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Samantha Patrick

@samanthacpatrick.bsky.social
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology at University of Liverpool

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Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab @kirindy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu
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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Some new work from us, led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social (see thread ⬇️). We ask what happens if instead of measuring on calendar dates, we measure bird responses to climate defined by the temperature at which annual events happen. It turns out they keep stable T˚! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Phenological plasticity enables thermal homeostasis in a wild bird population
Changes in phenology buffer against climate change by ensuring breeding at temperatures that maximize reproductive success.
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Bertille Mohring @bertillemohring.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
📃New paper in Ecology letters 🐦 I’m delighted to share the publication of the first paper from my #postdoc with @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social looking at life-history trade-offs and #senescence in black-browed #albatrosses from Kerguelen and Bird Island doi.org/10.1111/ele.70384
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Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird
Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between allocation of resources to reproduction or self-maintenance, yet how environmental variability shapes this trade-off remains poorly understood. We sho...
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Last day to apply for this exciting post doc with me and Ollie Padget!
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
And even this doesn't put the blue tits off their new house!
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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Very happy to see this one published ! I had lots of fun participating to the adventure with an amazing group of scientists and friends. Congratulations to @bertillemohring.bsky.social @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Mohring @bertillemohring.bsky.social et al. Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds
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Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird
Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between allocation of resources to reproduction or self-maintenance, yet how environmental variability shapes this trade-off remains poorly understood. We sho...
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
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Natasha Gillies @tashgillies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This was a massive international effort! Huge thanks to each and every one of my 30 co-authors from @seatrackscience.bsky.social al, and special thanks to my Arctic dream team @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social and @freddiemckendrick.bsky.social - Svalbard was the original inspo for this project! ❄️ 🧵4/4
A black-legged kittiwake soars over the blue waters of an Arctic fjord.
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Freddie Mckendrick @freddiemckendrick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
... Huge thank you goes to Sasha Kitaysky, Alexis Will and Sebastien Descamps for all the work they have done to maintain this dataset and also to @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social for all the fun during the PhD. Paper is available to read freely here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Three kittiwake chicks sat on a nest at the abandoned mining town of Pyramiden in svalbard.
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Are people who are going to @isbe2026.bsky.social staying by the venue or in town?
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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization. Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Having spent 6 years writing a paper and 6 days searching for a missing subscript, this comment from a coauthor has made my week: "These types of sentences sound like we have founded a sect!" I feel like I probably could have done that quicker than finish this paper!
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The garden owls were calling all night and this morning they are snuggled in the box! Hoping this means they might breed this year
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I am looking for a short video of multi (two or more) species of seabirds in a foraging interaction. The footage must be taken from above, ideally from a drone. The footage is for developing statistical techniques and would not be published. Can anyone help?
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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