Dr Steve Portugal, The University of Oxford

We’re looking forward to Paddy Lewin joining us in the new year as a postdoc on our BBSRC grant.

A great few days in Edinburgh for the ASAB Winter Meeting.

Congratulations Robin on passing your PhD viva with Minor Corrections. Thank you, examiners Mark Brown and Rob Heathcote.

Three new papers this week in Proc Roy Soc B, Biology Letters and Royal Society Interface. Covering bird behaviour, visual fields and eggshell surfaces. Congratulations first authors Sam, Alex and Marie.

Congratulations Sam Thompson on getting your MSc thesis accepted as a paper in Ecology and Evolution. Titled “Don’t you know that I’m toxic? Wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal.”

Gayatri Kumar has started her PhD with us, all about avian vision, visual attention, homing and collision avoidance!

Very happy our paper has been accepted in Biology Letters, all about Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants, and how the visual fields differ between males and females.

Huge congratulations to Robin Mehlhausen-Franks, who has submitted his thesis! And thank you Rob Heathcote and Mark Brown for acting as Robin’s examiners next month. Robin’s already published one of his chapters, with two more currently in review.

Congratulations PhD student Jamie Mayson, who submitted his PhD thesis today! Thank you co-supervisor Alex Thornton, and thank you Andrea Flack and Rudy Riesch for agreeing to act as Jamie’s examiners. Exciting papers on parakeets, geese and pigeons to follow!