Associate Lecturer - Psychology and Neuroscience @Univofstandrews also researching blue tit nest-building behaviours
St Andrews, Scotland
Joined August 2015
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Over the moon that my first, first-author, paper has been published in @BehavEcol. Click the link below to read all about zebra finches, nest building and temperature.
doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa0…
@cog_wild @SchoolofBiology @univofstandrews
#nestbuilding #ornithology #climatechange
Life update: I no longer work at University of St Andrews. Today was my last day (4 years PhD, nearly 4 years Associate Lecturer). In a week I’ll be starting my new job as a Senior Information Analyst at Public Health Scotland and I cannot wait!
Always graceful.
Always grateful.
Always remembered.
RIP Queen Elizabeth II.
You’re already missed #QueenElizabeth
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My year with @MSc_AB_St_A has gone in so quickly! I recently had the pleasure of sharing some of my final results at the @SchoolofBiology poster session 🐧 Thanks @scedwards19 and @mikemwebster for being awesome supervisors and @EdinburghZoo for supporting behavioural research!
What conferences are all about… yes the science is great but nothing beats the good food and drinks at the end of the day @libby_chaps @bella_belvedere #HNB2022
Glasgow blue tits breeding time does not differ between rural and urban areas, but urban areas produce fewer fledglings. Great talk by @ClaireBranston #ornithology #hnb2022
Probably shouldn’t have mentioned birds… Hiccup now wants to come! @HNBirds2022 #HNB2022
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A lovely surprise today: ringing a clutch of coal tit chicks. This is our 2nd clutch since we started in 2016 (last clutch was 2021). Does anyone else get coal tits in their blue/great tit boxes?
@Phenoweb_Scot @ClaireBranston @MadingleyBirds @WythamTits @BagleyNestboxes
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Well, here's a publicly available document: our Principal opted out of USS in May 2019 and got a salary supplement instead. Sure that has no relevance whatsoever to her "My hands are tied, I can't possibly do anything" stance. #NotTodayUUK #OneOfUsAllOfUs #EverToResist @USSbriefs
ALT Table showing "Emoluments of the Principal" Year ending July 2019 shows pension contributions to USS of £26k, and additional payment in lieu of pension contributions of £8k (salary £260k, non-taxable benefits £6k, payments to third parties £1k). Year ending July 2020 shows pension contributions to USS of nil, and additional payment in lieu of pension contributions of £32k. Explanatory text states that the Principal opted out of USS in May 2019. (salary £256k, non-taxable benefits £7k, payments to third parties £1k).
Power cut in Tayport thanks to #StormArwen. Board games by candle light it is 😍 @a_pirate_ritual
Want to research nest building in birds w/ an amazing team (if I don’t mind saying so myself 😃)? PhD position opening with @cog_wild Prof Susan Healy and the wonderful blue tits @StA_Nestboxes
findaphd.com/phds/project/ea…
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Fully funded EASTBIO PhD available to investigate the mechanisms of photoreception in birds in relation to physiology, behaviour and welfare @roslininstitute @bsneuroendo #BBSRC Please share 🧬🔬 ⚡️🐓🐣🐤ed.ac.uk/roslin/work-study/o…
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Applications open for a PhD position with @ManonSchweinfu1 and I to study cooperative predator inspection. findaphd.com/phds/project/ea…
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Today at 1.00pm two vans with four ride on grass cutters from @TIITraffic cut down approx 400 sq meters of wild meadow at Nine Mile Stone Ashbourne, not one inch of it posed a road safety issue. Pure environmental vandalism. PLEASE RETWEET. @BioDataCentre #Ashbourne #Meath
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So when ICU is full, 1 patient with severe covid19 requiring invasive ventilation (which up till now has been about 60% of the 37500 ppl admitted to England, Wales & NI) cancels 10-20 heart/major cancer surgeries.
We need to clearly communicate this
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I was featured in a video to talk about my research @EdinburghZoo for the Edinburgh International Science Festival last month, check it out! youtu.be/TYCz6YZKWr0
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Please share widely! Looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology & evolutionary biology check out this great community run resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets… #ecoevojobs
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Someone, somewhere on earth released a balloon - for a few seconds of fleeting happiness - a balloon which then travels, perhaps for years - potentially for thousands of kilometres - on ocean currents to eventually end the journey of an albatross that can live seven decades.
Dead Black-browed Albatross with ribbon coming out if its mouth - probably indicating death from ingesting a balloon. New paper suggests 3.4–17.5% of nearshore mortalities in S Hemisphere albatrosses are caused by plastic ingestion conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
