Scientist. Physiologist, Zoologist, Ornithologist - Assoc Prof at The University of Oxford. Associate Ed at RSocPublishing 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🐦🎾
Steve Portugal
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Mandarin Duck!
These dune flies perform 41 courtship moves, but isolated populations still kept nearly identical routines. Only the timing of one wing movement showed a hint of divergence. doi.org/cmdm6b
Receptor distribution of South American sea lion, Burmeister’s porpoise, Magellanic penguin: widespread expression of Sia receptors + H5 rHA binding in bronchial and alveolar epithelium of the lung, meninges and vascular endothelium of neural tissues.
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Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised!
Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida)
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Steve Portugal
Steve Portugal
The Papay breeding season in full swing #OrkneyBirding
🚨Job alert!!🚨
I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC.
Deadline: 8 July 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...
I'm looking for a post-doc to work on the interaction between past hydrological changes and vegetation in a disturbed peatland, using paleoecological and modelling approaches. The post-doc duration is 18 months and start date is any time before Jan 2027. DM if you are interested / have questions! 🌿🧪
I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑
Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer
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Steve Portugal
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PhD student position in Population Genomics , Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
"Love makes fools of all of us," wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering necks hop, pirouette, coo, and bow to capture the attention of unimpressed females.
