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Alan McElligott
@amcell.bsky.social
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Associate Prof, Animal Behaviour & Welfare-Hong Kong https://www.alanmcelligott.co.uk/ Animal behaviour, cognition, welfare; research ethics & integrity; environment; science; higher education; Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) advocate. 🌈🇮🇪 he/him 🐂 🐃🐐🐥 🦆
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 16d
2025. Veterinary college sheds light on lives of Lantau’s water buffalo - cc @debottam1991.bsky.social croucher.org.hk/en/news/vete...
Veterinary college sheds light on lives of Lantau’s water buffalo
Veterinary college sheds light on lives of Lantau’s water buffalo
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic and collage artist #womensart
Photo of three birds as if flying left created with fast pieces of patterned paper
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US
Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday
Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d
Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h
The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a hare against a pink background with sun and stars
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 9h
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Denmark’s ambitious plan to boost plant-based foods | FT Rethink
YouTube video by Financial Times
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
Check out the Methods and Ethics sections of this human social science research, in Animals mdpi - yet another example of terrible integrity standards! www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
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MDPIOpenAccess @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social · 3d
For MDPI, rigorous editorial standards and scientific integrity are key.

These enabled over 300 journals to pass the Web of Science quality criteria to be admitted to the index.

Learn more: buff.ly/KkzaUWU
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
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MDPIOpenAccess @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social · 2d
Plagiarism is not acceptable in MDPI journals and constitutes a serious violation of our Research and Publication Ethics guidelines.

Understanding what counts as plagiarism and how to prevent it is essential.

Learn more: buff.ly/d8slgst

#MDPI #PublicationEthics
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
2025. Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats
Automated tracking in naked mole-rats reveals behavioral specificity of breeders and diversity of nonbreeders in a colony.
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 1d
Interesting! Modern hippos lived in Central Europe during the last ice age 🦏🦏🦣https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/pressreleases/detail/2025-10-09-hippos-lived-in-europe-in-the-last-ice-age #megafauna
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 3d
2025. Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada
Illegal wildlife trade is increasingly reported as intersecting with other serious crimes, a phenomenon labelled “crime convergence”. However, there i…
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 3d
2025. Farmed totoaba could curb poaching phys.org/news/2025-10...
Farmed totoaba could curb poaching
The trade of totoaba has all the intrigue of a crime thriller. Dollars and drugs change hands as a criminal cartel vies against the government. Communities and endangered species are caught in the cro...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 3d
2025. Introduced animals change how island plants spread, global study finds phys.org/news/2025-10...
Introduced animals change how island plants spread, global study finds
On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new places. When native animals go extinct, this naturally reduces seed dispersal...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers
Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.
www.nature.com
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
2025. (not just cancer lit....) Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
www.nature.com
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
2025. #DEI. How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring. Images from across the web portray women as being younger than men, despite the underlying reality — plus, astronomers’ favourite exoplanets, and the 2025 Nobel prizes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
Seriously, any animal welfare "study" based on this review speed is likely not worth the paper it is written on, nor the APC! "8 August 2025 / Revised: 13 September 2025 / Accepted: 15 September 2025" - #FastScience via #mdpi
a man and a dog are sitting at a table with a glass of wine .
ALT: a man and a dog are sitting at a table with a glass of wine .
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 2d
“Beginner scientists have less loyalty to prevailing assumptions, and they can take more intellectual freedom” <3
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers
Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.
www.nature.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d
Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers
Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
The abstract paintings of Korean American contemporary artist Suzanne Song #WomensArt
Photo of a painting hanging on a white wall, the abstract artwork features a series of ´sharp regular interlocking triangles in purple and green
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth
Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d
"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling
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