Paddy Tkaczynski
@paddytkaczynski.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist at LJMU, UK. Studying how non-human primates grow up, how they make friends & their plasticity to the goings on of human primates (https://plasticprimateslab.com/)
Big congrats to @morfjoe.bsky.social on this exciting new paper in Science Advances! We provide evidence that larger flocks of migratory birds navigate more accurately toward their target direction than smaller ones
Joe Morford@morfjoe.bsky.social · last mo.The WISDOM OF CROWDS emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds! Excited to share our work published by @aaas.org in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...
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So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Trade-offs Between Intergenerational and Transgenerational Effects: experimental data and demographic simulation model of multigenerational trade-offs in evolution: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)
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Out now in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thank you to all peers and colleagues who provided invaluable feedback during the process!
A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning | PNAS
We develop a demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning that formalizes our understanding of when and why individuals should preferent...
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Alejandro Pérez Velilla@apvelilla.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew preprint with @psmaldino.bsky.social on the evolution of similarity-biased learning: osf.io/preprints/so... This mathematical treatment both simplifies and extends our previous simulation treatment of the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Horizon MSCA Postdoc fellowship deadline is approaching: url-shortener.me/OLZ3 If ur a postdoc interested in endangered primate (Barbary macaque) genomics, we (www.plasticprimateslab.com) have a lot data ready to go + more samples on the way! Pls get in touch before 10 August if interested.
It’s a little nerve-wracking playing in another field’s sandbox, but this was a really fun way to bring some primatology to an ancient Egyptian conundrum.. so if you’re into big baboons, Egyptian dieties, etymological puzzles, &/or spectroscopy of shiny things.. read on! 🧪🏺🐒🌕 tinyurl.com/moonbaboon
Moonlight and the apotheosis of sacred baboons
Thoth was an ancient Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, magic, and the moon. Manifestations of Thoth took the form of two animal species, the sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) and sacred baboo...
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🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social
It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoUniversities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion
Some big news to share! @rhythmsoflife.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
Bangor University awarded £5 million doctoral training grant from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the rhythms of life
Bangor University has been awarded a £5 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust to establish the Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme. Over the next three years the University will r...
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Would chimpanzees or bonobos huddle before a penalty shootout in the World Cup? 🐵⚽ In both species, reassuring body contact promotes social tolerance, read more in our new study led by Jake Brooker out now in @royalsociety.org Proc B. (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) A thread of the main findings 🧵 (1/10)
Ever noticed how in a tense situation, a reassuring touch can help calm things down? New research from our Department of Psychology suggests reassuring touch could be an evolutionary tool dating back over six million years. tinyurl.com/2r3v74k6
12.30 pm today, 21/07/26 ⬇️ - animal ethics, welfare, behavioural ecology ⬇️ #ISBE2026
Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 3w agoCome see my talk on Tuesday, July 21st ⬇️ #ISBE2026 - Ethics, Welfare, Behavioural Ecology. ⬇️
Doing a short workshop about simulation-based inference on Thursday for @eslr.bsky.social! Come hang out :)
ESLR@eslr.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 ESLR Workshop coming up next week! 🗓 July 23, 2026 ⏰ 4pm CET Online Using bayesflow for likelihood free inferences by @masonyoungblood.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/RKMwxPeaGveM...
When semi-domesticated reindeer escape managed herding and go feral, how do they readapt to wild conditions? A new #genomic study of Norwegian reindeer populations reveals a surprising answer: they borrow genetic variation from their wild neighbours doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ProcB #Ecology #Evolution
„If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge…“ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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For me this paper is a career highlight..truly astonishing biology! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A queen odour mediates reproductive suppression in a eusocial mammal - Nature
Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce isopropyl myristate, a low-volatility ester that high-ranking animals detect and avoid, which alters prolactin and progesterone in other females t...
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Excited to share that our preprint is now available! 🐦🐛 We explore individual variation in dietary specialisation using DNA-metabarcoding and field based analysis of personality and competition. Go have a look!
EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 3w agoIndividual repeatability in dietary specialisation across years and competitive regimes in wild birds doi.org/10.32942/X27...
Just out! Spatial epidemiology of Avian flu in seabird populations. #HPAI, #Bayesian, #Conservation, #Panzootic, #Gannets, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social @heyjoode.bsky.social , @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @rspb.bsky.social @au.dk @heriotwattuni.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Between‐species contagion drives HPAI transmission and mass mortality in seabirds
Modelling the unprecedented avian panzootic caused by High-Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) across the Northeast Atlantic gannet breeding metapopulation, we estimated 28% (95% CI: 21%–34%) HPAI-r...
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Save the date! 📅 PSGB is hosting an online workshop on the topic “Cognition for Conservation and Captive Care” (2nd September 2026). Check out the first look for our speakers working across primate behaviour and cognition & register your interest to receive the workshop link! 🐒 shorturl.at/HDvXA
It is the contempt for Wiley's contributors & staff that gets me. "Surely you don't *really* want to waste your time reading this paper that authors went to the trouble of writing, & other people reviewed and formatted? Why not skip to our engarbaged version to see what AI can hallucinate about it?"
This is excellent from Sam Neill - good lessons for academics here as well
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w agoSam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...
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survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species
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📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Director of Research and Innovation (Cape Eleuthera Institute, The Bahamas) Full details here: ceis.bamboohr.com/careers/260 #coralreefs #coralrestoration #jobs #careers #director #Eleuthera #science #innovation #queenconch #marinescience #marineecology #marinebiology
