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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!

A BES Endemic network advertisement for their upcoming reasonable adjustments webinar. It is on 4th November, from 6-7:30 pm BST

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool? If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you! tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r

A white hand holding a metal compass in a forest

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Been balancing out learning new remote sensing stuff with learning a new fibercraft - Nothing fancy, but my first quilt is coming along nicely!

A colourful patchwork baby quilt made of squares laid out on a bed

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Did #TenMinuteMerlin this morning, it also doubles as an excellent life hack to put your phone down and tidy your room up a bit in that timespan :D #ADHDEcologists

A Merlin app list of suggested birds with common wood-pigeon, jackdaw, carrion crow, european robin, house sparrow, and european starling

The continuation of the Merlin match list with common chaffinch, eurasian blue tit, and great tit

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thank you WCCN for organising an amazing 2025 IWD #AccelerateAction event with so many amazing, inspiring speaker! I got to talk about my experiences with @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social and spread the word about how effective mutual aid organising can be 💛💜

A group of women posing with one arm flexed, in front of a screen with the international women's day accelerate action slogan

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Lab set up shopping list & the tiniest colleague for the day

A printed, ticked off list of primare clades, with a model of a sifaka skull next to it

Hella holding a teeny tiny mouse lemur skull replica in her palm

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Scenery highlights from accompanying the annual DICE masters field trip to South Downs - WWT Arundel Wetland Centre, Kingley Vale, and Oare Marshes NR

A plank boardwalk winding through a wet woodland

A dirt path under ancient, gnarly yew trees

A flat, broad landscape of a marsh on a bright sunny day

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If you ever read any of my stuff on water and how we should pay more attention to it in 'wet' ecosystems, just know that this has been my mental state for 97% of the research & writing:

Hella leaning on her knees next to the tap of a water well, pointing to it with a very excited expression.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Bruno's taking this whole work from home thing very seriously

A tabby cat laying stretched out on his back in an armchair, with a cheeky expression.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Recent textile projects: some visible mending, my BES annual meeting cardigan done, and a beanie from the leftover yarn 🧶

An orange 80s style patterned fabric, with part of the motif embroidered over in brown thread.

Hella wearing a dark green wool knit cardigan, with a raised stitch pattern resembling wheat.

A dark green wool crochet beanie, with a leaf-like motif on top.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#DisabledInStem We got an in-prep paper on disabled chimps, and are looking for a sensitivity reader who can 1, advise on terminology around limb loss/differences and 2, give a 2nd disabled perspective on the main points of paper. Get in touch if you are interested or have questions!

A chimpanzee carrying her baby on her back. She is missing her left leg from mid-shin.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New year, new journal, new stickers

A burgundy A5 leuchtturm journal, with a teal circular sticker of two barn owls.

The back of a burgundy A5 Leuchtturm journal, with stickers of a small cartoon cat in folk costume, a green circular one with marigolds from Wiley, fern fronds, and an espeon.

The front cover of a pale pink A5 Leuchtturm journal, with a sticker of a sylveon.

The back cover of a pale pink A5 Leuchtturm journal, with a circular BES sticker with pink, pale purple, and pale green stripes, and a Wiley sticker with a drawing of a woman and a cow saying Ecology, it's in our nature.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bruno in action this morning, fetching pinecones on command bc I guess this is something we do now

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Good morning, regulary scheduled cat update: Bruno plays fetch with pinecones now

A small brown tabby cat trotting towards the camera, holding a small pinecone in his mouth.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

He's coming along on the roadtrip too

In a red cabin size suitcas is a tiny tabby cat, chewing on zippers

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Closing this term with the best possible viva experience, now one step closer to officially being a Dr! Had the most amazing, in-depth, interesting, and fun (!!!) discussion with my examiners, chimp chocolate cake, champagne, and added mama+baby chimp to the DICE living wall 💚

A small, plastic mama chimp carrying her baby on her back, nestled amongst painted moss and fake fern

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Going through the winter conference season while #DisabledInSTEM like

A soviet anti-alcohol poster of a man refusing a shot glass saying NYET! is modified so he is wearing an ffp3 mask and refusing a virus, both badly doodled on

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One more day until viva, but I got my emotional support creature to remind me to stay chill

In an armchair covered by a colourful crochet blanket a small tabby cat sleeps so curled up his neck disappeared

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I heard the Liverpool World Museum had some super interesting animals, but I def wasn't expecting this

On a street surrounded by classical style buildings, a man in black athletic clothes is holding a thick chain. On the other end of the chain is a lifelike velociraptor.

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

After serious ASAB FOMO this week (too many fun conferences at the same time 🙈), this is the mood for the spring conference

I'm seated. The ASAB employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not April yet" but I'm simply too seated

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Inventing whole new writing systems at the #BES2024 Movement SIG meet last night with the best (if non-winning) team - can *you* draw the title of a paper in your field?

A slip of paper with the title can overlooking invisible landscapes bias habitat selection and population distribution projections? and a sheet of paper with drawings of each of the words - a can of beans, an eye with an arrow, an invisible bubble, two tree, a tipped scale, trees and an antelope, a path choice diagram, a tilde, and ampersand, a swarm of badly drawn animals, a bell curve, and a movie projector

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We know water is wet, but do chimps care about it? If you ever wondered about that, come along tomorrow morning to my #BES2024 talk to find out the answer!

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Daily applied animal behaviour research win: the beastie kept going on the dining table despite being told off & removed to 1, feel included in things and 2, gaze out the window - reshuffled things a bit to give him an elevated cozy/observation spot and lo and behold

A tabby cat lying on a small blanket on a window ledge with a relaxed expression, next to a dining table

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Well, this one ended up as just a pair of socks, but we stay silly and keep applying

A hand knit sock in a blue-purple marl laid out on a striped bedsheet

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We got a creature in the house now!! Meet Bruno, everyone!

A small tabby cat cuddled up in a teal blanket with a peaceful expression

A small tabby cat looking at something to the side with interest, cuddled in a blanket

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Repotted the kids this morning 💚🌿 (also asked the pothos where is it trying to go but it refused to comment and looped back for another round on the windowsill)

A sunny windowsill with a potted spider plant, begonia, a pothos with a single tendril going out of frame, and a purple tradescantia zebrina

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wrapping up edits & job apps is proven to be ~15% less soul-crushing with some office knitting - you might still get a job rejection, but at least you got a new pair of socks too 🤷‍♀️🧦

An office desk with a corner of a laptop with a chimp as the background, a lilac mouse, a water bottle, and a blue-purple ball of yarn connected to some knitting needles

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yay, another Pokemon Go primatologist! :D I'm def a more casual player, but would be happy to add you as a friend! (also that giant eevee 🤩)

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hi all! I'm Hella, and I'm an ecologist interested in the role of water in water-rich ecosystems! So far I focused on chimps, but I'd love to branch out to non-primate sps. I enjoy wrangling large databases, camera traps, disappearing to remote areas, and textile crafts 🧶

Hella, a young white woman with long hair is sitting at a picnic bench, knitting something. She is outdoors, in the Scottish Highlands on a sunny day

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I am overjoyed to announce the arrival of my beautiful baby thesis to the world 💖 She is a healthy 398 pages with plenty of colourful maps & figures 📊 Both thesis and I are well, and accepting congratulations in the form of cheese, baby primate pictures, and job offers 🐵

Hella holding a thick spiral bound thesis in her arms and looking at it with a happy and tired expression

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

This one felt like having a cloud on my needles, knitting w one-strand mohair is tricky but the results are oh so floofy ☁️

A grey mohair lace sweater with a pale blue peter pan collar folded into a square

A lace-knit sweater in grey mohair with pale blue cuffs and collar

The back of the collar on the sweater - it's a small teardrop closure with a pearl button

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Just received an extremely dangerous book as a gift, speedrunning learning 20 new types of fibercrafts is exactly what I need at the end of my PhD 🧶

An old hardcover book, listing various types of obscure textile arts it contains

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

The number of times I almost put liquid seaweed in my laundry is not zero, and not one...

A laundry cupboard - mixed amongst bottles of detergent is a similar sized bottle of liquid seaweed

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Today in 'what else can you do with thread?' - some lowkey #SciArt via friendship bracelets

A light blue friendship bracelet woth dark red crab motifs

A black friendship bracelet with gold suns and moons, rigged up as a watch strap for a gold plastic casio wristwatch

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

I'm not (yet) at the 'getting bangs' stage of end-of-phd existential crisis, but I *am* thinking about getting into more and more obscure fibercrafts #PhDsky

A cat in a suit sitting at a table with a newspaper. A caption under it reads I should buy a loom

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

You might think *not* presenting at a conference will keep you from frantically finishing things the day before it but guess who decided her cardigan actually would be better with buttons. And a new trim colour. 🙃

A pile of multicoloured chunky knitwear - the trim is purple and features eight buttons in varying colours and shapes

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