Nilo
@nilomr.bsky.social
Researcher at the University of Oxford | Data visualization, computational science, ecology & anthropology 📍Oxford/Cantabria
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New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Integrative analysis of fine-scale local adaptation of winter moths to variable oak phenology
For herbivorous insects whose fitness depends on tight phenological synchrony with host plants, spatial variation in plant phenology can impose strong selective pressures and promote local adaptation ...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reading this blog post made me sad and uneasy. We shouldn’t so uncritically celebrate tools that can accelerate the spread of poor scientific practices and distance our students from understanding. This hype will only worsen existing problems in academia: more noise, less quality, fewer secure jobs.
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reading this blog post made me sad and uneasy. We shouldn’t so uncritically celebrate tools that can accelerate the spread of poor scientific practices and distance our students from understanding. This hype will only worsen existing problems in academia: more noise, less quality, fewer secure jobs.
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Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩
Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
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Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk
Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions
Variation in colour complexity in the Paridae is linked to climate, climate variability and several biotic factors. The strength of the associations is patch specific. Variables related to resource c...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk
Oh, the joys of fieldwork this time of the year!
May 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh, the joys of fieldwork this time of the year!
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New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A beautiful day for fieldwork — soaking in the sounds of early spring
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A beautiful day for fieldwork — soaking in the sounds of early spring
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This cool visualisation by @nilomr.bsky.social of great tit song (or is it the clangers? - 🔊 on) reminded me of how enjoyable it was to talk at length to @sykhalid.bsky.social @timcoulson.bsky.social on @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social about our great tit song paper:
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March 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This cool visualisation by @nilomr.bsky.social of great tit song (or is it the clangers? - 🔊 on) reminded me of how enjoyable it was to talk at length to @sykhalid.bsky.social @timcoulson.bsky.social on @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social about our great tit song paper:
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New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
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The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song
Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…
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March 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
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Theory tells us that demography, i.e. pop turnover, immigration & age structure, must be important to animal culture but evidence is rare. Here this cool study on song in the famous great tits of Wytham Woods shows what is possible 🐦
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Turns out birdsongs evolve with time and age — just like human music
Birds change their tune over time depending on age, movement and memory, similar to how human dialects are shaped, researchers say following a study of great tits in the U.K.
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March 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Theory tells us that demography, i.e. pop turnover, immigration & age structure, must be important to animal culture but evidence is rare. Here this cool study on song in the famous great tits of Wytham Woods shows what is possible 🐦
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...