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Stephanie L King

@stephanielking.bsky.social

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Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Mar 26

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 6d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible animal system, awesome science and the nicest group of people to work with - what’s not to like? ⬇️

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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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Sep 6

Huge Congratulations @stephaniellaura.bsky.social - truly a thesis to be proud of!

Stephanie L Mason @stephaniellaura.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's official! PhD submitted. Thanks to @mandyridley.bsky.social, @stephanielking.bsky.social and Dr Sarah Walsh for everything, particularly over the last few months as I bombarded you with manuscript drafts. Excited to share this research with the world soon!
Stay posted, but for now, sleep.

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Cornish Jackdaw Project @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper led by @josharbon.bsky.social. Adults jackdaws often bully youngsters, but we show they can learn to be tolerant and attend to juveniles as sources of information. @uniexecec.bsky.social. Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk & @swbiodtp.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Aug 12

Just another day in the bay #sharkbay #gathaagudu #dolphinresearch

Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Aug 12

Agreed! One of my favourite duos

Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Aug 12

A great privilege of my career is observing the Shark Bay dolphins. A firm favourite is Starlet - a 22 year old adult male whose father, Realnotch, dominated the alliance landscape. Starlet has inherited his father’s prowess and, with his allies, ranges widely to secure females and take on rivals.

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Aug 8

Monkey Mia 🫶

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hello Shark Bay 🫶

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

😂 not after your last story of spending time on a boat!

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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The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social · Jul 26

No, it's not a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but it is a clever cockie!

Masters student Miro van den Berg is using light-weight BLE-tags to study the urban lives of the gorgeous gang-gang cockatoo. You can read more here: sites.google.com/site/lucymap...

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Charli Grimes @charli-ocean.bsky.social · Jun 24

We did some science. We found some things.
Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends.

Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales

The manufacture and use of tools, while widespread in terrestrial animals1, has been less frequently reported in marine taxa2. In cetaceans, clear exa…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jun 19

Huge loss for @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - you’ll be sorely missed @ebablab.bsky.social!! Hope @camzoology.bsky.social know just how lucky they are! 🦋🧠🍾

Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social‬ will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution.

We look forward to welcoming him next year!

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jun 16

That’s very lovely of you to say! :)

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jun 15

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · Jun 4

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject!

@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
&
@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · May 24

Very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Fellowship to continue my work on dolphin communication and social cognition 🙏 @researchdolphin.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social