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Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University
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Updates from the Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology (BEPs) group at Bangor University.
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/sens/beps-at-bangor
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kjmacleod.bsky.social
Very cool to see this "Research Highlight" of our recent @animalecology.bsky.social paper that tested the potential for social buffering of maternal glucocorticoids in a facultatively social lizard. Grateful for this feature by Lange & Aracena! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Maternal glucocorticoid exposure drives social tolerance and growth with limited evidence for long‐term social buffering
Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T. and While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of oppor...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
beps-bangor.bsky.social
Congratulations to BEPs PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social!
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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lizardkmatt.bsky.social
Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎
beps-bangor.bsky.social Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University @beps-bangor.bsky.social · 29d
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
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October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ameliaharvey.bsky.social
Got to speak about my MScRes project (cave bear phylogenomics and admixture - with a behaviour twist!) in today's BEPs seminar! 🐻
beps-bangor.bsky.social Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University @beps-bangor.bsky.social · 29d
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
Student presenting their work Student presenting their work Student presenting their work Student presenting their work
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
beps-bangor.bsky.social
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
Student presenting their work Student presenting their work Student presenting their work Student presenting their work
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#bangorherps
kjmacleod.bsky.social Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · Oct 17
A big week for our research group! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's PhD thesis has been accepted. Looking forward to sharing some nice results about the effects of winter warming on wall lizard behaviour and physiology very soon. Well done Miary! 🤩
A cartoon lizard celebrating
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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elliejameson.bsky.social
Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
Black and white ink drawing of two long filamentous phages. The one in the background is all the same distance away. In the foreground is a close up of the spike proteins of the closer phage with 5 repeated protein complexes forming what looks almost like a flower, the rest of the inovirus loops around into the background
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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kjmacleod.bsky.social
New from me and wonderful collabs!
animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Sep 29
🦎 Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering ➡️ buff.ly/i2B2Fkw
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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nealhockley.bsky.social
What are my Environmental Policy class interested in? Here's my annual word cloud of their keywords
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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sosbangor.bsky.social
A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.
A picture of sandy beach flanked by rocky outcrops on both sides. The sun is shining, the sky is blue with a few clouds, and the sea is calm.
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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kjmacleod.bsky.social
Nice write up of our paper on the Bangor Uni news website! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
New study sheds light on impact of stress on baby lizards
Research led by Dr Kirsty Macleod from its School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, found that lizards whose mothers experienced stress during pregnancy grew more slowly and behaved differently.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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kjmacleod.bsky.social
In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The postdoctoral experience is in need of reform. Here the authors outline concrete steps that institutions, postdocs and mentors can take to improve the landscape.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
beps-bangor.bsky.social
New research from BEPs! 🦎 #bangorherps
kjmacleod.bsky.social Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · Sep 18
New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype:
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Researcher's hand holding a small skink (Liopholis whitii)
September 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️

This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇

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September 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
beps-bangor.bsky.social
#bangorherps
kjmacleod.bsky.social Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · Sep 4
An exciting new study now out in which I played a small part - Wood Frog Testicular Microstructure
Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations
During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is...
Excited to see this out, and to add a new taxonomic group to my pub list!! 🐸❤️
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September 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!

Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences

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PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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elliejameson.bsky.social
Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
Job Details | Bangor University Jobs
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August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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winniecj.bsky.social
I spoke with ABC radio Australia about the #PlasticsTreaty

📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Greek gods, Gama Festival and the battle of Cannae - ABC listen
Who were Apollo and Artemis and why Greek mythology so inspires space exploration.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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sosbangor.bsky.social
Staff and students from School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social have steamed through the Irish Sea and the Caledonian Canal. After sampling in Loch Ness they move to the North Sea to measure the impact of tidal wakes behind floating wind turbines in projects funded by NERC@ukri.org.
The RV Prince Madog going through the narrow Caledonian Canal as a crew member is on lookout at the bow. The RV Prince Madog is steaming under gloudy skies with a wave breaking over the bow.
August 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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sosbangor.bsky.social
Busy day in the @bangoruniversity.bsky.social marquee at the Eisteddfod yesterday as Drs Mollie Duggan-Edwards and Dei Huws launched our new poster highlighting the unique wildlife and geological structures found around the Anglesey coastline.
A person standing in front of poster showing the wildlife and geology around Anglesey, Wales. A person standing in front of poster showing the wildlife and geology around Anglesey, Wales.
August 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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markuseichhorn.bsky.social
Job opening: lecturership (research & teaching) in forestry or agroforestry at Bangor University. This is probably the best forestry programme in the UK and a great place to work. Deadline 1 Sep. More here: 🌳🌲🌏
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August 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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alecbmmoore.bsky.social
FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
July 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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sosbangor.bsky.social
New research led by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and involving School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social found genetic connectivity in a deep sea species over 1000s of km, but genetic isolation over depth. Read all about it here:
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Connectivity and Adaptation Patterns of the Deep-Sea Ground-Forming Sponge Geodia hentscheli Across Its Entire Distribution
Abstract. Geodia hentscheli, a species forming sponge grounds in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, is a common deep-sea organism, that plays a fundamen
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July 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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cmbettridge.bsky.social
Visited the Dyfi Osprey nest at the weekend, saw the parents and two of the fledglings. And lots of these little lizards
July 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM