Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Congratulations to postgrads from the lab who graduated this month, Hana Merchant, Jack Thirkell, Matthew Lawrence and Ellie Lucas.

Congrats MSc student Ellie Lucas on your getting your paper accepted in The Science of Nature. Our paper is all about the visual fields of some tropical seabird species. More to follow.

A fun couple of days measuring the visual fields of Helmeted Guineafowls at Reaseheath, as part of Alex Lamonds MSc. And we met a friendly tapir too.

Congrats first author and former PhD student, Hana Merchant, on getting another PhD paper accepted. This one is in Genome Biology and Evolution, and it’s all about…. genomes and genes in Common Mole Rat.

Thrilled to lead the team that has led to Biological Sciences being awarded its first Athena Swan Silver Award.

Our paper all about eggshell thickness is now out in Ibis. Congrats first author Marie. You can read it here!

Paper out in Scientific Reports.

Congratulations Hana Merchant on getting your ‘covid chapter’ out. Titled “No evidence for a signal in mammalian basal metabolic rate associated with a fossorial lifestyle”. You can read it here!

Congratulations Rosa Gleave on your paper out in People and Nature. We show that local ecological knowledge can identify potential threats, new breeding sites & landscape changes correlated with the presence or absence of the threatened Blue-crowned Laughingthrush.

Thank you to Whitgift School for permitting us to measure the visual fields of their lovely Peacocks.

Enjoying a visit to Vienna, to meet with people from the Konrad Lorenz Institute, and also meet the amazing wild Black-bellied Hamsters there.