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Posts by Sam Thompson

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Don't You Know That I'm Toxic? Wild Birds Learn to Avoid a Novel Aposematic Warning Signal The foraging behaviours of predators towards aposematic prey have been studied extensively and there is much empirical evidence to support this theory. Often, studies involving wild species are relat...

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First publication! 🥳 Very excited that my Master’s research project from @royalholloway.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social this week. Big thank you to @sjportugal.bsky.social for all the support from start to finish.

Please don’t come for me Britney…

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Nice to welcome my new DPhil students with an evening at St Hugh’s College. Welcome Gayatri Kumar, @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @ghtrabin.bsky.social. The White Stork was not part of the formal evening, but I was pleased to see it and grab a photo earlier in the week.

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My first go at a pigeon release. Just 10 mins and they’ll be back home.

I like to tell myself they won’t take off unless I give them a verbal instruction. The jury’s still out on whether or not that’s true…

Thanks @ghtrabin.bsky.social for showing me the ropes!

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Welcome @smthmpsn.bsky.social, both to BlueSky and to starting your PhD at Oxford! Sam will be studying how birds in flocks respond to objects in their flight paths.

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