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Newcastle Authors	Title	Year
Courtney Neal Dr Oliver Shannon Dr Caroline Allen Professor Melissa Bateson	The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity	2025
Emma Jensen Professor Melissa Bateson	Dairy cows housed both full- and part-time with their calves form strong maternal bonds	2024
Emma Jensen Professor Melissa Bateson	Dairy cows’ motivation to nurse their calves	2024
Professor Melissa Bateson	Concurrent invasions of European starlings in Australia and North America reveal population-specific differentiation in shared genomic regions	2023
Professor Melissa Bateson Emma Jensen	Do cows see the forest or the trees? A preliminary investigation of attentional scope as a potential indicator of emotional state in dairy cows housed with their calves	2023
Professor Melissa Bateson Gillian Pepper	Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses	2023
Professor Melissa Bateson Ryan Nolan	A Refined Method for Studying Foraging Behaviour and Body Mass in Group-Housed European Starlings	2022
Dr Jackie Shinwell Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle Gillian Pepper	Food insecurity and patterns of dietary intake in a sample of UK adults	2022
Professor Melissa Bateson	Historical museum samples enable the examination of divergent and parallel evolution during invasion	2022
Professor Melissa Bateson	Saliva metabolome alterations after acute stress	2022
Dr Richard Edwards Professor Melissa Bateson	Transcript- and annotation-guided genome assembly of the European starling	2022
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2021
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Clare Andrews Dr Jonathon Dunn Charlotte Egger Francesca Gray et al.	Food insecurity increases energetic efficiency, not food consumption: An exploratory study in European starlings	2021
Professor Melissa Bateson	Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide	2021
Oluwaseun Iyasere Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Andrew Beard Dr Jonathan Guy	Provision of Additional Cup Drinkers Mildly Alleviated Moderate Heat Stress Conditions in Broiler Chickens	2021
Dr Clare Andrews Dr Jonathon Dunn Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Time perception and patience: individual differences in interval timing precision predict choice impulsivity in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2021
Oluwaseun Iyasere Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Andrew Beard Dr Jonathan Guy	Which factor is more important: Intensity or duration of episodic heat stress on broiler chickens?	2021
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Colline Poirier	Can biomarkers of biological age be used to assess cumulative lifetime experience?	2019
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Consequences of measurement error in qPCR telomere data: A simulation study	2019
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Controlling for baseline telomere length biases estimates of the rate of telomere attrition	2019
Dr Annie Poll Dr Clare Andrews Thomas Bedford Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson et al.	Developmental history and stress responsiveness are related to response inhibition, but not judgement bias, in a cohort of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2019
Dr Jonathon Dunn Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Developmental history, energetic state and choice impulsivity in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2019
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Food insecurity moderates the acute effect of subjective socioeconomic status on food consumption	2019
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Food-Insecure Women Eat a Less Diverse Diet in a More Temporally Variable Way: Evidence from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-4	2019
Dr Colline Poirier Caitlin Oliver Janire Castellano Bueno Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Professor Melissa Bateson et al.	Pacing behaviour in laboratory macaques is an unreliable indicator of acute stress	2019
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Carmen Martin-Ruiz Gillian Pepper Professor Thomas von Zglinicki Professor Daniel Nettle et al.	Smoking does not accelerate leucocyte telomere attrition: A meta-analysis of 18 longitudinal cohorts	2019
Dr Colline Poirier Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Fabio Gualtieri Elena Armstrong Grace Laws et al.	Validation of hippocampal biomarkers of cumulative affective experience	2019
Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Thomas Bedford Professor Melissa Bateson	A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2018
Menno Van Berkel Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Jonathon Dunn	Can starlings use a reliable cue of future food deprivation to adaptively modify foraging and fat reserves?	2018
Dr Annie Poll Dr Clare Andrews Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Chronological age, biological age, and individual variation in the stress response in the European starling: A follow-up study	2018
Dr Jonathon Dunn Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Early-life begging effort reduces adult body mass but strengthens behavioural defence of the rate of energy intake in European starlings	2018
Dr Jonathon Dunn Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Evaluating the cyclic ratio schedule as an assay of feeding behaviour in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)	2018
Professor Daniel Nettle Mona Joly Professor Melissa Bateson	Opportunistic food consumption in relation to childhood and adult food insecurity: An exploratory correlational study	2018
Gillian Pepper Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2018
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Why are there associations between telomere length and behaviour?	2018
Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Ben Brilot Thomas Bedford Professor Melissa Bateson et al.	A marker of biological age explains individual variation in the strength of the adult stress response	2017
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Clare Andrews Professor Melissa Bateson	Adaptive principles of weight regulation: Insufficient, but perhaps necessary, for understanding obesity	2017
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Childhood and adult socioeconomic position interact to predict health in mid life in a cohort of British women	2017
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Detecting telomere elongation in longitudinal datasets: Analysis of a proposal by Simons, Stulp and Nakagawa	2017
Vikki Neville Dr Clare Andrews Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Dissociating the effects of alternative early-life feeding schedules on the development of adult depression-like phenotypes	2017
Katie Rowberry Professor Melissa Bateson	Do horses with poor welfare show 'pessimistic' cognitive biases?	2017
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Clare Andrews Thomas Bedford Claire Kolenda Dr Craig Parker et al.	Early-life adversity accelerates cellular ageing and affects adult inflammation: Experimental evidence from the European starling	2017
Thomas Bedford Caroline Oliver Dr Clare Andrews Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle et al.	Effects of early-life adversity and sex on dominance in European starlings	2017
Oluwaseun Iyasere Dr Andrew Beard Dr Jonathan Guy Professor Melissa Bateson	Elevated levels of the stress hormone, corticosterone, cause ‘pessimistic’ judgment bias in broiler chickens	2017
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Clare Andrews Professor Melissa Bateson	Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis	2017
Dr Barbara-Anne Robertson Giselda Cirillo Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Timothy Boswell Dr Tom Smulders et al.	Food restriction reduces neurogenesis in the avian hippocampal formation	2017
Dr Colline Poirier Professor Melissa Bateson	Pacing stereotypies in laboratory rhesus macaques: Implications for animal welfare and the validity of neuroscientific findings	2017
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	The telomere lengthening conundrum – it could be biology	2017
Oluwaseun Iyasere Emerita Professor Sandra Edwards Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Jonathan Guy	Validation of an intramuscularly-implanted microchip and a surface infrared thermometer to estimate core body temperature in broiler chickens exposed to heat stress	2017
Professor Melissa Bateson	Attention bias to threat indicates anxiety differences in sheep	2016
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Clare Andrews Thomas Bedford Annie Gott Dr Craig Parker et al.	Brood size moderates associations between relative size, telomere length, and immune development in European starling nestlings	2016
Professor Melissa Bateson	Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?	2016
Professor Melissa Bateson	Optimistic and pessimistic biases: a primer for behavioural ecologists	2016
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?	2015
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Ben Brilot Thomas Bedford Professor Melissa Bateson	An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Development of a cognitive bias methodology for measuring low mood in chimpanzees	2015
Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Clare Andrews Dr Ben Brilot Thomas Bedford Professor Melissa Bateson et al.	Developmental and familial predictors of adult cognitive traits in the European starling	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Ben Brilot Professor Daniel Nettle	Developmental telomere attrition predicts impulsive decision-making in adult starlings	2015
Dr Clare Andrews Jeremie Viviani Thomas Bedford Dr Ben Brilot Professor Daniel Nettle et al.	Early life adversity increases foraging and information gathering in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2015
Dan O'Hagan Dr Clare Andrews Thomas Bedford Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle et al.	Early life disadvantage strengthens flight performance trade-offs in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson	Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson	Melissa Bateson	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Opposite Effects of Early-Life Competition and Developmental Telomere Attrition on Cognitive Biases in Juvenile European Starlings	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Watching eyes on potential litter can reduce littering: evidence from two field experiments	2015
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Candy Rowe	Better the devil you know: Avian predators find variation in prey toxicity aversive	2014
Moe Fathi Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Effects of Watching Eyes and Norm Cues on Charitable Giving in a Surreptitious Behavioral Experiment	2014
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Martin Tovee Hannah George Dr Piers Cornelissen	Humans are not fooled by size illusions in attractiveness judgements	2014
Professor Melissa Bateson	Measuring Motivation for Appetitive Behaviour: Food-Restricted Broiler Breeder Chickens Cross a Water Barrier to Forage in an Area of Wood Shavings without Food	2014
Professor Melissa Bateson	Of (stressed) mice and men	2014
Louise Bloxham Professor Melissa Bateson Thomas Bedford Dr Ben Brilot Professor Daniel Nettle et al.	The memory of hunger: developmental plasticity of dietary selectivity in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris	2014
Dr Jill Hunter Dr Jacqueline Butterworth Professor Neil Perkins Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Claire Richardson et al.	Using body temperature, food and water consumption as biomarkers of disease progression in mice with Eμ-myc lymphoma	2014
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Bottom of the Heap: Having Heavier Competitors Accelerates Early-Life Telomere Loss in the European Starling, Sturnus vulgaris	2013
Professor Melissa Bateson	Can starling eggs be useful as a biomonitoring tool to study organohalogenated contaminants on a worldwide scale?	2013
Professor Melissa Bateson	Conditioned place preference or aversion as animal welfare assessment tools: Limitations in their application	2013
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle	Do Images of 'Watching Eyes' Induce Behaviour That Is More Pro-Social or More Normative? A Field Experiment on Littering	2013
Gesa Feenders Professor Melissa Bateson	Effects of developmental history on the behavioural responses of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) to laboratory husbandry	2013
Dr Gesa Feenders Professor Melissa Bateson	Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings	2013
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Responses of chimpanzees to cues of conspecific observation	2013
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something	2013
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Lucy Asher Dr Susan Healy	Context-dependent decisions among options varying in a single dimension.	2012
Professor Daniel Nettle Kenneth Nott Professor Melissa Bateson	'Cycle Thieves, We Are Watching You': Impact of a Simple Signage Intervention against Bicycle Theft	2012
Craig Barnett Dr John Skelhorn Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Candy Rowe	Educated predators make strategic decisions to eat defended prey according to their toxin content	2012
Dr Catherine Douglas Professor Melissa Bateson Emerita Professor Sandra Edwards	Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive biases in pigs	2012
Gesa Feenders Professor Melissa Bateson	The development of stereotypic behavior in caged european starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2012
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and Its Disorders	2012
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Melissa Bateson	Water bathing alters threat perception in starlings	2012
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Mark Whittingham Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Jenny Read et al.	When is general wariness favored in avoiding multiple predators?	2012
Emeritus Professor Paul Flecknell Dr Matthew Leach Professor Melissa Bateson	Affective state and quality of life in mice	2011
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Sasha Gartside Professor Geraldine Wright	Agitated honeybees exhibit pessimistic cognitive biases	2011
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Ben Brilot Professor Daniel Nettle	Anxiety: An Evolutionary Approach	2011
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Melissa Bateson	Cognitive bias in the chick anxiety-depression model	2011
Professor Daniel Nettle Professor Melissa Bateson	Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment	2011
Dr Matthew Leach Professor Melissa Bateson	Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats	2011
Dr Gesa Feenders Kristel Klaus Professor Melissa Bateson	Fear and Exploration in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): A Comparison of Hand-Reared and Wild-Caught Birds	2011
Dr Gesa Feenders Professor Melissa Bateson	Hand-Rearing Reduces Fear of Humans in European Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris	2011
Professor Melissa Bateson	Rational choice behaviour: definitions and evidence.	2010
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Lucy Asher Professor Melissa Bateson	Stereotyping starlings are more 'pessimistic'	2010
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Lucy Asher	The European starling	2010
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Gesa Feenders	The Use of Passerine Bird Species in Laboratory Research: Implications of Basic Biology for Husbandry and Welfare	2010
Professor Lucy Asher Professor Melissa Bateson	An empirical investigation of two assumptions of motivation testing in captive starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): Do animals have an energy budget to 'spend'? and does cost reduce demand?	2009
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Melissa Bateson	Can we use starlings' aversion to eyespots as the basis for a novel 'cognitive bias' task?	2009
Dr Piers Cornelissen Dr Martin Tovee Professor Melissa Bateson	Patterns of subcutaneous fat deposition and the relationship between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: Implications for models of physical attractiveness	2009
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Lucy Asher Dr Gesa Feenders Professor Melissa Bateson	Quantification of abnormal repetitive behaviour in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2009
Professor Lucy Asher Dr Catherine Douglas Dr Mike Cox Professor Melissa Bateson	The effects of cage volume and cage shape on the condition and behaviour of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2009
Dr Ben Brilot Professor Lucy Asher Professor Melissa Bateson	Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings	2009
Dr Stephanie Matheson Professor Lucy Asher Professor Melissa Bateson	Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2008
Professor Lucy Asher Professor Melissa Bateson	Use and husbandry of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in scientific research: A review of current practice	2008
Kathryn Smith Dr Martin Tovee Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Mike Cox Dr Piers Cornelissen et al.	An analysis of body shape attractiveness based on image statistics: Evidence for a dissociation between expressions of preference and shape discrimination	2007
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Piers Cornelissen Dr Martin Tovee	Methodological issues in judgements of female body Attractiveness	2007
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Stephanie Matheson	Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces 'pessimism' in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	2007
Craig Barnett Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Candy Rowe	State-dependent decision making: educated predators strategically trade off the costs and benefits of consuming aposematic prey	2007
Professor Melissa Bateson	Comparative evaluation in mate choice	2006
Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Daniel Nettle Dr Gilbert Roberts	Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting	2006
Professor Melissa Bateson	Single-trials analyses demonstrate that increases in clock speed contribute to the methamphetamine-induced horizontal shifts in peak-interval timing functions	2006
Dr Joanne Henderson Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Susan Healy	Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus	2006
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Susan Healy	Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice	2005
Professor Melissa Bateson	Mechanisms of decision-making and the interpretation of choice tests	2004
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Susan Healy	Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds	2003
Professor Melissa Bateson	Context-dependent foraging choices in risk-sensitive starlings	2002
Professor Melissa Bateson Dr Susan Healy	Irrational choices in hummingbird foraging behaviour	2002
Professor Melissa Bateson	Post-weaning feeding problems in young domestic cats - A new hypothesis	2002
Professor Melissa Bateson	Recent advances in our understanding of risk-sensitive foraging preferences	2002
Dr Anna Baragiotta Wendy Craig Emeritus Professor Oliver James Dr Denis Burke Professor Melissa Bateson et al.	Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), in men	2001
Wendy Craig Emeritus Professor Oliver James Dr Denis Burke Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Margaret Bassendine et al.	Is the revised international autoimmune hepatitis group (IAHG) scoring system useful?	2001
Dr Anna Baragiotta Emeritus Professor Oliver James Professor Melissa Bateson Professor Margaret Bassendine	Validation of the revised International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAHG) scoring system: Experience in the north of England	2001
Professor Melissa Bateson	Contrafreeloading in starlings: Testing the information hypothesis	1999