Tilly Pembury Smith

PhD student at Stockholm University.
Interested in sexual selection, sexual conflict, and all things sperm.
Spend most of my time looking at flies 🪰

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Thank you @ISBE2024 for an incredible conference! Fantastic talks, new and old friends and more parrots than I ever thought were possible 🦜🇦🇺 #ISBE2024

[Samyuktha Rajan @SamyukthaRajan]

I’m so excited! My first-first author paper AND the first chapter of my PhD is now out in @CurrentBiology : ‘Translocated wild birds are predisposed to learn songs of their ancestral population’: https://t.co/9mjj7Cxp48

1/📖 Read on for a short description:

[Rosana Ferrero 📈📊🙌 @RosanaFerrero]

🧠💡¿Están los investigadores pasando por alto la prueba de McNemar (que involucra datos binomiales pareados)? ¿Qué hipótesis evalúa? ¿Cuándo y cómo aplicar esta prueba de manera efectiva en #Rstats? ¿Cuáles son sus variantes e interpretaciones?
https://t.co/mteGFgxtVf
#stats

[Department of Zoology @Zoology_SU]

🚨Exciting 2 year postdoctoral scholarship position available examining the evolution of sperm cell shape and motion. Application due February 15th! Full job description and where to apply here: https://t.co/5R39cLkPzh

[Erin Macartney @Erin_Macartney_]

🚨 A great way to start the new years! New #metaanalysis with @itchyshin, @RhondaSnook1, Kyle Morrison & Malgorzata Lagisz examining the correlations between post-copulatory traits and competitive fertilisation success 🥳. Will write a thread soon 🤓
https://t.co/8V7zpQO5Kr

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

For the run up to Christmas I ran a department twitter Advent calendar! Enjoy a thread of festive facts about the fun things happening in the Zoology department at Stockholm!

[Department of Zoology @Zoology_SU]

To celebrate the run up to Christmas, each day we will be tweeting a festive fact about the Zoology department and the exciting research being done at @Stockholm_Uni! Here is a🧵of the 24 days of Zootis:

[Mariana Wolfner Lab @WolfnerLab]

Thrilled to share the final version of this story! Another chapter in the endlessly fascinating world of reproductive fluids, led by former grad student @NoraAndFauna 🪰💓🪰

[Department of Zoology @Zoology_SU]

Day 21: You may think sperm have one job: to fertilise an egg, but you would be wrong! @TillyPembSmith examines sperm heteromorphism in the butterfly Pieris napi. This species produces two types of sperm: a long fertilising sperm and a short non-fertilising sperm (see picture).

[Erin Macartney @Erin_Macartney_]

The best beer for our sperm lab Xmas walk, courtesy of @sperm_ecology 😍

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Had such a wonderful time at #BiologyofSperm2023. Fascinating talks, great discussions, and all round lovely people! Couldn't have asked for a better first conference.

[Rhonda Snook @RhondaSnook1]

For those of you still here, I have a fully funded PhD position open to study the consequences of climate warming on butterfly reproduction. Applications open until Feb. 15. Details of the position here https://t.co/scoquC3QOK
Please retweet!

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Quite tempted to get @OpenAI's #ChatGPT to write my entire PhD thesis in rhyme...

[Sorkfeber @separerad]

Vanligaste frågan jag får som doktorand som jobbar med bananflugor är hur man blir av med dem. Här kommer fälltips! Ta ett glas med lite vinäger och gör en papperstratt med en öppning på ca 0,5 cm i diameter. Tejpa kanterna mellan tratt och glas så de inte smiter ut. Voilà!

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Making the best kind of friends at #ISBE2022 🪰

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana, and also cunnilingus.

Yep, it's true. Some Drosophila practice oral sex. And that's probably not the wildest thing you're going to learn about fruit fly sex today.

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

@matthewcobb Haha! It's for Queenie (very unusual I know)! It's such a long name I usually missed out my middle names on forms at Manchester! You are not the first to ask, a lot of people have emailed me since publishing work. I believe it was quite a spur of the moment naming decision!

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Ever wondered how fast a "snail's pace" actually is? My paper on the influences of size and substrate on gastropod speed is out in @JZoology 🐌 Read it here: https://t.co/9jTrIMRCWJ

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Sexual selection ✔️ Dinosaurs ✔️ Such a cool paper!!

[Tilly Pembury Smith @TillyPembSmith]

Loved this episode of @themonkeycage ! Especially the shout out to how cool Drosophila sperm is at the end. I'll be sure to send it onto my friends when I next get asked "why have you decided to dedicate the next 4 years of your life to looking at fly sperm?"

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

Want some more flies? Some more Brian Fox? Some more @themonkeycage? Well on Monday it’s back with regular hosts @ProfBrianCox & @robinince featuring yours truly with fly loving @matthewcobb & maybe not so much loving @Baddiel 😉 #flies

https://t.co/R95eC0VJRz