Today at #bes2025 we have @elliswiersma.bsky.social talking about breeding phenology at 11:30, @mattjsilk.bsky.social presenting the benefits of sociality at 12:30 and @barnardlucy.bsky.social presenting a poster on epigenetic ageing (B17.16)

Announcing our Tup of the Trip! DR093 weighed in at 42kg he is our heaviest tup since 2021 and the 10th heaviest November measurement ever. Safe to say that great condition showed, we observed him in 17 consorts over the month 😍🔭🐏

We’ve got snow! Good thing the sheep are all wrapped up in their woolly jackets 🔭🐑

Delighted to receive this late season record of a 1cy Ring-necked Duck on #StKilda yesterday from @soaysheep.bsky.social researcher Xavier Bal. A 2nd island record after the first in 2000! Thanks for this fab 📷 @barnardlucy.bsky.social 🙂 @birdguides.bsky.social @hebridesbirds.bsky.social

Census 6 completed! The tups are really starting to size each other up now, either guarding males or hanging around in groups like this particularly large one

Safe to say the sheepies are hiding inside a lot of today 🔭🐑

Back out counting sheep! 🔭🐑 @soaysheep.bsky.social

Excited to share my poster @eseb2025.bsky.social at this evening’s poster session. Come along and chat all things sheep!

🔭🐑 Our summer field team have been busy beavering away and have completed their 10 censuses of the village bay population (picured). Over ten days a team of three will go out and count all the sheep in this area, tagged and untagged, so we know who is where and who they are grouping with.

💻🐑 Update! Back on the mainland our team at @sheffielduni.bsky.social have been beavering away and have finished extracting DNA and aligning over 1000 whole sheep genomes as part of an exciting new project. Keep an eye out for more as the work progresses.

Exciting day! My master's thesis with some extra insights has just been published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. Huge thanks to my supervisors at @srucnews.bsky.social. Have a read here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔭🐑 Check it out! With the lambing team back on the mainland have a look at the stats for the arrival of the Echo Orange cohort of 2025!

🔭🐑 The first lambs have arrived, and spot on time from consort sightings in November! Soon village bay will be full of skipping lambs and frantic field workers....🏃‍♀️‍➡️

Had a great time last week learning all about science communication and storytelling with @gensocuk.bsky.social at the amazing Chicheley Hall

Sheepie News! A perspective piece in @natureaging.bsky.social highlights the importance of long term research and how St Kilda Soay sheep project provides a powerful model for understanding why ageing process varies under complex environmental conditions. Check it out: doi.org/10.1038/s435... 📰🐑