Matthew Silk
@mattjsilk
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@royalsociety URF in @SBSatEd in Edinburgh. Social networks, behaviour, disease, demography and some wildlife photos. @[email protected]
Edinburgh, UK
Joined July 2015
Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: https://t.co/w7EOwuZfca Full ToC: https://t.co/WahxfVSWft A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share
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Abstract. Ageing affects almost all aspects of life and therefore is an important process across societies, human and non-human animal alike. This article
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Do you want to share your #AudioMoth devices? My student (USA based) would need some for their research project!🐦🦉🐦⬛ (We'd pay for all costs) The group order from the official website is currently sold out and I thought to ask fellow scholars before going for expensive options
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🚨 The second article of my PhD is out 🥳 We integrated commute-time distance⚡ into dynamic occupancy models using @R_nimble to model carnivore recolonisation 🦦🐱. Curious why we're using hierarchical models for connectivity analyses? Check out the blog post!
Check out our latest blog post by @MaelisKervellec on tackling uncertainty in landscape connectivity! Discover more 👇
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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: https://t.co/uOBiiqKpyc
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⭐️New preprint⭐️ In the first half, we give a general introduction to generative network models. In the second half, we consider the use of generative network models in investigations of animal social systems. https://t.co/soFasFlOUj with @mattjsilk @CetaceanMike
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Growing old with 'Prides'🦁New paper using 30yrs of wild lion social networks to examine sex-specific social ageing & consequences for survival🦁 Press release: https://t.co/jAZZUZfj8t Paper #OA in @CurrentBiology: https://t.co/xnXF3wJBqh led brilliantly by @laurenrudd18
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I'm looking for a 3 yr postdoc to work on evo genetics and genomics of guppy behaviour with @erik_postma @BonnieFraser8 Based in Cornwall at Exeter's @cec. Think behavioural ecology meets quant gen in the genomics era. Info + links to app forms at https://t.co/xFh8RNpoO6
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We recently preprinted our meta-analysis of spatial and social behaviour in wild animal systems! Have a read if you're interested in density dependence, disease transmission, network scaling and structuring, or comparative behavioural work: https://t.co/gzdaIJw4Ou (1/4)
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I'm looking forward to next week and the International Statistical Ecology Conference 😍 Catching up w/ friends, colleagues and awesome science 🥳 @ISEC_stats_ecol
https://t.co/sgrZWfrigR We'll be presenting our latest work 😇 Check it out 🧵👇 #ISEC_2024_Swansea #ISEC2024
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I’m looking for a postdoc (quantitative wildlife ecologist) to join our team to estimate white-tailed deer density and group size using camera traps (with implications for pathogen spread). https://t.co/FSL9vPobmX
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My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint! Together with @danielj_redhead, @rlmcelreath, and @PrimBehavEcol, we propose a general analytical framework to study the causes of animal social network structure, using Bayesian & Causal modelling. https://t.co/5O5VAdb3XL
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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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Last few days to submit an abstract for our Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour satellite at @ConfCompSys
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A reminder that the abstract deadline for our @ConfCompSys satellite meeting on animal behaviour is fast approaching. Would be great to have a diverse set of talks and attendees! Any questions then get in touch.
Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐦🐒🐭🐝🐜🐙🦋 Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB🦀! There are still 10d left to submit an abstract and join us in Exeter at #CCS2024. 👉 https://t.co/v0u4Qehyes
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Do you work at the intersection of complexity science and animal behaviour? 🐦🐒🐭🐝🐜🐙🦋 Don't miss your chance to present your interdisciplinary research at CRAB🦀! There are still 10d left to submit an abstract and join us in Exeter at #CCS2024. 👉 https://t.co/v0u4Qehyes
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The more, the merrier. Your mates count for adaptive potential. New preprint: ‘Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours: a #metaanalysis’ 📜 https://t.co/ZHGEB2Ph0b 💻 data & code: https://t.co/nfwwBZVjP0
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I had a lot of fun working with a wonderful interdisciplinary team on this paper. If you want to learn about using hypergraphs to study animal social behaviour and communication then take a look!
🐦 Our work on higher-order network approaches to study animal (vocal) communication is now out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B🐦⬛ Thanks again to the amazing team! @mattjsilk @TheOVEN_Foote Nina Fefferman @ederry1
https://t.co/fzF6BfVqd3
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Check out this great special issue of Phil Trans B featuring lots of very cool behavioural and networks research!
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Should infected hosts sacrifice to protect kin? Even weak kin selection can drive this because of coevolution of avoidance by susceptibles and self-isolation by infecteds! And coevolution depends on whether its social behavior or immunity. Open acc.:
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Abstract. Behavioural and physiological resistance are key to slowing epidemic spread. We explore the evolutionary and epidemic consequences of their diffe
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🐦 Our work on higher-order network approaches to study animal (vocal) communication is now out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B🐦⬛ Thanks again to the amazing team! @mattjsilk @TheOVEN_Foote Nina Fefferman @ederry1
https://t.co/fzF6BfVqd3
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Abstract. Animal communication is frequently studied with conventional network representations that link pairs of individuals who interact, for example, th
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One week left to apply!👇
Our course 'Introduction to programming in R for biologists' is now open for applications! The main target group is PhD students in Behavioural Ecology, but others are also welcome to apply. Application deadline: May 15, 2024. Read more and apply here: https://t.co/YFMGCwV0np
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