Stephanie McClelland

Evolutionary biologist and ornithologist. PhD in embryo and egg adaptions in brood parasites. Occasional artist. Personal account.

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

Our marsh harrier chicks are getting big! And already got their first album cover photo down.
#ornithology #fieldwork #birds

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

Wild patch of Wolfsbane (Monkshood) I spotted up in the Scottish Highland. What amazing flowers!

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

@DRobledoRuiz Yes! @nju_nature have been great 🙂

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

Myself and several hundred other editors and production staff at Springer Nature are officially on strike as of today. We are grateful for the support we have had from academics around the world in our fight to be paid a fair wage.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Staff at Nature journals ready for strike this week over pay

Editors and production staff say final offer is insufficient given recent inflation rises and publisher’s profits https://t.co/0uqtICD2w1

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

Please sign our petition to help you editors! https://t.co/oMGswS39Qf

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

@CityCorpHeath Hello, are there pre-bookings available for the swimming ponds this weekend?

[Steve Portugal @sjportugal1979]

We have a PhD studentship available! All about eggshells! Looking at their surface properties. Part of the NERC DTP, but a tethered studentship to Royal Holloway (so a little different to the normal London NERC DTP). #birds #ornithology Advert in link below:

[Steve Portugal @sjportugal1979]

Congrats @Stefmcc2 on your 4th PhD paper out in @RSocPublishing RSOS. Investigating the eggshell surface properties of avian brood parasites & hosts. Link below #OpenAccess #ornithology #birds With @MarieRAttard @Gabriel_A_Jamie @T_Dixit123 @GroupBowen @honeyguiding @RHULBioSci

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

It's time for ...*drumroll*... The Framing of the Shrew!

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?

[Chris Lewis @a_film_maker]

Out in the sticks a Zebra Finch makes an unusual nest for its eggs. Bush recycling in the Murchison, WA.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: https://t.co/DF82ASFj1a]

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Go on, treat yourself

[Freddy Gray @Freddygray31]

This must be the greatest typo ever.

[Stephanie McClelland @Stefmcc2]

Very strange sight in Finsbury park, London. A terrapin laying eggs! Think they'll hatch? I believe most of the terrapins in the UK are released pets
#wildlife #turtle

[Dr Addy Lowe @adriana_lowe]

NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on.

Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials...

@ARIES_DTP @UKRI_News @NERCscience

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Good morning from this amazing Jewelled Spider 🕷☀️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is a Pharaoh Cuttlefish and it's able to perfectly mimic a hermit crab [video: https://t.co/ABMTSRZJae] [read more: https://t.co/bgSsAHmVja]

[Anusha Shankar @nushiamme]

Torpor is an incredible strategy that continues to blow my mind🤯. Animals in torpor allow their body temperature to drop, slowing their metabolism and saving energy. In this composite thermal image of a blue-throated mountain-gem: left- asleep, right- torpor. 1/5