Josh Firth
@JoshAFirth
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Associate Professor @UniversityLeeds & VRA @UniOfOxford. Interests in social networks, contagions, ecology, health, data science & natural history.
United Kingdom
Joined November 2013
Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 . Intro: Full ToC: A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share.
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Ageing affects almost all aspects of life and therefore is an important process across societies, human and non-human animal alike. This article introduces new research exploring the complex interp...
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RT @ScienceMagazine: A new @SciRobotics study highlights how an insect-inspired leg design and control strategy allows the @Harvard RoboBee….
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RT @AllisonMRoth1: Please RT! If you/someone in your lab is still looking for a PhD for Fall 2025 due to having an offer rescinded, etc. I….
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RT @MauriceMulvenna: . and an equal pleasure to chair #ICT4AWE in Porto 🇵🇹 with @JosephFirthUoM introducing #Keynote @JoshAFirth speaking….
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RT @MauriceMulvenna: A pleasure to chair #ICT4AWE in Porto 🇵🇹 with @JoshAFirth introducing #Keynote @JosephFirthUoM speaking on "Digital te….
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Looking forward to the 11th ICT-4-Ageing Well conference in Porto Portugal next week! A first-ever ICT conference for me, and also the first-ever where me & my identical twin give keynotes on the same day (finally proving we aren’t just the same person!)
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In this week’s School of Biology seminar series, brilliant talk from @IvanJaric from @BiologyCentre @UnivParisSaclay on harnessing online digital data for ecology & conservation #iEcology #Culturomics #Conservation #Ecology
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RT @barabasi: Honored to give the Keynote at Sunbelt 2024 in Edinburgh—my first Sunbelt! 🌍🎤.📺 Watch "Network Science: From Structure to Net….
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RT @Alain_Zuur: We are pleased to announce our new book: The World of Zero-Inflated Models: Using GLLVM. Zuur and Ieno (2025). This book e….
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RT @risi1979: We're excited to announce the first Evolving Self-organisation workshop at @GeccoConf! . Submission deadline: March 26, 2025….
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RT @ASABSpring2025: 🚨 Big news everyone! 🚨. We have decided to extend our abstract deadline for #ASABSpring2025 until the 28th of February!….
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RT @Epiverse_TRACE: 📦{superspreading} is on CRAN 🎉. 🔍Analyze individual-level variation in disease transmission using secondary case data.….
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RT @ASABSpring2025: Wondering what you have to look forward to for our Spring ASAB Conference 🤔. 📣 Don't forget: Registration for the ASAB….
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RT @forwildanimals: Don't miss this week's seminar on #urbanecology and #wildanimalwelfare — Wednesday at 3 pm GMT. Hear from experts in th….
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RT @ParasiteMatt: We have a position available for a research assistant to join our team to test our rationally designed malaria vaccines.….
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RT @lordgrilo: And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at @NUnetsi London w….
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RT @ValeSbra: Our last contribution to understand how fish adjust their behaviour to underwater human presence. It seems that fieldwork alo….
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Group size can influence flight initiation distance (FID), a key antipredator behavior, in many animal species. In fishes, however, the effect of group size on...
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RT @Epiverse_TRACE: 📦{simulist} package is on CRAN! 🎉. 🔍Simulate an epidemic in the form of linelist and contacts using branching process!….
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RT @asab_org: There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025. ASAB Grants: ASAB Sp….
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RT @JoshAFirth: Nocturnal migration isn't as lonely as it sounds!.>18000hrs of recordings from >370nights at 26sites reveals interspecific….
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RT @JCSvenning: Our new study on the diet of one of Europe's more controversial animals, racoon dog provides no evidence that it is a threa….
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European Journal of Wildlife Research - In European countries, raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) are believed to impact ecosystems and potentially threaten native species. In this study, the...
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