George Hodgson
Postdoctoral fellow at City University of Hong Kong, studying sociality and animal behaviour... Fond of fish, molerats and trees 🐄
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- Reposted by George HodgsonIt’s time to vote for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award 2026! 📸 🐻 From a playful lynx to adorable bear cubs, which of the 24 breathtaking images is your favourite? You can vote until 18 March 2026: brnw.ch/21wZqLT
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- Reposted by George HodgsonThis week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk will be given by Dr Kirsty MacPhie from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social on the contrasting insights to be drawn from studies of phenology in @phenoweb.bsky.social and @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social. Usual time and place - details below with streaming info ⬇️
- Reposted by George HodgsonIn 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
- Reposted by George HodgsonTake note! 📝 There are a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2026 and #ECBB2026 🗓️ More information here: www.asab.org/conferences-...
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- Reposted by George HodgsonExcited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍
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- Reposted by George HodgsonThe deadline for our next round of grant submissions is in one month (1st March!). 🤩 Submit your proposal for a research, conservation, or captive care grant for up to £1250! More information about grant applications can be found on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/grants
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- Reposted by George HodgsonResearchers from #UniKonstanz, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and the University of Zurich have investigated how meerkats use vocal exchanges – rather than physical touch – to maintain social bonds and manage their complex group hierarchies. t1p.de/okuf3 Vlad Demartsev
- Reposted by George HodgsonRelationships between European #wildcats and domestic #cats in an area of #sympatry: Exploring key conservation questions on #hybridization and disease transmission - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #pathogens #spatialecology @wileyecology.bsky.social
- Reposted by George HodgsonOver 2 million toads saved, yet UK populations have declined by 41% in 40 years. Monitoring disease is a key part of understanding why. Seen a sick toad? Report it to us: www.gardenwildlifehealth.org #WildlifeHealth #Toads #CitizenScience #wildlifehealth @froglife.bsky.social 📸Chris Pook
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- Reposted by George HodgsonJanuary can be tough enough without an extra deadline looming. That's why we've extended our #ECBB2026 call for symposia to 15 February 2026! For more information and for the submission form click the link: www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...
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- Reposted by George HodgsonThe University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
- Reposted by George Hodgson🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species "We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf
- 👀 congrats @zekerowe.bsky.social !
- 🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩 🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰 Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.
- Reposted by George HodgsonLast term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
- Reposted by George HodgsonCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
- Reposted by George HodgsonAmericans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
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- Reposted by George HodgsonOur new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by George HodgsonInternships 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.
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- Reposted by George HodgsonI’m picking these valentines up from the printer tomorrow and will be shipping them all week! Things are DARK. Bring a little silliness to your February with some deep sea valentines. As with all merch on the Squid Facts Shop, sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social Get em at SquidFacts.net
- Reposted by George Hodgson📣 Delighted to share that my inaugural lecture, Social by nature, from animal social minds to inclusive science cultures, is coming up. 📅 11 Feb 2026, 18:00 GMT | 💻 Online & Cambridge (www.aru.ac.uk/events/inaug...). A fitting way to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
- Reposted by George HodgsonI don't think I'm being dramatic when I say that workloads going from 5 person teams to 1 person has the potential to harm. It's egregious.
- Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
- Reposted by George HodgsonInterested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by George HodgsonHello, I’m Jas! I’m a German-born, British-bred artist living in Shropshire, England 🙂↕️ I ♥️ riso printing—it’s massively influenced my style. I create fun, fluro art packed with deliciously crunchy textures. I’m a big-fan of bugs, kindness and picture books 🐛💚 #portfolioday
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- Reposted by George Hodgson#PortfolioDay I'm Natalia, a 🇵🇱-born, 🇬🇧-residing, 🇭🇰 & 🇨🇳-based palaeontologist, with a doctorate in pterosaurs, currently specialising in blasting fossils with lasers. On the side, I'm an award-winning artist, drawing for magazines, books & museums (recently, Palestine Museum of Natural History)
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- Reposted by George HodgsonFollowing coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
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- Reposted by George HodgsonThe first chapter of my PhD is published! If you're interested in how bones can be buried in floods, check it out in Paleobiology! (doi:10.1017/pab.2025.10087) And if you want to see the full scale experiments we ran, I did a summary video featuring a cover of When the Levee Breaks! #Taphonomy
- Reposted by George Hodgson✨New paper✨ How do juvenile ravens find social groups? We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Reposted by George HodgsonVery happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved. Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by George HodgsonAnother new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
