A human much like all the other ones / Generally just trying to be good at life / Biology PhD studying crows & their tools
Currently in UK. Brain frequently elsewh…
Joined September 2016
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Crafty crows are making tools to forage for food. But what are they using?
#ANUExpert @Linda_Neaves used DNA to solve the mystery. “It felt like searching for a needle in a haystack, it was amazing to finally work it out.”
📖 anu.edu.au/news/all-news/dna… #birdnerd
📷 James St Clair
Matthew Steele retweeted
That #NewCaledonianCrow make tools amazes me, working out the plant they used only intrigues me more. Loved working with #craftycrows & humans @steele_mp, @DrBarbaraKlump, James St Clair, @jujasfernandes, Vanessa Hequet, Phil Shaw, @HollingsworthPM & Christian Rutz #DNAbarcoding
Crafty crows are making tools to forage for food. But what are they using?
#ANUExpert @Linda_Neaves used DNA to solve the mystery. “It felt like searching for a needle in a haystack, it was amazing to finally work it out.”
📖 anu.edu.au/news/all-news/dna… #birdnerd
📷 James St Clair
Matthew Steele retweeted
Very lucky to work with this team and learn more about the #crafty #NewCaledonianCrow, and use my #dnabarcoding skills to learn which plant they pick to make their tools in this population!!
New paper out this week!
DNA barcoding identifies cryptic animal tool materials
Available #openaccess in #PNAS @PNASNews :
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020699…
An exciting collaboration between @CentreBioDiv @univofstandrews @RBGE_Science @ANUFennerSchool and @ird_fr 1/
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DNA barcoding can help identify the plant species that New Caledonian crows use as tools. In PNAS: ow.ly/k29O50FuD4Z
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La crise va durer. Les infections continueront d’augmenter. Nous devons protéger la population et les hôpitaux. Les mesures font leur effet, mais il faut de la discipline: garder ses distances, limiter ses contacts et rester à la maison – même le week-end. Merci! #CoronaInfoCH – at Berne, Switzerland
Matthew Steele retweeted
Yesterday, quarantined Italians recorded messages to "themselves from 10 days ago". I chose to listen. #stayathome #coronavirus youtu.be/o_cImRzKXOs via @YouTube
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🐳 Just released my album about humpback whale song!!!! 🐳
Free download on following links:
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Matthew Steele retweeted
Poll o'time: What do you think about bird vs. primate Tool Use? Which of these two is "more cultural"*?
*IF we define "cultural = the behavioural sequence underlying the tool use relying at least in part on copying (!) others". Pls answer AS IF you accept this definition.
5%Bird TU: more cultural
23%Primate TU: more cultural
48%Both similarly cultural
25%Shut up & show the result
65 votes • Final results Matthew Steele retweeted
For instance, we tend to assume animals lack free will (maybe you don’t). But no one wonders why their dog gets out of bed in the morning. And no one thinks that their dog’s lack of free will means that its actions towards other dogs don’t matter.
Matthew Steele retweeted
I offer this word simply because it’s beautiful, and I am one. A nemophilist is a lover of forests, a haunter of woods.
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We are all for this! Let's encourage taking openly about our failures in academia (and in the rest of life...) -- not just our successes! #YSLRworkshop2018 teapawt.net/jhaushofer/status/7239…
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The main conclusion of our discussion on techniques/methodologies this afternoon? We need to better understand 1) What exactly are we looking at? & 2) How can we harness technology to better look at it? #YSLRworkshop2018
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Our participants discuss key ideas that have shaped the field: imitation, cultural transmission, defining & measuring social behaviour in humans, ants...even slime molds?! #YSLRworkshop2018
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Seems like a fitting time to reminisce about the 20 things I learned when I went to North Korea. waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/20-th…
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Seven Moral Rules Found All Around the World – New cross-cultural survey by Oliver Curry. evolution-institute.org/the-…
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If the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything
Stamps = Lickie Stickie
Defibrillators = Hearty Starty
Bumble bees = Fuzzy Buzzy
Pregnancy test = Maybe Baby
Bra =Breastie Nestie
Fork= Stabby Grabby
Socks = Feetie Heatie
Hippo = Floatie Bloatie
Nightmare = Screamy Dreamy – at Greenwich, London
