Starting a new lab tradition for first papers from a thesis 😃 Anyone got any other fun ones?

New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A big week for our research group! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's PhD thesis has been accepted. Looking forward to sharing some nice results about the effects of winter warming on wall lizard behaviour and physiology very soon. Well done Miary! 🤩

Got these in the post today, written (and signed!) by our dear old friend Mike Brooke. He is a legend and a great storyteller, so these are bound to be brilliant - can’t wait to get stuck in #ornithology #seabirds

Seeing interesting papers during term time

New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paper revisions at the airport 🤪

Happy to be able to see some of these beautiful creatures (Cordylus cordylus, cape girdled lizards) up close in the lab, despite striking out in the field! They are stunning - check out that flat body plan for squeezing into crevices 🤩 handled with permits (and a lot of love)

We found some lizards but they were not vibing with the cold weather 😂

Love this campus! 🤩

Spending a week visiting a future collaborator in Stellenbosch this week 🤞🍷 the welcome is warm even if the weather isn’t!

Big milestone for me - the 1st MacLeod Lab get-together! @miaryras.bsky.social & I have been a dynamic duo for 3 years but we are now joined by Charlotte (cosupervised w/ @asutto.bsky.social) & MRes students, Keya & Sacheus. Research is even more fun when you’re part of such a great team 🤩