Dr Blake Morton
University lecturer in animal & human psychology. Inspired by biodiversity & conservation. Head of the #BritishCarnivoreProject 🦊🦡🧠🧩🌍 Check out my group's latest research: blakemorton.co.uk
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonNew paper out today on genetic connectivity of cougars in Utah🐈🧪🧬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonNew blog post!!🚨 Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonBig win for Scotland’s nature! The Natural Environment Bill passed by MSPs will bring in legally binding targets to restore wildlife and habitats. Huge thanks to LINK’s members and supporters who helped make this happen! Let’s keep pushing for strong action and funding to restore Scotland’s nature.
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonAmid the hype around prattling "AI" models, astonishing research into living minds gets overlooked. Wonderful piece by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social about bats navigating in a natural environment, decoding the sense of direction. www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-...
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonA lot of deadlines this week! Abstract submission and conference travel grants for #ASABSpring2026 are due Feb 1, as are ASAB research grants and undergraduate scholarships! ✍️ 💰 Also #ECBB2026 symposia proposals are due Jan 31! 🏃 🏃🏻♀️ 🏃 🏃🏻♀️
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonWe’re still welcoming activity ideas for the Oxford Nature Festival (27th June). Submissions don’t need to be fully developed. We’ll begin reviewing and shaping ideas with participants in February, so early stage ideas are very much encouraged. naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonJust like humans, many animal species have distinct cultures. From communication and social learning, animal culture shapes how they live and adapt. 🦍🐒🐳 Join an #IUCN introductory webinar and learn what animal culture is and how it can support biodiversity conservation and recovery. Links below!
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonThe art of scientific storytelling: framing stories to get where you want to go
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonInternships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
- Reposted by Dr Blake Morton🎁 Deeper sociological insight needed for behaviour change: A systematic review of Chinese ivory consumption 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/SIwUAAw
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonPhD studentship available to work on insect cognition in my team via the CSC scheme (Chinese applicants only; deadline January 28). See here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonAn insightful and engaging conversation with @pbrakes.bsky.social on how and why to conserve animal cultures
- To survive and flourish, many animal species rely on ecological knowledge. But this knowledge is not always spread across the group—it's often held by certain "keystone individuals." Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...
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- Reposted by Dr Blake Morton1 week left to apply for this PhD. ✅ Field surveys ✅ Cutting-edge modelling ✅ Collaboration with @ptes-org.bsky.social 🗓 Deadline: 5-1-26 #PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #WildlifeMonitoring @prof-r-hill.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social
- 📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonTake note! 📝 There are a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2026 and #ECBB2026 🗓️ More information here: www.asab.org/conferences-...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonWe're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March! asab-spring-conference2026.github.io @asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026
- Looking for cozy reading over winter break? Check out Story 4, entitled “The Christmas Fox”, from our new online nature booklet (for readers both young and young at heart)! 🦊🌃🎄❄️📖 #BritishCarnivoreProject Download for free below ⬇️ www.blakemorton.co.uk/download/129...
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonApril Wood and I were interviewed about the status of our nonlethal tool research to reduce depredations by mountain lions in California. Listen here: www.cfbf.com/ag-news/voic... 🧪🐱🐑🐂🐐🐎
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonJoin us for the @ecbb2026.bsky.social at @angliaruskin.bsky.social in September! @asab.org meeting secretary @viveknityananda.bsky.social advertising our conference at #asabwinter2025
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- Reposted by Dr Blake Morton🚨 Our new paper is out!! A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 🐾💚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonWhat are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Are cities domesticating #urban #foxes? Pleased to share this interview with #NationalGeographic stemming from our on-going research at the #BritishCarnivoreProject 🦊 🧠 🌃 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
- Pleased to share our latest paper, "Embedding rewilding in policy: Perspectives on overcoming barriers and unlocking opportunities"🍃 #rewilding #biodiversity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonBeyond criterion: cognitive flexibility in wild striated caracaras: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Cognition #Ecology
- Reposted by Dr Blake Morton📣 Register for #CO32026 and join our diverse community of comparative cognition researchers in Montréal this coming April (15-18)! 🍁🎉🙌🧪 Become a society member and submit an abstract by December 12th: www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonA female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonApply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Thanks for the opportunity to give a talk #ABL2025 - great conference! For anyone interested in our new publication and latest preprint, see links below! 👇 🦝 🦊 🧩 🧠 🌃 Publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonSo excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
- 🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonNew amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- 🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition! Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds. 📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026 🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme More info & how to apply ↓ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonExcited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella! @auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Reposted by Dr Blake Morton🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
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- Reposted by Dr Blake MortonAre humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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- Reposted by Dr Blake Mortonthe IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies. www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
