Joanna Bagniewska
@joannabagniewska.com
Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni's Oxford Lifelong Learning @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I wrote a somewhat inappropriate book and you should buy it.
https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I wrote a somewhat inappropriate book and you should buy it.
https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
🦁Jacob the lion, who lost a leg in a poacher's snare, has changed his hunting strategy to account for reduced mobility.
🐆Since he can't overpower his prey like healthy lions do, he sets ambushes instead, like a leopard - and can kill 200-kg forest hogs!
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washingtonweeklytimes.com/science-2/a-...
🐆Since he can't overpower his prey like healthy lions do, he sets ambushes instead, like a leopard - and can kill 200-kg forest hogs!
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washingtonweeklytimes.com/science-2/a-...
A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way - WashingtonWeeklyTimes.com
Jacob, outfitted with a tracking collar, lost his left hind leg in a poacher’s snareAlex Braczkowski A lion that lost one leg to a poacher’s snare has defied the expectations of conservation scientist...
washingtonweeklytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🦁Jacob the lion, who lost a leg in a poacher's snare, has changed his hunting strategy to account for reduced mobility.
🐆Since he can't overpower his prey like healthy lions do, he sets ambushes instead, like a leopard - and can kill 200-kg forest hogs!
🧪
washingtonweeklytimes.com/science-2/a-...
🐆Since he can't overpower his prey like healthy lions do, he sets ambushes instead, like a leopard - and can kill 200-kg forest hogs!
🧪
washingtonweeklytimes.com/science-2/a-...
Love elephants?
Love fantastic speakers?
Then come to the @oxon-mammal-group.bsky.social seminar, Mon Nov 10, 7pm at @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
@redmondi.bsky.social will talk about elephants, biodiversity and climate change - don't miss it.
🧪 🐘 #oxford
Love fantastic speakers?
Then come to the @oxon-mammal-group.bsky.social seminar, Mon Nov 10, 7pm at @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
@redmondi.bsky.social will talk about elephants, biodiversity and climate change - don't miss it.
🧪 🐘 #oxford
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Love elephants?
Love fantastic speakers?
Then come to the @oxon-mammal-group.bsky.social seminar, Mon Nov 10, 7pm at @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
@redmondi.bsky.social will talk about elephants, biodiversity and climate change - don't miss it.
🧪 🐘 #oxford
Love fantastic speakers?
Then come to the @oxon-mammal-group.bsky.social seminar, Mon Nov 10, 7pm at @morethanadodo.bsky.social.
@redmondi.bsky.social will talk about elephants, biodiversity and climate change - don't miss it.
🧪 🐘 #oxford
Both the sling-jaw wrasse and this video of it are all I hoped for and more.
Wait for it...
And...
Perfection.
🧪 🐟 💋
Wait for it...
And...
Perfection.
🧪 🐟 💋
This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics!
🐟🦑🧪🌿
🐟🦑🧪🌿
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Both the sling-jaw wrasse and this video of it are all I hoped for and more.
Wait for it...
And...
Perfection.
🧪 🐟 💋
Wait for it...
And...
Perfection.
🧪 🐟 💋
Parenting in the animal world is nothing like what Bluey, Peppa Pig or 101 Dalmatians would make us believe. Louise Gentle explains what children's stories with animal protagonists are getting massively wrong (cannibalism alert).
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Children’s books feature tidy nuclear families – but the animal kingdom tells a different story
Storybooks and films may have given you the wrong idea about what family looks like in the animal kingdom.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Parenting in the animal world is nothing like what Bluey, Peppa Pig or 101 Dalmatians would make us believe. Louise Gentle explains what children's stories with animal protagonists are getting massively wrong (cannibalism alert).
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
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Our article on the welfare of the capture and killing of whales snd dolphins. @oceancare.bsky.social @laetitiace.bsky.social #whales #dolphins #mammals #AnimalWelfare @royalsocietypublishing.org
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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"A short-legged ground roller catches a pimple-nose chameleon" - my teenage insecurities rolled into one wildlife photo.
🧪 🐦 🦎
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November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"A short-legged ground roller catches a pimple-nose chameleon" - my teenage insecurities rolled into one wildlife photo.
🧪 🐦 🦎
🧪 🐦 🦎
Denmark: turning diplomacy into DUPLOmacy.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Denmark: turning diplomacy into DUPLOmacy.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening.
Look how happy he is.
My Oxford-o-meter is reaching its maximum: apart from lecturing at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, I'm now also a fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social.
Wohoo!
www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/j...
#Oxford #AcademicSky
Wohoo!
www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/j...
#Oxford #AcademicSky
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My Oxford-o-meter is reaching its maximum: apart from lecturing at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, I'm now also a fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social.
Wohoo!
www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/j...
#Oxford #AcademicSky
Wohoo!
www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/j...
#Oxford #AcademicSky
👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃
Here for their final curtain call, we'd like to give our wonderful Lifelong Learning ghosts a round of applause for their work taking learning beyond the veil. 👏👻 We'll see you next year...
#OxfordLifelongLearning #OxfordUniversity #LifelongLearning #Halloween #GhostsTrend
Here for their final curtain call, we'd like to give our wonderful Lifelong Learning ghosts a round of applause for their work taking learning beyond the veil. 👏👻 We'll see you next year...
#OxfordLifelongLearning #OxfordUniversity #LifelongLearning #Halloween #GhostsTrend
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct.
Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊
www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊
www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew
The Cry That Faded It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean...
www.butlernature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, has been declared extinct.
Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊
www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
Touching obituary by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social
🧪🌏🦊
www.butlernature.com/2025/10/24/r...
Halloween is nearing, and Serious Academics need to celebrate.
Here's the @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social undead team - @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and myself - doing what academics do best: ghosting you.
👻🎃
🧪 #AcademicSky
Here's the @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social undead team - @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and myself - doing what academics do best: ghosting you.
👻🎃
🧪 #AcademicSky
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Halloween is nearing, and Serious Academics need to celebrate.
Here's the @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social undead team - @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and myself - doing what academics do best: ghosting you.
👻🎃
🧪 #AcademicSky
Here's the @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social undead team - @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and myself - doing what academics do best: ghosting you.
👻🎃
🧪 #AcademicSky
The Oxford train station is small and overcrowded. What could it possibly need, more than extra seats or ticket machines?
A piano. A PIANO. A piano that attracts kids who play Happy Birthday and their parents who butcher the Game of Thrones theme.
Sensory hell.
A piano. A PIANO. A piano that attracts kids who play Happy Birthday and their parents who butcher the Game of Thrones theme.
Sensory hell.
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Oxford train station is small and overcrowded. What could it possibly need, more than extra seats or ticket machines?
A piano. A PIANO. A piano that attracts kids who play Happy Birthday and their parents who butcher the Game of Thrones theme.
Sensory hell.
A piano. A PIANO. A piano that attracts kids who play Happy Birthday and their parents who butcher the Game of Thrones theme.
Sensory hell.
Hot wings coming up! - i.e., brown rats hunt bats IN FLIGHT.
🐀🦇🍴
While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability.
Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊
🐀🦇🍴
While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability.
Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hot wings coming up! - i.e., brown rats hunt bats IN FLIGHT.
🐀🦇🍴
While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability.
Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊
🐀🦇🍴
While this has serious conservation implications for urban bats, I can't help but be amazed by the rats' dexterity and adaptability.
Full paper by @berlinbatlab.bsky.social here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌍🦊
In Oxford and love astronomy? Join me on Oct 29th, as I speak with @chrislintott.bsky.social about celestial bodies and citizen science.
All part of Hevelius Days in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Free event, but booking is essential: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...
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All part of Hevelius Days in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Free event, but booking is essential: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...
🧪🔭
October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In Oxford and love astronomy? Join me on Oct 29th, as I speak with @chrislintott.bsky.social about celestial bodies and citizen science.
All part of Hevelius Days in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Free event, but booking is essential: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...
🧪🔭
All part of Hevelius Days in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Free event, but booking is essential: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...
🧪🔭
What can willy bones tell us about the sex lives of extinct bears?
I. arctoides could have had
🍆prolonged periods of intromission
♂️a multi-male mating system
🏠large home range sizes and/or lower population density.
Also, check out the size of panda bacula 🔍🐼🐻❄️🐻.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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I. arctoides could have had
🍆prolonged periods of intromission
♂️a multi-male mating system
🏠large home range sizes and/or lower population density.
Also, check out the size of panda bacula 🔍🐼🐻❄️🐻.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🧪🌍
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What can willy bones tell us about the sex lives of extinct bears?
I. arctoides could have had
🍆prolonged periods of intromission
♂️a multi-male mating system
🏠large home range sizes and/or lower population density.
Also, check out the size of panda bacula 🔍🐼🐻❄️🐻.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🧪🌍
I. arctoides could have had
🍆prolonged periods of intromission
♂️a multi-male mating system
🏠large home range sizes and/or lower population density.
Also, check out the size of panda bacula 🔍🐼🐻❄️🐻.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
🧪🌍
This is the more normal part of my job!
Please remember that you need to have a license to handle bats, and you shouldn't touch wild animals in general (disturbance as well as disease transfer - wear gloves and a mask to protect both parties).
🧪🦇🌍 #AcademicSky
Please remember that you need to have a license to handle bats, and you shouldn't touch wild animals in general (disturbance as well as disease transfer - wear gloves and a mask to protect both parties).
🧪🦇🌍 #AcademicSky
Seeing as it's nearly Halloween, we thought we'd share some photos from our Ecological Survey Techniques students' trip to Wytham Woods to take a closer look at these adorable little fuzzy creatures... 🦇 Who knew bats could be this cute?
#OxfordLifelongLearning #OxfordUniversity #StudyAtOxford
#OxfordLifelongLearning #OxfordUniversity #StudyAtOxford
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is the more normal part of my job!
Please remember that you need to have a license to handle bats, and you shouldn't touch wild animals in general (disturbance as well as disease transfer - wear gloves and a mask to protect both parties).
🧪🦇🌍 #AcademicSky
Please remember that you need to have a license to handle bats, and you shouldn't touch wild animals in general (disturbance as well as disease transfer - wear gloves and a mask to protect both parties).
🧪🦇🌍 #AcademicSky
Academics: We're overworked, underpaid and unappreciated.
Academics at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: I spent the afternoon in a bedsheet, being a ghost.
That's it. That's what @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and I are paid to do. Things won't get better.
#AcademicSky
Academics at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: I spent the afternoon in a bedsheet, being a ghost.
That's it. That's what @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and I are paid to do. Things won't get better.
#AcademicSky
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Academics: We're overworked, underpaid and unappreciated.
Academics at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: I spent the afternoon in a bedsheet, being a ghost.
That's it. That's what @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and I are paid to do. Things won't get better.
#AcademicSky
Academics at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social: I spent the afternoon in a bedsheet, being a ghost.
That's it. That's what @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social, @jonathanhealey.bsky.social and I are paid to do. Things won't get better.
#AcademicSky
⚠️Losing Nemo: Almost all aquarium fish in the US are caught in the wild⚠️
"Across all platforms and 13 popular fish taxonomic families, we found 734 unique species for sale, 89.2% (655 species) of which were sourced exclusively from the wild."
🧪🐠🌍
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Across all platforms and 13 popular fish taxonomic families, we found 734 unique species for sale, 89.2% (655 species) of which were sourced exclusively from the wild."
🧪🐠🌍
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
⚠️Losing Nemo: Almost all aquarium fish in the US are caught in the wild⚠️
"Across all platforms and 13 popular fish taxonomic families, we found 734 unique species for sale, 89.2% (655 species) of which were sourced exclusively from the wild."
🧪🐠🌍
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Across all platforms and 13 popular fish taxonomic families, we found 734 unique species for sale, 89.2% (655 species) of which were sourced exclusively from the wild."
🧪🐠🌍
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Joanna Bagniewska
Did you know that recent model iPhone Pros have a LiDAR sensor? You can use it to measure distances, and scientists in Spain used it to recreate a digital version of a cave filled with ancient cave art. 🧪 #scicomm www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...
Mapping Cave Art With A Cellphone
Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings.
www.forbes.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Did you know that recent model iPhone Pros have a LiDAR sensor? You can use it to measure distances, and scientists in Spain used it to recreate a digital version of a cave filled with ancient cave art. 🧪 #scicomm www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...
What do friends do?
Friends get you the ultimate nerd status symbol: a giant prickly stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum.
Welcome, Michalina (aka Misia-Patysia)!
🧪 🦂 🌍
Friends get you the ultimate nerd status symbol: a giant prickly stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum.
Welcome, Michalina (aka Misia-Patysia)!
🧪 🦂 🌍
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
What do friends do?
Friends get you the ultimate nerd status symbol: a giant prickly stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum.
Welcome, Michalina (aka Misia-Patysia)!
🧪 🦂 🌍
Friends get you the ultimate nerd status symbol: a giant prickly stick insect, Extatosoma tiaratum.
Welcome, Michalina (aka Misia-Patysia)!
🧪 🦂 🌍
I met Jane Goodall in 2005, when she was visiting the @houstonzoo.bsky.social; I was doing my undergrad project there, and she came over to chat about meerkats and mongooses.
You can see a glimpse of her in the snapshot a friend took on that day.
RIP, Jane.
🌏🧪🐵
You can see a glimpse of her in the snapshot a friend took on that day.
RIP, Jane.
🌏🧪🐵
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I met Jane Goodall in 2005, when she was visiting the @houstonzoo.bsky.social; I was doing my undergrad project there, and she came over to chat about meerkats and mongooses.
You can see a glimpse of her in the snapshot a friend took on that day.
RIP, Jane.
🌏🧪🐵
You can see a glimpse of her in the snapshot a friend took on that day.
RIP, Jane.
🌏🧪🐵
In October, the British Council will be launching the Climate Skills Global Collaboration Grants 2025, offering grants up to £85,000 for partnerships between the UK and Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Viet Nam.
opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articl...
#AcademicSky #climate 🧪
opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articl...
#AcademicSky #climate 🧪
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In October, the British Council will be launching the Climate Skills Global Collaboration Grants 2025, offering grants up to £85,000 for partnerships between the UK and Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Viet Nam.
opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articl...
#AcademicSky #climate 🧪
opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articl...
#AcademicSky #climate 🧪
Anyone in need of excellent #teaching resources (UG and postgrad) for #ecology and #conservation? Bill has created some amazing explainer videos, and they're all free and ready for you to use.
Enjoy.
#AcademicSky 🧪🌍
Enjoy.
#AcademicSky 🧪🌍
Are you a student studying ecology or conservation? Do you lecture ecology or conservation? I created this playlist for you and hope it is useful. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Conservation concepts for undergraduates and postgraduates - YouTube
Key concepts underpinning undergraduate ecology and conservation courses
youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Anyone in need of excellent #teaching resources (UG and postgrad) for #ecology and #conservation? Bill has created some amazing explainer videos, and they're all free and ready for you to use.
Enjoy.
#AcademicSky 🧪🌍
Enjoy.
#AcademicSky 🧪🌍
🐻Why does #FatBearWeek matter, for bears and people?🐻
@antoniouzal.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/alaskas-fat-...
Meanwhile, vote in the semi-finals for your favourite chonky bear here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
🧪🌍🦊
@antoniouzal.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/alaskas-fat-...
Meanwhile, vote in the semi-finals for your favourite chonky bear here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
🧪🌍🦊
Alaska’s Fat Bear Week is more than a bit of fun – for the animals, size is a matter of survival
Bears need to put on fat in order to survive the harsh Alaskan winters.
theconversation.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🐻Why does #FatBearWeek matter, for bears and people?🐻
@antoniouzal.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/alaskas-fat-...
Meanwhile, vote in the semi-finals for your favourite chonky bear here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
🧪🌍🦊
@antoniouzal.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com:
theconversation.com/alaskas-fat-...
Meanwhile, vote in the semi-finals for your favourite chonky bear here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
🧪🌍🦊