Mongoose Project

Just a few days left to apply for a 3 year postdoc to work with us using drones to study leadership and collective decision making in banded mongooses! Closes 15 Sept, starts 1 Dec bit.ly/2ZhJkH5

HUGE congratulations Dr Michael Weiss @CetaceanMike on an outstanding PhD thesis and viva today. It has been a pleasure to work with you on your PhD research and we are very proud supervisors today @DanFranksRsrch @MongooseProject @CWROrcas.

On the 9th day of #Highlights2019🎄, academia gave to us... Nine fab field assistants working with the mongooses and nine great groups of mongooses themselves! @manson_sophie & Megan Layton as magic managers. @Julie_M_Kern @AmyMorrisDrake simply amazing! #ImpossibleWithoutYou 🌟

POSTDOC VACANCY deadline 15th Jan: NERC-funded postdoc on the evolution of intergroup conflict with Prof Rufus Johnstone @Camb_BEgroup as part of a project with Mike Cant @MongooseProject Faye Thompson @FayeJThompson and me @UniofExeter. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24473/ Please RT

@JohnWatsonSport @BBCBreakfast We and @Dwarf_Mongoose can confirm that it’s mongooses!

This has got us talking this morning.. not only about the rules of golf but also what’s the plural of mongoose .. ?! 😂 @BBCBreakfast

@sankey_dan @CantMichael @DarrenPCroft @FayeJThompson @DanFranksRsrch @UniofExeter Welcome to the team!

@SemplePrimate @HarryHMarshall @FayeJThompson @Dwarf_Mongoose Love seeing these interactions at our study site!

@HarryHMarshall @FayeJThompson @MongooseProject @Dwarf_Mongoose

Great research and field experience on a fantastic project!

Stable isotopes are quantitative indicators of trophic niche out in @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… @richardinger @yodacomplex @RobbieAMcDonald @FayeJThompson @CantMichael @CREEBroehampton @UoR_LifeScience @UoExeterCEC

Postnatal care and prenatal inequalities in banded mongooses. Come see my talk in A701 at 10:45 @asab2019summer #ASABSummer2019 @CREEBroehampton @UoR_LifeScience @MongooseProject

Interested in applying for PhDs/post-docs in mammalian social behaviour and life history evolution? Come talk to me at #ASABsummer2019 roehampton.ac.uk/research-centr… @CREEBroehampton @UoR_LifeScience

@pilotguyevan @CantMichael @DarrenPCroft @DanFranksRsrch @UofE_Research @UoExeterCEC @UniExeCornwall Drones will be used to take footage of collective movement and behaviour, then automated recognition and tracking methods developed to study leadership and followership.

3 year postdoc available! NERC funded postdoc position on collective decision making in banded mongooses. Involves fieldwork in Uganda, theory, and new drone methods to study the evolution of leadership and followership. Closing 15 Sept. Starts 1 Dec '19. bit.ly/2ZhJkH5

@MongooseProject @Dwarf_Mongoose @CantMichael @DarrenPCroft @DanFranksRsrch @UofE_Research @UoExeterCEC @UniExeCornwall I'm sure a lot of folks @asab2019summer will be interested in this

Really interesting post doc position available with Prof Mike Cant (Exeter, Cornwall campus) to work with banded mongooses (fieldwork in QENP, Uganda) jobs.ac.uk/job/BUP011/pos…

New blog by @Grab1996 on his research, our new paper bit.ly/2NupQye and his PhD with @MongooseProject starting in September! @InsSociaux @UniExeCornwall @UofE_Research @UoE_Behaviour @UoExeterCEC

New paper with @Grab1996 & @CantMichael out now @InsSociaux! Harvester ants exhibit increased social cohesion when presented with an intruder, and show a primed response to subsequent intergroup encounters. Read it here! tiny.cc/31ik8y #openaccess

POSTDOC ALERT!! I will soon be advertising a 2-year postdoc position to work on social networks and aging in a highly social primate. Based in Exeter, fieldwork in Puerto Rico, joint project with labs of @SMack_Lab and @nyuprimatology. DM me for details if interested and Pls RT!

@OxZooDept @AtGrebe @Camb_BEgroup @BehaviouralEco2 @UoE_Behaviour @SUMarBio @IPS_PrimateNews @PsgbStudent @HyenaProject @MongooseProject @AmOrnith @HerpLeague @CrabExeter (Please add suggestions to this thread) #ASAB19York