Elli Leadbeater
@ellileadbeater.bsky.social
Professor of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in University College London's People and Nature Lab; interested in anything to do with ecology/evolution but especially pollinators, fruit flies and memory
PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | TREES DLA
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY @royalsocietypublishing.org
Sequences and animal intelligence
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October 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY @royalsocietypublishing.org
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Mutational origins and selection dynamics of cognitive traits in animals
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September 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...
The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution
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September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...
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Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Sad to leave @rhulbiology.bsky.social after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!
📢We’re delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor has appointed @markjfbrown.bsky.social as Director of the University @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
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Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey
August 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Sad to leave @rhulbiology.bsky.social after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!
We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Selection shapes diverse animal minds: We recorded the talks at our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting last year to share with those who couldn’t be there. Our first speaker is Stephen Montgomery (Bristol University) @ebablab.bsky.social. youtu.be/BzmRZlhTcrc?...
A circuit view of evolving cognition by Dr Stephen Montgomery
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June 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Selection shapes diverse animal minds: We recorded the talks at our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting last year to share with those who couldn’t be there. Our first speaker is Stephen Montgomery (Bristol University) @ebablab.bsky.social. youtu.be/BzmRZlhTcrc?...
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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June 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Biology/Geography/Earth Sciences colleagues: can anyone recommend a field centre or similar field course location that works well for students who are wheelchair users? This is a no-fly course so we're trying to find somewhere in the UK or Western Europe
June 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Biology/Geography/Earth Sciences colleagues: can anyone recommend a field centre or similar field course location that works well for students who are wheelchair users? This is a no-fly course so we're trying to find somewhere in the UK or Western Europe
We have some exciting new flies! First arrivals for our Ecolligence project focussing on the ecological functions of memory. These mutants, kindly provided by the Sigrist lab, lack specific phases of memory
May 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We have some exciting new flies! First arrivals for our Ecolligence project focussing on the ecological functions of memory. These mutants, kindly provided by the Sigrist lab, lack specific phases of memory
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Very lucky to work with these wonderful researchers! Not only did they give amazing talks and posters at our Annual @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium, they won *all* the prizes 🏆 So proud 🐝❤️ @leofordham.bsky.social @alexisggk.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @philstevenson.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Very lucky to work with these wonderful researchers! Not only did they give amazing talks and posters at our Annual @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium, they won *all* the prizes 🏆 So proud 🐝❤️ @leofordham.bsky.social @alexisggk.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @philstevenson.bsky.social
Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
Drone in a field
Spent a couple of days this week flying the new DJI Matrice 4E in Hampshire. The task was to capture orthomosaic data for the WildPosh Grand Challenge project and involved a fair bit of prep with lots...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
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Wonderful evening celebrating Dr Alberto Linguadoca’s successful PhD viva 🐝 ☠️ Thanks to @darastanley.bsky.social for being an excellent external examiner! You can find Alberto’s papers here: scholar.google.fr/citations?us... @rhulbiology.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wonderful evening celebrating Dr Alberto Linguadoca’s successful PhD viva 🐝 ☠️ Thanks to @darastanley.bsky.social for being an excellent external examiner! You can find Alberto’s papers here: scholar.google.fr/citations?us... @rhulbiology.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social
Well done to MSc student @lucyhouliston.bsky.social, amazing achievement to be featured in the Natural History Museum’s brand new Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition!
April 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Well done to MSc student @lucyhouliston.bsky.social, amazing achievement to be featured in the Natural History Museum’s brand new Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition!
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Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab!
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Native bees and crop pollination - Two PhD scholarships available | Western Sydney University
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March 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab!
www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
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Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
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The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
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February 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
Awards | ZSL
ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions
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February 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
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A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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February 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
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PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:46 PM
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
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Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
We have an exciting range of postgraduate programmes in the fields of #Ecology and #Biodiversity that will prepare you for careers in #conservation and a vast range of other areas. Join us on 9 and 14 January to find out more. Book your place here: app.geckoform.com/events-embed... #UCLMastersMatter
January 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
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🚨Join us in Bristol! We're hiring 1+ Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (similar to Assistant/Associate Prof) in Biology, incl. ecology, evolution, conservation @bristolbiosci.bsky.social.
Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city:
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Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city:
shorturl.at/CCmXC
December 22, 2024 at 8:23 AM
🚨Join us in Bristol! We're hiring 1+ Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (similar to Assistant/Associate Prof) in Biology, incl. ecology, evolution, conservation @bristolbiosci.bsky.social.
Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city:
shorturl.at/CCmXC
Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city:
shorturl.at/CCmXC
Mushroom body synaptic density in the bumblebee brain... [drum roll].... doesn't correlate with efficient foraging! :-) Read all about it.... led by Greg Pasquier and with Swidbert Ott authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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December 19, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Mushroom body synaptic density in the bumblebee brain... [drum roll].... doesn't correlate with efficient foraging! :-) Read all about it.... led by Greg Pasquier and with Swidbert Ott authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk
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December 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk
Great talk by RHUL’s Morgan Morrison with @markjfbrown.bsky.social, with a very clear message!
December 16, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Great talk by RHUL’s Morgan Morrison with @markjfbrown.bsky.social, with a very clear message!