University Teacher at @LivUni and member of @SEG_UL. Recently completed PhD on parental care in kittiwakes and albatrosses. She/her- all views my own

Liverpool, UK
Joined February 2020
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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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.”
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Fionnuala McCully retweeted
🚨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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Strong SEGUL representation #BES2023! Come find us for a chat tonight or tomorrow!
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*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 findaphd.com/phds/project/ho…
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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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Thanks so much for your interest in our work!
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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So @tash_gillies is the scientist I want to be when I grow up- check out her fab new paper below!
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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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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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/… @SEG_UL #Seabirds @ACCE_DTP
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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!
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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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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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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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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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