I am a PhD student in the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research within the Department of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading, with external supervision from the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London, and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, who have provided the long-term Fody monitoring dataset.
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Females of the Species
Friday evening I was at the Natural History Museum on a pop-up science station, being a scientist in public. Stunning in the afternoon sunshine My name in print I’m not honestly sure about the write-up there, considering that what I was actually doing was mostly talking about varied mating systems and how some female birds …
Science outreach
Tomorrow I am doing some science outreach at the Natural History Museum as part of their series of Lates events; this one is called Females of the Species and I will be on a pop-up Science Station talking about avian mating systems, diversity, and generally how awesome female birds are. This is the first time …
Mauritius Fody research
I was recently asked to provide some text for the basis of ZSL’s website about the Mauritius Fody, and as a part of this I had to provide a tagline- a snippet of text about the species that might stick with people. I suggested “The most interesting bird you’ve never heard of”- which is true. …
