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Sam Thompson

@smthmpsn.bsky.social

PhD Student at the University of Oxford studying ‘pigeon vision and collisions’ | Freelance Tutor for the Field Studies Council

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Congrats first author Caroline Brighton; our new paper is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. All about bird collisions with anthropogenic objects. You can read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Not the best photos, but very happy to see the Dotterels today in Cambridgeshire. First proper views! (With @smthmpsn.bsky.social)

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Dr. Sam Fabian, FRES @stfabian.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🧵 1/6 Our new paper is out in Journal of Experimental Biology! We've been studying the curious dancing flight of male mayflies and why they do it. Spoiler: it's not just to impress females. 🪲⬇️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Sam Thompson @smthmpsn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Six months in and the PhD in Pigeons is going well! Excited for what the next few years have in store. Very grateful that the @britornitholclub.bsky.social are both part-funding my research and helping to give it a platform. Find out what I’ve been up to in my latest blog post on their website!

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Sam Thompson @smthmpsn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

First publication! 🥳 Very excited that my Master’s research project from @royalholloway.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social this week. Big thank you to @sjportugal.bsky.social for all the support from start to finish. Please don’t come for me Britney…

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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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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Welcome @smthmpsn.bsky.social, both to BlueSky and to starting your PhD at Oxford! Sam will be studying how birds in flocks respond to objects in their flight paths.

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