Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

Our paper is out, and congrats Hana! You can read it here!

Congratulations Hana for getting your first PhD paper accepted in Ecology and Evolution, and thanks to all our collaborators. All about geographic variation in morphology in mole rats; New insights into morphological adaptation in common mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) along an aridity gradient. More to follow.

Huge congratulations to PhD Cecylia who submitted her thesis this week!

Very excited that from September I shall be leaving Royal Holloway University of London and heading to the University of Oxford and St Hugh’s College, to be an Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour.

Congratulations Hana Merchant who passed her viva with Minors! Thanks to examiners Mike Scantlebury and Rudy Riesch.

Congratulations Rosa Gleave, whose had her paper accepted in People and Nature. In the paper, we establish whether local ecological knowledge can establish conservation baselines for the critically endagered Blue-crowned Laughtingthursh. More to follow.

We’ve been busy in France measuring the visual fields of various Galliformes! This is the project of MSc student Alex, in collaboration with Simon Potier and bird breeding specialists.

Excited to see the publication of “Eclipse & Revelation”, edited by Henrike Lange and the late Tom McLeish, to which I contributed a chapter on “Animal Behaviour and Eclipse”.

Out now in the BBC Wildlife Magazine is my article on my trip to Mission Beach to see Cassowaries!

Massive Congratulations to PhD student Hana Merchant for submitting their thesis!! It’s been an enjoyable and productive 4 years, full of mole rats, fieldwork in South Africa, and happy times.