Patrick Lewin
@plewin.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist interested in navigation, migration and collective behaviour, especially in birds | DPhil student in the OxNav group studying Manx shearwaters | BTO ringing trainer
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Patrick Lewin
@plewin.bsky.social
· Mar 27
Hi everyone 👋 A long overdue first post on here and an introduction to who I am and what I do 🪶
I’m Paddy, a DPhil student researching navigation in birds as part of the OxNav group. You can take a look at the kinds of things we do here: oxnav.org but I’ll tell you a bit more about myself🧵
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I’m Paddy, a DPhil student researching navigation in birds as part of the OxNav group. You can take a look at the kinds of things we do here: oxnav.org but I’ll tell you a bit more about myself🧵
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I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:
The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control
Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.
theconversation.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:
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My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
January 30, 2026 at 10:21 AM
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
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In theory, nature markets allow governments to attract more private investment and diversify funds that help restore nature. The reality is much more complicated.
New from Sophus zu Ermgassen @iccs.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
theconversation.com/how-to-make-...
New from Sophus zu Ermgassen @iccs.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
theconversation.com/how-to-make-...
How to make sure the nature credits you buy are real – new research
Four essentials are crucial for establishing scientifically credible nature markets.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
In theory, nature markets allow governments to attract more private investment and diversify funds that help restore nature. The reality is much more complicated.
New from Sophus zu Ermgassen @iccs.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
theconversation.com/how-to-make-...
New from Sophus zu Ermgassen @iccs.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
theconversation.com/how-to-make-...
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Super honoured to have contributed to this paper, led by the brilliant Sophus zu Ermgassen! We use our experience evaluating nature markets from around the world and derive 5 'golden' rules for the design and implementation of markets that deliver scientifically-credible outcomes. 🌱
rdcu.be/eYFx8
rdcu.be/eYFx8
Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets
Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Perspective synthesizes insights from the past use of nature markets to identify design factors that are necessary if such markets are to achieve their...
rdcu.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Super honoured to have contributed to this paper, led by the brilliant Sophus zu Ermgassen! We use our experience evaluating nature markets from around the world and derive 5 'golden' rules for the design and implementation of markets that deliver scientifically-credible outcomes. 🌱
rdcu.be/eYFx8
rdcu.be/eYFx8
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🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
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Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦⬛🏝️ #pgg59
January 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦⬛🏝️ #pgg59
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Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds
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We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
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I had a very enjoyable time at #ASABWinter2025 and was delighted to present a poster on my work on bird visual fields! Thanks to the organisers @asab-meetings.bsky.social for a sociable and useful few days.
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I had a very enjoyable time at #ASABWinter2025 and was delighted to present a poster on my work on bird visual fields! Thanks to the organisers @asab-meetings.bsky.social for a sociable and useful few days.
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PhD student @ghtrabin.bsky.social with his great poster at ASAB, all about avian visual fields! Along with @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @gayatrikumar.bsky.social, a great group of first year postgrads doing research in bird flight and vision. Give them a follow!
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
PhD student @ghtrabin.bsky.social with his great poster at ASAB, all about avian visual fields! Along with @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @gayatrikumar.bsky.social, a great group of first year postgrads doing research in bird flight and vision. Give them a follow!
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Congratulations to #ASABWinter2025 best talk winner Jonah Walker (“Multimodal signalling and mate choice across peacock spider species“) and poster winners Helena Norman, Joey Baxter and James Robertshaw 🙌🎨🏆
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Congratulations to #ASABWinter2025 best talk winner Jonah Walker (“Multimodal signalling and mate choice across peacock spider species“) and poster winners Helena Norman, Joey Baxter and James Robertshaw 🙌🎨🏆
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And an especial congrats to Innes on his retirement! Jolyon had everyone stand up who worked with or had been taught by Innes - it was very touching 🥺 So many standing! #ASABWinter2025
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
And an especial congrats to Innes on his retirement! Jolyon had everyone stand up who worked with or had been taught by Innes - it was very touching 🥺 So many standing! #ASABWinter2025
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🎉 Congratulations to @tashgillies.bsky.social and @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social, the runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award! 🏆
Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q
#ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution
Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q
#ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎉 Congratulations to @tashgillies.bsky.social and @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social, the runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award! 🏆
Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q
#ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution
Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q
#ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution
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Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴 ! #ASABWinter2025
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴 ! #ASABWinter2025
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New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.
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We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
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We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
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🦉 Ecology of Animal Migration course in Lund 🐦⬛
I got the chance to join this inspiring PhD course at @biologylu.bsky.social. It was very well organized with fascinating lectures, a birdful excursion to Falsterbo and fantastic people doing fantastic research! #ecology #animalmigration
I got the chance to join this inspiring PhD course at @biologylu.bsky.social. It was very well organized with fascinating lectures, a birdful excursion to Falsterbo and fantastic people doing fantastic research! #ecology #animalmigration
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🦉 Ecology of Animal Migration course in Lund 🐦⬛
I got the chance to join this inspiring PhD course at @biologylu.bsky.social. It was very well organized with fascinating lectures, a birdful excursion to Falsterbo and fantastic people doing fantastic research! #ecology #animalmigration
I got the chance to join this inspiring PhD course at @biologylu.bsky.social. It was very well organized with fascinating lectures, a birdful excursion to Falsterbo and fantastic people doing fantastic research! #ecology #animalmigration
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Much enjoyed learning about how to study bird migration with radar whilst on the roof of Lund University. youtu.be/0sB5On1gLsg?...
Studying bird migration with radar
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Much enjoyed learning about how to study bird migration with radar whilst on the roof of Lund University. youtu.be/0sB5On1gLsg?...
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We had a new paper out yesterday in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. About how the cranial feathers of male Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants affect their visual fields. Nice to see it picked up The New York Times and Science. Paper link below.
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We had a new paper out yesterday in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. About how the cranial feathers of male Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants affect their visual fields. Nice to see it picked up The New York Times and Science. Paper link below.
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Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
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Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
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New paper out, the last one from my PhD 🎓! Age shapes behaviour, survival, and reproduction. By using longterm great tit data, we ask whether age covaries with territory quality, and if territories show spatial age structure over time: tinyurl.com/ya2xp3zc
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New paper out, the last one from my PhD 🎓! Age shapes behaviour, survival, and reproduction. By using longterm great tit data, we ask whether age covaries with territory quality, and if territories show spatial age structure over time: tinyurl.com/ya2xp3zc
Fantastic day trip to Falsterbo as part of the animal migration course here in Lund. Glossy ibis, rough-legged buzzard, waxwings, black kite, great grey shrike and twite amidst hundreds of finches, thrushes and wood pigeons overhead.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fantastic day trip to Falsterbo as part of the animal migration course here in Lund. Glossy ibis, rough-legged buzzard, waxwings, black kite, great grey shrike and twite amidst hundreds of finches, thrushes and wood pigeons overhead.
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm