Emil Isaksson PhD

Interesting project and well presented poster! Great job!

A photo of the author in front of her poster at the PhD Academy 2026.

Scientific poster titled "Are ravens really 'wolf-birds'? Assessing the food-safety trade-off of common ravens feeding in presence of grey wolves and wild boars". The study records the proximity and interactions of wild ravens with captive boars and captive wolves at the Cumberland Wildpark Grünau. The boars are fed daily with bread and pellets, while the wolves are fed with meat. The latter represents a more qualitative food resource but is associated with predators that can be lethal to the ravens. Observations are completed with a flight initiation distance experiment to control for the risk perception in both enclosures. Predictions envision differences in the nature and frequency of interactions between the ravens and heterospecifics (ex: riding the heterospecifics only happening at the boar enclosure; more targeted aggression received from the wolves than from the boars). They also predict a longer time spent in proximity with boars than with wolves.

🐦‍⬛ Investigating the food-safety trade-off of #ravens feeding in presence of captive #wolves and wild #boars

🐗 A few days ago, I had the opportunity to present a poster at the PhD Academy (@vdscobene.bsky.social). Discover my research project, I'd be more than happy to talk about it!

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If you're @eounion.bsky.social conference today and is interested in how the information ecology of small birds may be influenced by winter temperatures, come see my talk at 16.15 in the Behavioral ecology session 🐦‍⬛🧊❄️

Social information use increases with decreasing winter temperature in a passerine bird | doi.org/10.1098/rsos... | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology 🪶

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Social information use increases with decreasing winter temperature in a passerine bird | Royal Society Open Science Foragers can gain knowledge of profitable foraging opportunities either by sampling the environment directly (asocial information) or from congeners (social information). The relative benefit of using...

New paper alert!
We investigate the plastic use of social information (SIU) in relation to harsh environments (cold temps.) in a small overwintering passerine. Results suggest SIU may work as a risk-sensitive strategy to get enough food at cold temps. @mathotlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Really happy to join the @klf-univienna.bsky.social ! Looking forward to do some cool science here 😊 klf.univie.ac.at

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We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social