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Ambre Salis
@ambresalis.bsky.social
Https://ambresalis.wordpress.com
Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. Working on animal linguistics and behavioural ecology, mostly on house sparrows' calls 🔊
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YEAHH FIRST POST✨

I'm Ambre, working on birds and mostly house sparrows, trying to understand what they say and why they say it.

New year resolution: I'll share one picture each week about my project: SPANTICS.

(SPArrows semaNTICS.. yeah.. never was and never will be good at acronyms 🥸)
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July 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
NEW PAPER 🐦🎵💬

The same type of ordering rule (high frequency calls followed by noisy broadband notes) is found in almost all living Paridae: very likely, this combination already existed in the common ancestor of tits and chickadees, 11 mya !

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#bird #mobbing #call
Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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An evening’s thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Genuinely astonished at this decision. It makes no sense at all. My love and unwavering support go out to every trans person in the UK facing uncertainty, fear and exclusion as a result of this. As far as I can tell we just deliberately created an anomaly in law to satisfy transphobes. But it won't.
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This Monday, we talked about birds, their calls, and so much more with my colleague Agnes, in a workshop open to families at the Invention Rooms (white city campus).

Kids (and their fun parents) are always the best public - honestly I could do that all day 🥹

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love these details so much - Natural History Museum, London 🦖🦕
March 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Nice memories from our February fieldwork on Lundy Island 🐦
March 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Handmade miniature book

- A very efficient way to relax after seeing the comments from Reviewer 2 🧘-
March 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#StandUpForScience
Ce vendredi 07 mars, nous aurons l’occasion d’affirmer collectivement notre solidarité aux scientifiques et universitaires travaillant aux États-Unis, en Argentine et dans tous les pays où la liberté académique est menacée.
March 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
That's what I call quality time 🐦

This week I had the opportunity to stay in Auchinlek, one of the wonderful buildings of the Landmark Trust

Surrounded by six incredible, kind and talented women working in bird ecology ⭐

This sets the stage for future collaborations together 🪺
March 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE

Most Paridae have a mobbing call made of two calls, ordered in a specific way - but the coal tit does not.

Could they still pay attention to the order of notes, especially when hearing heterospecific calls ?
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls
Coal tits are among the few Paridae species that do not produce mobbing calls in a strict sequential order. A playback experiment investigates the relative importance of note origin (conspecific, kno....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A beautiful case of BDRP : a Bad Day to Record Sparrows 🥲
February 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Celebrating Darwin's birthday today (and his brilliant ideas, did you get the pun in the picture? 😇)

#CEEDarwin2025

The debate of today is "How would Darwin do fieldwork today ?"

@ceevol.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trying to record house sparrows without them noticing... I love a good challenge !
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pspspsp sparrows, come here 😇

(Yep, probably a bit late to place it, but hopefully next year they will use it 🤞)
January 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Beginning of PhD (2019) versus End of PhD (2022) ...

Can you spot the 7 differences? 🙃
January 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Have you heard about Lundy Island ? 🏝️

This small island is in the South West of England. It is the home not only of puffins and sheep, but also of a population of house sparrows (lucky me!).
They have been the focus of tons of awesome research (i'll talk about it someday 🤸)
January 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
YEAHH FIRST POST✨

I'm Ambre, working on birds and mostly house sparrows, trying to understand what they say and why they say it.

New year resolution: I'll share one picture each week about my project: SPANTICS.

(SPArrows semaNTICS.. yeah.. never was and never will be good at acronyms 🥸)
January 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM