Gabrielle Davidson

Gabrielle Davidson

@drgdavidson.bsky.social

Behavioural ecologist / comparative psychologist / molecular biologist. Microbiome and cognition in animals. Associate Professor.

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Simon Butler
@simon-butler.bsky.social

📢 Exciting PhD opportunity in #soilacoustics 📢 "Good Vibrations: Evidencing the Links Between Soil Acoustics and Soil Health" come join us: @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social Closing date: 16th December 2026 More info here: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

aries-dtp.ac.ukGood Vibrations: Evidencing the Links Between Soil Acoustics and Soil Health | AriesProfessor Simon Butler, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia – contact me Professor Brian Reid, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA Dr Richard Cooper…
Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

HELP! ‼️🙏 I’m looking for animal behaviour/cognition videos for teaching students to record behaviour using different tools. Are there any open source resources, or do you have animal behaviour videos in the field or the lab that I could use?

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
@btobirds.bsky.social

Job Alert! 🔉 We're looking for two part-time Field Surveyors for the Winter survey season from November - March to conduct wintering bird surveys. To discover more and apply visit ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📍 Survey areas: Yorkshire Dales & the Fens. 📝 Deadline for applications: Sunday 18 October 2026.

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Dr. Aurelia Strauß
@aureliastrauss.bsky.social

🦠 Working on gut microbiomes and going to Behaviour 2027? 🦆 I’m looking for co-chairs and presenters to contribute to a symposium on how gut microbes affect behaviour, from lab models to wildlife. Interested in factors and pathways shaping microbiome-behaviour interactions? Please get in touch!

Behaviour 2027@behaviour2027.bsky.social

Interested in having a symposium at #Behaviour2027 ? We are officially open to proposals! Please carefully follow the guidelines below:

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Barbara Tschirren
@btschirren.bsky.social

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

Are you an ECR and working on wild microbiomes and wish to attend the microbiome workshop during the ExE conference? Funding to support attendance deets here:

stn-wame.bsky.social@stn-wame.bsky.social

Attention ECRs! WAME is offering support to attend the ExE conference in Falmouth (sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/) & associated WAME microbiome workshop. For more information and the application form, see below! We hope to see you there! 🦠 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Melissah Rowe
@melissahrowe.bsky.social

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

nioo.knaw.nlPostdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproductionWe are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

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Dr Christopher Taylor
@mimicryin3d.bsky.social

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comMapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - NatureBirds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

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Dom Cram
@domcram.bsky.social

Honeyguides lead you to 🍯, but if you don't reward the bird, next time it will guide you to a lion 🦁! So goes the story, but do honeyguides actually guide to dangerous animals, and is it punishment? New research suggests they do, but it's more "oops" than "revenge!" doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

doi.orgTo Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as PunishmentWe show that greater honeyguides guide humans to nonbee destinations (snakes and a dead mammal); yet this is a rare occurrence, happening in only 3.7% of human-honeyguide interactions in 1 year and 0...

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Andrew Iwaniuk
@evoneuro.bsky.social

The cover of our new book has been approved! Due out this August through MIT Press and the online version will be open access. #neuroskyence #ornithology 🪶🧠

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Sitting on a corn flake
@grrlscientist.bsky.social

Pet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: Study out of University of Sussex, published by Science of the Total Environment by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #Pets #FleaTreatments #Ecology #toxicology #pesticides #conservation🌎 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

forbes.comPet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: StudyHigh levels of harmful pesticides from pet flea treatments in birds’ nests lined with animal fur is leading to the increased mortality rate of chicks.

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Matthew Collins
@matthewcollins.bsky.social

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

thebritishacademy.ac.ukInternational Fellowships 2025The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

Throwback to that time I talked to David Attenborough about animals and stuff. I thanked him for speaking up about the climate crisis. He said it was young scientists that he should be thanking because they were truly the ones poised to make a difference

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
@animalecol-nioo.bsky.social

🚨 Are you interested in avian ecology and do you have a BSc or MSc diploma? Then we have an interesting vacancy for you! We are looking for a research assistant to help in the lab and the field with a microbiome study on house sparrows. @melissahrowe.bsky.social nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

nioo.knaw.nlResearch Assistant on avian ecologyWe are looking for an enthusiastic research assistant for the EvolSWARM project funded by the European Research Council.
Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

You can read our original article here #openaccess #openscience @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

cell.comEpisodic-like memory in wild free-living blue tits and great titsDavies et al. show evidence for episodic-like memory in wild blue tits and great tits across two different tasks using automated, computerized feeders. These birds can recall what occurred, where, and how long ago. Additionally, they can recall incidentally encoded spatial information, and juveniles, but not adults, can recall incidentally encoded visual information.

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The New Yorker
@newyorker.com

Scientists now know that birds’ brains can contain elephantine powers of recollection. Some birds can store, or cache, tens or even hundreds of thousands of morsels in trees, or in or on the ground. Why don’t our memories work the same way?

newyorker.comThe Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching BirdsSome animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses?
Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

This was my first independent collaboration and I sure lucked out getting to do it with @sarahdalesman.bsky.social I learned a lot about snails, one of which is that they eat each others’ poo (future study perhaps?). They are super cool and interesting.

Sarah Dalesman@sarahdalesman.bsky.social

Highlights from 2024 #2 Our study led by @drgdavidson.bsky.social in print. We showed antibiotics at environmentally relevant concentrations alter aquatic snail gut microbiome, disrupts memory formation and covariance among pace-of-life traits. Funded by @asab.org academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

academic.oup.comAntibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain host memory plasticity and disrupt pace-of-life covariation for an aquatic snailAbstract. There is mounting evidence that intestinal microbiota communities and their genes (the gut microbiome) influence how animals behave and interact
Gabrielle Davidson
@drgdavidson.bsky.social

Our latest paper, where we showed how a lactobacillus gut microbe can benefit wild birds, was featured in @forbes.com. Thanks for the article @grrlscientist.bsky.social. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Sitting on a corn flake@grrlscientist.bsky.social

Wild Birds’ Health And Survival Is Affected By Gut Microbiome, study out of University College Cork🇮🇪, published by PNAS by @GrrlScientist #microbiome #microbiology🔬 #birds🪶 #health #conservation #ecology #evolution #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

forbes.comWild Birds’ Health And Survival Is Affected By Gut MicrobiomeThis groundbreaking study’s findings could have important implications for the conservation of rare and endangered species.

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