First international conference, done! 🤩 I was very proud to present my sparrow work at #ISBE2026 in Turin 🇮🇹 Five days of hearing about really cool research, meeting new (and old) friends, & of course, great food! Very excited to catch up with these (now) familiar faces at ISBE Taiwan in 2028! 🇹🇼

We refine & extend the Y-model heuristic (“mean invariance” hypothesis) to explain why resource limitation reveals tradeoffs + suggestions for what empiricists should measure (hint: it’s not average resource availability in a population, or solely variation in acquisition-allocation). Now in JEB

Influence of the resource acquisition–allocation Y-model’s parameters on the detection of phenotypic trade-offs

Abstract. Phenotypic trade-offs, predicted to occur due to resource limitation, are not commonly detected. For this, the Y-model provides a powerful heuris

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The latest issue of The Natterjack is out! 🐸📖 I'm really excited about this one, so do have a look! It’s packed with conference highlights, interviews, and some really cool observations from the field. 🦎 www.thebhs.org/publications...

Very far outside my comfort zone, but such a worthwhile couple of days at the AI for Science Summer School in Athens last week! It was really fun seeing all the different ways people are using AI across so many areas of science, and I've definitely come away with plenty of new ideas to think about.

What a night! 🧬✨ On Friday the Sepil Lab took over @morethanadodo.bsky.social Late Night to celebrate the completion of the museum's new displays! Huge thanks to the NHM for organising, and to @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social & @bi1iana.bsky.social for helping me put together such an amazing stand 🔬

Well done Maria who presented her MRes, on the fitness consequences of female extra-pair mating in sparrows, at @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Paper to follow later this year 🤞 #ornithology

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Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026

Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨ It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋

Body condition and acoustic noise modify female responses to uni and multimodal signals emitted by a male-mimicking robot frog #MateChoice #Frog doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Sperm can “age” independently of the male, when stored in male or female reproductive tracts. Our meta-analysis finds widespread evidence across animals (including abstinence in men). Important consequences for fertility, sexual selection, haploid selection! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026

Last talks of #ASABSpring2026, covering wasp host detection, fish mate choice, frog individual variation, mouse daytime activity, bird nest entrances, chimp tool use & sparrow polyandry! 🐝🐟🐸🐁🪺🐵🐦

4000 people visited the Oxford Natural History Museum for Super Science Saturday! @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🧪 From exploring sheddings to handling specimens, it was amazing to see so many children and their families excited about scales and locomotion 🐍 Future herpetologists in the making!