Mairenn Attwood
@mairenn_c
PhD student in behavioural ecology and multi-species coevolution | Brood parasites and their hosts | @Cambridge_Uni | she/her
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Tune in to #UsAndSTEMM on Cam FM - 97.2 at 6pm to hear about Mairenn Attwood’s research in Zambia and her path into science. We chat about aggressive drongos, beautiful Miombo woodlands, and unsuccessful Haribo trees. You can listen live at camfm.co.uk.
Our paper on mimicry in Africa's brood-parasitic finches is now out in Evolution! You can read the full open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Evolution Journal @SVBelleghem FitzPatrick Ins Dept of Zoology Cambridge BE group Claire Spottiswoode 1/6
My first first-author paper! Huge thanks go to my co-authors Rebecca Kilner, Sinead English - find me on Bluesky and Sonia Pascoal. Open access version coming soon, but in the meantime check out this summary from Rebecca Kilner.
Fantastic to have taken part and won the #enviroSPRINT #wetland challenge!🦆Its been great working with you bright sparks @TallyYoh Mairenn Attwood, Connor & Nel🎉 Massive thanks to infohackit, BBP, Natural Environment Research Council & Anglian Water who we'll be working with to develop our idea further!😁
Why is it harder to spot the odd egg out in (a) than (b)? And what could this mean for coevolution? Find out in our paper in Evolution Journal out today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev… With awesome co-authors @EleanorCaves Claire Spottiswoode & Nick Horrocks!
🧵(1/2) Last year we (@TallyYoh Mairenn Attwood Nel Sheppard & Connor Tyler) won the #EnviroSPRINT Wetland Challenge with our Wetland Watch idea (see vid: envirosprint.uk/team-1c/) For the past two days we've been developing it further...
New paper on safeguarding human-wildlife cooperation Conservation Letters! In a team of 43 scientists, conservationists & human-wildlife cooperation practitioners, we review the benefits, threats & safeguarding considerations of human-wildlife cooperation: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
AND a strong Q&A with collaborator and co-author Alaitetei Laltaika🤩: news.mongabay.com/2022/06/gps-bi…
New paper! In some places, people cooperate with wild animals, without training, domestication, or captivity. Our #OA review paper published in People & Nature People and Nature delves into these remarkable partnerships. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1… (1/15)
Out in Royal Society Publishing #ProcB: A biologically-relevant measure of egg pattern complexity predicts the rejection of eggs by hosts of brood parasites, according to Weber's Law. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Curious about honeyguides? Read our Current Biology Quick Guide in the Birds special issue #ornithology cell.com/current-biolog…
What happens when a brood parasite picks a fight with a super aggressive species? Hugely excited that my first ever first-author paper, with an awesome team of Jess Lund, Nwaogu Chima Josiah, Collins Moya and Claire Spottiswoode, is out now in #ProcB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…
Delighted to see our study on quantifying and explaining imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite-host system out in Royal Society Publishing #BiologyLetters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…. Parasitic cuckoo finch eggs (R) lack the scribbles of host (tawny-flanked prinia) eggs (L). 1/3
Delighted to see our paper on the amazing signatures and forgeries of fork-tailed drongos and African cuckoos out today in ProcB! Big thank you to the wonderful coauthors Tanmay Dixit, Mairenn Attwood , Silky Hamama, Collins Moya, Martin Stevens, Gabriel Jamie and Claire Spottiswoode. 1/3