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Megan Worsley

@sparrowweaver.bsky.social
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PhD student in behavioural ecology @ U of St Andrews :-) 🪹🦜

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Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trying to find reviewers without a COI... Why are biologists all best friends with each other? Stop being so collaborative!
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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Multispecies analysis of social effects on same-sex sexual behavior challenges mistaken identity hypotheses in insects | PNAS
Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in insects has historically been considered a byproduct of sex recognition failure, or “mistaken identity,” and cons...
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Natalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New paper from our lab showing that larvae exposed to thermal stress suffer higher mortality, but for those that survive, there are no long-term effects on reproduction later in life www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌡️🐞 Congrats to @jakobwiil.bsky.social on his first paper from his PhD! 🥳
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Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Oh dear. if Trivers is in the Epstein files, does that mean, Erdős number style, we all now have an Epstein number?
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Natalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️ Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2025
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like…
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding
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Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
thanks @sheardcat.bsky.social for the photo and for the invite, and BES Macro for being lovely :-)
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Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I really enjoyed presenting some preliminary results from my PhD work at the St Andrews Biology PGR conference today! It was great to see all the cool work coming out of our community as well 🦀🐟🔊 (thanks to @mikemwebster.bsky.social and @lrendell.bsky.social as always)
A picture of me standing in front of my slide showing preliminary results from my first PhD studies.
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Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Career milestone! Got my first predatory journal email 🥰🥰
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Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Had a great time hosting our #Eastbio thematic meeting today - with fantastic talks by @nakedprimate.bsky.social, @sheardcat.bsky.social and Dave Shuker! @louisekandler.bsky.social @mzworsley.bsky.social Followed by some good old-fashioned rockpooling 🦀🐟
Six people walking across the rockpools covered in seaweed under a grey sky.Me presenting the rockpooling activity at the front of a seminar room.A black spotted sea hare under the water in a rockpool.
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Megan Worsley @sparrowweaver.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My first paper just dropped 😳 We found that animal perception tends to follow Weber's law across a wide range of species and types of stimuli, although we saw a lot of variation too. With @jj255.bsky.social and Tanmay Dixit doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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How animals discriminate between stimulus magnitudes: a meta-analysis
Often, as the magnitude of a stimulus increases, it becomes harder to detect small changes in this stimulus (termed the magnitude effect). We investigated
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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