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Click here to listen to an audio clip ​ I was interviewed by the BBC World Service’s Newshour program about my then-recently-published study in which we tracked every flight made by bumblebee workers throughout their entire lives (Woodgate et al 2016 ). I’ve done quite a few radio interviews over the years, but they don’t seem to stick around in cyberspace the way print media do and I don’t think any others are still accessible. ​

Science Here, you can find details about my research career Papers Research papers are the main output from most academic research. They are where we explain what we’ve done and what we think it means. In this section, I explain the science behind each of my published papers. You can also read the published versions or visit the journal websites. Other writing I am gradually adding links to various bits of writing I've done for a generalist, non-technical audience, including several popular science pieces for The Conversation, explaining my research, which were quite widely republished. Data visualisation One of my favourite aspects of scientific research is finding new ways to visualise data. When done well, a good visualisation makes clear the relationships between variables and allows you to see beneath the surface to get a feel for how things really work. ​ Here, I show a few of my favourite examples from my own research. Media appearances Like many researchers, I'm passionate about what I do, and I want to tell people why it's so exciting. It simply doesn't make sense to discover interesting and useful things about the world, unless we pass on our findings to th e public, so I'm always keen to do outreach. My research has been featured on several TV documentaries, over the years. I look and sound fairly ridiculous, but here are some clips, if you want them. Press Most scientists do what they do because they genuinely believe it's useful to society, so it can be a little dispiriting to publish your research and find that only a handful of other researchers ever know about it. Some of my scientific discoveries have garnered a gratifying amount of press attention, though. It means a lot to me to have the public be able to discover this work. Here are a few press clippings. Links I've been very fortunate to have worked with and been mentored by a lot of very inspiring scientists. Here are some links to their various endeavours.

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Woodgate et al. (2016) PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160333 Life-long radar tracking of bumblebees Check back later for further details.

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Woodgate et al. (2011) Behavioral Ecology 22: 566-573 Developmental stressors that impair song learning in males do not appear to affect female preferences for song complexity in the zebra finch Check back later for further details.

Woodgate et al. (2017) Scientific Reports 7: 17323 Continuous radar tracking illustrates the development of multi-destination routes of bumblebees Check back later for further details.

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Data Visualisation Looking for insights in datasets Visualising trapline route development A bumblebee worker repeatedly forages on the same flowers, gathering nectar to bring back to her nest. This video illustrates the way her route evolves over time: repeated parts of the route are reinforced and grow brighter, while abandoned portions fade away. After around 60 trips, she has settled on a repeatable and efficient flightpath (although it’s not the best possible route). Click here to read more and watch the route development of two more bees. The life story of a bumblebee We used harmonic radar technology to track every movement made by a worker bumblebee throughout her entire life. This video illustrates her whole life as a forager, from her first explorations of the world to her later dedication to collecting food for her nestmates. Click here to read more about how I created the video. Where do honeybee males look for sex? This image combines visuals from several analyses to summarise my research on the previously mysterious movements of male honeybees, known as drones. These drones have only one purpose in life - to try to mate - but because they do it high in the air, no-one quite knew where. We attached an electronic transponder to 76 drones (top right), which allowed us to track their movements using harmonic radar (top left), revealing their secrets for the first time. ​ Click here to learn more about what this picture tells us about honeybee mating behaviour. Comparing flight paths Flight 8 Flight 15 Comparison As a bumblebee worker gains experience foraging from an array of flowers, her flight path evolves. I developed a way to visualise how similar each flight is to the flight before. The first two images show two separate flights by the same bee at different stages of learning. The final image shows the probability that she utilised the same parts of the landscape on each flight. Some parts of the two flights were almost identical (the stretch from the nest to the first feeder at bottom right, and an unexpected, but very repeatable detour at the top of the image), while other legs of the journey (notably the movements between feeders in the centre of the image) changed drastically between flights. ​ Click here to learn more about how I created these images.