Congrats first author Caroline Brighton; our new paper is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. All about bird collisions with anthropogenic objects. You can read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Not the best photos, but very happy to see the Dotterels today in Cambridgeshire. First proper views! (With @smthmpsn.bsky.social)

🧵 1/6 Our new paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology! We've been studying the curious dancing flight of male mayflies and why they do it. Spoiler: it's not just to impress females. 🪲⬇️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Six months in and the PhD in Pigeons is going well! Excited for what the next few years have in store. Very grateful that the @britornitholclub.bsky.social are both part-funding my research and helping to give it a platform. Find out what I’ve been up to in my latest blog post on their website!

British Ornithologist's Club@britornitholclub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read our exciting new blog post by our PhD CASE student Sam Thompson on 'Predicting bird collision risks through visual field analysis, obstacle avoidance and flock behaviour' to hear about Sam's research stories at the University of Oxford so far. boc-online.org/predicting-b...

First publication! 🥳 Very excited that my Master’s research project from @royalholloway.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social this week. Big thank you to @sjportugal.bsky.social for all the support from start to finish. Please don’t come for me Britney…

Steve Portugal@sjportugal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.

Nice to welcome my new DPhil students with an evening at St Hugh’s College. Welcome Gayatri Kumar, @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @ghtrabin.bsky.social. The White Stork was not part of the formal evening, but I was pleased to see it and grab a photo earlier in the week.

My first go at a pigeon release. Just 10 mins and they’ll be back home. I like to tell myself they won’t take off unless I give them a verbal instruction. The jury’s still out on whether or not that’s true… Thanks @ghtrabin.bsky.social for showing me the ropes!

Welcome @smthmpsn.bsky.social, both to BlueSky and to starting your PhD at Oxford! Sam will be studying how birds in flocks respond to objects in their flight paths.