Denise Wawman
Bird ringer. Birder. UK Hippoboscidae Recorder (flat flies/louse flies/keds). Former NHS GP, studying flat flies & keds role as vectors and avian diseases. Bird related side projects. Natural history. Based in Oxford and on Exmoor.
- Reposted by Denise WawmanThis paper addresses the fundamental challenge with wet collection specimen containers: their loss of stability over time. Read about how the museum's collection was used to investigate this problem: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.181881
- Reposted by Denise WawmanTo show how widespread SGAR rat poison is in UK, we found 4 out of 5 Sparrowhawks are also dosed with it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... You might well ask how a predator that eats birds gets dosed with rat poison? Answer: people chuck it everywhere and it's in insects, songbirds, everything.
- A bit late for #WildFlowerHour but these two were the only wild flowers I found on this part of Exmoor yesterday- Valerian and daisy.
- Reposted by Denise WawmanCost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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- My first louse (flat) flies of the year! Stenepteryx (Crataerina) hirundinis puparia (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) with flies emerging about 5 months early. I probably should have kept them somewhere cooler!
- Moon through clouds.
- Reposted by Denise WawmanExcited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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- Reposted by Denise WawmanThis #postdoc position is now officially advertised: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-.... #hiring #newPI #CzechScienceFoundation #LFEE
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- Reposted by Denise WawmanIf you work on genomics of Lepidoptera in Europe and would like to do a short-term research exchange, you can apply for a short term scientific mission through our COST Action. See details below.
- (1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣 The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the second call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs Keep reading for all the details 👇
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- It was a great meeting, with some really interesting talks, and useful discussions during the day.
- They are all in good condition too. Really enjoyed my visit with @dipteristsforum.bsky.social today.
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- More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
- Another new Hippoboscidae described, this time from Singapore.
- Reposted by Denise WawmanNow that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
- I suppose I ought to start thinking about what I am going to talk about - flat flies I guess!
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- Description of Ornithomya palmae, a new species of louse fly from the Canary Islands is published with @borjamila.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
- Reposted by Denise WawmanJOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
- Any comments on this gull, please. Tesco's carpark, Minehead, Somerset, UK. April 2025. Black eye but eye-ring is yellowish. Third winter Herring Gull that has survived avian influenza? @tmbirding.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Denise WawmanWe're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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- The cloud finally cleared a while after totality of tonight’s lunar eclipse.
- Hummingbird Hawk-moth, on Valerian, Minehead, yesterday evening. #TeamMoth
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- Weekend challenge, can you get further than the second paragraph of this paper without falling asleep? Or maybe you just need something to help you to dose off? In case you are wondering, it's part of the second chapter of my DPhil. doi.org/10.1007/s116...
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- Must time for bed, a Nightjar is flying around the field outside my window.
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- Reposted by Denise WawmanIn an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
- Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
- You can click on the link to see the figures for your region, country or city. showyourstripes.info/c/europe/uni...
- Reposted by Denise Wawman🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉 The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week! 🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist... 💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...
- One on my papers was judged the best ECR paper in Medical and Veterinary Entomology in 2024.
- Reposted by Denise WawmanExcited to share our new paper in Molecular Ecology! Using whole-genome and morphological data from silvereyes, we explore their evolutionary history and find that water barriers are more effective than continental distances in driving population divergence 🐤🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
