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Alba Motes Rodrigo

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Behavioral scientist investigating what it means to be social | I work with πŸ’ and 🐜 | Passionate about medical applications of ethology | UNILπŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

28.10.2025 17:49 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

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27.11.2025 09:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details πŸ‘‰ hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... πŸ™Please share!

05.11.2025 10:24 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was a pleasure to see the wonderful work the team is doing. Thanks for having us!

05.11.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grant and paper rejections on the same day should not be allowed… πŸ₯² but happy to back in the snowy mountains after a lovely field visit πŸ”οΈ

29.10.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So great to catch up with Stef and the UVP mo keys on our way back home β™₯️ thanks for having us β™₯️

28.10.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On day 3 at the Inkawu vervet project our fantastic master students did some more field experiments for @rachelaharrison.bsky.social β€˜s project on social tolerance which has been now going on for over 2 years!

27.10.2025 06:53 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2 at the Inkawu Vervet Project was full of giraffes πŸ¦’ and vervets munching on greens πŸ₯¬

24.10.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great first day in the field at IVP with Rachel and our wonderful master students from @dee-unil.bsky.social and @durham.ac.uk

23.10.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Delphine’s awesome framework is out! So looking forwards to add real world data to this awesome theory β™₯️congratulations my friend β™₯️

16.10.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
β€œA large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
πŸ”— journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social

14.10.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 11
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

πŸ¦…PhD position πŸ¦… in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

06.10.2025 05:56 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

@thecharleywu.bsky.social is an amazing scientist and human being. If you want to do a phd in computational cognition/culture, this is a golden opportunity πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

11.06.2025 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New paper out led by Damien Neadle proposing a protocol for standardized implementation and reporting of reliability analysis.

23.04.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

17.04.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Handle isn’t working but thanks so much πŸ€—

31.03.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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21.03.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Lauren β™₯️

21.03.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What an amazing paper and picture Will. Huge congratulations!

05.03.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are wondering whether given the chance chimps recreate the famous bone-throwing scene from 2001 Space Odyssey, have a look at this paper we published a couple of years ago.

05.03.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No worries, thanks for resharing! The work included in this paper started during my masters and was finished the last year of my phd, so it was definitely a passion project.

05.03.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Natural Disaster Exacerbates and Redistributes Disease Risk Among Free‐Ranging Macaques by Altering Social Structure By simulating disease spread in free-living rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) before and after a hurricane, we demonstrate doubled pathogen transmission rates up to 5 years following the disaster, equ...

New year, new paper! We continue to unpick the interplay between ecological upheaval and sociality and show altered social structure could result in 2x disease transmission rates. Senior authored by the unstoppable @ctestard.bsky.social. In Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

06.01.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it is absolutely wonderful that my first post here celebrates the fantastic work of @delphinedemoor.bsky.social. What a mammoth of a data base 😍 congratulations 🐬

18.02.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0