Maria C Tello-Ramos

🎇✨Congratulations Prof. Susan Healy, our 2027 Research Award recipient (Uni. St Andrews, UK). A symposium + banquet will honor her contributions at the 2027 conference & a special issue will be published March 2028: 'In Honour of the Contributions of Susan Healy' #WomenInSTEM

From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?

#PhD position!

Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees

Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches.

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Deadline: 03/12/2025
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🚨New PDRA position available at the Healy Lab🚨

Project on avian nest construction. Duties will include conducting behavioural experiments with zebra finches on nest building. Post available for 24 months starting ASAP. Closing date 18 March
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Nicola, Vivek, Claudia, Cedric and Chiara at the front of the conference room

The #ASABWinter2024 conference on Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour has been extraordinary. A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers & the organizers: @nicolakoyama.bsky.social @viveknityananda.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @cedricaumont.bsky.social & @cbenvenuto.bsky.social 😀

Many Minds: Nestcraft How do birds build their nests? By instinct, of course—at least that's what the conventional wisdom tells us. A swallow builds a swallow's nest; a robin builds a robin's nest. Every bird just follows ...

Prof Healy on her pod debut!

manyminds.libsyn.com/nestcraft

Uncharted with Hannah Fry - 15. Song of the Sea - BBC Sounds A strange sound prompts an incredible discovery.

Cool podcast with my colleague Dr Ellen Garland www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Because groups that experience similar weather, had similar bird sizes, were closer together or were more related to each other, did not build structures with similar morphology we suggest that social interactions explain why different groups of birds have their own architectural styles.

After measuring hundreds of structures, we found that groups of birds that build only meters apart, build structures that are different. Some groups build structures with long tubes and others with short tubes.

These structures (roosts and nests) are built by cooperative breeding white-browed sparrow weavers.

Look past the attention-grabbing giraffe and look at the wonderful pompom-like structures on these Kalahari trees.

Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds Humans cooperate to build complex structures with culture-specific architectural styles. However, they are not the only animals to build complex structures nor to have culture. We show that social gro...

🚨New paper alert 🚨

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A team effort between the #University of St Andrews, #University of Exeter and #University of Alberta. All done at the marvellous #Tswalu Kalahari Reserve. @cogwild.bsky.social

Look past the attention-grabbing giraffe and look at the wonderful pompom-like structures on these Kalahari trees.

And if you want the tl;dr, NPR did a pretty cool piece on this work 😉: www.npr.org/2024/08/29/n...

Congratulations to Maria Tello-Ramos, Sue Healy, and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...