Lecturer and researcher @SRUC . Evolutionary genetics, behavioural and cognitive variation, fish welfare & behaviour
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2014
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Why do individuals behave differently? Like humans, fish have different personalities & learn in different ways. My PhD asks if behavioural & cognitive differences are genetic (heritable) & do different personality & cognitive traits (co)vary?🐟👩🔬 #tweetyourthesis @ExeterDoctoral
New paper on early life enrichment in juvenile Atlantic Salmon 🐟! Enrichment affects cohesion, reduces neophobia & improves serotonergic turnover 🧠 rdcu.be/eaiAu #AnimalWelfare #FishBehaviour #EnvironmentalEnrichment #SalmonResearch @SRey_Planellas @SpringerNature @SciReports
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Our paper is out now in JEB! Individual differences in inhibitory control in guppies, with evidence of GxE 🐟
@ali__wilson @CornishJackdaws and Niclas Kolm
Cognitive traits aren't one-size-fits-all! 🧠
Detour task performance varies among individual #guppies🐟 We also found treatment specific GxE, suggesting adaptive evolution of inhibitory control is sensitive to the environment! 🧬🔎 #AnimalCognition
👉ow.ly/NaKW50Q6wRA
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Block battery eggs coming into UK, say animal welfare groups
“Shoppers will be horrified to learn that eggs in their food products could soon be coming from battery cages more than a decade after they were banned here”
#unacceptable #madness
@ciwf
theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
Our paper is out now - how we can use animal personality to reduce chronic stress in captive fish 🐟@ali__wilson @tomhouslay
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20 years of #AnimalResearch: each year the @ukhomeoffice release statistics on the use of animals in scientific research. We've put the last 20 years together so that we can see how animal research has changed over time #AnimalStats
View larger image here
understandinganimalresearch.…
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The Yaeyama blenny is a small fish found in coral reefs in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. It can reach a maximum length of 6 cm. This clip by Atsushi Sadaki captures its friendly appearance [source and more videos: buff.ly/3uEn0cY]
Our paper is out in Animal Behaviour🐟
Multivariate analysis of spatial learning and behavioural stress response in guppies - individuals show repeatable variation in cognitive performance and learning rate, uncorrelated to acute stress response.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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🚨New job! We're looking for a graduate research assistant with an interest in sensory ecology to work on our swordtail fish project (16 month contract). Deadline 4th March, more info bit.ly/3qGRgm2
ALT A female fish is looking at a video of a male fish
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Is there a g in guppies? preprint led by @Pam_Prentice says "strong positive domain-general correlations... where 57% of the variation is explained by the leading eigen vector" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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What is the worst possible/least appropriate movie double bill, starring the same actor? I'll start: Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman followed by Hugh Jackman in Logan.
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Oh my god. I wrote this joke for @PrivateEyeNews three weeks ago. And now the President of the USA has gone one further. At least we know he’s a subscriber I guess
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Loeske! I meant to tag you - the kids might enjoy this quoll-based entertainment -
youtube.com/watch?v=X4iflCg1…
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While humans carry out social distancing, a group of 14 elephants broke into a village in Yunan province, looking for corn and other food. They ended up drinking 30kg of corn wine and got so drunk that they fell asleep in a nearby tea garden. 😂❤️
teapaw.org/bylijing/status/123957…
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Our paper is out in JEB! First from my PhD. Behavioural predictability has genetic underpinnings in the guppy🐟 using some super cool DHGLMs 🔥 @JGAMartin @tomhouslay @ali__wilson
doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13601 – at Penryn, England