Andy Young

Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Cambridge Apply for the Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and ap...

Now this is a fabulous job: pathway to independence fellowship in Ecology and Conservation at Cambridge University.
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Just sharing direct BlueSky amigos... @animalopps.bsky.social @asab.org @grahammunology.bsky.social @mirresimons.bsky.social @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @englishse.bsky.social @nicholaraihani.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social

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* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK.
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LOVE #EVOLUTION? LOVE #BEHAVIOUR?
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Nice new life-history trade-off paper out soon from @katelaskowski.bsky.social & team. Meta-analytical confirmation of the missing (yet much invoked) -ve genetic covariance. In a 'resource allocation trade-off' world, genetic variation within pops may lie more in resource acq than allocation. Cool.

Hi there - thanks a lot for running this feed. Please could I be added? I'm an evolutionary biologist at University of Exeter, UK...

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3/3 Why cool? Means helpers in cooperative breeders (e.g. us) could have cryptic maternally-mediated beneficial effects on pre-natal development of young. Our data implicate help not group size effect as mat reaction norms to *female* helpers, who work twice as hard as males (tinyurl.com/38kv8jp2)

Maternal reaction norms to female helper numbers. With increasing female helper numbers, mothers increase their egg size but decrease their chick feeding rates.

2/3 We show helpers reduce mum's post-natal workload (see pic) – may allow mums to invest > in egg (which only mums can do). And/or: We know helpers increase overall nestling feeding rate (tinyurl.com/38kv8jp2) - may increase mum's benefit from investing in the egg. Or: not adaptive (modest effect!)

Sparrow-weavers! A dominant breeding pair on the left (male has dark bill, female pale bill, in this subspecies). They can have up to 10 non-breeding adult helpers in their cooperatively breeding family. And a brood of three chicks on the right. Photos my own.

*New #evolution paper* Sparrow-weaver mothers lay larger eggs when they will have more help feeding the resulting chicks. Maternal reaction norms to help are *opposite* for egg size & nestling feeding rate. Cool. But why do this? 1 of 3... Fine work @p_capi on X. tinyurl.com/2djsp6zd #ExeterCEC 🌍🧪🦉

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Our main fluffy study organisms - white-browed sparrow weaver & European badger. Photos my own.

#HiSky! My lab study Social #Evolution & Senescence in families via..
- Fieldwork on birds (Kalahari weavers) & mammals (badgers)
- Single-cell res studies of #microbes
We dig unicellular #ageing, parental age effects, #inflammaging, #cooperation in variable enviros, social plasticity 🌍🧪🦠 #ExeterCEC

Hey Steve - v cool! Will use in my nervous system evolution lectures : ) Was hunting in the paper for a neat plot of the data showing gymnogenes as an outlier. I see that I can make one from S1b table, but thought I'd ask in case you have a flashy one from the original submission. Thanks!

Hi there! Please could I be added to the feed. I'm an evolutionary biologist.... biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profil...

@ethanfreedman.bsky.social Can I be added to the feed please? Thanks for working on this!

Thanks B! #evolsky you say. I need to get dialled in to some of that!