RHUL Symposium

29 04 2015
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Today is the final day of RHUL Postgrad Symposium, and the Guest Speaker to close the event is Prof Rory Wilson, from Swansea’s SLAM lab. Should be good.





EGG FUNDING

14 04 2015

 

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Had some fantastic news today – a proposal I put in with Dr Mark Hauber for a Satellite Meeting on Eggs at the 2016 Annual Main Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology  has been funded! Lots more information to follow soon.

 

 

 





BBC EGGS

4 04 2015
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Interesting story by the BBC about weird bird eggs. The piece features our egg research on guillemots, snowy owls and cuckoos. You can read the piece here!





Pigeons in the Wall Street Journal

4 04 2015
 pigeon-wb PIGEONS!I recently chatted to a journalist about why pigeons are happy to venture underground at Frankfurt station in Germany. They wrote a really interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal, which can be read here!




Solar Eclipses and Animal Behaviour

24 03 2015
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Chatted to BBC Radio 4 about the effects that solar eclipses can have on animal behaviour – the clip can be listened to here!





Almetric article

24 03 2015
  altmetric AltmetricHave been chatting to the team over at Altmetric about the positive uses of the data that they provide – the article can be read here!




Spring is in the air in the lab

24 03 2015
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March has been a busy month getting animals set up for summer behavioural experiments. Have been busy imprinting ducks and quails onto me, and waiting for the Chinese painted quails to hatch. The Siamese Fighting Fish are getting amorous and building bubble nests, and the polka-dot cockroaches that were the size of my little finger nail are now the size of my thumb!





Outside JEB Article

20 03 2015
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My latest Outside JEB article is out. This one reports on a recent paper in PNAS about one-way airflow in iguanas, and can be read here!





Paper in PNAS

3 02 2015

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Our paper on cooperation in V formation flight has been published in PNAS and can be read here. Lots of media interest which is good. BBC as usual have done a great job – Read here

 

 





Animal Behaviour

1 02 2015

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Animal Behaviour Practicals kicked off this week with the students working with Siamese Fighting Fish. Most of the fish behaved as expected, a couple in particular being very aggressive (James Pond: Bubble 07), but also a couple that couldn’t be bothered with anything!