PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia looking at communicative complexity in WA magpies & Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins.
Western Australia
Joined December 2021
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This marks the end of 270 days in the field with these trouble makers. I am just about ready to never see a magpie again (I hear them in my sleep at this point🫠🦅)
Now straight to Shark Bay for dolphin season🐬
Will be glad of a big nap and a holiday when this is all over 🥴
Sometimes you fight the worm, sometimes the worm fights back 🪱
‘Fat Tony’ struggling to win tug-of-war with their breakfast this morning.
8 months into magpie fieldwork, 1 month to go 🥹🏁
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Hot off the press! Perverse outcomes from fencing fauna. We find that a population of havened woylies show weakened anti-predator responses after 10 years isolated from predators. Read more below🧵
doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…
Very hard to conduct serious research when your study species is trying to eat your toes…
This little one is 11 weeks post-fledge and already very sure of themself…and very peckish👀
Please please please don’t “rescue” any fledglings this season! Their parents are nearby and will be back with a worm or two in a jiff 🪱
Today @G_Blackburn_ and @StephLMason returned a fledgling to its family for a happy reunion! This fledgling was picked up by a person who thought it was in trouble. Just a reminder: magpie fledglings walk on the ground. They are ok! Pls don’t pick them up unless injured!
Had an amazing time training with @ResearchDolphin last month! Excited to head back next year to commence data collection for my dolphin chapters 🐬
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Made a playlist for your weekend hike
ALT A screenshot of an empty Spotify playlist titled “Songs people on the trail want to hear from your Bluetooth speaker.” In the space where music usually populates is a sentence: “There doesn’t seem to be anything here.
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We are celebrating 40 years of research on the #Gathaagudu #SharkBay dolphins 🥳, founded by Richard Connor and Rachel Smolker in 1982. SBDR has shed important light on male cooperation, cultural evolution, dolphin ecology + communication @UZH_Science @BristolBioSci @BiolSci_UWA
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Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery 🥳 You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming. @PNASNews
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You beauty!
Just landed in Shark Bay for 3 weeks of training with the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Team. Stay tuned for dolphpics 🐬 @ResearchDolphin
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My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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I don’t believe Dutton is truly sorry for walking out on the Apology. He’s only sorry that, instead of becoming a folk hero, it exposed him as an uncaring far-right ideologue. He should never be PM. The Canberra Times asked me for my view, so here it is: canberratimes.com.au/story/7…
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The idea that an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy assault weapons is just wrong.
What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?
Anyone else’s research assistant constantly licking their knees and asking to share their lunch?
Beginning to think this isn’t a professional working relationship…
(We won’t talk about the part where she sleeps on my bed, or follows me into the bathroom…👀)
ALT White bulldog x boxer in an office looks at camera with a wide smile, suspiciously close to researcher’s lunch
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Rewilding is not
- sowing some wildflowers
- walking in the country
- introducing charismatic species
Rewilding is, establishing self-sustaining ecosystems over large areas
Co-opting #rewilding downplays the message on how much needs to be done to solve the #EcologicalEmergency