PhD @BristolUni investigated the eco-correlates of mammal colouration 🦨; #conservation and #evolution enthusiast. #LGBTinSTEM🏳️‍🌈 she/her.

Joined November 2018
In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whether they'd get anything at all They did 🤩 ... 🧵 #Borneo #RainforestGiants
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Huge thanks to @JZoology for giving our latest paper (and my first PhD chapter paper 🙌🏻) a shout-out! 🐃
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Having a week to process this lovely day of celebrating achieving my PhD hasn’t made it feel any less surreal, but it has given me time to sort through the photos! 🦊🫎🐵🐭🎓
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
Paper out today! Collab with the ESEB Fertility Limit Network, led by @liamrdougherty. We mapped studies looking at the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction pointing out important research gaps. 🦒🦋🐸🦎🐠Read here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Successfully defended my PhD thesis last week (on Halloween no less; feels accurate for someone born on April Fool’s 🎃) - thank you to @DrMartinJohnHow and Dr. Ted Stankowich of @CSULBMammalLab for a wonderful chance to discuss my research! Very excited to be #PhDone 🐆🐀🦌🦧
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A fantastic thread on our new paper that came out earlier this week! Super proud of Rob for all his hard work on this as a @BristolPalaeo MSc student, and of course many thanks to co-authors @sheardcat and Tim for their contributions also! 🐒
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
🚨 PhD opportunity alert 🚨 Project available with @NeuroEndo_Ex to investigate the role of cannabinoids in circadian timekeeping and feeding ⏰️ at the @BristolUni @UoBrisPPN. Funding through GW4 Studentship 🧠🧑‍🔬 Closes 1st Nov! 🗓 Apply today: gw4biomed.ac.uk/cannabinoids… – at South West, England
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Checkout #PhdOpportunity with Lukasz Chrobok @BristolUni The project will look into the role of #Cannabinoids in circadian timekeeping ⏰
🚨 PhD opportunity alert 🚨 Project available with @NeuroEndo_Ex to investigate the role of cannabinoids in circadian timekeeping and feeding ⏰️ at the @BristolUni @UoBrisPPN. Funding through GW4 Studentship 🧠🧑‍🔬 Closes 1st Nov! 🗓 Apply today: gw4biomed.ac.uk/cannabinoids…
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
So v chuffed the 1st paper from my PhD is now out in @RSocPublishing #ProcB 👇 royalsocietypublishing.org/d… I had a lot of fun along the way with co-authors @milly_munro & @C_C_Ioannou. Special thanks to funders @NERCscience @GW4FreshCDT & @asab_tweets @BristolBioSci 🧵 1/12
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Ending on some butterfly inspired career advice! #ASABangor
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Thanks to @asab_tweets / @asab_conference for having me! Was a fun challenge fitting a thesis chapter into a 2min talk!
Colourful flashtalk by @NKHowell98 on patchy fur colouration as sociosexual signals ⚡️ @asab_conference #ASABangor
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If you’re at #ASABangor and you want to hear about communicative colours in mammals, come to my flash-talk! “Sociosexual signalling in mammals: the uses of fur colouration”, 4:20pm in the Main Arts Lecture Theatre 🐃🤎
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A great day of employability workshops yesterday (both in and outside of academia!), very excited for the first day of talks after an amazing plenary on behavioural endocrinology #ASABangor
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
We made it (albeit a bit soggy) to the gorgeous Bangor uni to represent @BristolBioSci at ASAB Spring! @asab_conference #ASABangor
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Many thanks to @BristolBioSci’s PGR Reps for putting together such a wonderful Postgraduate Symposium last week! Was great to tell the department about my research on sociosexual signals in mammal fur 🐒🐿️🦌
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
Buster and Bess were at London Zoo today showing off their detection skills which they will use working with @OfficialZSL conservationists in Thailand to rescue smuggled pangolins: ow.ly/AULc50N4ZC6 @ZSLconservation @DP_World @united4wildlife @CommunityCEPF
Not all heroes wear capes: some walk on all fours & have powerful noses! Crime-fighting canines, Buster & Bess, are preparing to join our team of experts protecting the #CriticallyEndangered #pangolin in Thailand: ow.ly/6fsi50N4Zb4 @DP_World @united4wildlife @CommunityCEPF
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Dr. Natasha Howell retweeted
New phylogenetic analysis of mammal species reveals correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan – gregarious species tend to live longer than solitary ones. Impressive work by Pingfen Zhu et al. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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