Kamya Patel
@kamyabio.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. Special interests include animal behaviour and conservation.
Last night, I had the absolute privelage of teaching the Awaruku Pippins about our native insects 🦋🐝🐜 Thank you to Emma McGuigan for making this possible and thank you to the fantastic Pippins for bringing more energy than I’ve ever seen in my life. #sciencecommunication #research #biology
⭐The ASSAB 2026 conference registrations are now open⭐ Early bird registrations are open until 15 May 2026 Click here to register: www.assab.org/assab-2026 We are also open for abstract submissions! 23-25 June, Adelaide, South Australia Flinders University
Check out my first ever paper! @kecain.bsky.social @ecostanley.bsky.social and @jgmussoi.bsky.social summarised our knowledge on sleep disturbance in birds
Journal of Avian Biology@avianbiology.bsky.social · 6mo agoAward issue: @kamyabio.bsky.social and colleagues review how urban noise, lights, and stress can disrupt birds’ sleep. Highlighting our fragmented knowledge about sleep disturbance in birds and calling for more studies on this topic ➡️ vist.ly/4qfzm #ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
🚨SAVE THE DATE ASSAB 2026🚨 The ASSAB 2026 conference will be held in Adelaide in 2026! Keep an eye out on the ASSAB website and social media for more information! We will see you there!
Back from the holidays with a splash, the latest episode of Fieldnotes is out. We think you'll find this episode all about seabirds is well worth the wait. Ariel-Micaiah Heswall shed light on why our city lights make rough nights for seabirds. Listen now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3k85...
Absolutely loving the first year PhD Lightening talks at our annual Dept. research & teaching celebration. @kamyabio.bsky.social tells us about her project on sleep disturbance in birds. 🧪🌏🐦 #SBS @aucklanduni.bsky.social
Want to learn about the iconic Tuatara?🦎 Listen to this episode of fieldnotes where we have Cam Hoffbeck, PhD student at the University of Auckland talk about the tuatara gut microbiome, the secrets of microbiomes in space and what the tuatara sound like: open.spotify.com/episode/24xr...
Olfactory and visual acuity differences between seabirds may make some families more susceptible to plastic ingestion than others, hypothesises @kamyabio.bsky.social. Shags were most likely to have ingested microplastics. #AOC2023
Last weekend, I saw a kiwi in the wild for the first time!! Crazy considering 1) I am a kiwi 2) I am an #ecologist 3) I STUDY BIRDS I am truly grateful for how far kiwi conservation has come, but I'm wondering how many kiwis (people) go their whole lives without ever seeing a kiwi (bird).
Absolutely terrifying considering the extent of mice invasion 🫣
Joanna Bagniewska@joannabagniewska.com · 3y agoFirst evidence of mouse predation killing adult great albatrosses. - Incredibly sad news for a critically endangered bird - Invasive species are a top conservation concern, esp. on islands Still, I can't help but be impressed by the chutzpah of the mice. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🦊🪶
What an absolutely incredible achievement! So stoked!!! Well done!!!!
Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi@jgmussoi.bsky.social · 3y agoWe did it!!! @kecain.bsky.social 🐦💤 Our project has been funded by the Marsden Fund. Who knew a random phone call chatting about bird sleep would turn into a PhD, and now a Marsden awarded project?!? www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...
