Postdoc with @multipleye_lab @mfnberlin 🇩🇪 looking at weird animal eyes 🕷️👀 PhD was @BristolBioSci 🇬🇧 researching electroreception in insects 🐛🦋🪲⚡
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24 Jul 2024
Out today in @RSocPublishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 royalsocietypublishing.org/d… 🧵👇
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12 Mar 2025
Our paper with @BristolBioSci shows how to measure the charge on small objects found in environmental fieldwork - or those released from acoustic levitation in the lab - using a new design of Faraday cup which encloses the sensitive electronics.
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10 Jan 2025
My first ever paper! So excited that this is finally out 🐟
10 Jan 2025
Our lab's first paper out in 2025!
Led by the brilliant @ella_ackroyd in collaboration with @rjpheathcote
Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts
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#openaccess #fishsci
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8 Jan 2025
Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.
Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…
Intro video: youtube.com/watch?v=9q8lyUpn…
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18 Dec 2024
Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution 💡🐠
My first publication from my @TheFSBI PhD at @BristolBioSci is out today in @GlobalChangeBio! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
w/ @Dwarf_Mongoose, @DrSteveSimpson, @jules_schligler, @SuzanneCMills, @r_beldade
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10 Dec 2024
It's truly such an honour to be awarded the prize for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Life Sciences @BristolUni for 2024. Thank you so much to my supervisor Daniel, his lab group, and my cohort of friends who helped me along the way! (and my examiners!)
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29 Oct 2024
I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenotypes from their gene sequences academic.oup.com/gigascience…...
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14 Oct 2024
This must be a good omen for the start of fieldwork right? The southern lights, aurora australis, along the great ocean road on our first night here
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12 Oct 2024
Just arrived in the field after the best conference I've ever been to. Thank you so much everyone who came to my talk - so many exciting ideas have spawned from the conversations! I was especially honoured to have had a few people write haikus about my work! #ISBE2024 @ISBE2024
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3 Oct 2024
A really beautifully illustrated and well-written article on electric ecology, including some of my recent work. So nice!
30 Sep 2024
While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. For a honeybee, static electricity is a certain kind of gravity. @laxmevy reports:
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25 Sep 2024
It was a pleasure chatting to @kensycoop for @ManyMindsPod about all things electric ecology. Give it a listen, I highly recommend their other episodes too!
25 Sep 2024
New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @SamJakeEngland about electroreception and "electric ecology."
Our world is buzzing with electricity—it forms a key part of the sensoria and ecologies of many animals. Scientists are starting to take note.
Listen: disi.org/electric-ecology/
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19 Sep 2024
Super chuffed to have my first journal cover with my photo of a peacock butterfly!🦋You can read more about these beautiful creatures and how their static electricity attracts pollen in the associated study in @RSocPublishing Interface: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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17 Sep 2024
We have a new paper out today in @CurrentBiology ! 🐬 Our research shows that variation in acoustic communication range, driven by habitat structure, predicts dolphin alliance group sizes!➡️sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @ResearchDolphin @NatGeoExplorers
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13 Sep 2024
Please retweet!
We are recruiting a PhD student to work on Tasmanian Bumblebees @JK_Cappadonna
The successful applicant will research the impacts that introduced BBs are having on agricultural and native ecosystems in Tasmania.
utas.edu.au/research/degrees…
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3 Sep 2024
So thankful to have been invited to speak at this wonderful conference. It's beautiful here!
3 Sep 2024
Next talk today at our @NCCRbioinspired Annual Center Conference is from @SamJakeEngland (@mfnberlin) on the #ecology of #electricity focusing on (lots of) insects. #evolution #research
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29 Aug 2024
Messy eater - a Stejneger's snail sucker snake (Sibon longifrenis) gets egg on its face whilst enjoying its favourite snack, the spawn of the red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas). Photographed in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica 🐍🇨🇷
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20 Aug 2024
Really proud to have played a small part in this absolute beaut of a study 🦋👀
20 Aug 2024
Bear witness! So very excited (yes, okay, I mean 'profoundly relieved') to finally send the magnum opus of my #PhD research into the world. The preprint of our big community-level study of visual system convergence in tropical rainforests is here! 1/n😀biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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19 Aug 2024
Orb weaver spiders manipulate the flashing signals of captured #fireflies to trick others into their webs, researchers suggest.
Read more in @CurrentBiology:
cell.com/current-biology/ful…
#HubeiUniversity Shichang Zhang, Daiqin Li
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28 Jul 2024
Some really nice coverage of our most recent paper in @ScienceMagazine
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24 Jul 2024
Out today in @RSocPublishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 royalsocietypublishing.org/d… 🧵👇
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24 Jul 2024
And of course @BenitoExplains for frantically explaining how linear modelling works in the final 3 months of my PhD 📈
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