About

Hello, I'm Robyn (they/them) and I am a bird scientist turned artist and data analyst based in the UK.My main artistic influences are the natural world, fantasy stories, and 2D animation.

I have contributed illustrations to the following organisations:

Watercolour

Gouache

Scientific Publications

  • PhD Thesis: (2020) Clocks in the wild: biological rhythms of great tits and the environment. University of Glasgow. https://theses.gla.ac.uk/75058/

  • Capilla-Lasheras P., Womack R. J., McGlade C. L. O., Branston C. J., Dominoni D. M., Helm B. (2025). It pays to sit tight: stable night-time incubation increases hatching success in urban and forest great tits, Parus major. Zoological Science 1:144-152.

  • McGlade C. L. O., Capilla-Lasheras P., Womack R. J., Helm B., Dominoni D. M. (2023). Experimental light at night explains differences in activity onset between urban and forest Great tits. Biology Letters 19, 20230194.

  • Womack R. J. * , Capilla-Lasheras P. *, McGlade C. L. O., Dominoni D. M., Helm B. (2023). Reproductive fitness is associated with female chronotype in a songbird. Animal Behaviour 205, 65-78. * shared first authorship.

  • Helm, B., Womack, R. J. (2018). Timing Matters: Allochronic Contributions to Population Divergence. In: Tietze, D. Bird Species. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91689-7_6.

  • Jacobs A., Womack R., Chen M., Gharbi K. & Elmer K.R. (2017). Significant synteny and co-localisation of ecologically relevant quantitative trait loci within and across species of salmonid fishes. Genetics 207(2), 741-754.