I'm so excited to finally see the special issue "Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour" fully published: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Huge thanks to my brilliant co-editors @viveknityananda.bsky.social & @nicolakoyama.bsky.social. Special issue grew from @asab.org's 2024 Winter Meeting 🧵

Super excited to share that my latest paper from my PhD is now published! 🎉 If you're into camera traps, citizen science, animal individual ID or pine martens this ones for you! 😆 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Big thanks to my co-authors and everyone who in the MammalWeb community who contributed! 📷

Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage

Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time-consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a....

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📢 Our latest newsletter has just gone out! Find news on our transition to a charity, info on platform updates, news on projects, an updated spotters league and an image sequence to test your bird-watching prowess. Read it here: eomail1.com/web-version?...

🚨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! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends

Hedgehogs’ habitat is shrinking, they’re vulnerable to cars, and pesticides are affecting their food supply. Here’s how we can help them pull through

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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

Philip Stephens@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

A fantastic PhD opportunity with the MammalWeb team and PTES. Get in touch if you are interested.

Philip Stephens@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

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: tinyurl.com/MWNOV25 #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 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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! 👀 youtu.be/wtS-xouCHqg?...

Russell Hill - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

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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....

Behavioural and physiological responses of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) to human‐induced mortality in anthropogenically modified habitat

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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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/...

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...

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

MammalWeb Update April 2025

The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project

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A great opportunity to get involved with MammalWeb and the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme in collaboration with @PTES and @hedgehogsociety x.com/durham_uni/sta…

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!)

EHBEA 2026@ehbea2026.bsky.social · last yr.

#EHBEA2025 officially kicks off with our first plenary - Prof Russell Hill! How strange are your animals?!? Bias is talked about in human research, but what about animals?? 🙈 🐦 👉 Opportunity, human exposure, habituation & observer effects create bias in animal research 👀 #PrimateResearch

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).

🚨 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

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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

MammalWeb Update April 2025

The latest news and images from the MammalWeb project

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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...

Durham University’s Professor Russell Hill Inspires Biology Students with Insights from 30 Years of Research - Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College

Biology students were given a unique opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the world of primatology and wildlife research when Professor Russell Hill from Durham University visited to share his ...

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