Laura Kelley
@lauraakelley.bsky.social
Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Interested in visual ecology, animal behaviour, illusions, and all things bowerbirdy www.laurakelleyresearch.wordpress.com
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PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Turns out gulls don't like being shouted at (or stared at!) New paper led by excellent masters students @uniexecec.bsky.social with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Turns out gulls don't like being shouted at (or stared at!) New paper led by excellent masters students @uniexecec.bsky.social with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Key info 🗝️
💶Fees and stipend included!
🌍Open to students worldwide!
👥 Fabulous co-supervisors @ecologyofvision.bsky.social and @mcgregorlab.bsky.social
📆Start Sept 2026
👩🏽💻Online info event 24th Nov
⏰Deadline December 15th
Spread the word! 🗣️
Have Qs? Contact me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
💶Fees and stipend included!
🌍Open to students worldwide!
👥 Fabulous co-supervisors @ecologyofvision.bsky.social and @mcgregorlab.bsky.social
📆Start Sept 2026
👩🏽💻Online info event 24th Nov
⏰Deadline December 15th
Spread the word! 🗣️
Have Qs? Contact me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - The impacts of light pollution on plasticity and evolution in spider visual systems at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Key info 🗝️
💶Fees and stipend included!
🌍Open to students worldwide!
👥 Fabulous co-supervisors @ecologyofvision.bsky.social and @mcgregorlab.bsky.social
📆Start Sept 2026
👩🏽💻Online info event 24th Nov
⏰Deadline December 15th
Spread the word! 🗣️
Have Qs? Contact me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
💶Fees and stipend included!
🌍Open to students worldwide!
👥 Fabulous co-supervisors @ecologyofvision.bsky.social and @mcgregorlab.bsky.social
📆Start Sept 2026
👩🏽💻Online info event 24th Nov
⏰Deadline December 15th
Spread the word! 🗣️
Have Qs? Contact me!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026.
Check out what we offer here:
www.asab.org/grant-overview
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🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
October 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist?
Please apply!
Informal enquiries welcome!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Also managed to track down some immature male great bowerbirds today, they were displaying at trees to get some practice in (paper on this shorturl.at/jqOQt). Found these two sites due to the birds making a right racket!
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Also managed to track down some immature male great bowerbirds today, they were displaying at trees to get some practice in (paper on this shorturl.at/jqOQt). Found these two sites due to the birds making a right racket!
One of the risks of bowerbirds sharing space with a university - sometimes scientific equipment (and samples) get pinched! Soy sauce containers also seem to be popular
October 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
One of the risks of bowerbirds sharing space with a university - sometimes scientific equipment (and samples) get pinched! Soy sauce containers also seem to be popular
Back in the land of bowers this week! Investigating how male courtship signals are affected by urbanisation #greatbowerbirds @uniexecec.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Back in the land of bowers this week! Investigating how male courtship signals are affected by urbanisation #greatbowerbirds @uniexecec.bsky.social
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For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB
Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops
www.asab.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Deadline for submitting an abstract to give a talk or poster is this Friday!
ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
August 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Deadline for submitting an abstract to give a talk or poster is this Friday!
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We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
Come join us at the @asab.org Winter Conference 2025: how sensory info affects behaviour.
15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025
Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025
Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
July 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Come join us at the @asab.org Winter Conference 2025: how sensory info affects behaviour.
15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025
Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
15th & 16th Dec, abstracts due end Aug. More info and registration asabwinter.github.io/2025
Co-hosted with @jtroscianko.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
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New from #ProcB: Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in #ecology and #evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #COVID #COVID19
April 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
New from #ProcB: Immediate and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific productivity in #ecology and #evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #COVID #COVID19
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🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r
Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership
This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r
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It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
1/8
1/8
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
1/8
1/8
In the current challenging climate of finding reviewers, how long is too long to wait for a manuscript to be reviewed? My PhD student has had her first manuscript in review for six months now, journal has only managed to obtain one review so far 🤷♀️
March 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In the current challenging climate of finding reviewers, how long is too long to wait for a manuscript to be reviewed? My PhD student has had her first manuscript in review for six months now, journal has only managed to obtain one review so far 🤷♀️
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Job alert🐦 2yr post-doc position with Prof. Sue Healy on project "Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction"🪺 Start asap. Contact: sdh11[at]st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Job alert🐦 2yr post-doc position with Prof. Sue Healy on project "Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction"🪺 Start asap. Contact: sdh11[at]st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Black margins are important for size discrimination - female green swordtails prefer larger males but preference is lost when black margins on tail are absent. Seems they can't judge which male is bigger without black margin! shorturl.at/6GKA2
@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Black margins are important for size discrimination - female green swordtails prefer larger males but preference is lost when black margins on tail are absent. Seems they can't judge which male is bigger without black margin! shorturl.at/6GKA2
@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
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We have a fully funded International 4-year position (combined Master of Research+PhD) to study visual navigation in jumping spiders. Project will be supervised by @pipilika.bsky.social, @mherberstein.bsky.social, @dinrao.bsky.social & Ximena Nelson. At Macquarie University, Sydney. Details below
January 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
We have a fully funded International 4-year position (combined Master of Research+PhD) to study visual navigation in jumping spiders. Project will be supervised by @pipilika.bsky.social, @mherberstein.bsky.social, @dinrao.bsky.social & Ximena Nelson. At Macquarie University, Sydney. Details below
Sign up for ASAB spring meeting, the best conference for early career researchers in my humble opinion!
Don't forget, our ASAB 2025 conference is open for registration! Sign up now to make sure you don't miss a spot 📝
🔗https://tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
🔗https://tinyurl.com/884wzzsy
January 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sign up for ASAB spring meeting, the best conference for early career researchers in my humble opinion!
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Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.
Congratulations Emma! 🥳
I have just passed my viva with minor corrections and can now officially now a Dr of gulls 😍🕊️ Big thank yous to profs @stubearhop.bsky.social and Judy Sharmoun-Baranes for being my examiners, and Nelly too 🐕 (every viva should come with impromptu therapy good girl!!). It was brilliant!! 1/2
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Congratulations Emma! 🥳
Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
December 5, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Some great PhD opportunities for 2025 in our fab department @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall:
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
1) How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? Project with @ali--wilson.bsky.social spans behaviour, genetics and ecotox, working with cherry shrimp. More info: tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
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How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? We're looking for an awesome PhD student to find out. Project spans behaviour, genetics + ecotox, working with cherry shrimp @exetercec.bsky.social. Cosupervised with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Dave Spurgeon at CEH. App + info tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
November 26, 2024 at 2:38 PM
How does pollution impact behavioural evolution? We're looking for an awesome PhD student to find out. Project spans behaviour, genetics + ecotox, working with cherry shrimp @exetercec.bsky.social. Cosupervised with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Dave Spurgeon at CEH. App + info tinyurl.com/yvthn7xn
Congratulations to Menno van Berkel on passing his PhD viva yesterday! 🐦🪺 Huge thanks to @sjportugal.bsky.social and Neeltje Boogert for being excellent examiners and Alex Thornton for being a fab cosupervisor!
November 15, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Congratulations to Menno van Berkel on passing his PhD viva yesterday! 🐦🪺 Huge thanks to @sjportugal.bsky.social and Neeltje Boogert for being excellent examiners and Alex Thornton for being a fab cosupervisor!