Sam Walmsley
sfwalmsley.bsky.social
Sam Walmsley
@sfwalmsley.bsky.social
Behaviour | Long-term research | Whales | Health | Causal inference
Postdoc at Princeton & HHMI
(he/him)
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FINE Tuesday 22nd September, Hans Hofmann

Title: The Evolution of the Social Brain

I will present results from experimental and comparative studies that provide insight into the origins and evolution of complex social behavior and its neuromolecular basis.

Zoom: yale.zoom.us/j/95403723372
September 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474
September 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Please help spread the word: Wilkinson lab at U Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join our collaborative ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress, epigenetic and immune function across bat lifespans.” umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
Post-Doctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Wilkinson lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hiring a postdoc to join an ongoing NIH-funded project titled “Social stress...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 27, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM