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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Thinking like a scientist
Being a scientist, or even working towards being a scientist, changes the way you think. It does for me, anyway. For example, I’m currently reading (and loving) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. My favourite type of book- long meaty fantasy that starts with a map, female characters who DO things, lots …
More Fody talk
Yesterday I did a talk for the Science in Reading group; a bit last-minute as their planned speaker pulled out on Monday, so there was a panicked tweet sent out asking for any female speakers available on Wednesday. Initially I didn’t think I could because I’d need a babysitter; but I managed to make it …
On My SoapBox
On Saturday we all headed to London for my stint at SoapBox Science. It was the perfect day for it- sunny and bright but not too hot. We got to Observation Point at around 1:15 and I checked in with the team and got my station set up; I was on first and it was …
