My first empirical work from my postdoc with Alastair Wilson is out now in Functional Ecology (open access). We take a pretty deep dive into analysing individual variation in behavioural plasticity, including comparing multivariate among-individual behaviour across contexts, testing for a single underlying axis of variation, etc. The supplementary information also includes some R code showing how we did the main analyses, and the dataset is available on Dryad.

This paper also got a lot of traction in the popular press due to us showing that guppy ‘personality’ (i.e., consistent individual differences in behaviour) exists, is more complex than might have been thought, and persists across different stressors (which had large effects on the average behaviour in the population). Some of the articles are linked in my Media & Outreach page, and the video of my interview on BBC World News is embedded below.

Here’s a clip of @tomhouslay talking guppy personalities on @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/KvWAUgXMtg

— Exeter Uni News (@ExeterUniNews) September 28, 2017