Natalie Hempel
@nataliehempel.bsky.social
Neuroethologist, research on animal senses, colour vision, insect learning, pollination, navigation, bees. Assoc Prof Exeter Uni, Mother, she/her/hers
Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
Exeter campus.
Exeter campus.
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Looking for an interdisciplinary funded #PhD in #bees and #physics, #behaviour, #physiology, #neuroethology, modelling? Call open now. International students eligible. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Centre for Research in Aimal Behaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social
Exeter campus.
Exeter campus.
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New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu
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Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Isabella Aiona Abbott, Phycologist and ethnobotanist
Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...
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We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
September 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We are hiring (Post number 2) - join us as a graduate research assistant to support killer whale research. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...
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@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏
We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...
We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@delphinedemoor.bsky.social was present at the Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress and took the opportunity to spread the ABC mission 👏
We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...
We’ve prepared resources, like logos and email templates, for everyone to reach more students, mentees, donors: linktr.ee/animalbehavi...
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As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century. She also helped develop early battery powered vehicles.
adalovelaceday.subst...
adalovelaceday.subst...
Annie Easley, Computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist
As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
As one of NASA’s first African-American employees, Annie Easley helped develop software for the Centaur rocket stage, which enabled several landmark spaceflights in the later 20th century. She also helped develop early battery powered vehicles.
adalovelaceday.subst...
adalovelaceday.subst...
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A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
Please like and repost to help us get the word out!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
🧵
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Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place.
Japan marks 80 years since Nagasaki atomic bombing
Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Twin cathedral bells rang in unison in Japan's Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place.
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An article I wrote for @theconversation.com in response to #allotment sell-offs. Featuring evidence from myself and @davegoulson.bsky.social and the amazing work led by Jill Edmondson's team at Sheffield. #communitygardens #urbanbiodiversity #growyourown
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
In praise of digging for potatoes.
theconversation.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An article I wrote for @theconversation.com in response to #allotment sell-offs. Featuring evidence from myself and @davegoulson.bsky.social and the amazing work led by Jill Edmondson's team at Sheffield. #communitygardens #urbanbiodiversity #growyourown
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
theconversation.com/allotments-a...
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Securing survivors’ memories of #Hiroshima is increasingly urgent, amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship. The horrifying truth is that the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs. This madness has to stop
Hiroshima’s fading legacy: the race to secure survivors’ memories amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship
Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast - known as hibakusha – have fallen below 100,000
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Securing survivors’ memories of #Hiroshima is increasingly urgent, amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship. The horrifying truth is that the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs. This madness has to stop
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A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945.
#Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay
#Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945.
#Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay
#Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #広島 #HiroshimaDay
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We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities
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A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
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Traditions of behaviour have been found to be passed on in numerous species of animals. Now, major #conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could have big implications for conservation agendas. Explore the new #PhilTransB issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
May 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Traditions of behaviour have been found to be passed on in numerous species of animals. Now, major #conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could have big implications for conservation agendas. Explore the new #PhilTransB issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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🚨 Our study from @bethbees.bsky.social lab is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org . We show that bumblebees taste some amino acids (valine), but not others (lysine). Bees might choose flowers not just by how sweet they taste! #bees 🐝 #taste 👅 #pollen #nectar 🌺 #protein 🥩
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebee mouthparts | Royal Society Open Science
Bees rely on amino acids from nectar and pollen for essential physiological functions. While nectar typically contains low (less than 1 mM) amino acid concentrations, levels in pollen are higher but variable (10–200 mM). Behavioural studies suggest ...
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🚨 Our study from @bethbees.bsky.social lab is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org . We show that bumblebees taste some amino acids (valine), but not others (lysine). Bees might choose flowers not just by how sweet they taste! #bees 🐝 #taste 👅 #pollen #nectar 🌺 #protein 🥩
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Research experience placement in the Exeter Bee Lab and co-supervised by Dr Hamad Javaid @crab-exeter.bsky.social this summer (funded by NERC GW4+) for UK-based undergrads from underrepresented ethnic minorities: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/s/N-Hempel-2... Apply by Friday 9 May
May 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Research experience placement in the Exeter Bee Lab and co-supervised by Dr Hamad Javaid @crab-exeter.bsky.social this summer (funded by NERC GW4+) for UK-based undergrads from underrepresented ethnic minorities: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/s/N-Hempel-2... Apply by Friday 9 May
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Well done @macaelaskelton.bsky.social, our MacaqueNet technician extraodinaire 💚
To celebrate our new #MacaqueNet paper, I wrote a blog for @animalecology.bsky.social. This #StoryBehindThePaper shares how we came together to build the first standardised macaque social behaviour database!
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/04/10/m...
#Macaques #BigTeamScience #ComparativeResearch
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/04/10/m...
#Macaques #BigTeamScience #ComparativeResearch
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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April 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Well done @macaelaskelton.bsky.social, our MacaqueNet technician extraodinaire 💚
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Applications are open to the best #MSc training for a career in #AnimalBehaviour! Highly suitable for anyone with a BSc in Biology or Psychology, but we are skilled at converting people with social, veterinary and agricultural BSc's to a exciting career. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
April 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Applications are open to the best #MSc training for a career in #AnimalBehaviour! Highly suitable for anyone with a BSc in Biology or Psychology, but we are skilled at converting people with social, veterinary and agricultural BSc's to a exciting career. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.06.647427v1
April 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.06.647427v1
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This year marks 360 years since the first edition
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
March 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This year marks 360 years since the first edition
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
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🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition!
1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social
2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social
3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
@focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100
1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social
2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social
3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
@focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition!
1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social
2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social
3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
@focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100
1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social
2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social
3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
@focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100
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Flowers🌸 as infection🤧 hotspots for pollinators🐝: landscape and behaviour have an impact. New preprint from @cristinabotias.bsky.social, @bethbees.bsky.social, @nataliehempel.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A spatially explicit model of pollinator-plant-pathogen interactions
Flowers have long been suggested to be infection hotspots for pollinator diseases, as, during their brief lifespan, they are visited and handled by many individuals from a diverse range of species. Ev...
doi.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Flowers🌸 as infection🤧 hotspots for pollinators🐝: landscape and behaviour have an impact. New preprint from @cristinabotias.bsky.social, @bethbees.bsky.social, @nataliehempel.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1101/2025...