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Royal Society University Research Fellow studying animal colouration, signalling, cognition, predator-prey interactions. Obsessive natural historian.

University of Oxford
Joined July 2014
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RT @ella_ackroyd: My first ever paper! So excited that this is finally out 🐟.
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RT @C_C_Ioannou: Our lab's first paper out in 2025!.Led by the brilliant @ella_ackroyd in collaboration with @rjpheathcote.Dynamic colour c….
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RT @Padraig_Kennedy: Want to do a PhD in social evolution? Unfazed by challenging fieldwork? You have 11 days left to apply for our PhD exp….
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RT @SHOALgroup: We are recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. October 2025 start. Workin….
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RT @MarinaVPap: Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze….
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RT @Samellisq: Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild….
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RT @jamesTstroud: New paper! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands….
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Nature Communications - When similar species coexist, they often evolve differences to reduce competition, a process called character displacement. This study provides rare evidence of character...
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RT @JEvBio: Featuring systematic REVIEW by Lackey et al: When and how does mate competition drive divergence and s….
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Abstract. Competition for mates can play a critical role in determining reproductive success, shaping phenotypic variation within populations, and influenc
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RT @OxfordBiology: Join us for our DPhil in Biology!. If the big question of 'should I do a PhD?' is on your mind, we have projects that sp….
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RT @katieschro8: Mating songs of Galápagos finches from a set of possible futures, played to territorial males, reveal links between adapta….
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The theory of ecological speciation posits that adaptive divergence among incipient species raises incidental barriers to reproduction, thus catalyzing the emergence of new species. In this study, we...
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RT @ljnbrent: Postdoc position available! Come to @CrabExeter to work with @Samellisq , me, @kchiou & @SMack_Lab on comparative life-histor….
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RT @Samellisq: Post Doc available. We are looking for someone to come and work here at @UniofExeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me,….
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RT @14Katie41: Well, 4 yrs as a JRF @christs_college, @MarineBehavEcol & @CamZoology are over. it's been an absolute blast! Huge thanks t….
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RT @_MonteiroTiago_: New short paper out in #JFB with @victorajuwon1 and (not in Twitter) Bruno Cruz highlighting GoFish - an open-source….
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RT @OctoEduardo: We describe how octopus-fish groups can work, can malfunction, and can lead to benefits! Give it a read and don't forget t….
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RT @ljnbrent: Postdoc position on my FriendOrigins project. 10mos but could be 16mos with lots of low-hanging (but interesting!) fruit to b….
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RT @BBM_Wong: After unforeseen production delays, it was great to return the final proofs of our new edited book back to the production tea….
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RT @ghancockzoology: Every now and again I get to do something really cool for my job. Today was one of those days. @psychtoolbox rendered….
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RT @OxfordBiology: 🎉More good news from @OxfordBiology as we congratulate @BertaVerd who was awarded an @ERC_Research Starting Grant 🇪🇺🎉. R….
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