Male White rhinoceros walking in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia Photo by Giles Laurent
🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Some nice coverage of the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme involving @mammalweb.bsky.social. Sign up to get involved!
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1 week left to apply for this PhD.
✅ Field surveys
✅ Cutting-edge modelling
✅ Collaboration with @ptes-org.bsky.social
🗓 Deadline: 5-1-26
#PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #WildlifeMonitoring @prof-r-hill.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social
A fantastic PhD opportunity with the MammalWeb team and PTES. Get in touch if you are interested.
Sika deer and pine marten (C) Peter Archdale
Muntjac (C) NHMP Warwickshire
Annotated red deer (C) NHMP Cornwall (annotated by Marc Baldwin)
Red fox (C) NHMP Durham
We recently sent out our November newsletter. Read about a new deer ID guide, the latest platform developments, a tempting offer for training, news of a new competition, and more!
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here:
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#cameratraps #ukwildlife #mammals
A glorious day for the start of the academic year. Let’s hope it is a sign for the year ahead!
🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨
Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.
Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
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Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting
National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November
www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...
Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share!
@mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social
We are excited to share our next plenary speaker from @ehbea2025.bsky.social !
@prof-r-hill.bsky.social shows the STRANGE biases that exist in animal behaviour research via a nice and thorough overview of primate studies
Don’t miss it! 👀
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Great to spend time with Amy White and her dump baboons. So many interesting dimensions to their behaviour!
Following from the publication of Rahman’s excellent paper he has written a blog about his PhD journey durham-student.org/my-phd-journ...
Read the full research paper, published in People and Nature 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Fox cubs (Image: NWKCP / NHMP Kent)
A mystery stag (Image: jess.marshall / NHMP Dorset)
Our June newsletter is out. It has an NHMP competition update, news on site developments, and a mystery deer to classify.
If you aren't subscribed, you can read the newsletter here: lnkd.in/d7SCd6wZ
If you're feeling keen, you can also classify the mystery stag, here: lnkd.in/dshPEidZ
#cameratraps
Fantastic new paper led by @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social exploring the integration of Ai and citizen science through @mammalweb.bsky.social with @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CJ8QP4...
Roe deer and badger, red fox and rabbit. Images: NHMP Durham
Grey squirrel and magpie, jay and domestic dog (we think). Images: NHMP Durham.
Our May newsletter has just gone out, featuring - among other things - news of a competition happening now, with prizes awarded by @ptes-org.bsky.social! If you don't yet subscribe, check it out here eomail1.com/web-version?...
#mammals #ukwildlife #cameratraps
A quick post to announce that MammalWeb has finally arrived on Blue Sky! Check out our latest (April) newsletter at tinyurl.com/MW-April or visit the site at www.mammalweb.org.
#citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature
A great opportunity to get involved with MammalWeb and the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme in collaboration with @PTES and @hedgehogsociety
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Sammy Mason and Russell Hill made it to Liverpool to collect the National Biodiversity Network Group award for wildlife recording, 2024, on behalf of all of our contributors.
Members of the MammalWeb team were at the County Durham Environment Awards ceremony to collect the Volunteer Group of the Year award on behalf of all our contributors. Left-to-right: Phil Stephens, Graham Smith, Jim Cokill, Sammy Mason and Russell Hill.
Being new to Blue sky gives us a chance to emphasise that all our wonderful contributors have been recognised by not 1 but 2 awards over recent months! Thanks to @nbntrust.bsky.social for the 2024 group award for wildlife recording, and @durhamcouncil.bsky.social for the 2024 volunteer group award!
Really enjoyed first #EHBEA2025 plenary
Hitting my soft-spots for reflective practice, observational wild primate research, & pics of vervet monkeys 🐒
Prof Russell Hill from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social considered how our presence can bias study subjects' behaviour 👀(🚨spoiler alert🚨 it does!)
Slide on a projector with Russell Hill speaking in front of it.
Great first plenary @ehbea2025.bsky.social by @prof-r-hill.bsky.social, who reflected on how the STRANGE framework, devised by @mikemwebster.bsky.social and Christian Rutz, relates to primate fieldwork (e.g. the impact of tolerance of human observers on social network datasets).
Sounds good!
🚨 We’re so excited to welcome you to #EHBEA2025 — starting THIS MONDAY in Newcastle! 🎉
We’re opening with a bang 💥: A pre-conference panel on Big Team Science at 2pm!
What worked, what didn't & more!
📝 Register: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
#TeamScience #HumanBehaviour #EHBEA
@ehbea.bsky.social
The MammalWeb project still isn't on Bluesky, so here's a link to the April newsletter for all of you who are! Lots of exciting updates on projects, competitions, site developments - and, excitingly, another award! What's not to like? What indeed ...
tinyurl.com/MWApr25
Durham river banks looking glorious today as I head to the station London bound.
Durham Anthropology are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Anthropology of Data Science (Research & Education).
For more information, and to apply, click the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Slightly disturbed to discover that I may have been doing this 30 years, but it was great to talk to the students: qeliz.nalp.org.uk/durham-unive...
Glorious skies this morning for the start of term!
slide showing the conclusions of the studies : even when habituated the researcher presence has impact on the primate behavior, also these potential biases need to be investigated
Different studies show that the presence of human observers is not neutral at all : in some cases, the monkeys are more calm and reassured when humans are present (especially in relation to the presence of predators). These biases need to be taken into account #ASABWinter2024