Costanza Zanghi
@coszan.bsky.social
Interested in all things fish and behavioural ecology. Love nature, gelato & my dogs. She/them
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Costanza Zanghi
@coszan.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators
Abstract. Changes in environmental conditions impact predator-prey interactions by altering behaviour through sensory and non-sensory (e.g. metabolic or co
academic.oup.com
✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
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🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
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@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
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Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish?
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
China Scholarship Council PhD studentships - apply now! | Christos Ioannou
Blog post description.
ioannougroup.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish?
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB.
Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here:
ioannougroup.com/china-schola...
@asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY! Senior Researcher in Freshwater Environmental Genetics to work with us on the ERC REFRESH Programme studying the role of dissolved organic matter in freshwater ecosystems shorturl.at/zOajg @pennyjohnes.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @ercrefresh.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY! Senior Researcher in Freshwater Environmental Genetics to work with us on the ERC REFRESH Programme studying the role of dissolved organic matter in freshwater ecosystems shorturl.at/zOajg @pennyjohnes.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @ercrefresh.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social
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📢 We are hiring a Director (Central Team) to develop and oversee programmes across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
🗓️ Closing date: 21/11/2025 | £50,000 | Permanent | Full-time, hybrid - two days based in Oxford.
Find out more and apply here: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
🗓️ Closing date: 21/11/2025 | £50,000 | Permanent | Full-time, hybrid - two days based in Oxford.
Find out more and apply here: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📢 We are hiring a Director (Central Team) to develop and oversee programmes across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
🗓️ Closing date: 21/11/2025 | £50,000 | Permanent | Full-time, hybrid - two days based in Oxford.
Find out more and apply here: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
🗓️ Closing date: 21/11/2025 | £50,000 | Permanent | Full-time, hybrid - two days based in Oxford.
Find out more and apply here: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
📮I've been matched with a Pre-Scientist pen pal!🧪✍️✨
This year, I’ll be exchanging handwritten letters with an 8th grader in the US, sharing what it’s like to work in science & answering their Qs about pursuing a career in STEM.
💌Check out LPS website to donate or volunteer:
prescientist.org
This year, I’ll be exchanging handwritten letters with an 8th grader in the US, sharing what it’s like to work in science & answering their Qs about pursuing a career in STEM.
💌Check out LPS website to donate or volunteer:
prescientist.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📮I've been matched with a Pre-Scientist pen pal!🧪✍️✨
This year, I’ll be exchanging handwritten letters with an 8th grader in the US, sharing what it’s like to work in science & answering their Qs about pursuing a career in STEM.
💌Check out LPS website to donate or volunteer:
prescientist.org
This year, I’ll be exchanging handwritten letters with an 8th grader in the US, sharing what it’s like to work in science & answering their Qs about pursuing a career in STEM.
💌Check out LPS website to donate or volunteer:
prescientist.org
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Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible).
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org
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 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible).
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org
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Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
July 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻
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Hi #river #ecologists and #geomorphologists, is there an R or python package that can take in DEM or topo data to extract possible historic islands, side channels, and backwaters? Thanks!
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hi #river #ecologists and #geomorphologists, is there an R or python package that can take in DEM or topo data to extract possible historic islands, side channels, and backwaters? Thanks!
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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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📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable.
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
📢ONE WEEK until deadline (31st July 2025) to apply for full-time Managing Editor role of @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Must have animal behaviour background with previous editorial experience desirable.
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
#job #publishing #editor
Full details: www.asab.org/opportunities
Please spread the word
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How can we beat the
Farage-Badenoch-Starmer axis of cruelty
in the UK?
A strong @greenparty.org.uk with a *fearless* leader is part of the answer.
Join the party now and make it happen by voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Less than 10 days left!
join.greenparty.org.uk #BackZack
Farage-Badenoch-Starmer axis of cruelty
in the UK?
A strong @greenparty.org.uk with a *fearless* leader is part of the answer.
Join the party now and make it happen by voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Less than 10 days left!
join.greenparty.org.uk #BackZack
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
How can we beat the
Farage-Badenoch-Starmer axis of cruelty
in the UK?
A strong @greenparty.org.uk with a *fearless* leader is part of the answer.
Join the party now and make it happen by voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Less than 10 days left!
join.greenparty.org.uk #BackZack
Farage-Badenoch-Starmer axis of cruelty
in the UK?
A strong @greenparty.org.uk with a *fearless* leader is part of the answer.
Join the party now and make it happen by voting for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Less than 10 days left!
join.greenparty.org.uk #BackZack
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Join us for ManyDogs 2!
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
July 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Join us for ManyDogs 2!
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"While our research has shown that many freshwater species readily bounce back from occasional periods of drought, we know that excessively hot, dry weather year after year can bring more profound long-term changes to both standing and running waters."
Read our drought comment: lnkd.in/eYJ6hs6C
Read our drought comment: lnkd.in/eYJ6hs6C
July 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"While our research has shown that many freshwater species readily bounce back from occasional periods of drought, we know that excessively hot, dry weather year after year can bring more profound long-term changes to both standing and running waters."
Read our drought comment: lnkd.in/eYJ6hs6C
Read our drought comment: lnkd.in/eYJ6hs6C
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More on social conformity here:
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
with @katelaskowski.bsky.social
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
with @katelaskowski.bsky.social
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin
Research on the effects of social interactions on individual behavioural variation
has a long history [1]. Of primary interest is how individuals alter their behaviour
to be similar to that of others ...
www.cell.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
More on social conformity here:
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
with @katelaskowski.bsky.social
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
with @katelaskowski.bsky.social
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New PhD student paper!
Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown
#openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social
Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown
#openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
New PhD student paper!
Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown
#openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social
Social conformity in lateralisation in guppies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Iestyn L. Penry-Williams, with Culum Brown
#openaccess at @ecol-evol.bsky.social
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So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators
Abstract. Changes in environmental conditions impact predator-prey interactions by altering behaviour through sensory and non-sensory (e.g. metabolic or co
academic.oup.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
#ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🧵1/9
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Interested in predator / prey / collective behaviour in fishes?
With or without anthropogenic change?
I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch!
Please spread the word!
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
@erc.europa.eu @asab.org
With or without anthropogenic change?
I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch!
Please spread the word!
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
@erc.europa.eu @asab.org
June 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Interested in predator / prey / collective behaviour in fishes?
With or without anthropogenic change?
I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch!
Please spread the word!
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
@erc.europa.eu @asab.org
With or without anthropogenic change?
I am keen to help develop MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications - get in touch!
Please spread the word!
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
@erc.europa.eu @asab.org
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Out now 🎉
The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports!
We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟
With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/6
The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports!
We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟
With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/6
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Out now 🎉
The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports!
We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟
With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/6
The second paper from my Masters published in Scientific Reports!
We explored how acoustic noise affects collective behaviour in guppies 🐟
With fab co-authors: Ella Waples, @andyradford.bsky.social, Steve Simpson & @ccioannou.bsky.social
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵1/6
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🚨 Freshwater habitats are under threat, species are declining, and current efforts to fix this are failing.
But we have a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. It's called the Freshwater Network. (1/2)
But we have a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. It's called the Freshwater Network. (1/2)
April 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🚨 Freshwater habitats are under threat, species are declining, and current efforts to fix this are failing.
But we have a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. It's called the Freshwater Network. (1/2)
But we have a solution to the freshwater biodiversity crisis. It's called the Freshwater Network. (1/2)
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Our latest #research with @ccioannou.bsky.social has been published in @commsbio.bsky.social !
Read here 👉 rdcu.be/d9J2u
We used real-time tracking and a robot-heron to investigate how state-behaviour #feedbacks influence anti-predator #escape responses in #fish 🐟.
Read here 👉 rdcu.be/d9J2u
We used real-time tracking and a robot-heron to investigate how state-behaviour #feedbacks influence anti-predator #escape responses in #fish 🐟.
February 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Our latest #research with @ccioannou.bsky.social has been published in @commsbio.bsky.social !
Read here 👉 rdcu.be/d9J2u
We used real-time tracking and a robot-heron to investigate how state-behaviour #feedbacks influence anti-predator #escape responses in #fish 🐟.
Read here 👉 rdcu.be/d9J2u
We used real-time tracking and a robot-heron to investigate how state-behaviour #feedbacks influence anti-predator #escape responses in #fish 🐟.
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Still 10 days left to apply for this 3-year Postdoc to study robber bees and their impacts on tropical bee communities 🐝 🇧🇷🇬🇧
🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝
Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.
📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau
@leverhulme.bsky.social
Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.
📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau
@leverhulme.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Still 10 days left to apply for this 3-year Postdoc to study robber bees and their impacts on tropical bee communities 🐝 🇧🇷🇬🇧