Alexis Breen (@alexisjbreen.bsky.social)
@alexisjbreen
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Senior postdoc @MPI_EVA_Leipzig #CrowCoG co-leader #Birds #Behaviour #Bayes
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Joined March 2015
New #openaccess paper: Animal culture research should include avian nest construction @RSocPublishing @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @maxplanckpress Why? (1/4)
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It's that time of year again - #CrowCoG is advertising for 🚨 MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS (APRIL - SEP 2025) 🚨 to help us conduct field- and aviary-based study of the tool-making and -using New Caledonian crows! Advert: PLEASE SHARE!
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RT @rlmcelreath: Proud of my colleagues @alexisjbreen @dominik_deffner who mastered a ton of probabilistic programming & evolutionary algor….
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RT @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Animals can live alongside humans if they are risk-analysis experts. This is according to a new study in @eLife by @al….
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🎉NEW PAPER🎉 w/@dominik_deffner out today in @eLife "Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion" 🐦⬛🏙️ Link: Preprint 🧵👇 @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @mpib_berlin @arc_mpib.
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Animals can thrive alongside humans by being expert judges of risk.
🚨New preprint w/@dominik_deffner🚨Mapping a pathway from behaviour->mechanisms->selection & adaptation, we show risk-sensitive learning is a viable strategy to help explain how male great-tailed grackles--the dispering sex--lead their sp. urban invasion
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RT @dipietroviviana: Two years ago I was doing fieldwork working with this amazing model system, my Twitter post went viral! Today, the pap….
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RT @GoldsboroughZoe: Why do we see sex-biases in tool use in some primate groups but not in others? Read my 2nd PhD chapter, #openaccess i….
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RT @MartaSzulkin: Hermit crabs now use #plastic instead of natural shells for shelter - using iEcology, we show for the first time that thi….
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One week left to apply (Deadline: 08 Dec) - come join the #CrowCoG 2024 field team!.
#CrowCoG is hiring up to six PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS for our 2024 field season (April - Sep) ‼️ Help us observe and conduct behavioural studies on the remarkable tool-making and using New Caledonian crows🏝️🇳🇨 Details: Please share ‼️
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RT @sheardcat: New paper out today!. Most (but not all!) birds build nests. But what kind of nests? Where do they put them? How big are tho….
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#CrowCoG is hiring up to six PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS for our 2024 field season (April - Sep) ‼️ Help us observe and conduct behavioural studies on the remarkable tool-making and using New Caledonian crows🏝️🇳🇨 Details: Please share ‼️
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RT @MargotMichaud00: Need illustration for your presentations? 🐙🦦🐍Check out our open-source website dedicated to sharing scientific illustr….
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RT @sheardcat: Like big-scale evolution and also working with live animals? Think animal behaviour's super neat?. Consider this (funded!) P….
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PhD Project - EASTBIO Who builds the nest? Her? Him? Them? at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @sheardcat: Hoping to start a PhD next year? Like macroevolution / mammals / morphology? Want to live next to the beach and just outside….
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PhD Project - EASTBIO: Evolvability in mammal morphology at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: In the dry savannah and shrublands, a tiny bird, the Anthoscopus minutus builds its nest from spider silk and plant fi….
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There’s still time to apply! Deadline: 14 July. Live in New Zealand 🏝️ Science in New Caledonia 🥾Join a supportive and multi-disciplinary global team 🌏.
#CrowCoG is seeking qualified applicants for🚨TWO FUNDED PHD POSITIONS🚨 Field and aviary work; international team; and of course, the tool-using New Caledonian crows. Full info here: Please RT!
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#CrowCoG is seeking qualified applicants for🚨TWO FUNDED PHD POSITIONS🚨 Field and aviary work; international team; and of course, the tool-using New Caledonian crows. Full info here: Please RT!
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In sum, we show strategising risk-sensitive learning buffers the dispersing sex against environmental unpredictability in an urban invader--grackles.
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