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Rachel Dale

@drracheldale.bsky.social

Senior scientist with 2 science hats: Mental health (humans) & animal behaviour (canids/elephants). Co-host ‪@wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social‬ Mountain and camping addict. Scot in Austria. 🏳️‍🌈

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Rachel Dale@drracheldale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Had a great time hosting a Young Uni workshop 'what does bouldering have to do with mental health?'. We explored topics like communication and self-belief. I'm excited to get deeper into the connection between movement and mental health. #JungeUni #SciComm Photos: Walter Skokanitsch Rachel Dale

Rachel Dale and Anne Radegast in front of the boulder wallCooperation rope circle - everyone must hold tension for the circle to holdTwo children try bouldering whilst loosely tethered to one another, requiring communication and coordination
Rachel Dale@drracheldale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vienna folks - demonstration against the proposed (massive) university budget cuts TOMORROW 27th May, 1pm, in front of the main Uni Wien building, Universitätsring 1. 📣✊

Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 3mo ago

Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf‼️ Die Unis befürchten Einsparungen von einer Mrd. Euro im #Budget. Rektorensprecherin Brigitte Hütter sprach bei einer Pressekonferenz von einem "Supergau" für Unis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Rektor Schütze sprach von enormen Schaden für die Reputation. ⤵️

Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison)@drrmiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded) | University of Exeter

The University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.

exeter.ac.uk

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

apnews.com

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fontana thinking his 6000+ experiments may not have been enough to feel confident in his conclusions in the 18th century while we expect our singular experiments and their standalone replications to do wonders some 250 years later... (excerpt from the intro of Jutta Schickore's About Experiment)

Toward the end of his two-volume Treatise on the Venom of the Viper, published in 1781, the Tuscan naturalist Deluxe Fontana declared: "I have made more than 6000 experiments; I have had more than 4000 animals bit; I have employed upwards of 3000 vipers and may have been deceived; some essential circumstance may have escaped me: I may have neglected some other, not thinking it necessary; my consequences may have been too general, my experiments too few in number. In a word, I may very easily have been mistaken, and it would be almost impossible that I should never have been so in a matter so difficult, so obscure, and likewise so new."
Rachel Dale@drracheldale.bsky.social · 6mo ago

When I changed research field I was lucky to have opportunity to participate on lots of papers. This helped me learn my new field But I agree with slow science 💯 & hope I can focus on higher quality research that takes more time now I have the luxury of a permanent job www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

nature.com

Rachel Dale@drracheldale.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This will be scientifically interesting for many in the tool use research community. For me it's simply very cute to watch the video of Veronika 🐮

Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)@biotay.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social