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What a phenomenally successful Y1 Retreat for 205 students in North Devon!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
Welcome Trisha @trishg.bsky.social!
Fantastic to welcome @trishg.bsky.social to the group today 🥳
Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
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Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Welcome Trisha @trishg.bsky.social!
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#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
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A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#Conflict is rife in the natural world & lots of animals use #vocal #signals before & during #contests. But what about in their aftermath? Wonder no more - read our #review on post-contest acoustic signalling:
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake
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doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@josharbon.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake
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After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Animal contests often involve acoustic signals at different stages, but empirical work has primarily focused on usage before and during antagonistic interactions. Far less attention has been paid to post-contest acoustic signals (PCAS): those occurring ...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Imagine choosing where to live for centuries when only 2 days old! How do free-swimming coral larvae detect their environment, and how are they wired to choose a suitable home? Find out with this fabulous PhD opportunity with @venky-vnm.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Imagine choosing where to live for centuries when only 2 days old! How do free-swimming coral larvae detect their environment, and how are they wired to choose a suitable home? Find out with this fabulous PhD opportunity with @venky-vnm.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to #Life'sABeach for enabling our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 1st Year #BeachClean. >200 students collected >57 kg litter, including lego, shotgun cases and >30 shark/ray egg cases. All data uploaded to @mcsuk.bsky.social & #SharkTrust. Blog here: www.lifesabeach.org/back-with-br...
Back with Bristol Uni! – life's a beach uk
www.lifesabeach.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Huge thanks to #Life'sABeach for enabling our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 1st Year #BeachClean. >200 students collected >57 kg litter, including lego, shotgun cases and >30 shark/ray egg cases. All data uploaded to @mcsuk.bsky.social & #SharkTrust. Blog here: www.lifesabeach.org/back-with-br...
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📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement.
Check out the details! 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience
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Looking for a PhD that combines global food security, climate change and environmental protection? Then read on...
The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD - Nutritional value and vulnerability of blue foods at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD - Nutritional value and vulnerability of blue foods at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Looking for a PhD that combines global food security, climate change and environmental protection? Then read on...
The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Why is hiking in a zebra onesie a smart move if you want to avoid being devoured by flies? And why are skunks more stripy in predator-rich forests? Find out this, and more, from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social experts @drmartinjhow.bsky.social & Tim Caro on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why are some animals black and white?
Why are zebras so stripy? Why do penguins wear tuxedos?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Why is hiking in a zebra onesie a smart move if you want to avoid being devoured by flies? And why are skunks more stripy in predator-rich forests? Find out this, and more, from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social experts @drmartinjhow.bsky.social & Tim Caro on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
❓ Want to join us?
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates
🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork
👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy
🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🙏Share widely
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Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
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Some amazing heroes of science celebrated this month in the foyer of our Life Sciences Building @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. Wangarĩ Muta Maathai a particular favourite for building the Green Belt Movement that empowered women across Africa to engage in rewilding.
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Some amazing heroes of science celebrated this month in the foyer of our Life Sciences Building @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. Wangarĩ Muta Maathai a particular favourite for building the Green Belt Movement that empowered women across Africa to engage in rewilding.
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🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
What a phenomenally successful Y1 Retreat for 205 students in North Devon!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
October 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What a phenomenally successful Y1 Retreat for 205 students in North Devon!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!
🌴 Zanzibar’s Forests at Risk🌴
Pemba’s Ngezi-Vumawimbi Reserve-home to rare orchids, endangered trees & endemic wildlife-is threatened by a resort plan to convert c.17% into villas. 🌿
What’s at stake?
➡️Tim Caro & 13 biologists' @ScienceMagazine letter bit.ly/4mFJ13h
Pemba’s Ngezi-Vumawimbi Reserve-home to rare orchids, endangered trees & endemic wildlife-is threatened by a resort plan to convert c.17% into villas. 🌿
What’s at stake?
➡️Tim Caro & 13 biologists' @ScienceMagazine letter bit.ly/4mFJ13h
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🌴 Zanzibar’s Forests at Risk🌴
Pemba’s Ngezi-Vumawimbi Reserve-home to rare orchids, endangered trees & endemic wildlife-is threatened by a resort plan to convert c.17% into villas. 🌿
What’s at stake?
➡️Tim Caro & 13 biologists' @ScienceMagazine letter bit.ly/4mFJ13h
Pemba’s Ngezi-Vumawimbi Reserve-home to rare orchids, endangered trees & endemic wildlife-is threatened by a resort plan to convert c.17% into villas. 🌿
What’s at stake?
➡️Tim Caro & 13 biologists' @ScienceMagazine letter bit.ly/4mFJ13h
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Prof Tim Caro and I both feature in this BBC World Service radio show about why zebra have stripes. Catch it at 8:30pm GMT on Fri 3rd Oct or replay on the link below. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social
BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why are some animals black and white?
Why are zebras so stripy? Why do penguins wear tuxedos?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Prof Tim Caro and I both feature in this BBC World Service radio show about why zebra have stripes. Catch it at 8:30pm GMT on Fri 3rd Oct or replay on the link below. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social
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Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society
This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...
royalsociety.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Huge welcome to Venky! We can't wait to see what the future holds 😀
Exciting news to share! I have started my new role as a Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology / Director of MSc Bioinformatics program at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Huge welcome to Venky! We can't wait to see what the future holds 😀
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Great to have this finally out! A whole summer of experiments at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to look for behavioural and morphological signals of collapse in protists population🔬 Thanks to @duncanobrien.bsky.social @expecocons.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social and John Jackson for the great team work
📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment
Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Great to have this finally out! A whole summer of experiments at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to look for behavioural and morphological signals of collapse in protists population🔬 Thanks to @duncanobrien.bsky.social @expecocons.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social and John Jackson for the great team work
Congratulations to our amazing MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students, who recently gave wonderful final presentations on their summer placements and projects!
We wish them all the best of luck with their future careers!
We wish them all the best of luck with their future careers!
September 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Congratulations to our amazing MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students, who recently gave wonderful final presentations on their summer placements and projects!
We wish them all the best of luck with their future careers!
We wish them all the best of luck with their future careers!
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Animal Behaviour from Exeter and Bristol, plus some of our alumni, went to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata and had mountains of rice. @crab-exeter.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Animal Behaviour from Exeter and Bristol, plus some of our alumni, went to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata and had mountains of rice. @crab-exeter.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
We love these! Check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 – the best pictures so far, at the link below: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildlife of the Year Award 2025 – the best pictures so far
The photo taken by Bidyut Kalita, is among several highly commended in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We love these! Check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 – the best pictures so far, at the link below: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time.
Find out more at the link below:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Find out more at the link below:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Bee buffets’: the pollinator pathways turning drab alleys into insect havens
Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time.
Find out more at the link below:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Find out more at the link below:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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🎉NEW PAPER🎉 out today - our review in #ProcB about post-contest acoustic signalling. Started piecemeal and alone years ago, the brilliance and energy of #ECRs @josharbon.bsky.social & Amy Morris-Drake gave it impetus. ☺️
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
After the fight: post-contest acoustic signalling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Animal contests often involve acoustic signals at different stages, but empirical
work has primarily focused on usage before and during antagonistic interactions. Far
less attention has been paid to p...
doi.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🎉NEW PAPER🎉 out today - our review in #ProcB about post-contest acoustic signalling. Started piecemeal and alone years ago, the brilliance and energy of #ECRs @josharbon.bsky.social & Amy Morris-Drake gave it impetus. ☺️
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...