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. I also have external supervision from the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London, the Natural History Museum, and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, who have provided the long-term Fody monitoring dataset.
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Social networks
I’m attending the BOU conference on Avian Reproduction this week. They accepted my abstract to present a talk and it should have been my first big in-person conference presenting fody analyses, but they made it online on Zoom because of Covid. So my talk about the impacts of social networks on fody breeding success is …
Simply the Best
No reason every post here has to be an apology for not posting PhD related content, right? This has nothing at all to do with fodies, although I do have 2 1/2 Lego fodies with more on the way. This post is about Schitt’s Creek and Lego, and about how much I love Schitt’s Creek …
Hunting fodies (on the internet)
While I was researching my article on the Wakashio last autumn, I spent an inspiring couple of hours chatting to Carl Jones about the background of Ile aux Aigrettes, and fodies in general. In the background of our Zoom call I could see Carl’s amazing room, which is FULL of books, prints, and wildlife memorabilia …