The Adfeilion documentary is officially out, thanks to Georgia Collins for the filmography and preparing the footage, and our very own nylon twanger Scott New for final editing: youtu.be/SXhWVaBEiGc?...

A Bard's Tale - The Path to Bloodstock - Adfeilion - Full Documentary

YouTube video by Adfeilion Band

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Bit of a long document, but this House of Commons Education Committee report does a pretty good job of identifying why Higher Education in the UK is in dire financial straits, and why this is a bad thing for the UK as a whole (not just academia): committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Adfeilion's tour dates continue with Solskin Festival next weekend in the Peak District and our final gig with Albion (a completely folk metal night) in Bristol Exchange the week after.

Awesome to see our bird masturbation research feature on Mock the Week, now I just have to wait on a reptile, venom or evolution question to come up on Curious Cases so @daraobriain.bsky.social can get me on as a guest to disturb him, with science, once again!

Article for @theconversation.com on our new paper (with Chloe Heys, Matilda Brindle, and Tom Price) on the evolution of masturbation in birds, with a focus on the implications of this for the welfare of captive birds doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Birds masturbate, and that’s perfectly normal

Some bird keepers have tried to drug their animals to stop them engaging in solo sex.

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Our new paper just published today, and one that has been in the works for ~12 years now! Although the evolution of masturbation is a topic that immediately generates a slew of innuendos and puns, it's both an important and biologically interesting subject. 1/3 Paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

The Evolution of Masturbation in Birds

Masturbation has been sporadically documented across animal groups, yet the evolutionary origins and persistence of this sexual behaviour are largely unexplored. Through combining targeted surveys wi...

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Our new natural history note reporting evidence for interactions between these cute little geckos and buthid (dangerously venomous) scorpions in Morocco. doi.org/10.33256/hb1...

Our paper on the evolution of sociality in cat-like carnivores, has not only been fully published now but also got the cover! Although it appeared in early view a few months ago, the paper is available here doi.org/10.1111/jzo.... and represents Izzy Scully's Mres project from a few years ago.

Just after my own 9-year-old managed to join Adfeilion's Cardiff gig in Fuel on Saturday, an article on us for the local Swansea Edit magazine was released were the writer also brought her 12-year-old to our Swansea Arena gig: online.fliphtml5.com/anwtl/njcz/#...

The Swansea Edit Magazine (Issue 05)

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Check out our new paper on the role of stories in attitudes of people to snakes in rural Uganda, and how a narrative workshop can improve preventative behaviours without necessarily reducing fear of snakes: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Paper also available at www.academia.edu/166829751/A_...

Second single from our upcoming Adfeilion live album has just been released: Altar of the Oak, with the first part of the story included open.spotify.com/album/3pzUwi...

Altar of the Oak (Live)

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Check out our new paper on the impact of anthropogenic environments in a tropical rural area on the thermal ecology of banded mongooses. 1/2 www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18... Also available at www.academia.edu/165950037/An...

Adfeilion: Live at Swansea Arena is now available to watch at youtu.be/fj18CEXXN-Q?... What an experience to play this amazing venue, so happy to have it captured on video as well as in memory. If this floats your boat, check out our current tour schedule for this year in the comment below

Adfeilion - Full Performance (Live at the Arena) - Post-Folk Metal

YouTube video by Adfeilion Band

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After a really fun night in Newport last night, from next Saturday Adfeilion will be playing 4 gigs within 8 days across 4 cities in 3 constituent countries of the UK, including our first trip to Northern Ireland at all for some of us (myself included). Going to be a mad week! tinyurl.com/Adfeilion

Our new paper on the evolution of sociality in cat-like carnivores is out today in @jzoology.bsky.social. This resulted from Izzy Scully's Mres project investigating the factors that might facilitate sociality and its long-term consequences. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evolutionary correlates and consequences of sociality in feliform carnivorans

We take a phylogenetic comparative approach to investigate the evolutionary correlates of sociality in feliform (cat-like) carnivores. We find that sociality evolved eight times in this group of mamm....

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What a great few days. Our recent paper on snakebite prevention and cultural context in Uganda also got the cover (www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/18...), and on Saturday Adfeilion played at the Swansea Arena and also released the first single from our upcoming live album (open.spotify.com/track/10UsBW...)

At long last our first research publication from our work on snakebite prevention in rural Southwest Uganda is finally out! Difficult to squeeze as much in as we wanted as we had loads of info from this study (more papers to come to add to supplementary material here). www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/18...

With increasing UK herpetological interest in the concept of rewilding (a common term but one I personally dislike as its meanings are so varied that it's unhelpful at best), The British Herpetological Society have just released a position statement on translocations: www.thebhs.org/news/bhs-pos...

Adfeilion are bringing our unique blend of instrumental, atmospheric, Celtic post-folk metal to Swansea Arena. If you want to know what that sounds like check out our Spotify, then come join us. Nice to see the Arena advertising the event with one of our songs too www.facebook.com/share/r/182h...

Jamie Panton, our videographer for the Sanctuary music video has written up a nice blog piece on the experience of blending Welsh folklore, Celtic melodies, and breathtaking landscapes into a cinematic video: jamiepanton.co.uk/2026/01/07/s...

Shooting An Epic Music Video On A Budget - Jamie Panton

Living in Wales, we are spoilt for lush locations for videography. From the stunningly beautiful coastlines, to the stark mountains of the North, back down to the rolling hills of mid-Wales, we have got vibes. So when Adfeilion approached me with a vague storyline for their new music video I knew we needed to make the most of the local scenery for this one.

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Final post from Adfeilion to sum up our incredible year as 2025 comes to a close. Looking forward to 2026, with a live album release, a new studio album being written to record in March-April, and 23 confirmed gigs across Britain and Ireland. Long may this continue! www.facebook.com/share/v/1RjX...

Finally bitten the bullet and joined Bluesky after months of getting nothing from Twitter. I have tried to use an importer tool to find anyone on here who I followed on Twitter, but I'm sure it will have missed people so please feel free to follow if you are one of those missed.