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Thank you for the past sixteen years, you legends! 🔥

Memories of chairing Kākāpō review group and climbing Whenua Hou at night where Sirocco, a released hand-raised male, jogged out of the vegetation, boomed (behaviour our kākāpō biologists had never seen) from his dug bowl at a rock face then attempted to mate with me. Painful!

For those new to the javelina world, it’s a Spanish pronunciation so “have-alina” rather than the hard j in javelin.

New paper led by Kirby Mills, with WildCRU’s Egil Droge et al. highlights how understanding the complex responses of #wildlife  to human disturbance is key to fostering #coexistence  between humans and wildlife - such as #lions .
go.nature.com/3s4ZWGd

Female European common frogs feign death to escape unwanted advances. A rather drastic measure to take on a dinner date that's not going too well.
Seriously though, breeding can be a dangerous business for lady frogs, often drowned by keen suitors.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Final official results of 🇵🇱 elections:

PiS (right): 35.4%
KO (Center): 30.7%
Third Way (centre): 14.4%
Left: 8.6%
Confederation (extreme right): 7.2%

Turnout: 74.4%

A great victory for liberal democracy and for European integration.

A few takeaways🧵/1

Have a say, #PolesInUK !

📢 Job alert! (senior)Lecturer in ecology & conservation University of Brighton (my maternity cover). Apply by 26 Oct. Join a passionate friendly team within The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere bordering South Downs National Park. Any questions get in touch! bit.ly/3tvwz0d #ecologyjobs #conservationjobs #academicjobs

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For colleagues from foreign media reporting on elections in Poland: it is very important to pay attention to turnout.
It's truly record-breaking and far ahead of the one from '89, when Poles voted against communism. Then it amounted to 62.7%. Today it is as much as 72.9%!

For those wondering what will happen following today's elections in Poland.

POLAND'S ELECTION first exit polls:

PiS: 36.8%
KO: 31.6%
Third Way: 13.0%
Left: 8.6%
Confederation: 6.2%

Turnout: 72.9%

I tell our international students that English can be a difficult language, but it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

Oksfordu głosuje! 🇵🇱

Note to UK media:

Over 160,000 #PolesinUK will vote in the Polish general election this Sunday, with 77 polling stations across the UK.

46,000 in London alone.

That's a massive community story for you, right there.

Show them, give them voice, tell their stories.

Research on how babies perceive language is just so cool. Language learning starts VERY early, and progresses so quickly!

A quick thread of fun facts:

Just all the possums of Australia in one place 😁
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Hoping to start a PhD next year? Like macroevolution / mammals / morphology? Want to live next to the beach and just outside the Cairngorms?

I'm advertising a PhD position at the University of Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Open to international students; deadline Nov 27!

findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

AND HERE IT IS!! 🎉

This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been awarded to this *gorgeous* picture of a tri-spine horseshoe crab taken by Laurent Ballesta!

Absolutely obsessed with how much it looks like some sort of alien spaceship 🤯

Hear, hear!