Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Our new paper is out in The Journal of Experimental Biology, all about metabolic acclimation to captivity in mole rats (photo by D Kleynhans). You can read it here. Males and females respond differently to captivity!

Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Congratulations first author Caroline Brighton. You can read the paper here!

Big thanks to postgrad Luca for hosting a lab group social at his. Amazing food and hospitality.

We have some new arrivals coming this spring, as part of Sam Thompson’s PhD. Sam will be working with a variety of duck species, and we visited a duck breeding specialist.

Pleased our paper titled “Metabolic acclimation to captivity in highveld mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae) is driven by sex-specific body mass increases” has been accepted in The Journal of Experimental Biology. Much gratitude to all co-authors and collaborators.

Congratulations first author Kyu-Min Huh on getting your first paper from your thesis accepted in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Our paper is all about “Natural take-off flight performance is repeatable and scalable in mixed flock tit species”.

Congratulations first author Caroline Brighton on getting our paper accepted, titled “Bio-informed blade patterns for mitigating bird collisions with wind turbines.”, with Graham Taylor.

Congrats Cecylia Watrobska on getting our paper accepted in Journal of Experimental Biology, titled: No detectable evidence for metabolic costs of long-term memory formation in honeybees, despite increased energy intake.

Congratulations Kyu Min on passing your viva with minor corrections, and thank you Profs Emily Shepard and Adrian Thomas for acting as examiners.