Postdoc @HKUSBS @AppliedEcoLab | Behavioural ecology | conservation science | social networks | R | Mostly primates and elephants. he/him
Hong Kong
Joined October 2012
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Derek Murphy retweeted
🚨 My First #PhD Paper is out 🚨
Big thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! @HKUniversity @TigerTopsNepal 🐘🌡️🌱🇳🇵
#PLOSONE: Physical activity and temperature changes of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) participating in eco ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
Derek Murphy retweeted
Hurry up and buy your tickets for the #pint24de in #Göttingen before they are gone! 🤩 many talks in English and German are waiting for you on 13-15 May in your favourite pubs 🍺
🎟 Full programme & tickets at pintofscience.de/events/goet…
#pint24 #scicomm #wisskomm
Derek Murphy retweeted
Thanks to @MongabayIndia (and the co-authors) for looking more into our work on human-wildlife interactions in urban Asia! india.mongabay.com/2024/01/l…
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Wanna learn about #humanwildlifeinteractions in #urban #Asia? Are all our interactions #conflict or can we #coexist with wildlife too? Does this differ with #taxa? Check out our new #collaborative @HKUSBS paper in #GECCO Global Ecology and Conservation 💫 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I’m excited about this paper link.springer.com/article/10… for several reasons. 🧵 One, it’s one of the first from our site in Nepal @TigerTops and we managed to salvage something from a tough field season @HTilley was doing, which was interrupted by the pandemic in March 2020. 1/n
And it’s out! Our #publication in @SpringerANCO on human interventions in a #behaviour experiment with Asian #elephants 🐘 Led by @PuiPuiChu 🐘. @KajaWierucka @VervetUndergrnd @Hannahsmumby @AppliedEcoLab
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1/7 Check out our new open-accessed paper looking at how we discuss wildlife trade before and during COVID! doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022… 👏👏 @HB_Tilley @sagarika1312 @AA_Andersson @dr_dingle @ChloeWebster19 @evenymleung10 @VervetUndergrnd @KajaWierucka @hannahsmumby
Derek Murphy retweeted
And it’s out! Our #publication in @SpringerANCO on human interventions in a #behaviour experiment with Asian #elephants 🐘 Led by @PuiPuiChu 🐘. @KajaWierucka @VervetUndergrnd @Hannahsmumby @AppliedEcoLab
Derek Murphy retweeted
Agreed. All SO excellent. I am so proud and@impressed with the quality of this department.
@hku_science
@HKU_BGSA #EBRS2021
Derek Murphy retweeted
Kicking off the afternoon is @DrMoriartyY talking to us about TIME MACHINE BIOLOGY (great talk title, IMO) #EBRS2021
Derek Murphy retweeted
Plenary talk by Prof. Dudgeon (ecology legend 🙌🏼).
Message: > 10% of all species exist in < 1% of earth surface (freshwater) - and > 30% thrtnd or endgrd.
There has been a great “thinning, shrinking, and moving of biota”.
We need more advocacy and #conservation!
#EBRS2021
Derek Murphy retweeted
Detecting community structure in wild populations- a simulation study! New paper by @VervetUndergrnd ,
@GeorgeWittemyer , Michelle Henley & @hannahsmumby
Thread below! Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.20…
Thrilled that our new paper (with @GeorgeWittemyer Michelle Henley & @hannahsmumby) is out now in #AnimalBehaviour!
Read about it here:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1cjsv…
@elephantsalive @ste_kenya @hku_science @HKUSBS @AppliedEcoLab @CamZoology #socialnetworkanalysis #networkanalysis
ALT Article title: Detecting community structure in wild populations: a simulation study based on male elephant, Loxodonta africana, data. Authors: Derek Murphy, George Wittemyer, Michelle D Henley, Hannah S Mumby. Animal Behaviour, Volume 174, April 2021, pages 127-148
Derek Murphy retweeted
Our newest paper on African elephant acoustic cues is out! Read about it here: peerj.com/articles/10736/
@hannahsmumby @elephantsalive @hku_science @HKUSBS @AppliedEcoLab
Derek Murphy retweeted
The US election is tomorrow. If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD
Derek Murphy retweeted
fewer things bring me more joy than people in the Middle Ages trying to guess what an elephant looks like
Derek Murphy retweeted
Do the null models we tend use for animal social networks give relevant null distributions for regression? In our new pre-print, we show that using common permutation techniques leads to high false positive rates for regression in non-random networks.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Derek Murphy retweeted
What does it mean to be socially well-connected? And how does being well-connected increase fitness? New paper out today in Proc B: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.19… with @SMack_Lab, A. Ruiz-Lambides, @MichaelLouisPl1 and @ljnbrent
Derek Murphy retweeted
The work from my MRes, supervised by @hannahsmumby and Carlos Fernandes, is finally out as a paper! & it's open access too! Come read about how we used genetics to study the impacts on elephants of removing fences between protected areas in South Africa🐘 tiny.cc/jd80dz
Derek Murphy retweeted
"For #elephants, where older individuals function as social repositories of knowledge, maintaining a social network underpinned by older males could be of particular importance."
It's no surprise that other animal societies have wise #elders.
Here's the research to back it up!
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Derek Murphy retweeted
Our latest paper out in @PLOSNTDs @jaredkwa Domestic dog social networks in sub-Saharan Africa and what they mean for transmission of infection. journals.plos.org/plosntds/a… Hard won data from proximity sensors on dogs in rural Chad – at United Kingdom
