Herpetologist and natural historian at heart, but generally an 'enjoyably opinionated' evolutionary biologist.
Joined June 2014
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21 Dec 2025
After months of getting basically nothing out of Twitter (still refuse to call it 'X'), including barely seeing any content from anyone I follow and having substantially less engagement from posts, I have now bitten the bullet and created a Bluesky account (@phylophile) 1/2
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21 Dec 2025
After months of getting basically nothing out of Twitter (still refuse to call it 'X'), including barely seeing any content from anyone I follow and having substantially less engagement from posts, I have now bitten the bullet and created a Bluesky account (@phylophile) 1/2
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21 Dec 2025
I have tried to use an importer thing to find everyone I follow on here that is also on Bluesky, but if I've missed anyone with this approach please feel free to follow on Bluesky and I will do the same - I'm sure I've managed to miss some of you in the transfer 2/2
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26 Sep 2025
In advance of the vinyl production being finalised, CDs of Adfeilion's latest album, Rhyfelwyr, are now available to buy from our website: adfeilion.com/store
Check out our blend of 'post-folk metal' that dynamically combines haunting melodies and heavy riffs.
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Kevin Arbuckle retweeted
25 Sep 2025
Predation is one of the most pervasive forces of natural selection.
Researchers in Science report a globally replicated experiment that uncovers which factors explain the relative success of warning coloration and camouflage as antipredator color strategies.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4gFFrF7
ALT A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon).
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19 Sep 2025
Today is International Snakebite Awareness Day, and in light of this we, the Snakebite Community Engagement Network, have just released our manifesto for community awareness, engagement, and action: snakebitecommunityengagement…
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11 Sep 2025
Really nice review of Adfeilion's debut London gig the other week, bringing Celtic post-folk metal to the Capital, particularly as the reviewer is very much not into metal by her own admission: kickbacktimes.co.uk/theatre-…
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4 Aug 2025
New paper out from Monil Khera's PhD, where we show evidence for behavioural thermoregulation in endotherms (banded mongooses) living at the equator. This is because they stop foraging and rest more when the temperatures are high.
shorturl.at/r1Axk
shorturl.at/lxfxa
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4 Aug 2025
Relatively stable equatorial temps mean similar studies have focused on higher latitude regions, but the mongooses are still constrained in their foraging by high temperatures. This could have serious implications for equatorial endotherms if global temperatures increase further.
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1 Aug 2025
Adfeilion's new album, Rhyfelwyr, is now out on all sorts of platforms (e.g. Spotify and YouTube links below). A complete reimagining of our first album (Hela) that really reflects our live sound.
@Aonair_Records
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/64l7k…
YouTube: youtu.be/RwXtTszmwEE?si=UD54…
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18 Jul 2025
Second single from our upcoming album, Rhyfelwyr, is now out on all sorts of platforms (e.g. Spotify and YouTube). As you forge your path through mortal existence, beware the wrath of the storm god......Taranis.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/5qD1F…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ECoD_BQX…
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16 Jul 2025
Upcoming Adfeilion gigs in the UK from our local region of South Wales to further afield- come join us if you can for an immersive Celtic folk metal experience. We are also releasing our second single on Friday (18th July) and our full album (Rhyfelwyr) on Friday the 1st August.
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11 Jul 2025
Check out the video for Adfeilion's Hallowed Glade, we've just released this today and I have to say I'm really happy with how it turned out: youtube.com/watch?v=J9Eb73fw…
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2 Jul 2025
Adfeilion are heading north, back to my PhD home in Liverpool. Come check us out at E.B.G.B.'s on the 18th October
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24 Jun 2025
Check out our new paper just out in Diversity. It considers the evolution of New World 'water snakes', as an adaptive radiation with some thoughts on patterns of island vs continental adaptive radiations.
Get here: shorturl.at/gjK36
or here: shorturl.at/B03Yo
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22 Jun 2025
Adfeilion are playing on the Newblood Stage at Bloodstock 2025 following our winning performance from South Wales Metal 2 the Masses. Tickets are sold out but if you have one come check out our blend of Celtic folk, metal, & dungeon synth steeped in the framework of storytelling
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20 Jun 2025
It's dropped! Adfeilion's first single, Hallowed Glade, is now available on Spotify in advance of the full album which will be out later in the Summer. Full music video also to follow. But for now, check it our blend of Celtic folk, metal, and synths here: open.spotify.com/track/514VT…
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Kevin Arbuckle retweeted
This year’s 2025 BHS Annual General Meeting will be held at the prestigious @McrMuseum🦎
Join us for an afternoon of interesting talks and the opportunity to see the Vivarium! 🐸
Free for BHS members - but please let us know. £10 for non-members.
🎟️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/y222ayah
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2 May 2025
Job alert: two permanent teaching-only positions at Swansea University' Department of Biosciences. One in marine biology and one in terrestrial ecology.
Terrestrial: swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…
Marine: swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…
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1 May 2025
I'm pleased to say that our perspective article on being working class in academia is now fully out in Journal of Zoology, accessible here shorturl.at/g82m4or here shorturl.at/r7rdgLoose overview of scope is in the image below, but we were motivated to do this...
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it was brought to our attention that the USA means something different by 'working class' compared to the UK where it broadly means 'low socioeconomic status background', with some caveats).
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1 May 2025
Thanks again to all my coauthors here for their discussions, inputs, and support during the writing of this (and often long before too): Emily Bethell, Dan Hawthorn, Kingsley Hunt, Monil Khera, Zen Lewis, Jess Mitchell, Megan Nicholl, and Louise Reynolds
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