Evolutionary biologist and ornithologist. PhD in embryo and egg adaptions in brood parasites. Occasional artist. Personal account.
London, England
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Our marsh harrier chicks are getting big! And already got their first album cover photo down.
#ornithology #fieldwork #birds
Myself and several hundred other editors and production staff at Springer Nature are officially on strike as of today. We are grateful for the support we have had from academics around the world in our fight to be paid a fair wage.
Staff at Nature journals ready for strike this week over pay
Editors and production staff say final offer is insufficient given recent inflation rises and publisher’s profits bit.ly/3VVrtX3
Please sign our petition to help you editors! docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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We have a PhD studentship available! All about eggshells! Looking at their surface properties. Part of the NERC DTP, but a tethered studentship to Royal Holloway (so a little different to the normal London NERC DTP). #birds #ornithology Advert in link below:
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Congrats @Stefmcc2 on your 4th PhD paper out in @RSocPublishing RSOS. Investigating the eggshell surface properties of avian brood parasites & hosts. Link below #OpenAccess #ornithology #birds With @MarieRAttard @Gabriel_A_Jamie @T_Dixit123 @GroupBowen @honeyguiding @RHULBioSci
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Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?
ALT An ermine, with summer brown coat, stands upright at Katmai National Park & Preserve.
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Out in the sticks a Zebra Finch makes an unusual nest for its eggs. Bush recycling in the Murchison, WA.
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In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
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NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on.
Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials...
@ARIES_DTP @UKRI_News @NERCscience
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This is a Pharaoh Cuttlefish and it's able to perfectly mimic a hermit crab [video: buff.ly/33qTYjZ] [read more: buff.ly/2snD2ZF]
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Torpor is an incredible strategy that continues to blow my mind🤯. Animals in torpor allow their body temperature to drop, slowing their metabolism and saving energy. In this composite thermal image of a blue-throated mountain-gem: left- asleep, right- torpor. 1/5
I can't quite believe the PhD is finished! Thank you so much to all my colleagues and friends who've made it possible! Especially @sjportugal1979 for your guidance, support and friendship over the last 4 years!
A huge congratulations to @Stefmcc2 for passing your viva today with minor corrections. It’s been a pleasure supervising you, and thank you for everything you’ve done. Thanks also to examiners Dave Morritt and Naomi Langmore. #birds #ornithology
Such a great article about our new paper that came out today in Proc.B @royalsociety! Is embryo movement how brood parasites hatch as such buff little chicks?
Thanks @KatherineJWu for the great write up!
Some baby birds take “survival of the fittest” very literally, reports @KatherineJWu. They work out inside their eggs so they can kill their nestmates after they hatch. on.theatln.tc/oFqxxwq