Sheepies are at @britishecologicalsociety.org ! Kicking off today we have Gina and Lizzie presenting their posters on immune trait variation (A17.3) and early life conditions (A17.13)

📜🐏Sheepies at @eseb2025.bsky.social! Some of our PhD students are presenting their work in tonight’s poster session. Check them out here: @barnardlucy.bsky.social on epigenetics #8, @lizziedrake.bsky.social and sex specific senescence #10, and @elliswiersma.bsky.social with breeding phenology #350

For the feral #sheep on the remote St Kilda islands of #Scotland, long-term success hinges on the first year of life, especially for males. Here are the interesting reasons why: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

#ecology #EvolutionaryEcology #SexualDimorphism #SexualSelection