Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Congrats former MSc student Ellie Lucas on getting your paper accepted in Journal of Ornithology. We suggest that the visual fields of birds are repeatable at the individual and species level.

Congratulations first author Carla du Toit on getting our paper accepted in Biology Letters. Titled “Tactile bill-tip organs in seabirds suggests conservation of a deep avian symplesiomorphy”. Thanks to co-authors Daniel Field, Alex Bond and Susan Cunningham. More to follow.

New paper accepted in Biology Letters, called “Highly virulent avian brood-parasitic species show elevated embryonic metabolic rates at specific incubation stages compared to less virulent and
non-parasitic species”. Huge team effort and very grateful to all co-authors. More to follow.

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!