Tom Green (they/he)

@animalsexpert.bsky.social

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St Andrews -PhD Student- studying homosexual behaviour in non human animals - trans 🏳️‍⚧️ and disabled

A screenshot of an email reading: I think 🤔 using the term "same sex behavior" is wildly anthropomorphic & presumptive (have you checked your assumptions with math models?); why isn't it good enough to use the Ethologists' terminology for the behavior--agonistic display?; the field of Animal Behavior remains more like a Social Science than a Science; social scientists complicate phenomena when the job of a scientist is to simplify it, usually by unpacking variability & apparent complexity (see Parisi Nobel Prize Physics 2021); 🤔
A white staffie lies in the grass next to a tote bag on a sunny day.
Thomas is sitting backwards in a chair and looking very cool- his tattoos are showing because he has a shirt with the sleeves cut off and he is holding a microphone.
Bright club pride event poster Details: June 24, 7 pm Sandy’s Bar, Students’ Association, St Mary’s Pl HTTPS://wegottickets.com/event/662671 “A comedy night like no other” Five queer academics talking about the wild and wacky life of research With MC Susan Morrison Tickets free but limited Thank you to the University of St Andrews EDI Project Fund
An image of a book opened to a section titled “Jizz as an aid to identification”
A photo of a computer screen with a scientific paper open with a highlighted box with the text: “male copulation: only one sound is audible during copulation, a relatively quiet and constant raspy, squelching noise”
An image of a laptop screen showing a research article. The highlighted text reads “the dominant male from 2000 to 2002 was cuckolded by another male for one of the two litters in that year”
A picture of a computer screen with the highlighted text “as is usual in other districts, this bird seems to have the belief that telegraph poles were erected for its sole benefit”.
A poster for the "Decolonizing science public lecture" giving relevant information. Date: Wednesday, March 12th. Time: 1-2 PM, followed by refreshments. Location: Booth Lecture theatre, Medical and Biological Sciences building, North Haugh. The lecture is titled "Racism, Not Race: Answers to frequently asked questions" and will be delivered by Prof. Joseph L. Graves Jr.
A picture of a laptop with a scientific paper describing dolphin behaviours. “Goosing” is defined as “one dolphin brings its beak into contact with the genital area of another dolphin”.
a screenshot from the wikipedia list of file extensions: X_B - parasolids binary format X_T - Parasolids
A laptop with PowerPoint open. The slides consist of screenshots of code and results with notational markings and occasional plots
A screenshot of a statistics program, R, with code annotations reading "plot time! lets make a scheme, perhaps even a nefarious plan, or a figure accurately representing the data and model"