Andrea Estandía
@andreaestandia.bsky.social
Researcher at the University of Oxford | a bit of everything: evolution, genomics, birds, moths 🐛🐦🧬 | BTO C ringer | she/ella
between cantabria and oxford 📍
www.andreaestandia.com
between cantabria and oxford 📍
www.andreaestandia.com
Had such a great time working with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social on her first PhD chapter - our preprint is out now with lots of exciting results!
Next up: fieldwork in Norway 🇳🇴, where we’ll (hopefully!) be catching plenty of winter moths for new experiments and genomics work.
Next up: fieldwork in Norway 🇳🇴, where we’ll (hopefully!) be catching plenty of winter moths for new experiments and genomics work.
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Had such a great time working with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social on her first PhD chapter - our preprint is out now with lots of exciting results!
Next up: fieldwork in Norway 🇳🇴, where we’ll (hopefully!) be catching plenty of winter moths for new experiments and genomics work.
Next up: fieldwork in Norway 🇳🇴, where we’ll (hopefully!) be catching plenty of winter moths for new experiments and genomics work.
We also show that immigrants are outbred, as are local birds; have fewer close relatives within the population, and are less likely to be related to their neighbours than locally born birds.
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We also show that immigrants are outbred, as are local birds; have fewer close relatives within the population, and are less likely to be related to their neighbours than locally born birds.
Despite extremely low FST and no clear genome-wide population structure, immigrants and locals can be distinguished above chance using a Random Forest classifier trained on SNP data.
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Despite extremely low FST and no clear genome-wide population structure, immigrants and locals can be distinguished above chance using a Random Forest classifier trained on SNP data.
We quantify how temporally persistent this pattern is and find similar levels of decay of relatedness with distance across years, without a consistent genetic basis, which is frequently renewed due to high population turnover.
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We quantify how temporally persistent this pattern is and find similar levels of decay of relatedness with distance across years, without a consistent genetic basis, which is frequently renewed due to high population turnover.
We observe some spatial genetic structure largely driven by the spatial and temporal clustering of close kin.
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We observe some spatial genetic structure largely driven by the spatial and temporal clustering of close kin.
New preprint: Using pedigree data + genomics from 2,684 great tits in Wytham Woods, we explore spatial genetic structure and the role of dispersal, population turnover and immigration 🐦 With @sheldonbirds.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New preprint: Using pedigree data + genomics from 2,684 great tits in Wytham Woods, we explore spatial genetic structure and the role of dispersal, population turnover and immigration 🐦 With @sheldonbirds.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A year and a half after passing our DPhil vivas, we finally made it to graduation. Lovely to have my family, partner, and academic parents there, and to catch up with old friends at college. Thank you, Oxford, for four unforgettable years as students and the ones we’re lucky to spend here now.
June 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A year and a half after passing our DPhil vivas, we finally made it to graduation. Lovely to have my family, partner, and academic parents there, and to catch up with old friends at college. Thank you, Oxford, for four unforgettable years as students and the ones we’re lucky to spend here now.
Huge congrats, Dr. Jones! I’ve been so lucky to spend the past 4 years with you. Nothing better than seeing one of your closest friends pass their viva!
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Huge congrats, Dr. Jones! I’ve been so lucky to spend the past 4 years with you. Nothing better than seeing one of your closest friends pass their viva!
Proud mum to 936 hungry winter moth caterpillars 🐛 with 500 more on the way! Wish me luck
April 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Proud mum to 936 hungry winter moth caterpillars 🐛 with 500 more on the way! Wish me luck
Last week of winter moth trapping along the Phenoweb transect between Edinburgh and Inverness. We aim to study the spatial scale of local adaptation to oak phenology 🦋🌳🧬
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Last week of winter moth trapping along the Phenoweb transect between Edinburgh and Inverness. We aim to study the spatial scale of local adaptation to oak phenology 🦋🌳🧬
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
Winter moth sampling has started in Wytham Woods and we’ll be deploying more traps across Scotland and several European populations within the next few weeks 🦋 the samples will be used for genomic analysis and lots of experiments - very exciting!
November 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Winter moth sampling has started in Wytham Woods and we’ll be deploying more traps across Scotland and several European populations within the next few weeks 🦋 the samples will be used for genomic analysis and lots of experiments - very exciting!
Silvereye news! 🐤🧬 in our new preprint we explore the evolutionary history of my favourite great speciator: the silvereye. We build phylogenies, explore population structure and reticulate evolution, and find that islands promote diversification 🏝️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 13, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Silvereye news! 🐤🧬 in our new preprint we explore the evolutionary history of my favourite great speciator: the silvereye. We build phylogenies, explore population structure and reticulate evolution, and find that islands promote diversification 🏝️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We're very excited to share that next week our very own @sheldonbirds.bsky.social will give the EGI seminar at 15:30 in the @oxfordbiology.bsky.social seminar room. All welcome!
January 18, 2024 at 8:01 PM
We're very excited to share that next week our very own @sheldonbirds.bsky.social will give the EGI seminar at 15:30 in the @oxfordbiology.bsky.social seminar room. All welcome!
very cold morning ringing redwings, tits and other cute birds in Wytham Woods
January 18, 2024 at 12:19 PM
very cold morning ringing redwings, tits and other cute birds in Wytham Woods
Busy day in beautiful Edinburgh finishing a research proposal & the slides for my talk. Tomorrow at #PopGroup57 I'll talk about the genetic basis of parallel evolution in silvereyes. Based on our preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
January 7, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Busy day in beautiful Edinburgh finishing a research proposal & the slides for my talk. Tomorrow at #PopGroup57 I'll talk about the genetic basis of parallel evolution in silvereyes. Based on our preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
All of those white dots are Cattle Egrets. We've seen an incredible increase in recent decades in Cantabria (Northern Spain)
January 2, 2024 at 5:33 PM
All of those white dots are Cattle Egrets. We've seen an incredible increase in recent decades in Cantabria (Northern Spain)
@nilomr.bsky.social and I have written a new digest for @journal_evo on how islands promote population differentiation in dispersive swallows 🪶 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
December 29, 2023 at 1:39 PM
@nilomr.bsky.social and I have written a new digest for @journal_evo on how islands promote population differentiation in dispersive swallows 🪶 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
I've moved to my new office! ✨ Excited to share that I'm starting a postdoc with @sheldonbirds.bsky.social. Lots of exciting ideas and plans for this coming year! 🌿🐛🐦🧬
December 20, 2023 at 5:21 PM
I've moved to my new office! ✨ Excited to share that I'm starting a postdoc with @sheldonbirds.bsky.social. Lots of exciting ideas and plans for this coming year! 🌿🐛🐦🧬
The @oxfordbiology.bsky.social Christmas party at the OUNHM never disappoints 🦖 we failed miserably at the quiz but got quite imaginative building our marble run!
December 12, 2023 at 8:10 AM
The @oxfordbiology.bsky.social Christmas party at the OUNHM never disappoints 🦖 we failed miserably at the quiz but got quite imaginative building our marble run!
The first EGI seminar of the year is today at 4pm + pub afterwards! 🍻 @denisewawman.bsky.social will give a super interesting talk about parasites and avian disease. David will talk about the drivers of plumage colour complexity and I'll be talking about repeated evolution in the silvereye.
October 27, 2023 at 9:42 AM
The first EGI seminar of the year is today at 4pm + pub afterwards! 🍻 @denisewawman.bsky.social will give a super interesting talk about parasites and avian disease. David will talk about the drivers of plumage colour complexity and I'll be talking about repeated evolution in the silvereye.
a ringing session to break the week and enjoy a beautiful autumn morning. two of my favourites today in Wytham Woods 🐦
October 24, 2023 at 11:25 AM
a ringing session to break the week and enjoy a beautiful autumn morning. two of my favourites today in Wytham Woods 🐦
I wish someone would remind me more frequently that starting side projects during the last term of your PhD is not a good idea. Another Saturday at 7:30pm in the office, but this time with something submitted!
October 21, 2023 at 6:30 PM
I wish someone would remind me more frequently that starting side projects during the last term of your PhD is not a good idea. Another Saturday at 7:30pm in the office, but this time with something submitted!
Autumn is the new spring 🌼🌸
So in love with my new meadow tattoo designed by Millie Rawicz.
You can find more of her work on Instagram @[millierawicz]
So in love with my new meadow tattoo designed by Millie Rawicz.
You can find more of her work on Instagram @[millierawicz]
October 18, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Autumn is the new spring 🌼🌸
So in love with my new meadow tattoo designed by Millie Rawicz.
You can find more of her work on Instagram @[millierawicz]
So in love with my new meadow tattoo designed by Millie Rawicz.
You can find more of her work on Instagram @[millierawicz]
Mechanisms behind the "paradox of the great speciators": reconciling dispersal and divergence on islands. We explore whether genetic variation is associated with dispersal propensity in a subspecies-rich island passerine, the silvereye onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 29, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Mechanisms behind the "paradox of the great speciators": reconciling dispersal and divergence on islands. We explore whether genetic variation is associated with dispersal propensity in a subspecies-rich island passerine, the silvereye onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...