@devisatarkar.bsky.social
DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford | studying the impact of climatic instability on wild birds 🌱🪺🪶
Interested in fighting, flies, and evolution? I've got a project at Durham investigating the ecology, evolution, and genetics of aggression in fruit flies (Drosophila): iapetus.ac.uk/studentships.... All questions welcome - just shoot me a message or email!
11.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our study offers crucial insights into how wild populations may fare amid ongoing climate change, revealing how life history trajectories are shaped by interacting climate stressors and prevailing environmental conditions. Highly relevant as extreme events increase in frequency and intensity! ⛈️ ❄️ 🔥
14.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Combined effects can worsen outcomes! When chicks face extreme heat + heavy rain, their mass at fledging can reduce dramatically (up to 27% 🔥). Timing is also important. Late broods within a season are predicted to suffer the most, fledging up to 35% lighter under extreme heat and rain ⛈️
14.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We show that cold snaps hit young hatchlings hardest, while older nestlings are more affected by extreme rain and heat — likely because these conditions indirectly influence the abundance and activity of caterpillars, the great tit’s main food source 🐛
14.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
a 14 day old great tit nestling, ringed for individual identification
Figure from the paper showing that extreme climatic events interact with ambient climatic conditions and breeding timing within a season, in a developmental stage-specific manner, to influence nestling growth in great tits
New preprint! 🪶
We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️
With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@devisatarkar.bsky.social gave beautiful talk on the extent to which social network traits are heritable vs. shaped by the spatial & social environment at birth using long-term data on blue tits 🐣🧬
@behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org
Thank you so much!!
29.08.2025 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wild great tits signal ‘divorce’ long before the breeding season — even in the winter, months before the couples rebreed with different partners in the following spring
New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇
bit.ly/4lRt7TN
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Great tit at Bagley Woods by David López Idiáquez, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford.
New research shows that the early-life environment of great tits shapes their adult behaviour more than their genetics 🐦🍃.
Read more here ⬇️
bit.ly/40SkDDT
@devisatarkar.bsky.social, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @iremsepil.bsky.social
📷 @davididiaquez.bsky.social
Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print
07.01.2025 18:31 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Had such a wonderful time at #ECBB2024 where I had the privilege of presenting my PhD work at an international conference for the first time ever! Beautiful city & campus and absolutely brilliant people & research 🤩
Thanks to everyone for being so encouraging about my work 🐣
@Ben_Sheldon_EGI @iremsepil
17.07.2024 16:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share the first preprint from my PhD https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.11.603055 Turns out social phenotypes are not heritable in great tits!
Presenting this at #ECBB2024 tomorrow (10 am, Meerkat room). Please come along if you like social networks and birds!...
Presented my first ever poster at the @royalsociety conference on age and sociality this week and immensely enjoyed 2 days of really cool research and chatting with even cooler people 🤩
Massive thanks to the organisers for such an enlightening meeting ✨
Wonderful talk this evening by @WhySharksMatter at @morethanadodo. So many cool shark facts & anecdotes!
TIL that some female sharks can just birth clones of themselves🦈 they don’t need no man 🫢
Great insights on irresponsible conservation actions due to misinformation too
The review also has comprehensive descriptions of the structure and function of the receptor. Along with how it was discovered and how it came to be ✨
There's more about wound healing 🩹 in there too, with a special focus on zebrafish 🐟 research! @FrontCellDevBio
this.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2022.882017/full
Excited to share my 1st ever paper that got published last week! It's a #review on the role of CXCR3 (a chemokine receptor) in neuronal 🧠 and cardiovascular 🫀 diseases. Beyond grateful for @drchinmoypatra's encouragement and guidance as I wrote...
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