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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great showing from the PhD Team today at the annual symposium! @ghtrabin.bsky.social @smthmpsn.bsky.social @gayatrikumar.bsky.social and Luca Valenti

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m very grateful to my co-authors, especially Josh Firth and Adelaide (Daisy) Abraham for their fantastic supervision, plus the wider lab group @egioxford.bsky.social and everyone who originally collected these data!

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Patterns of social trade-offs during pair bonding varied with sex and age. For example, first-winter males increased the proportion of their associations that were with their partner (relative to other birds) more than females did, while showing greater stability in their wider social associations.

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

According to Dunbar's theories, a new partner tends to push two friends out of our social circle. But what do social trade-offs look like in animals? We used a Great Tit population to test if an individual's sex affects the trade-off between associating with a future partner and with other birds.

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Delighted that my master's project @biology.ox.ac.uk about social trade-offs in a wild population of birds is now published in Animal Behaviour @asab.org doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🧵

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Congrats @ghtrabin.bsky.social on winning best talk at the @biology.ox.ac.uk postgraduate symposium

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

1,935 days after my first tutorial as a student, I found myself on the other side of the table for the first time today, delivering a tutorial at Worcester College.

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thank you - much appreciated! Not quite yet but watch this space in the New Year.

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ! #ASABWinter2025

Ines in front of a slide reading „Animal Camouflage: evolutionary biology meets neuroscience, art and war“ with a chameleon

Ines in a camo Kilt in front of the podium

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I had a very enjoyable time at #ASABWinter2025 and was delighted to present a poster on my work on bird visual fields! Thanks to the organisers @asab-meetings.bsky.social for a sociable and useful few days.

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Welcome to this week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk when Prof Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social from @monashbiol.bsky.social will talk on The Evolution of Metabolic Rate and Life History: 3.30pm Fri 14 Nov in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Life & Mind Building. Also live-streamed: instructions ⬇️

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Nice to welcome my new DPhil students with an evening at St Hugh’s College. Welcome Gayatri Kumar, @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @ghtrabin.bsky.social. The White Stork was not part of the formal evening, but I was pleased to see it and grab a photo earlier in the week.

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Sam Thompson @smthmpsn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

My first go at a pigeon release. Just 10 mins and they’ll be back home. I like to tell myself they won’t take off unless I give them a verbal instruction. The jury’s still out on whether or not that’s true… Thanks @ghtrabin.bsky.social for showing me the ropes!

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Always delighted to be invited to the @btobirds.bsky.social Marsh Awards reception at the Society of Wildlife Artists Natural Eye exhibition. Great to catch up with everything the BTO Youth Advisory Panel has been up to too, having been an alumnus of the panel for the last year.

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Really enjoyed sharing some work from the first few months of my DPhil at last Friday’s departmental Behaviour & Biomechanics Symposium. Thanks to the organisers for putting together such an engaging & sociable day!

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Lucky enough to be working with a great team of young scientists!

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It was a privilege to spend last week in (stunning!) Shetland with this great team, helping find out about Gannet vision and the black eyes of Gannet bird flu survivors.

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Delighted to be back at the #BigBangCompetition as a VIP judge & honoured to do so alongside inspirational people in STEM! Really looking forward to seeing superb projects from young people who will make positive impacts in science: www.thebigbang.org.uk/the-big-bang... @bigbangukstem.bsky.social

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