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Staff here at UofExeter's Centre for Ecology & Conservation #ExeterCEC are joining in numbers. Welcome @erikpostma.bsky.social @btschirren.bsky.social and @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social who are more from the evolution end of ecology but also involved in conservation🧪🌎. Our campus by the sea below.
October 19, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Our MSc programmes:

Environmental Policy and Society MSc

Sustainable Business Management: Environment MSc

Sustainable Business Management: Tourism

MSc Sustainable Development MSc

Sustainable Futures MRes

#ExeterGSES #ExeterMarine #ExeterESI #ExeterCEC
November 16, 2023 at 2:16 PM
New Degree Alert!

Launching in September 2026 — BA/BSc (Hons) Global Sustainability

This pioneering course brings together science, humanities, and social sciences to tackle the world’s most urgent environmental and societal challenges.

Be part of the change.

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/

#ExeterCEC
June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ISRAs are not laws or restrictions, but highlight areas of global ecological importance for shark species.

Read the research here: lnkd.in/d4R7_JMK

#ExeterCEC #ExeterMarine #conservation #sharkresearch
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October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Only 9 days left to apply for this #funded PhD!

Join #ExeterCEC in this project aimed at improving capacity to sustainably manage Tristan da Cunha's fisheries w/ extended periods of fieldwork using tools such as BRUVS, eDNA + GIS 🐟

➡️ exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

@kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
April 3, 2024 at 9:14 AM
I have set up a feed collating posts from CECmembers that will work on the #ExeterCEC
bsky.app/profile/did:... 🧪🌎
October 19, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Tomorrow is the RSPB Garden Bird Watch!

🐦‍⬛ Join us on Penryn Campus from 10:30 to 12:00 (Friday 24th January).

🧑‍🏫 Students, staff, and the local community are all welcome!

For more information, visit: https://buff.ly/40L00JO

#ExeterCEC #BirdWatching #UKBirds #Birds
January 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity!

🧑🏾‍🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.

💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

#ExeterCEC 🧪
December 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Day five on our Azores undergraduate field trip!

A morning on the RIB deploying BRUVs (exciting BRUV footage coming soon!) and watching dolphins, sei whales and sperm whales, followed by a beach microplastic activity in the afternoon!

#ExeterCEC #MarineBiology #BRUV #Dolphins #Whales #Azores
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢

Well done team!

Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍

#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Interested in host-pathogen interactions and how genetic variation in disease susceptibility is maintained over evolutionary times in wild 🐭? Join us at #ExeterCEC for a 3 year #NERC -funded postdoc position. See jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... for more information.
 
#Evobio #evoeco 🧪🌏🦊🐭
October 31, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Antarctic krill 🦐 is known to be an important prey for crabeater seals and leopard seals, but new evidence indicates that Weddell and Southern elephant 🦭 also enjoy this small euphausiid for dinner #PinnipedFacts #ExeterCEC 🧪🦑🌏🦊
October 29, 2023 at 11:56 PM
To visiting the Ol Pejeta conservancy and learning about pastoralism & land management for conservation including community inclusion, plus Kenyan experts discussing complex role of sanctuaries for elephant/rhino/chimp conservation @kjhockings.bsky.social

#ExeterCEC #ExeterGSES
January 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
This week’s CEC seminar is about zebrafish!

👨‍🏫  Prof Soojin Ryu - Mireille Gillings Professor of Neurobiology from the University of Exeter Living Systems Institute - will present the seminar “Life-long consequences of early life stress in zebrafish”.

📅 6th February, 1PM

📍 DDM LTA

#ExeterCEC
February 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Urbanisation threatens ecological health of South China’s Greater Bay Area - new study by CHUK & @uniofexeter.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

Full paper 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌏🦑🧪 #ExeterCEC #ExeterMarine

Press release 👇
Urbanisation threatens ecological health of South China’s Greater Bay Area
Rapid urbanisation in South China’s Greater Bay Area poses a significant threat to the ecological well-being of Deep Bay and its surrounding wetlands, new research shows. The study, by the Chinese U...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 3, 2023 at 12:46 PM
Congratulations to Dr Dan Padfield, who has been awarded the 2024 Emerging Leaders Prize by the Medical Research Foundation!

To learn more about Dan's work and the wider research in this area at Exeter, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/amr...

@padpadpadpad.bsky.social

#ExeterCEC 🧪 #Climate
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec

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December 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
This week’s CEC seminar is about climate change!
🧑‍🏫 Sinead English - UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and PI of the Evolution and Vector Ecology Lab at the University of Bristol - will present the seminar “Coping with climate change: a developmental perspective”.
📅 20th March, 1PM
📍 DDM LTA
#ExeterCEC
March 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
We want to share one of our latest scientific articles about cephalopods. In this article, we identified and characterized the beaks of 18 species of cephalopods found in the stomach contents of three shark species.

Read here: doi.org/10.21142/SS-...

#ExeterCEC #MarineLife, 🦑
October 25, 2023 at 11:28 PM
December 17, 2024 at 9:07 PM
@sarahenelms.bsky.social will be giving her #esiStateOfTheArt talk “#Marine litter, microplastics and marine vertebrates” on 26 February!

📅 1- 2pm in the ESI Trevithick Room & online

More details here: exeter.ac.uk/esi/people/f...

#ExeterESI #ExeterCEC
February 8, 2024 at 2:38 PM
A wonderful first week with visiting marine biology students from the University of Khorfakkan!

We've explored the local area, learnt about marine research conducted at the UoE Centre for Ecology and Conservation and experienced both lab and field work.

#ExeterCEC #MarineBiology #Undergrad
July 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
And another SWBio-funded PhD position on

Immune system ageing in European badgers: fitness consequences, evolution and implications for disease dynamics 🦡🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

available at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to UK and international students.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#Ageing
#PhD
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November 18, 2024 at 5:09 PM
New PhD Studentship Opportunity!

💧 Come work with us and the ZSL for this exciting project!

🎓 The de Freitas Studentship, Ref: 5431

📍 Location: Penryn Campus, University of Exeter, Cornwall

🗓️ Closing date: Midnight 28 February 2025

💻 Visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

#ExeterCEC #PhDsky 🌍
January 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM