Huge thanks to my team: Kate Flay, Alna McElligott ( @amcell.bsky.social) and George Hodgson (@ghodgson.bsky.social)

And of course many thanks to the cattle!

We used an innovative application of Sliding Windows Analysis to identify lags between weather changes and impacts on body condition. Our findings can inform the management of farmed cattle and wild ungulates in subtropical environments.

For 2+ years I have monitored the body condition of 262 feral cattle across 12 herds in Hong Kong.... and the results are now accepted for publication in the @thermal-biology.bsky.social sky.social 😊
Our study is accessible in Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Propose a new Workshop Propose a new Workshop for 2028 Applications close on Friday 29 May 2026 If you would like to run a fully funded Workshop with The Company of Biologists then please read the details below on how to ap...

Do you work in the Global South? @biologists.bsky.social is seeking Workshop proposals for their 2028 programme from researchers based in Global South countries. The Company is looking for an exciting proposal to bring a Workshop to your region. Find out more at

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Last chance to apply to join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist working on our #ClimateChange research portfolio! Apply online at www.bto.org/jobs

📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April.
📝 £44,637 per annum. #Ornithology

Here's a novel idea: why don't the major journal publishers use some of their vast profits to expand their research ethics and integrity teams, and speed up handling the vast numbers of problematic studies piling up? pubpeer.com

Viability selection on coat spot patterns correlates with temperature anomalies in Masai giraffes Spot patterns influenced giraffe survival and their effects were altered by temperature anomalies. In calves, spot size may help with thermoregulation while spot shape may conceal them from predators...

2026. Viability selection on coat spot patterns correlates with temperature anomalies in Masai giraffes. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

4 general, open journals compared using AI: #ResearchIntegrity ⬇️

Scientific Reports, Plos One, Royal Society Open Science, & PeerJ - what does AI advise? ⬇️

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

📆29th May deadline
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Only 9 days left until applications to become a BES Fellow close! ⌛

Meet the PI / Episode 3 / Anna Stöckl Spotify video

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out!

From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...

Seminar Series 2026: 1. Dr. Anna Dornhaus YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live

📆 Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...

💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣
Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝

🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”

In orangutans, masculine male faces also draw the most attention “This shows that our attention system has deep evolutionary roots,” says Utrecht University behavioral biologist Tom Roth.

For an explanation of our results and a video of the experiment you can have a look at this news article: www.uu.nl/en/news/in-o...

NYAS Publications Visual attention mechanisms help organisms prioritize evolutionarily relevant stimuli, like threats and mating opportunities. We investigated whether Bornean orangutans, a species with pronounced sex...

Happy to see the last empirical chapter of my PhD in print. We used eye-tracking to investigate whether orang-utans showed an attentional bias towards pictures of flanged males. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Really happy to see this paper out. Read Emile's thread for some background on our study ☺️

Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently Chimpanzees and bonobos differ in aggression distribution but not magnitude.

Bonobos bully as much as chimpanzees—but their victims differ by sex, according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sgXciX

Scientific Reports, Plos One, Royal Society Open Science, & PeerJ - what does AI advise? ⬇️

4 general, open journals compared using AI: #ResearchIntegrity ⬇️

NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them.
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www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion.

This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention.

@CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve

Link 🔽

It builds on Alice’s great deep dive for @goodlawproject.org on how Orban’s thinktanks funded by Russian oil pay vast sums to Roger Scuton Legacy Foundation (whose directors include Michael Gove & James Orr) + £10k/month to Britain’s favourite AI-enhanced failed politician MattGPT

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen.

Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons
for @thenerve_news. 👏

If Trump intends to attempt a coup, here are five ways he could do it Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian

You need to read this.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.

V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.

www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

With Orbán gone, has the British far right lost its magic money tree? Hungary’s new PM has described his predecessor’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate. This could be bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK – and around the rest of the...

This one just runs and runs….

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Still, if RSLF does lose its Hungarian cash, it's not short of rich and powerful friends it could call instead. Palantir founder Peter Thiel spoke at its Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) lecture series at Oxford University in 2023 about his book The Diversity Myth, in which he compared equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives to the Chinese Communist party.

And then there’s Vance’s personal friend James Orr, who has been director of MCC’s de facto operation in the UK for the past five years, RSLF. Orr is an anti-abortion Cambridge theologian who was also recently promoted to head of policy at Reform, and is the UK representative of the group which organises the National Conservatism Conference, a global rightwing knees-up that will take place in Jerusalem this year.

The Scruton/Orbán love affair was a long one. In the late 80s, a young Orbán befriended Scruton when he was living in the UK during a brief stint at Oxford. Now, in addition to the cafe on the MCC campus, there are at least nine (yes, nine!) other cafes named after the philosopher in Hungary.

As I recently uncovered for Good Law Project, since 2023 the foundation has received over 90% of its funding – £512,500 – from the Russian-oil-backed MCC, which it has used to host events platforming British rightwing politicians and media, Trump-aligned US tech bros, and “anti-woke” commentators. Spectator editor and former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, and Reform’s new head of policy, James Orr, are among its directors, though according to accounts they are unpaid.

On the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation...