Rachel Thomson 🐘
@rachelliephant.bsky.social
🌍 PhD Elephant Cognition, Personality & HEC
🧠 Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology
🐘 University of Portsmouth / Elephants for Africa
🎓 1+3 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership
🐭 MRes Neuroscience / MSc Research Methods
🧠 Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology
🐘 University of Portsmouth / Elephants for Africa
🎓 1+3 South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership
🐭 MRes Neuroscience / MSc Research Methods
Reposted by Rachel Thomson 🐘
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, passed away on Monday at the age of 83. Iain's work showed the world how deeply intelligent, social, and important wild elephants are, laying the groundwork for their protection. https://ow.ly/40L250XHymc
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant conservationist, dies aged 83
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, passed away on Monday at the age of 83. Iain's work showed the world how deeply intelligent, social, and important wild elephants are, laying the groundwork for their protection. https://ow.ly/40L250XHymc
Fab day yesterday at the SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference listening to a range of fab research presentations - shoutout to my research centre pals who smashed their talks! 😍🐘🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Fab day yesterday at the SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference listening to a range of fab research presentations - shoutout to my research centre pals who smashed their talks! 😍🐘🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526
Prepping some (colourful!) slides to chat to some @liverpooluni.bsky.social undergraduate students later!! 🐘🎓
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Prepping some (colourful!) slides to chat to some @liverpooluni.bsky.social undergraduate students later!! 🐘🎓
Grateful to have been given the chance to present some captive elephant personality results at the @biaza.bsky.social Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Conference 2025 🐘🐼🦁 a really inspiring couple of days and fab first conference!! ✨ @scdtp.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Grateful to have been given the chance to present some captive elephant personality results at the @biaza.bsky.social Conservation and Human-Wildlife Conflict Conference 2025 🐘🐼🦁 a really inspiring couple of days and fab first conference!! ✨ @scdtp.bsky.social
Reposted by Rachel Thomson 🐘
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...
Starting to look at the data from my zoo visits looking at captive elephant personality! 🧠 Throwback to visiting Blackpool Zoo with my research assistant thanks to a generous @animal-welfare.bsky.social grant 🤩🐘🐾
September 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Starting to look at the data from my zoo visits looking at captive elephant personality! 🧠 Throwback to visiting Blackpool Zoo with my research assistant thanks to a generous @animal-welfare.bsky.social grant 🤩🐘🐾
Thrilled to have won Best Poster at the Uni of Portsmouth’s Festival of Doctoral Research #UoPDocFest last week! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat 🐘🧠💜 @scdtp.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Thrilled to have won Best Poster at the Uni of Portsmouth’s Festival of Doctoral Research #UoPDocFest last week! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat 🐘🧠💜 @scdtp.bsky.social
Very grateful for my Jana Robyest Trust Fund grant and Portsmouth Psychology grant for getting me on a plane to Botswana - and to the Elephants for Africa research camp! 🐘🩶 Here to scope out the national park for my PhD field season next year; what a beautiful place 🌍🇧🇼 #SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Very grateful for my Jana Robyest Trust Fund grant and Portsmouth Psychology grant for getting me on a plane to Botswana - and to the Elephants for Africa research camp! 🐘🩶 Here to scope out the national park for my PhD field season next year; what a beautiful place 🌍🇧🇼 #SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social
Throwback to the start of the year when I helped organise the @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference! Can confirm designing the programme is not as stressful as helping open the whole thing 😂🌅🎤💜 #scdtp
April 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Throwback to the start of the year when I helped organise the @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference! Can confirm designing the programme is not as stressful as helping open the whole thing 😂🌅🎤💜 #scdtp