Stephanie L King

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
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Incredible animal system, awesome science and the nicest group of people to work with - what’s not to like? ⬇️

Huge Congratulations @stephaniellaura.bsky.social - truly a thesis to be proud of!

New paper led by @josharbon.bsky.social. Adults jackdaws often bully youngsters, but we show they can learn to be tolerant and attend to juveniles as sources of information. @uniexecec.bsky.social. Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk & @swbiodtp.bsky.social

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Just another day in the bay #sharkbay #gathaagudu #dolphinresearch

Agreed! One of my favourite duos

A great privilege of my career is observing the Shark Bay dolphins. A firm favourite is Starlet - a 22 year old adult male whose father, Realnotch, dominated the alliance landscape. Starlet has inherited his father’s prowess and, with his allies, ranges widely to secure females and take on rivals.

Monkey Mia 🫶

Hello Shark Bay 🫶

😂 not after your last story of spending time on a boat!

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

No, it's not a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but it is a clever cockie!

Masters student Miro van den Berg is using light-weight BLE-tags to study the urban lives of the gorgeous gang-gang cockatoo. You can read more here: sites.google.com/site/lucymap...

Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales The manufacture and use of tools, while widespread in terrestrial animals1, has been less frequently reported in marine taxa2. In cetaceans, clear exa…

We did some science. We found some things.
Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends.

Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out!
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Huge loss for @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - you’ll be sorely missed @ebablab.bsky.social!! Hope @camzoology.bsky.social know just how lucky they are! 🦋🧠🍾

That’s very lovely of you to say! :)

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject!

@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
&
@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
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🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Very grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for awarding me a Research Fellowship to continue my work on dolphin communication and social cognition 🙏 @researchdolphin.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins - Shark Bay, Western Australia

May Fieldwork ❤️ #sharkbay #gathaagudu #research #dolphins

Slay 🙌🏻

Cool! you did the 10km again?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1925

New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:

Animal culture: conservation in a changing world

Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social

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Awesome! See you then :)

Back in the place I love doing what I love #research #dolphinbehaviour #Gathaagudu #SharkBay #sponging #tool-use #soundplaybacks

Ronan the head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat: ‘No human was better’ Sea lion grooving along to hits such as Boogie Wonderland helps show scientists rhythm is not exclusive to humans

Lovely new study by Peter Cook and colleagues - Ronan impressively shows how sea lions can precisely move in time with an auditory beat
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Incredible talk by @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award recipient @lirsamuni.bsky.social - beautiful talk that presented an impressive body of work. Research superstar 👏🏻🙌🏻

Dr Mashoodh in front of a slide of assorted animals that reads “Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation Rahia Mashoodh, PhD Center for Biodiversity & Environment Research Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment University College London”

Great plenary for #ASABSpring2025 by @rmash.bsky.social on parental care and the evolution of genetic variation 🪲🪲🪲