@BenJJWalker

I've moved to Bluesky! @UNSW @EERC_UNSW @UNSWScience Evolutionary ecologist interested in #macroecology | #evolution | #acoustics | #animalcommunication

 Bedegal Country (UNSW, Aus.)
Joined February 2017
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Glad to get my 1st first author paper out! Dingoes in the wild can tell the age of another dingo and P.O.Q. when they find out 🐾💨 Read more about our article here: academic.oup.com/chemse/arti… @UNSW @UNSWScience @CES_UNSW @HWConflict @mikeletnic

Male dingo urinary scents code for age class and wild dingoes respond to this information

Abstract. Chemical information in canid urine has been implicated in territoriality and influences the spacing of individuals. We identified the key volati

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It always takes a village 📚 Grateful to have graduated from @UNSW with a #PhD in Biological Sciences, studying the macroevolution and macroecology of vertebrate sounds 🐆🐦🐳🐬🦭🦌🐸🦇🐘 What a wonderful journey as part of @UNSWScience @EERC_UNSW @CES_UNSW
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as always, extremely grateful to my supervisors @HWConflict and Tracey Rogers
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Sarab Sethi@sarabssethi7 Aug 2024
New paper on global acoustic bird monitoring out in @PNASNews today! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… 150k+ hrs of audio from Norway, Taiwan, Costa-Rica and Brazil Diel, seasonal, landscape, and national scale monitoring - but still emphasising the need for experts 🧠 in an ML 🤖 world
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UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences@unswbees18 Jul 2024
Our new tech helps find hidden details in whale, cassowary and other barely audible animal calls theconversation.com/our-new-… via @ConversationEDU

Our new tech helps find hidden details in whale, cassowary and other barely audible animal calls

The most common method used to study animal sounds visually has some known drawbacks. We created a new tool that reveals previously unseen details.

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Chris Law@Chris_J_Law16 May 2024
10 years in the making - my last PhD chapter is finally published! Check out our work investigating the biomechanical and energetic benefits of tool use in sea otters out in @ScienceMagazine! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Amanda Ridley@mandy_ridley12 Jun 2024
Many congrats to @LizzieSpeechley for this important paper in Biol Revs using meta-analyses to reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis as an explanation for cognitive variation! @Ben_Ashton9 @YongZhiFoo @BiolSci_UWA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… This paper revealed that:

Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis

The Social Intelligence Hypothesis (SIH) is one of the leading explanations for the evolution of cognition. Since its inception a vast body of literature investigating the predictions of the SIH has...

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UNSW Science@UNSWScience25 Mar 2024
Dingoes are deterred by the urine of male dingoes in their prime, a new @UNSW-led study has shown. Combining chemical analysis with behavioural experiments, this research could assist in the development of non-lethal dingo management tools. unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/20…

Din-go away! How urine could get dingoes to P.O.Q.

Scientists show dingoes are deterred by the urine of male dingoes in their prime.

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Huge effort by Britt! Wonderful to see this out 🐸
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New research out from @SammyMarineB assessing current state of coral health research! Great to see new areas for research development and better diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the marine science besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Mapping literature reviews on coral health: A review map, critical appraisal and bibliometric...

Reviews of coral health have accumulated, presenting an opportunity to compile this information using second-order synthesis. From 335 reviews of coral health, researchers identified areas for...

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Anna Lewis@devilunni15 Mar 2023
New paper in @SciReports from my PhD! Tasmanian devil populations have less diverse diets in habitats of greater human disturbance. Are we spoiling them with easy, but dangerous meals in the form of roadkill or is it an indicator of reduced biodiversity? nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Dr. Samantha Burke@SammyMarineB13 Jan 2023
Our #RegisteredReport is published in @AER_ESE_BES 🎉 Huge thanks to @PatriceEcoEvo @Erin_Macartney_ @szymekD Losia Lagisz @CoralTrace and @itchyshin Please check it out and stay tuned for the full findings! 🪸 #CoralHealth #Synthesis #MarEnvS20 doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12…
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Some new explanations for the chemistry behind how seeds may survive and persist in ecosystems that experience fire!
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Finally 👏👏
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@[email protected]@fonti_kar2 Nov 2022
We are very lucky to have @BenJJWalker show us how to make pretty #phyloviz in R! Join us 7 Nov Monday in person 2:30pm Teaching Lab 3 #UNSWcodeRs Sign up here: unsw-coders.netlify.app/cont… @unswbees @CES_UNSW @UNSWScience
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Dr Alice Maher@MaherAlice27 Jul 2022
Very excited to see our work on body size, shape and ecology in tetrapods is now available at Nature Communications :D rdcu.be/cStxb @NatureComms @drphilcox @Tweetisaurus @nhcooper123 @gustavoburin @paleofox @LivEvoBiomech @LivUni @livuniHLS @livuninews
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Patrice Pottier@PatriceEcoEvo25 Feb 2022
Do early thermal environments shape thermal tolerance? 🌡️ In this new #metaanalysis, we synthesised the state of knowledge to address this question across ectotherms 🐸🦎🐠🦐🐞🦗🐙 doi.org/10.22541/au.16457383… 🧵(1/19)
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Dr Adelaide Dedden@AdelaideDedden21 Mar 2022
So excited to share my first published PhD paper! 🐋 We found that variability in #feeding patterns of #humpback and #southernright #whales are linked to changes in #climate cycles. @TraceyLRogers @UNSWScience @unswbees frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social)@EuanRitchie129 Sep 2021
In 2021, it’s cool and normal to destroy cultural sites of Australia’s First Nations people, apparently, because we can ‘offset’ them. The cultural genocide and colonialism continues…#auspol
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Holger R. Goerlitz@batsmoths24 Sep 2021
Machine learning applied to bat echolocation, to identify species worldwide. Great! I think we're still scratching the surface of what modern ML can do for bioacoustic research. An automatic classifier of bat sonotypes around the world besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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