Emma Whittington
@emmawhitt.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow researching male-female postmating interactions and speciation at the University of St Andrews, UK . She/Her. Hobbies include knitting and trying to grow vegetables.
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I've been running around like a headless chicken all day and am very frazzled, so I am going to eat some popcorn and see if I can muster some thoughts about research culture.
(These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)
(These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I've been running around like a headless chicken all day and am very frazzled, so I am going to eat some popcorn and see if I can muster some thoughts about research culture.
(These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)
(These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)
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Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker
Sexual selection in wild populations of seed bugs: the role of size in pre-copulatory mate choice by females and males
Abstract. Although sexual selection is a well-established part of evolutionary biology, controversies remain about the roles of males and females. For inst
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
@opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker
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When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...
Reposted by Emma Whittington
I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.
CRE reunion at BoS17! @nalini-drp.bsky.social @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @yazbraimah.bsky.social plus Zee and Stefan.
September 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
CRE reunion at BoS17! @nalini-drp.bsky.social @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @yazbraimah.bsky.social plus Zee and Stefan.
Sharing because I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. I knitted a bag with strawberries on it for my niece's first birthday. I even managed to line it and add drawstrings.
August 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sharing because I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. I knitted a bag with strawberries on it for my niece's first birthday. I even managed to line it and add drawstrings.
New account - It turns out that changing your email includes Bluesky sending a verification code to your current address. Unfortunately, mine had expired, so here we are.
August 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New account - It turns out that changing your email includes Bluesky sending a verification code to your current address. Unfortunately, mine had expired, so here we are.