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Joey Baxter

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PhD student studying what long-tailed tits smell like @ University of Sheffield

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Caleb Scutt @calebscutt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New preprint🚨happy to share work from my first PhD chapter, evaluating the ways in which we can integrate ancestral state estimations into disparity workflows, completed alongside @tguillerme.bsky.social , Gavin Thomas & @nhcooper123.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪

Heatmap figure showing how relative disparity error changes across different trait models, ancestral state estimation approaches and fossil sampling densities

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Joey Baxter @joeybaxter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:

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The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control

Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.

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Joey Baxter @joeybaxter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited to have my first paper out! My master’s research on why long-tailed tit eggs vary in size

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