Sam Ellis
@Samellisq
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Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Interested in general but especially in life history evolution and social behaviour.
Exeter, England
Joined September 2012
Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in @Nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here:
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RT @DrRobinMorrison: Thrilled to have the first project in my @snsf_ch Ambizione fellowship published in @PNASNews this week. With @Victoir….
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Evidence across a broad range of disciplines has demonstrated how individuals’ social environments can impact their health, lifespan, reproduction,...
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Project supervised by me with @animalsocieties and @ljnbrent based in @CrabExeter . Get in touch if you have any questions . The project is funded by @SWBio_DTP . More details here:
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Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec. More info & how to apply here:
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RT @JoshAFirth: Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 . Intro: .
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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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Last day to apply. Deadline TOMORROW!!.
Post Doc available. We are looking for someone to come and work here at @UniofExeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me, @ljnbrent , @SMack_Lab and @kchiou . The aim of the post is to help us investigate comparative primate life history. Details here:
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RT @ljnbrent: Less than 1 week left to apply for this new postdoc in @CrabExeter: Generate lifespan data across species, and use these shin….
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RT @ljnbrent: Postdoc position available! Come to @CrabExeter to work with @Samellisq , me, @kchiou & @SMack_Lab on comparative life-histor….
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Excellent cetaceans of the Azores in the Guardian today. But I do feel the need to point out that this male is not "escorting" the group from "300m behind". Females lead the group. And males are reliant on their female group mates to survive. The escorting is the other way round
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Come and join our vibrant research community @CrabExeter . Get in touch s.ellis@exeter.ac.uk if you have any questions, queries or inquiries. Application deadline 29th October to start in ~Jan 2025
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Post Doc available. We are looking for someone to come and work here at @UniofExeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me, @ljnbrent , @SMack_Lab and @kchiou . The aim of the post is to help us investigate comparative primate life history. Details here:
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RT @RosieWoodroffe: I’m seeing a lot of anger and disappointment in badger circles today that the badger cull is ending, but not ending fas….
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Some friends found this on a fence in rural Devon, UK and I am at somewhat of a loss. So I am applying to the collective wisdom of those left on Twitter.
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RT @KawamBen: My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint! Together with @danielj_redhead, @rlmcelreath, and @PrimBehavEcol, we propose a gen….
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A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the social relationships that animals form with one another. This inferential task is notoriously...
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RT @RebeccaSear: Four years on, the paper which prompted this thread was retracted but the ludicrous dataset the thread describes is still….
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Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.
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RT @CamilleTestard: *Very* excited to see the last study of my PhD making the cover of @ScienceMagazine on the macaques of @CayoSantiagoPR.….
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RT @AndyDHigginson: Who wouldn't want to work with this friendly bunch?! @ljnbrent @laleaver1 @pauledwardrose @DarrenPCroft @pec_exeter @Sa….
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RT @pec_exeter: New paper🎺. Working with @BASCnews science team, we find that the total harvest of #woodcock, the number of people shooting….
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RT @_StephanieLKing: Job Alert 📢 3yr @LeverhulmeTrust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay….
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RT @rjpheathcote: ⚡️Postdoc in sensory ecology!⚡️ 3 year position at @OxfordBiology on colouration in fish schools! If antipredator colour,….
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RT @asab_org: Menopause not only occurs in humans, but also several species of whales. And it’s a mystery why it exists! Charli Grimes’ res….
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