🎥📽️🎞️ The two recent EGI-seminars by Alex Bond and Hanna Kokko are both uploaded to the EGI YouTube-channel (@EGI Oxford)! We have quite a few excellent seminars on the channel now, so give it a go!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQ7...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=C15E...
Want to make your code better at running again in the future?
My talk next month will be filled with lots of tips about how to write sharable, reproducible R code and why it's good for science
Hope to see you there!
#rstats 🌏🧪👩💻
Daisy also present a poster on the work which inspired this - on her birthday no less! Preprint is in the works on the responses of great tit social networks in response to experimental sex segregation.
A woman standing behind a desk at the front of a lecture hall. The slide behind her reads how does the pattern of node removal, and way network compensates, affect network metrics? In real world animal social networks
A great privilege to give my first conference talk at #NetSciX2026 in Auckland on some ongoing work with Adelaide (Daisy) Abraham on social compensation strategies when individuals are removed from real-world animal social networks.
View out a window of a path through green woodland with a building then a hill covered in vegetation of Auckland
Beautiful morning for the start of NetSciX 2026 in Auckland! Looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow and meeting fellow network scientists #netsciX2026
@netscisociety.bsky.social
Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)
We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Reposting partly for the science partly for the meerkat photos
Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.
⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️
📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful, Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An excellent afternoon of talks linked to islands and adaptation. See the attached flier for the schedule. Everyone is welcome…and it’s free …. but please sign up
Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An afternoon of excellent talks linked to islands and adaptation. See attached flier for the schedule and the link to sign up. Everyone is welcome.
Come and work with us this spring!
All the best Alex! Been an absolute pleasure ☺️
PhD student @ghtrabin.bsky.social with his great poster at ASAB, all about avian visual fields! Along with @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @gayatrikumar.bsky.social, a great group of first year postgrads doing research in bird flight and vision. Give them a follow!
Very excited to be giving a talk at #BES2025 where I’ll be presenting my Masters research that I carried out @biology.ox.ac.uk supervised by @sheldonbirds.bsky.social and @rona-learmonth.bsky.social 🐛🌡️
screenshot of my post
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
This week's seminar - last of this term - is our annual Christmas Seminar. We're welcoming Prof Tim Birkhead back to where he studied as a DPhil student ~50 years ago (can you can spot him in this 1978 photo?) Tim will be talking about "Sperm to Egg: Making a Biologist" - 3pm LT1 in the LaMB
Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Amazing work from Daniel Field on origin of modern birds and diversity in today’s EGI seminar
Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵
tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy
Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)
ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar
(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value
@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
We did a thing. 😬
Interested in fighting, flies, and evolution? I've got a project at Durham investigating the ecology, evolution, and genetics of aggression in fruit flies (Drosophila): iapetus.ac.uk/studentships.... All questions welcome - just shoot me a message or email!
Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...
Reminder of today’s seminar at 1530 - actually will be in Lecture Theatre 1 - come along!!
Reminder of today’s @egioxford.bsky.social seminar from @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social in @biology.ox.ac.uk - will actually be in Lecture Theatre 1
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
