March 2022 ― Natalie has been awarded an Early Career Conference Grant by the Association of Commonwealth Universities

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March 2022 ― Natalie is now back to work full-time after a year of maternity leave!

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February 2022 ― Karendeep Sidhu, a PhD student in the lab, is starting a 3-month UKRI policy internship at the Royal Society of Biology

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January 2022 ― Our two undegraduate students, Charlotte Malcolm and Matina Zafeiri, have completed their Honours projects!

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October 2021 ― Another fully-funded PhD position is available in our group - this project will investigate the molecular mechanisms linking parental care to ageing

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September 2021 ― We have a fully-funded PhD position available in our group! This project will investigate how burying beetles influence ecosystem processes through their parental behaviours and how this might be affected by environmental change

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September 2021 ― A warm welcome to Charlotte Malcolm and Matina Zafeiri who are starting their Honours projects in the lab!

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June 2021 ― Check out our special column on sexual selection and environmental change in this month's issue of Current Zoology

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May 2021 ― New paper on evolvability under climate change now out in Evolution & Development

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April 2021 ― Natalie has been awarded a Royal Society research grant to study the effects of temperature changes on behavioural interactions

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March 2021 ― Hot off the press! Our editorial entitled "Sexual selection and environmental change: what do we know and what comes next?" is now out in Current Zoology

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March 2021 ― Natalie gave a plenary talk at the European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB)

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January 2021 ― Congrats to Nikki and Charlotte for completing their Honours projects - stay tuned for some very exciting results from this work!

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December 2020 ― Natalie gave two (virtual) talks at the ASAB Winter Meeting and the BES Annual Meeting

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November 2020 ― Fully-funded PhD position available in our research group! This PhD project is on parental care and ageing in burying beetles, and the application deadline is 6 January 2021

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November 2020 ― Natalie gave an invited talk at Uppsala University's seminar series

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October 2020 ― Natalie has joined the Functional Ecology Editorial Board as an Associate Editor!

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October 2020 ― A warm welcome to Karendeep Sidhu, who has just joined the lab as a QUADRAT PhD student! She will be studying sexual selection under climate change using a combination of experimental, theoretical, and meta-analytic approaches

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September 2020 ― This month, we welcome two new lab members! Charlotte Patterson and Nikki Watt are doing Honours thesis projects on parental care

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August 2020 ― New bioRxiv preprint on the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments

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June 2020 ― Congratulations to Anais Baillet who has successfully defended her Master's thesis!

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February 2020 ― New paper in Functional Ecology on metabolic rate evolution in different thermal environments

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January 2020 ― Anais Baillet, a visiting student from University of Rennes, has joined the lab! For the next five months, she will be working on a project looking at the effects of temperature on mating behaviour

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November 2019 ― Natalie gave an invited seminar at The James Hutton Institute

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November 2019 ― Natalie visited Alison Bell's lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded by an Early Career Researcher Exchange Grant from the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA)

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October 2019 ― Natalie gave an invited seminar at University of Edinburgh

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October 2019 ― Natalie has joined University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Conservation!

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