore

We compared stable isotope profiles of urban and nonurban coyote populations to test whether urbanisation fosters niche diversification among individuals. Urban coyotes had narrower dietary niches an...

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Sep 7

Making the most of the weekends in Vancouver visiting UBC with some weekend boulders in perfect Squamish : )

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · Aug 27

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x)

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

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks Michelle!

Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks Calum !!

Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank Shinichi!

Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks Neil!!

Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 27

Very happy to share that I've been awarded the 2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social "Next Generation Ecologist" award. I'll be giving a plenary at the ESA2025 in Adelaide. See you there!!

www.ecolsoc.org.au/news/2025-ne...

2025 Next Generation Ecologist Award Winner Announced - Ecological Society of Australia

We are very pleased to announce Dr Eamonn Wooster as the 2025 Next Generation Ecologist Award winner! Dr Eamonn Wooster holds an independent fellowship at Charles Sturt University. His work spans beha...

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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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Sébastien Roques @sebroques.bsky.social · Aug 26

🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩

Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS

Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · Aug 25

Native Species? 🌎🌐🐺🦉
Cultural Paradigms in Conservation @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lac31R~ea...

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 21

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day

Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · Aug 20

New @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social paper out today in @royalsociety.org Biology Letters. We found adult jackdaws can learn to tolerate usually bullied or ignored juveniles when they provided information about a new foraging resource.

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Wild jackdaws learn to tolerate juveniles to exploit new foraging opportunities | Biology Letters

Social tolerance can enhance access to resources and is thought to be crucial in facilitating the evolution of cooperation, social cognition and culture, but it is unknown whether animals can optimize...

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 18

Learning to avoid the toxic parts of cane toads!

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The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social · Aug 15

Lab member Lara Blumenstiel is currently wrapping up the last stage of training before moving on to cognitive testing. Sydney's clever cockies are playing her custom puzzle-box like pros!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 14

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 14

So Elsevier / ScienceDirect is now actively and intentionally including machine-generated pseudoscience on its pages next to the work of academics

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social -->

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Iris van Rooij
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at the moment. To my surprise and dismay, I hit upon this ScienceDirect page that ‘defined’ the concept as follows:

I thought, Huh?! This is definitely not how we — cognitive scientists — use that term. Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature” (emphasis in original).

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