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Davina Hill

@davinahill.bsky.social

Our new paper by Katie Crawford @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is out! OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: From Leaves to Litter: Use of Anthropogenic #Nesting Materials in #Hibernation Nests of the European #Hedgehog

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@julianowack.bsky.social @cebeardsworth.bsky.social

Examples of anthropogenic materials within hedgehog nests observed during the study: (a) the nest of individual #366 primarily comprising a plastic bag, (b) stray miscellaneous plastic within the nest of #366, (c) duct tape within the nest of #366 (behind plastic bag), (d) location of the nest of #385 underneath a metal sheet, surrounded by rope and plastic, (e) anthropogenic material pulled from the nest of #385 (comprising foil, plastic wrappers and expanded polystyrene).

January 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM

Julia Nowack

@julianowack.bsky.social

Consider joining us at the #SEB2026 in Florence. Abstract deadline: 6th March. With Monica Trondrud and Matt Noakes.

February 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM

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Davina Hill

@davinahill.bsky.social

Iapetus Diversifying Talent PhD Scholarship Scheme findaphd.com/phds/program...

Applicants must be eligible for Home fees & from a UK Minoritized Ethnic group &/or a lower socio-economic background.

PhD with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social: #hibernation #climate🦔

Deadline📅5th Jan

FindAPhD : Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

Apply for a PhD: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

findaphd.com

December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM

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Davina Hill

@davinahill.bsky.social

Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:

Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026

December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Dr. Emily S Choy (she/her), FRCGS

@emilyschoy.bsky.social

I’m excited to contribute to this session & share some of the research from the Middleton Island kittiwake heart rate project at my 1st @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Antwerp! Come & hear what my fantastic students @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social are doing to study seabird energetics!

July 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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Monica Trondrud

@mtrondrud.bsky.social

Super excited to be part of this workshop and talk about my work from the Svalbard reindeer project! I will show examples from both multi-logging heart rate, temperature and activity, as well as insights from long-term biologging! See you in Antwerp at @sebiology.bsky.social

Four reindeer standing on a grassy slope, two adult females with one calf each

Two reindeer standing on a snowy slope, snow-covered mountains in the background

A sedated reindeer with mask covering its eyes, a researcher kneeling beside the reindeer

July 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Andrea Fuller

@andreafuller.bsky.social

If you’re an ECR at #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp and interested in writing for Conservation Physiology in Action, or getting involved in reviewing, come chat to our editorial team tomorrow @conphysjournal.bsky.social

July 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM

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Laura Brannelly

@labrannelly.bsky.social

Some frogs are fighting a fungal disease - by breeding! This is a study that I’ve been working on for about 10 years - very exciting to see this in print - and to see my dogs officially thanked for their hard work!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

May 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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ASAB 2025

@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social

📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS📢

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit an abstract to our #ASABSpring2025 conference 😱 don't miss out on this opportunity to present your research!

🔗 Follow our registration guide here: tinyurl.com/y8vjzyzt

graphic stating the abstract deadline for ASAB Spring 2025 is tomorrow

February 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM

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Heiko G. Rödel

@heikorodel.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD position on Paternities and spatial kinship structure in a population of South African bush Karoo rats. Field work in South Africa. Analysis of existing long-term data at LEEC / Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord. Please RT!
www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...

February 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM

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Davina Hill

@davinahill.bsky.social

One more week to apply for @uofglasgow.bsky.social's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:

Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

January 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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LJMU Biodiversity & Conservation

@ljmubiocon.bsky.social

Deadline to show interest is 19th April - there will be a team of vols to help & it's a great way to showcase your research AND sci comm skills! @cebeardsworth.bsky.social @dannihinchy.bsky.social @sarahedalrymple.bsky.social @marianilab.bsky.social @julianowack.bsky.social @nicolakoyama.bsky.social

April 2, 2024 at 6:25 PM

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RedPen/BlackPen

@redpenblackpen.bsky.social

This feeling doesn't come along very often in one's career - but when it does... it's awesome! #sciart #scicomm

Cartoon of a scientist peering through a microscope saying "Whoaah!!!". Title says "The best part of Science is knowing, for a moment, something that nobody else in the world knows."

February 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM

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Matthew Freeman

@mjafreeman.bsky.social

Important so please help spread the word...

Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD?

Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds

Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring...

Deadline 21 Feb

www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

January 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM

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Cheryl Rofer

@cherylrofer.bsky.social

Nice graphic I'm seeing at the other place. Can't find an attribution.

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.

Two globes with the US in view. One is stable polar vortex and shows a circular strong jet stream containing cold Arctic air. The other is wavy polar vortex and shows waves in the jet stream, allowing the arctic air to move further south.

January 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM

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Reader of Entrails

@haruspex.bsky.social

🧪 🦎

I just read a very serious paper about reproductive system
imaging in chameleons, and I need you to know that this was Figure 1.

A foam block with a row of a dozen chameleons lying on their backs. They each have a little cutout into the foam to keep them in position. All their little legs are sticking up in the air, and their tails are hanging off the edge of the block, most of them coiled. Each chameleon has a little face-bag attached to a splitter off of clear medical tubing, providing anesthetic gas and oxygen. The whole block of lizards is set up to be analyzed via CT imaging.

January 12, 2024 at 9:35 PM

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Lorna Richardson

@lornarichardson.bsky.social

Evergreen

Image shows a cartoon of Batman slapping robin as Robin says my workload is unmanageable and Batman says here’s a wellbeing seminar

December 18, 2023 at 7:40 AM

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Bob Ellis 🐟

@drfishcounter.bsky.social

Buckets, duct tape, and zip ties: the holy trinity of field biology.

December 8, 2023 at 3:31 PM

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Jess Gifkins

@jessgifkins.bsky.social

This is a really interesting trial that could make research funding more diverse 👏🏻

Ingo Rohlfing @ingorohlfing.bsky.social · Nov 15

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of...

Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

November 16, 2023 at 8:07 AM

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Physgal ⚛️

@physgal.bsky.social

34 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget #WomenInSTEM 🧪🌹