Amanda Mead and I have just published a paper in Behaviour documenting infanticide in the Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla). This is a species more commonly known for siblicide. We noted two forms of infanticide and discussed possible hypotheses for them:
doi.org/10.1163/1568...
The Guardian has a piece about my new Centre with some lovely comments from longtime collaborators @jeffsebo.bsky.social and @kristinandrews.bsky.social. It follows the golden rule of animal minds journalism: emphasise the pet angle. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Well done! I look forward to following the work your centre will do. This is a great initiative.
PhD Opportunities in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-di...
PhD Opportunity: I am looking for a student to join our Authoritarian About Anything project. Follow the link to find out more including about home student funding. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-di...
We are offering Vice Chancellor’s PhD scholarships at UWL for the September 2025 intake. Take a look at this amazing opportunity here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA511/t...
My review of Lala et al. (2024.) Evolution Evolving is now out in QRB:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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More vile behaviour which led to a rare conviction in this case , this time from the East Essex Hunt – let’s look at day 9 of my countdown of the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social
#RealBanNow
Many new papers have been published in our topical collection on postgenomic determinism over the last few months. Find all of them in this thread and here: link.springer.com/collections/...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...
#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟
New and recent Darwin and #evolution books: tinyurl.com/25joaxb7
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Herald of a Restless World reviewed in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congratulations. This looks like a great contribution and the review is very good. This is now on my list.
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We need something like this for offshore wind:
youtu.be/WuxiaK5MqYg
Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, was usually quite generous about paying for maps, plates, and in-text images for D’s books, and D attended closely to his illustrations, so it’s surprising that the Origin featured only 1, a diagrammatic model of change through time. 2/4
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That sounds about right. But I think the process should run to its full extent. So refusals should be made and defended etc. And I think tax is for such processes so the argument that they are defending the tax payer by letting things slide and avoiding the full process is an error.
So how should we think about second guessing appeals processes and using that to influence the initial decision?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I appreciate folks engaging with my Science and the Public Element, published last spring. Here's a review by @pelagictom.bsky.social: medium.com/scicomm-book...
And, I've just learned that @sts-dach.bsky.social has authored a forthcoming review. Earlier thread about the Element below. #philsci
Well the story behind lines like that is age old - it is one of multiple and competing priorities, low resourcing, and inadequate institutions. The line is an offset with a patina of realism.
LinkedIn carries much content and The Guardian has had some. And of course trade such as THE
discern (v.) to belittle European research on particle physics
