Megan Worsley
@sparrowweaver.bsky.social
PhD student in behavioural ecology @ U of St Andrews :-) 🪹🦜
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How animals discriminate between stimulus magnitudes: a meta-analysis
Often, as the magnitude of a stimulus increases, it becomes harder to detect small changes in this stimulus (termed the magnitude effect). We investigated
doi.org
My first paper just dropped 😳 We found that animal perception tends to follow Weber's law across a wide range of species and types of stimuli, although we saw a lot of variation too. With @jj255.bsky.social and Tanmay Dixit doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding https://theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like-fucking-idiot-after-seeing-other-bird-gliding/
August 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding https://theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like-fucking-idiot-after-seeing-other-bird-gliding/
thanks @sheardcat.bsky.social for the photo and for the invite, and BES Macro for being lovely :-)
And now at #BESMacro2025 , @sparrowweaver.bsky.social on synanthropic nests
July 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
thanks @sheardcat.bsky.social for the photo and for the invite, and BES Macro for being lovely :-)
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I really enjoyed presenting some preliminary results from my PhD work at the St Andrews Biology PGR conference today! It was great to see all the cool work coming out of our community as well 🦀🐟🔊 (thanks to @mikemwebster.bsky.social and @lrendell.bsky.social as always)
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I really enjoyed presenting some preliminary results from my PhD work at the St Andrews Biology PGR conference today! It was great to see all the cool work coming out of our community as well 🦀🐟🔊 (thanks to @mikemwebster.bsky.social and @lrendell.bsky.social as always)
Career milestone! Got my first predatory journal email 🥰🥰
June 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Career milestone! Got my first predatory journal email 🥰🥰
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Had a great time hosting our #Eastbio thematic meeting today - with fantastic talks by @nakedprimate.bsky.social, @sheardcat.bsky.social and Dave Shuker! @louisekandler.bsky.social @mzworsley.bsky.social
Followed by some good old-fashioned rockpooling 🦀🐟
Followed by some good old-fashioned rockpooling 🦀🐟
May 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Had a great time hosting our #Eastbio thematic meeting today - with fantastic talks by @nakedprimate.bsky.social, @sheardcat.bsky.social and Dave Shuker! @louisekandler.bsky.social @mzworsley.bsky.social
Followed by some good old-fashioned rockpooling 🦀🐟
Followed by some good old-fashioned rockpooling 🦀🐟
My first paper just dropped 😳 We found that animal perception tends to follow Weber's law across a wide range of species and types of stimuli, although we saw a lot of variation too. With @jj255.bsky.social and Tanmay Dixit doi.org/10.1093/behe...
How animals discriminate between stimulus magnitudes: a meta-analysis
Often, as the magnitude of a stimulus increases, it becomes harder to detect small changes in this stimulus (termed the magnitude effect). We investigated
doi.org
May 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My first paper just dropped 😳 We found that animal perception tends to follow Weber's law across a wide range of species and types of stimuli, although we saw a lot of variation too. With @jj255.bsky.social and Tanmay Dixit doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Reposted by Megan Worsley
