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Exploring the breadth and diversity of life on Earth 🌍 Updates on research & teaching at @ox.ac.uk. Merged from Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology August 2022
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Want to do a PhD in biology? Our projects for 2026 are now live! If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration.

Reach out to our academics to discuss these or more options if you have an idea of your own 👇
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💙It’s #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek!

80 years ago, penicillin changed modern medicine - but how does it work? And how do bacteria resist?

👉Read more to learn how the IOI protects our life-saving antibiotics: ineosoxford.shorthandstories.com/80-years-of-...

#WAAW #KeepAntibioticsWorking
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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I passed my viva! 🎊

I’m very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor 😎

Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🌎COP30 Week One: Signals of progress and what must come next ⬇️
Read our reflections on climate, nature & justice at COP30: www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/reflect...

#PeoplesSummit #COP30 #ClimateJustice
📷: The Peoples' March, COP30 Belém, 15th November.
Photo Credit: Aline Soterroni
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In the heart of the Amazon at COP30, Nathalie Seddon answers the question: 'If trees could talk, what would they say?'

Watch the full interview on WaterBear! For every minute spent watching the new series, a tree will be planted and protected 🌳
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WaterBear: Nathalie Seddon
Live from COP30 in the heart of the Amazon, Professor Nathalie Seddon of Oxford University shares what the trees would say if they could speak: slow down, listen, and honor the...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Great @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social podcast on the science of the microbiome with the brilliant @auraulo.bsky.social and @eveliinahanski.bsky.social. Can't recommend it enough. @sykhalid.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Connecting isolated wildlife habitats boosts biodiversity but comes with risk - opening pathways for disease, invasive species or wildfires.

New research with University of Leeds recommends strategies in high-risk settings. Thoughtful design is the key. 👇

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Reducing the risks of connecting wildlife habitats
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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“There is no net zero in Brazil without nature” -Dr Aline Soterroni at our #COP30 side event yesterday in Belém

A collaboration for biodiversity-climate synergies with @greenpeace.org @wwfbrasil.bsky.social @sosmataatlantica.bsky.social

Read the summary by @iisd.org ⬇️
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From Trade-offs to Synergies: Aligning Climate and Biodiversity Policies
What would it take to unite climate and biodiversity agendas? Speakers from science and policy stress that neither can succeed alone, urging collaboration, better data, and funding to bridge divides a...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
From trade offs to synergies: Aligning climate and biodiversity policies.

Reps from Oxford Biology joined experts from government, academia and NGOs at COP30 at this side event.

With Greenpeace, SOS Atlantic Forest foundation, WWF and @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.

📸 L.Jardim & A.Vasconcelos
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Welcome to this week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk when Prof Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social from @monashbiol.bsky.social will talk on The Evolution of Metabolic Rate and Life History: 3.30pm Fri 14 Nov in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Life & Mind Building. Also live-streamed: instructions ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Our new study shows that island populations of grey long-eared #bats have distinct DNA haplotypes compared to mainland populations, reflecting long-term isolation & independent evolutionary trajectories: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @iccs.bsky.social @jesusoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration

Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice

Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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📢 Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) was just launched at #COP30Belém 🌎 What does this new investment mechanism mean for forest protection worldwide? And could it mark a paradigm shift in #climatefinance?

Read our #TFFF updates ➡️
www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/tropica...
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy 🦎

New research from @ricardonature.bsky.social shows that 30% of island reptiles are threatened with extinction (compared to 12.1% of reptiles overall) - but only 6.7% of reptile-focused research since 1960 has studied them 👇
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Island reptiles face extinction before they are even studied
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November 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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View from my office window in the new @biology.ox.ac.uk building. I didn’t *ask* to be put somewhere with a Rook colony right outside the window but it worked out pretty well 🤓
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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From Rio92 to Head of the University of Oxford delegation to #COP30 in Belém. Dr Aline Soterroni, in the photo with the Ambassador of Brazil to the UK, Antonio Patriota, will be Deputy Head. For the 1st time, the delegation has 2 Brazilians leading it. If you wanna talk to our researchers, DM me.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Come and join our group in the new Life and Mind Building (lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home). POSTDOC: Bioinformatics/(meta)genomics :
tinyurl.com/2uhvvpn6

@ineosoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Our very own @biolliegist.bsky.social and @erolafenollosa.bsky.social will be will be part of this event next week. It’s always timely and important to discuss gender biases in quantitative ecology 🌈📊 @biology.ox.ac.uk #GenderBiasInScience #QuantitativeEcology
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We have three senior and one early-career research fellowships open! It's an exciting time to join us as we've just moved into the new Life and Mind Building

Fellowships in fungal disease, mycology, conservation science + nature finance, & plant sciences in thread 👇
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Oxford's new Life and Mind Building
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October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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On Tuesday a special pre-COP30 event was held in Oxford, co-hosted by Aline Soterroni from Biology and @erikaberenguer.bsky.social from @ecioxford.bsky.social

Brazil’s Ambassador to the UK, Antonio Patriota, opened the event, Forests and the Future: Brazil’s Path to Climate Solutions
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Pre-COP dialogue cements Oxford and Brazil partnership in forest conservation and climate finance innovation
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October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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We were delighted to host Brazil’s Ambassador to the UK in Oxford ahead of #COP30 for an event highlighting Brazil's new Tropical Forest Finance Facility (TFFF)

Hosted by ECI's Dr Erika Berenguer @erikaberenguer.bsky.social & Dr Aline Soterroni @biology.ox.ac.uk

➡️ www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/pre-cop...
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Coming up soon (9 am today) an opportunity to hear this classic episode of In Our Time on Bird Migration featuring Tim Guilford of @biology.ox.ac.uk

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Bird Migration
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
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October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Online today!

De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly of the RNAi-Tractable Paramecium bursaria 186b: An Endosymbiotic Model System

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October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The UK Government has vowed to ‘build, baby, build’ to deliver 1.5 million homes across the country by 2029.

Can this be achieved without worsening the biodiversity and nature crises?

Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland, Professor of Biodiversity @biology.ox.ac.uk explains ⬇️
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Expert Comment: Building faster, building fairer: can we make growth
Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland, Professor of Biodiversity in Oxford University’s Department of Biology, explains why conservationists and researchers are concerned about the proposed Planning &
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October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM