The Donnington Bridge Yellow-browed Warbler: a great bird for a B-road! It’s stayed around for the start of term here and it showed better than these photos suggest, sometimes associating with Goldcrests on low branches.

Upper Fisher Row: with residents like this, it certainly lives up to its name… One of the Grey Herons along Oxford’s semi-frozen canal earlier this week #urbanbirds

Nice to see the short-staying Avocet, the long-staying Siberian Chiffchaff (with with five or six Common Chiffchaffs), and my first Oystercatcher of the year in Oxford at a quite spring-like Port Meadow earlier this week.

I’m delighted to be back at the Big Bang Competition: this time as a VIP judge! I’m looking forward to seeing the fascinating projects that young people have done! There's still time to enter the #bigbangcompetition (open to 11-19 year olds & deadline 30th March). The Big Bang

Meet our VIP judges for The #BigBangCompetition! George Rabin won UK Young Scientist of the Year 2017 with a project investigating garden birds’ responses to coloured feeders. Enter The Competition and learn from real scientists and engineers: bit.ly/3ws2qxR

Wow your students with STEM at The #BigBangFair! Join us on 21 to 23 June at the NEC in Birmingham, and get stuck in with hands-on activities - from reinventing Wallace and Gromit's 'Techno-Trousers' to live physics demonstrations. Book free tickets: bit.ly/3COBQ1R

Extra tickets released for schools at The Big Bang Fair! Join us at the NEC on 21 to 23 June. Don't miss your chance to see workshops, shows and careers panels and ignite your students' passion for science, technology and engineering. Get free tickets: bit.ly/3COBQ1R

Against the clear advice of his own experts, global tides of industrial opportunity and the overwhelming evidence of the planetary crisis, Rishi Sunak opts to play to a narrow climate-sceptic gallery. Predictable, short-sighted, counterproductive. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Does personality matter for breeding Kittiwakes? My first news article with v reporting on some fascinating research by Fionnuala McCully & SEGUL is out now: oxsci.org/personality-ma…

My v Features article exploring the remarkable ways African Lungfish survive the summer heat is now published! Ideal reading in the current November rain - read on for an unusual comparison between a lungfish and a wearied hotel patron… oxsci.org/a_fish_out_of_…

Bird flu reaches the Antarctic region - my article with v, following the British Antarctic Survey 🐧 announcement last month about this latest concerning spread of HPAI oxsci.org/bird_flu_reach…

My lack of Waxwings this winter was remedied yesterday by two in North Oxford. Great to see these delightful birds (or perhaps the gaggle of birders…) capturing the attention of passers-by too!

We're recruiting! We are looking for both birdy & more general ecology field assistants to come and work in Wytham Woods for 9-12 weeks this spring (see details below). Closing date for applications 9th Feb. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Chinstrap Penguins use seconds-long microsleeps to resolve the trade-off between vigilance and rest: my latest article in v oxsci.org/forty-thousand…

iEcology reveals hermit crabs’ plastic homes – my latest article in v oxsci.org/social-media-r…

“Like a moth to a flame” - why do insects gather around lights? 💡 My latest article in v, reporting on a new explanation: oxsci.org/trapped-not-at…

A great few days at #ECBB2024 last week: immensely enjoyable to share my master’s research and meet people doing such a range of cool and stimulating research! Thank you @ecbb2024 for a really positive conference and ASAB for their generous support with an attendance grant.

Welcome to our fantastic Intelligent Earth UK Research and Innovation Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment cohort at University of Oxford! Two weeks of training in software engineering and environmental data analysis completed, on to Responsible AI for the Environment next week!

New Paper- Using UAVs to estimate body volume at scale for ecological monitoring! Super excited to share that my Master's research with Katrina Davis and first ever paper has been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! 🦭 doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Nocturnal migration isn't as lonely as it sounds! >18000hrs of recordings from >370nights at 26sites reveals interspecific social interactions between migrating birds 🐦 Out now in Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… led by Benjamin Van Doren 🐦