Dr Kris Sales

Our 1st paper (go.nature.com/2PrQgB2) showing #heatwave damage to #male #reproduction & #sperm in a #insect model; out in @NatureComms! Thanks to @gage_matt @vasudeva_ram @joannelgodwin @AldinaFranco Matt D, Aly L, Lukasz M, Laura H & Paul T. 🌞🐞 @ueaceec @biouea @EnvEast.

Interested in putting the heat on insect reproduction? #SEBconference Please check out a YS Award Session talk (1/6 935-1005), and/or today’s ‘warm up ;)’ poster A4.48 (30/7 1245-1315). Thanks to @jessiegardner01, @vasudeva_ram & @gage_matt for their feedback. Thanks @SEBiology.

2 yr(!) gap update. End of great 10 yrs in @ueabio. Thanks for much advice & fun, @ueaceec & @EnvEast people. Especially members of @gage_matt & @AlexeiMaklakov labs! Covid times: preparing teaching in @Science_Corps & marine bio in @NorskPolar. Loving start in @Forest_Research.

Submitted my thesis today 🐝🎉🍻 massive thanks to everyone in @ueaceec for making the last four years an absolute pleasure!

Interesting talk from @KrisSales1992 showing that heat waves impact more on male reproduction than on female's and can have transgenerational effects in flour beetles #ecobehav2019 #climatechange

. @KrisSales1992 with my favourite sentence of #ecobehav2019 “A male will mate with anything; females, males and corpses”

Interested in how heat🔥 waves 🌊 affect hot topic of animal reproduction? Check it out!➡️matthewgagelab.com/research/heatw… And cool poster of @KrisSales1992 on #ecobehav2019

Great designs + range of posters #ecobehav2019. @sm_oscar, glossy ibis recruitment in extreme weather; @Noclbito @Kseniia_Kravch, Noctule bat feeding + hibernation; @EcoMorgan, pollinator attraction to native NZ plants; M. Monier, female mate-choice copying behaviour regulation

Diverse day 1 talks #ecobehav2019. @TomRatz01 potential terminal investment in infected burying beetles; @Tifftastic87 maternal care in cichlids changing son's brain shape + aggressiveness; @LuisanaCarballo sperm length + variance linked to sperm comp risk across parrot spp.

British academics are struggling with the highly competitive, numerous rejections, individualised, metric-obsessed, ratcheting up of workload + expectations, + shifting promotion requirements of our daily jobs. But the answer is NOT individual resilience theguardian.com/education/2019…

Excited for #ecobehav2019; programs packed with talks/posters. Took scenic route through Toulouse, even made friends with a red squirrel! Worth the sore feet. If anyone’s interested in #heatwaves, #insects and glow-in-dark #sperm: thursday 1445.@EcoBehav2019

Great #ceecrebellion2019 talk from @KrisSales1992 on effects of heatwaves on insect reproduction, and including lovely recognition of the wonderfully friendly and supportive colleagues that make up @ueaceec. Well said Kris!

Well done Kris Sales - PhD!! Many thanks to Klaus Fischer, Richard Davies and Gabriella Kelemen for expert examining.

Great #CEECRebellion2019 pub quiz with some beautiful/disturbing face swaps 😂 @gage_matt @RBrock94 @KrisSales1992 @CEECRebellion

The newly turned Dr @KrisSales1992 is up next, giving us part 3 of putting heat on insect reproduction! #CEECRebellion2019 🎓🎉

Another successful #CEECRebellion2019 comes to an end! Huge thanks to all of this years committee members! 🎉

Super proud of @KrisSales1992 for passing his viva! Well done Dr Sales! #PhD #phdchat @biouea @ueaceec @EnvEast

@jessiegardner01 @biouea @ueaceec @EnvEast The past year hasn't been the easiest mentally. The thesis thanks dozens who have helped. But there are several whos supports been essential: @jessiegardner01 @A_Renzulli1 @Tash_Senior @garlicjen @benhwhite @EA_Fairfield @vasudeva_ram @_DavidSMurray #phdlife #BeTheMateYoudWant

Final plenary of @CEECRebellion2019; @drredshank highlighting diversity of #conservation methods used to save #waders , like limiting #predation. #CEECRebellion2019

Diversity on @CEECRebellion2019 Day 2! @EdIvimeyCook inter-generation #ageing effects across species, @RBrock94 bottlenecking in british #bumblebees, @nashalselection expanding potential genetic analyses, @katiebee1991 how landfill feeding impacts #stork migration.

Day 2 @CEECRebellion2019 kicks off with Plenary Dr Amanda Bretman returning to @ueaceec to talk about how the social environment changes fruit fly #mating #behaviour. What senses and information males use to recognise compeitiors then how this changes their #courtship + #success