Dr Bryony Blades
@bryonyblades.bsky.social
Postdoc @ou-eees.bsky.social🦎 DPhil @biology.ox.ac.uk 🪲 Biodiversity, climate, ecology, species distributions, landscape genomics, conservation 🌳
🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
2026-OU06 Co-evolution of insects and angiosperms – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
If I asked you to picture the Zambezi River, I'm sure this wouldn't be what comes to mind! More often captured where it's vast and powerful, I was lucky enough to visit the quiet source of Africa's fourth-longest river on fieldwork in Zambia in 2022.
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If I asked you to picture the Zambezi River, I'm sure this wouldn't be what comes to mind! More often captured where it's vast and powerful, I was lucky enough to visit the quiet source of Africa's fourth-longest river on fieldwork in Zambia in 2022.
Beyond delighted to share that I passed my viva on Friday! Thank you to everyone who helped me get here, I couldn’t be more grateful.
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Beyond delighted to share that I passed my viva on Friday! Thank you to everyone who helped me get here, I couldn’t be more grateful.
Delighted to have started my postdoc on the SABER project yesterday. Thank you so much @neil-r-edwards.bsky.social for the welcome, I’m so glad to be on board and can’t wait to get stuck in!
A shout for our paper modelling ancient climates with @sabinzahirovic.bsky.social and a big HELLO to @bryonyblades.bsky.social started today working with me, @palaeosingh.bsky.social and team on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Amazon #biodiversity modelling project SABER www.nature.com/articles/s43...
July 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Delighted to have started my postdoc on the SABER project yesterday. Thank you so much @neil-r-edwards.bsky.social for the welcome, I’m so glad to be on board and can’t wait to get stuck in!
Absolutely delighted to share that I submitted my DPhil thesis last week after 3.5 years delving into the world of biodiversity data. Thank you to everyone who helped me get to this point. Next stop, a postdoc modelling the evolution of Amazonian biodiversity at the Open University! I can’t wait.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Absolutely delighted to share that I submitted my DPhil thesis last week after 3.5 years delving into the world of biodiversity data. Thank you to everyone who helped me get to this point. Next stop, a postdoc modelling the evolution of Amazonian biodiversity at the Open University! I can’t wait.
One of the best parts of my PhD was my research stay in Joaquín's group in Madrid, and I'm delighted that the fruits of our labour has now been officially published!
A great paper by @bryonyblades.bsky.social shows that mobilising data from recent surveys by taxonomists and other specialists complements the spatial and climatic coverage and reduces bias in data on insect distributions from @gbif.org. @cristinaronquillo.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social 🌐🧪
April 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
One of the best parts of my PhD was my research stay in Joaquín's group in Madrid, and I'm delighted that the fruits of our labour has now been officially published!
Great to see this summary of our recent work! Muchas gracias @gbifes.bsky.social
La #digitalización de #colecciones de historia natural puede mejorar la calidad y la cobertura de datos sobre #biodiversidad:
▶️https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.20.624468 #CiteTheDOI @cristinaronquillo.bsky.social 👇
▶️https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.20.624468 #CiteTheDOI @cristinaronquillo.bsky.social 👇
December 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Great to see this summary of our recent work! Muchas gracias @gbifes.bsky.social
New pre-print alert for my first post! With wonderful collaborators from the MNCN Department of Biogeography & Global Change in Madrid, we found that increased mobilisation of natural history collections can still improve quality and coverage of insect biodiversity data doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Mobilisation of data from natural history collections can increase the quality and coverage of biodiversity information
Aim Quantify potential gains to insect data on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) through further digitisation of natural history collections, assess to what degree this would fill bi...
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 1:22 PM
New pre-print alert for my first post! With wonderful collaborators from the MNCN Department of Biogeography & Global Change in Madrid, we found that increased mobilisation of natural history collections can still improve quality and coverage of insect biodiversity data doi.org/10.1101/2024...