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28 Mar 2024
On Monday I exited my #phd viva with only typos (typos! *shakes fist*) to correct. 'Relief' doesn't cover it!
HUGE thanks to examiners @IanRHartley @jon_seabirds, supervisor @SamCPatrick and friends and family for everything in the last 4 1/2 years.
#phdone @SEG_UL @ACCE_DTP
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26 Apr 2024
Always a pleasure to present at @asab_org, especially this time given its likely to be the last presentation of my #phd!
Last talk of #ASABSpring2024 by @FR_McCully on coordinated parental care, where costs of parental care are more evenly distributed. She looked at how black-legged kittwakes coordinated care in the short- and long-term at “The Arctic’s creepiest soviet ghost town.”
ALT Fionnuala McCully standing by a slide with a concrete building reading “greetings from pyramiden! The Arctic’s creepiest soviet ghost town” including a photo of a bust of lenin
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🚨Our deadline for applications is this coming Monday, 8th January!🚨
📣 ACCE DTP funded projects for October 2024 entry are now open for applications! Head to our How to Apply webpages for more information and how to apply - closing date for all applications is 8th January 2024. Please RT!📣accedtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
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4 Jan 2024
Thanks so much to @r_heisman from @hakaimagazine for featuring our work on personality, breeding success and re-pairing in kittiwakes in this recent article!
hakaimagazine.com/news/these…
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Fionnuala McCully retweeted
3 Nov 2023
*PhD Pacific & Atlantic Arctic Seabirds* Come and join us @SEG_UL @LivUni to study climate change, pace-of-life and foraging in kittiwakes with @ArcticEcology @OlliePadget Sebastien Descamps Jonathan Potts as part of @NERCscience @ACCE_DTP #phd #seabird
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1 Nov 2023
Thrilled that work by @pauledwardrose and myself is on the cover of the latest issue of Biological Sciences Review. The article was a joy to write!
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📣 ACCE DTP funded projects for October 2024 entry are now open for applications! Head to our How to Apply webpages for more information and how to apply - closing date for all applications is 8th January 2024. Please RT!📣accedtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/
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25 Oct 2023
Thanks so much for your interest in our work!
25 Oct 2023
Does personality matter for breeding Kittiwakes? My first news article with @oxsci reporting on some fascinating research by @FR_McCully & @SEG_UL is out now: oxsci.org/personality-matter…
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19 Oct 2023
Once again, a great time was had writing for the @ConversationUK this time on our kittiwake personality and re-pairing paper!
Read it here 👉 theconversation.com/compatib…
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10 Oct 2023
So @tash_gillies is the scientist I want to be when I grow up- check out her fab new paper below!
10 Oct 2023
Excited to see our new paper, led by myself and @luciamartinaml, published in @PNASNews! We look at movement trajectories of wandering #albatross and find they orient towards to v low frequency 'infrasound' 1/n
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Fionnuala McCully retweeted
10 Oct 2023
It took 6yrs but out today @PNAS 1st evidence infrasound is a reliable cue for movment decisions tinyurl.com/53betb2n Read our persepctive on how & why here tinyurl.com/4c4h4ca5 & how infrasound might be heared here tinyurl.com/42uws2ae. Huge thanks to @HFSP for funding
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5 Oct 2023
1/4 I am not done yet but…I’m prepared to call it…
🚨My FAVOURITE #PhD chapter is out NOW in Ethology! 🚨
Seabird pairs with similar personalities ➡️ are better parents ➡️ decreasing their re-pairing risk
#OpenAccess 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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5 Oct 2023
3/4 Kittiwakes mated according to personality at one colony but not the other 🤔
In both colonies, similar partners had better breeding success. Chick survival made re-pairing less likely ➡️
An INDIRECT effect of personality on re-pairing in a long-lived, monogamous bird!
ALT A line graph showing the relationship between the probability of breeding failure and the similarity of personalities with pairs. The line from the model slopes down from the left to the right of the graph. There are dark points representing breeding attempts which demonstrate success or failure. Grey shading represents the confidence intervals. As the similarity between pairs decreases, there are more points associated with failure than when similarity is high.
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5 Oct 2023
4/4 Similar pairs may find it easier to cooperate during #parentalcare.
But #matechoice is complicated and is certainly influenced by more than just #personality…
Not all that different from humans, in my opinion!
Read 📚 or watch 👀 a summary here👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/10…
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22 Sep 2023
It's #PostdocAppreciationWeek! #NPAW2023 #LovePostdocs
My #PhD would've been impossible without help from a great bunch of talented, caring and patient(!) postdocs... especially (but not limited to) @tash_gillies @ThorleyJack @Steph_MHarris @Ruth_EDunn @O_Hicks1 and Jamie Darby
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22 Sep 2023
Thank you all for your excellent (mainly R related and emotional) support!
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Here's @FreddieMck121 talking about individual plasticity in kittiwakes- his contribution to the Symposium on 'Habitat as an extended phenotype' at #Behaviour2023!
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2 Aug 2023
Jack @insectinthecity is looking for an ACCE placement! Funding provided by @ACCE_DTP so it's a win-win situation for hosts and students!
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