The Cambridge University Entomological Society is hosting a symposium on ”The good, the bad, and the monstrous: insects in mythology, literature and media”, at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, on 20th November 2025. Huge thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social for supporting us!

📢Publication alert! Insect biodiversity research: 🪰Large-scale analysis finds livestock ranching threatens aquatic insects 🐝Model predictions show no overall UK insect occupancy decline Find out more: bit.ly/3ItHlvU @rothamsted.bsky.social @joemillard.bsky.social

If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15! (You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...

📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social ow.ly/llRt50X05P3

Today meet the leadership team for our Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Research Theme! New lead Lucy tells us her thoughts on the Research Themes - find out more bio.cam.ac.uk #BiologicalSciences @phar.cam.ac.uk @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

📢Publication alert! PhD student, Iris Berger and Prof Lynn Dick's paper is published today in @natecoevo.nature.com It analyses one of the world’s biggest agroecological transitions, and its exciting implications for biodiversity and economics. Read more: bit.ly/4nht5Wi

🏳️‍🌈Our Pride in Nature tours are back this October! 🏳️‍🌈Book onto one of these FREE tours to discover how queer perspectives help us to better understand the natural world. These tours are run by our expert volunteers. All welcome. ow.ly/AzRw50WY0jp @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...

Research into tiny charismatic peacock spiders makes the news! BBC Breakfast this morning featured research by PhD candidate Jonah Walker and @joanameier.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/3JUL5qF

🐳If you could talk to a whale, what would you say? With our artificial intelligence experiment you can now chat to our fin whale. It's the largest specimen in Cambridge! Just scan the QR code in the Whale Hall & start chatting. Museum upper gallery, shop & café open Tues - Sun. Entry FREE 😀

Are you a prospective postgrad looking for a research project? Check out our brand new list of postgrad projects for 2026-27. From animal weapons 💥and rewilding, to neuronal plasticity and invitro fertilisation 🧪 the breadth of topics is tremendous. Find out more: bit.ly/3VxHscv

Prof Lynn Dicks, leader of our Agroecology Group met Daniel Zeichner MP #FoodSecurity and #RuralAffairs Minister on his recent visit to @slcuplants.bsky.social. Lynn presented research on #regenerativefarming 🌿🐝and its potential to transform agriculture. More about Daniel's visit: bit.ly/3I4McTU

📢Congratulations! 🎖️Prof Andrew Balmford FRS has won the @royalsociety.org's new Environment Medal and Lecture! Awarded for groundbreaking contributions to #conservationscience & redefining conservation education. Read more: bit.ly/41oPGr1 @conservation.cam.ac.uk

📢We’re recruiting! 🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation A permanent teaching-focused position in our vibrant, welcoming and intellectually stimulating academic community. Deadline: 7 September. Apply here: bit.ly/3HKtNeZ

On 14 Aug 1875 the last Rodrigues parakeet was seen alive. 150 years on it rests (with one other) at the Museum, the only physical evidence that it ever existed. @jackdashby.bsky.social explains how collections are used to learn lessons from past losses. theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

📢Publication alert Out now! No Island too Far by Michael Brooke, Emeritus Strickland Curator of Ornithology @zoologymuseum.bsky.social The story of a life-long global adventure searching for seabirds on remote specks of land. Find out more: bit.ly/4mLVinw

📢We’re delighted to announce that the Vice Chancellor has appointed @markjfbrown.bsky.social as Director of the University @zoologymuseum.bsky.social and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026. Read more: bit.ly/3UVHmey

Celebrate reptiles with us on Thurs 14 Aug at our Summer Family Day 🙂 follow our Reptile Trail, make craft snakes & handle real reptile skeletons! All FREE, just drop in. #SummerAtTheMuseums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

CPS Henslow Fellow Dr Tiffany Ki from @camzoology.bsky.social with Victoria Smith, Local Nature Reserves Ranger for Cambridge City Council conducting fieldwork on insect populations. Read more on Tiffany's research here: cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/hens...

New research on glasswing butterflies🦋 by an international team of researchers, including @joanameier.bsky.social and Prof @chrisjiggins.bsky.social offers fresh insights into insect evolution and may help shape more effective conservation of these species. Read more: bit.ly/4oi4XUo

We’re so excited to see the work of our #agroecology group members featured in the @sciencemuseum.org.uk's new exhibition Future of #Food. Work by Prof Lynn Dicks, @irisberger.bsky.social, Katie Berthon, Ailsa Harris & Annie Northfield is on show. Go see! Read more: bit.ly/470rMFH

Fabulous to meet my former @telegraphnews.bsky.social young science writer @LynnDicks at the launch of our #FutureofFood exhibition in the @sciencemuseum.org.uk , which features the research of her @camzoology.bsky.social group, inc @Iris_Berger_ !!!

We're recruiting! 🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation 🌳Postdoctoral Research Associates in Drosophila Connectomics Whole Organism Neuroscience 🌳Research Assistant Environmental impacts of food consumption & policy Find out more: bit.ly/4o028qV

Opening tomorrow! The Future of Food at London's @sciencemuseum.org.uk Research by Prof Lynn Dicks' #Agroecology Group, including @irisberger.bsky.social features in this new exhibition all about how food 🥗must change to protect our planet🌍. Free tickets: bit.ly/4lyxWkL

Showtime! This photo by Jonah Walker, PhD student here in Zoology, shows a tiny male peacock spider performing an elaborate dance to attract a mate. Jonah describes his fieldwork finding these spiders as like Pokémon Go on a continental scale.

When a peregrine falcon chick was sadly found dead in Hertfordshire, our team from @camvetschool.bsky.social helped reveal a lodged bone in its throat. A sad story - but one now teaching future vets and students @camzoology.bsky.social 👉🏼https://bit.ly/3IalvNu #VetMed #WildlifeForensics

Planning to apply for a Senior Research Fellowship next year? Our Senior Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme is now open! The scheme sponsors externally funded fellowship applications to start research groups in our department. Find out more: bit.ly/44bhaCe Picture by Daniel Field

❓Want to help shape a more sustainable food system? Take @restpoll.bsky.social’s 20-minute survey and share your opinion on pollinator-friendly products. 👉 Your voice matters – support the bees and support science! Available in 7 languages! agreconlab.limesurvey.net/328536?lang=en

Will food be more environmentally friendly in the future? Find out at @sciencemuseum.org.uk's exhibition the Future of Food, featuring research by our Agroecology group lead by Prof Lynn Dicks. Lynn will speak at the opening event on 24 July. Free tickets: bit.ly/4nzpELd youtu.be/XVLCKp84UZI

Happy to share the Naked Scientists' article on my recent paper. Huge thanks to Chris Smith for interviewing me! Also, massive thanks to @camzoology.bsky.social, @biology.ox.ac.uk and @britentsoc.bsky.social for supporting this work! The link: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Check the beautiful microscopy work at @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social with a very special cichlid fish contribution from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/stories/camb... Check it out!!

🎉Congratulations! Dr Ellie Bladon on becoming the first Pathway to Independence Fellow in Ecology and Conservation Biology at Clare College Cambridge. She'll be working in the @cwmiller.bsky.social lab here in Zoology. Read more: bit.ly/4encSuX

Thanks 🥰 to everyone who came along to our Zoology Live! INSECTOPIA event on Saturday, despite the very hot weather! 🦋We enjoyed mini-beast hunts, insect room tours, plus lectures, live stick insects, moths & butterflies. So cool in the Museum😉 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

📢 New paper from our Evolutionary Ecology Group!

Our biggest family day of the year is this Saturday 21 June. We have a jam packed day for you: 🦋Minibeast hunts 🐝Behind the Scenes tours 🪰Crafts 🪳Live insects 🐞Mini lectures 🙂ALL FREE 💗Can't wait to see you ow.ly/LPUF50WbC6r @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

🙂APPLY NOW - We are seeking a Senior Collections Lead to manage our Collections Management, Care & Conservation teams. 🦋Closes Sun 22 June. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/ @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social‬ will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution. We look forward to welcoming him next year!

Pangolins in West Africa hunted for food rather than for illicit scales trade. New research from Gates Cambridge Scholar @Charles Emogor - www.cam.ac.uk/stories/pang... #pangolins @uniofcam.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

Happy to share the first paper from my PhD! We report the discovery of a new insect-plant interaction from Borneo, where one ant-plant has evolved sharp hooked trichomes to pierce and kill lycaenid caterpillars. However, one specialist can survive and has a counter-defence! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Tanmay Dixit reports on Ascah & co’s recent Biology Letters paper showing that brown thornbills give a false alarm when the predatory currawong is around, causing the predators to flee from the fictious threat journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Gates Cambridge Impact Prize winner Alex Vail talks about his work as a wildlife cinematographer on programmes including Blue Planet and Asia @camzoology.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social #wildlife #environment #gatescambridge25

📢WE'RE HIRING📢Could you be our new Senior Collections Lead? Would you enjoy working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections? Apply by 22 June to look after our amazing Collections Management, Care & Conservation team. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/

Dr Eva van der Heijden (first PhD in my group, not on Bluesky) finished her PhD with flying colours and a new hat! The hat represents her PhD with CRISPR DNA, butterflies, a tiny net, GWAS dots, etc. What a great day of celebration! @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

📢Publication alert! How can we diagnose the causes of wild species population decline more quickly and reliably? A new paper by Prof Rhys Green and Prof Jeremy Wilson @rspb.bsky.social suggests a way forward. Read more about it here: bit.ly/43qvzdk @britishecologicalsociety.org

Our Assistant Director @jackdashby.bsky.social was on #BBCWomansHour this morning! Available online now, grab a cup of tea, sit down and listen back. Enjoy! @camzoology.bsky.social @camunivmuseums.bsky.social

🦋 Join henrylnorth.bsky.social (@girtoncollege.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social) as he shows how we’re monitoring moths in Cambridge to better understand local biodiversity. Big insights from small wings. #BiodiversityDay #MothMonitoring #CambridgeScience

🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology! Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS. Many, many congratulations! Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

🏆Our huge congratulations to Dr Marta Zlatic on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society! Read more on our website: bit.ly/3H4rCCk @mrclmb.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

🏆Our hearty congratulations to Prof Claire Spottiswoode on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society! Read more on the Zoology website: bit.ly/3H4rCCk @royalsociety.org @africanornithology.bsky.social