DPhil in Biology - University of Oxford
Sexual Selection | Thermal Ecology | Evolution | Herpetology
Maria Filippou
Last talks of #ASABSpring2026, covering wasp host detection, fish mate choice, frog individual variation, mouse daytime activity, bird nest entrances, chimp tool use & sparrow polyandry! 🐝🐟🐸🐁🪺🐵🐦
Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026
4000 people visited the Oxford Natural History Museum for Super Science Saturday! @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🧪
From exploring sheddings to handling specimens, it was amazing to see so many children and their families excited about scales and locomotion 🐍
Future herpetologists in the making!
Well done Maria who presented her MRes, on the fitness consequences of female extra-pair mating in sparrows, at @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Paper to follow later this year 🤞
#ornithology
Body condition and acoustic noise modify female responses to uni and multimodal signals emitted by a male-mimicking robot frog
#MateChoice #Frog
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Sperm can “age” independently of the male, when stored in male or female reproductive tracts. Our meta-analysis finds widespread evidence across animals (including abstinence in men). Important consequences for fertility, sexual selection, haploid selection!
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨
It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋
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Maria Filippou
ASAB Spring 2026
ASAB Spring 2026
Maria Filippou
Jamie Dunning
Behavioral Ecology
Krish Sanghvi
Big congrats to our video contest winner Amaia Alcalde and runner up Taruna Verma, poster winners Ayla Webb (PhD) and Maria Maclaren (MSc), and talk winners Charlotte Wiltshire (PhD) and Maria Filippou (MSc)! #ASABSpring2026
