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Outreach: starts with Real Science, ends in a #HumpOff
I am coming to the end of my week-long tenure at @RealScientists – a rotational twitter account that brings a different scientist to its readers every week. This week, I started with the best of...
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My real science (Day 1)
In my last post, I gave a quick overview of my week curating the @realscientists twitter feed, but focused – unsurprisingly – on the delights of the ‘humpoff’ and its ensuring press coverage! As a new...
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Interview on the Career 100 podcast
I was interviewed recently for an episode of the Career 100 podcast, part of the College Funding Resource. The podcast is aimed at people trying to decide on a college course, and introduces them to...
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Of carts and horses
I have been working on a post for some time now, in which I was planning to use web-scraping in R to gather sports-related data from webpages and then run some fancy analysis on it. But when I say...
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Applying the story circle to academic writing
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do. I’m a big fan of the work of Dan Harmon, writer of amazing...
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‘Beyond bar and line graphs’
I came across an interesting paper earlier on data visualisation – published last year in Plos One, Weissgerber et al set out reasons why bar or line graphs can be misleading when presenting continuous...
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ISBE Plasticity Tutorial
Skip the chat and go straight to the code: ISBE Plasticity Tutorial I’ve just about recovered from an excellent time at the 16th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE),...
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New paper: Food supply – not ‘live fast, die young’ mentality – makes male...
I have a new paper out in the journal Functional Ecology, entitled ‘Mating opportunities and energetic constraints drive variation in age-dependent sexual signalling‘. This is work from my PhD with Luc...
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New paper: ‘Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology’
I have a new paper (with Alastair Wilson) out in the Behavioural Ecology journal, entitled ‘Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology‘. Our paper is aimed at researchers working on individual...
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My first empirical work from my postdoc with Alastair Wilson is out now in Functional Ecology (open access). We take a pretty deep dive into analysing individual variation in behavioural plasticity,...
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