Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

I have 2-3 upcoming PhD projects that will be available shortly, through the NERC London DTP. More details to follow! Any prospective students do get in touch (contact details below). Announcements will be made via the NERC London DTP Twitter and Website, and via my Twitter also (click the bold to go to the relevant websites).

Excited to be joining the Editorial Board of Functional Ecology in the new year, as an Associate Editor. More information about Functional Ecology can be found here, and their twitter feed is here!

Pleased to be presenting at the ASAB Winter Meeting on “Individuals in Groups”, to be held at ZSL. I’m talking about pigeons, and will be on the Thursday. More details can be found here!

Our paper has just come out in The Journal of Experimental Biology! The paper, “Nesting Behaviour Influences Species-specific Across Avian Eggshells” was also featured in the News and Views section, Inside JEB (you can read the article by clicking the link)!

Our paper has been published in The Journal of Experimental Biology. This paper looks at many different species, and how eggs are adapted to their immediate nest environment. You can read the paper here!

My latest Outside JEB article is out. This one reports on a recent Current Biology paper about octopus arms. You can read the article, titled “Octopuses don’t get their arms in a twist!, here.

Had a fantastic time at Biologging 5. Thanks to those that organised it! Really enjoyed the two talks I gave, and a big thank you to Dr Emily Shephard and Dr Olivier Duriez for inviting me to talk in their Flight Symposium. Look forward to finishing the accompanying paper. 

Our cuckoo paper has been published in Journal of Zoology. We got the front cover too! The excellent photo showing the slightly larger cuckoo egg hatching first is courtesy of co-author Dr Tomas Grim. You can read the paper here!