Yesterday, I organised my first workshop with @egioxford.bsky.social ! ✍🏻🖥️
Huge thank you to Dr Alexandra Cones (LMU Munich) for a fantastic introduction to multivariate models in STAN. A really useful, fun session and a great jumping off point for exploring STAN's uses in ecological research!
A quick photo of a Great Tit nest in Wytham Woods, taken during standard nest-monitoring protocol. A female Great Tit lying to one side on the nest, with three eggs and two just hatched nestlings visible in a nest constructed of moss and animal hair
First sight of a new generation... The first Great Tit eggs have hatched in Wytham Woods this morning.
Looks like my first field season at Wytham woods will be an early one! 🪺🐦
This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social on the role of time in avian trade-offs. All welcome in person in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk 3.30pm on 6 March. Also live-streamed: details available ⬇️
This week's seminar will be given by Dr Paul Acker from NTNU, Norway on "Processes of life-history adaptation to spatio-seasonal environmental changes" - seminar at 3.30 on Friday in Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk All welcome & will also be streamed - see details below
This week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk will be given by Dr Kirsty MacPhie from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social on the contrasting insights to be drawn from studies of phenology in @phenoweb.bsky.social and @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social. Usual time and place - details below with streaming info ⬇️
Delighted to begin this term's seminars with Malcolm Burgess @piedflynet.bsky.social from @rspb.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social on Migration behaviour, demography & phenology of declining migratory birds. Seminar at 3.30 on 16 Jan in LT1 in the LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk: all welcome - see details ⬇️
This week's seminar - last of this term - is our annual Christmas Seminar. We're welcoming Prof Tim Birkhead back to where he studied as a DPhil student ~50 years ago (can you can spot him in this 1978 photo?) Tim will be talking about "Sperm to Egg: Making a Biologist" - 3pm LT1 in the LaMB
Students shivering at the top of a snow capped mountain after a hard day learning reproducible science!
Students walk (slip) down an icy path down a mountain
Celestine cuddles the course mascot between sessions
Student having hand shaken by course mascot (border collie dog) after a hard day's work!
Kicking off my PhD training with the Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science course in Norway!
*Strong evidence suggests that regular dog cuddles between sessions make students more likely to pay attention in stats lectures (Adelmant et al. 2025 - under review!)
A wonderful first conference to kick off the start of my PhD!
Photo of the calf catching team in 2025 at Kilmory, Isle of Rum
Calving Team 2025 1st instalment @celestineadelmant.bsky.social Eve Morris @seanofrum.bsky.social @sarah-dobson.bsky.social Prof Josephine Pemberton and Ali Morris @isleofrum.bsky.social
Ringed this beautiful partially leucistic great tit last month in Warwickshire - talk about #embracethegrey!
This frosty English weather is really making me miss my summer of #ecology #fieldwork 🌱
There's nothing quite like the community you build during fieldwork season -likeminded young #ecologists coming together to work on fun research projects and discuss varied topics from science to policy!
So pleased to share our new paper on object transport decisions in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Scientific reports!
We found that Goffins' cockatoos choose to carry light objects over heavy objects over short distances, but ignore weight balance cues. Check it out!