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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Talking science
I’m doing some more science outreach tomorrow, at the Earley Environmental Group, which is partly run by a friend of mine. Pitching the talk has been interesting, as they have a wide range of scientific literacy in the members, but I’ve ended up with a ramble through Mauritius and it’s wildlife, and more detail about …
Lost for words
In early November I was lucky enough to spend 12 days in Mauritius. I’m not sure I’m eloquent enough to explain how much I loved it there, or the impact it had on me, but I’ll have a go. I spent nine of the days on Ile Aux Aigrettes, a tiny islet off Mauritius where …
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 …
