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Our article made the cover of Heredity! 🐬🧬🎉 Check it out if you haven't yet! ⬇️ Thanks to Charlotte Kirchner for the fab photo 📸

Next up Chris Hirst discussing the diet and microbiome or Roe deer and how that can inform management #eDNA #UKDNAWG24

Had a great two days at #UKDNAWG24. I presented findings from my PhD research, discussing roe deer diet, microbiome adaptations, and habitat-diet associations. Amazing opportunity to share this work as I near the end of my degree!

Kangaroos are nutrient vectors that transport nutrients from open areas where they graze to the shade where they rest during the day. Using "shade hotels" Sophie Hewitt shows that roos enriched soils under the shades where they sheltered at Fowlers Gap doi.org/10.1016/j.jari…

Our lab had a visit by Chris Hirst today! He gave a super interesting talk about diet, nutrition and rumen microbiomes in roe deer. 🦌 Lots of fun discussions as well. Thanks Chris for visiting and I hope you enjoyed sunny Uppsala. 😊

New Paper Alert⏰ "Evaluating diversionary feeding as a method to resolve conservation conflicts in a recovering ecosystem" Journal of Applied Ecology Providing diversionary feeding significantly reduced artificial nest depredation by 83%. Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

It’s done, for now! After four long years I’ve finally submitted my PhD thesis. Thanks to everyone who’s helped along the way. In the meantime, I’ll be avoiding deer and starting a new role at Forest Research in September.

Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out an E4 Doctoral Training Partnership PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/supervi…

I’m very pleased to have successfully defended my PhD thesis on the diet and rumen microbiome of roe deer last week and passed without any corrections. A massive thank you to my supervisors, colleagues, funders, examiners and support network who were instrumental to the journey.

I’m delighted to be shortlisted for a prize that honors such an impactful ecologist! This was a super fun paper I did with another ECR, Chris Hirst and we loved getting to show the power of using open-source, government-sponsored data from NatureScot. Thanks Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence!

I’m absolutely honored to win a prize named after such a bold advocate for wildlife. Thank you Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence, British Ecological Society and my fantastic collaborator on this work Chris Hirst! 🦌

Thrilled to share that a paper I had the privilege of working on with Kristy Ferraro 🦌👩🏻‍🔬 & 📚🐛 has been awarded the prestigious Georgina Mace Prize! Congratulations to Kristy, who led this research as first author. It was a genuine pleasure collaborating with you!