Channel: Sally Le Page

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: Two years and 86,810 flies later, and I've finally published my first ever scientific paper, all about fly sex and relatedness! It's called "Male relatedness and familiarity are required to module male-induced harm to females in Drosophila" and it's open access in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which means you can read it for free at: rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1860/20170441 Press release version: zoo.ox.ac.uk/node/556 Over the next few weeks, I'll be making videos about my research, so let me know what topics you want me to cover. Did you know that scientists actually track how many times a paper gets shared, tweeted, blogged about etc. in a measurment called "Altmetrics" (altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetrics/). This means that I can actually use how many shares it gets as a valid measurement of the paper's success! So go share it! My research is funded by the BBSRC as part of a DTP studentship award with the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Me: YouTube: youtube.com/shedscience Twitter: twitter.com/sallylepage Facebook: facebook.com/shedscience Instagram: instagram.com/sallylepage Snapchat: sally.lepage Website: sallylepage.co.uk Patreon: patreon.com/sallylepage