Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

We’ve had a paper accepted in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (PBZ), focusing on trends in metabolism between birds and mammals. More to follow.

Having thought for a while about how scientific study focuses on those species which are struggling, I decided to write a short Opinion Piece for The Conversation – the article can be read here:

https://theconversation.com/how-a-bias-towards-the-weird-and-wonderful-skews-our-perception-of-animal-biology-53701

Due to recent ERC grant success within the theme, we have a 5 year , full time, Teaching Fellow position available – please see the link for more details:

https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0216-071

Our egg paper is out in Ecology and Evolution – read here! 

Our paper on Secretary Birds is out in Current Biology, with the front cover showing Madeleine going for a double air-kick. Lots of fun press stories, a couple of which can be read here from the BBC and Ed Yong. The paper is here.

Looking forward to presenting at the SEB Brighton 2016 this year in the symposium “The role of individual variation in the behaviour of animal groups”, organised by Shaun Killen and Stefano Marras.