We're honoured that @leverhulme.ac.uk chose to feature @extinctionleeds.bsky.social as part of their centenary. It's testament to our fantastic PGRs, including @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social and @kate-elspeth.bsky.social whose work is highlighted. Full video link in the post. #extinction #culture

Radar technology has been around for decades, used to track & predict weather. Now scientists have made a breakthrough using it to monitor insects - paving the way for cost effective biodiversity tracking across huge areas @katatrepsis.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Seems suitable for today: I resurrected my clay extruder for creating pastry prey for experiments on bird predation. It also looks like a very teeny Eldritch horror emerging from a teeny portal... Strongly agree with Talya that ecology is just being 7 yrs old again! #evolution #camouflage #research

Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... more below... #entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability

I have a #PhD project advertised on "Hacking Urban Habitability: A Data-Driven Network Approach to Build Thriving Cities for All Species" led by @rogercre.bsky.social. It should be a LOT of fund and would suit a creative graduate who can think in space and systems yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/hac...

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy to see this paper out which started as a Masters project for first author Cameron Peacock - exploring the potential and the limitations of 3D scanning tech for supporting insect taxonomy dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🧪🌍🪳🐝 @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social @katatrepsis.bsky.social

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Wild great tits signal ‘divorce’ long before the breeding season — even in the winter, months before the couples rebreed with different partners in the following spring New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇 bit.ly/4lRt7TN @sheldonbirds.bsky.social

📢 Now hiring: @canjzoology.bsky.social is recruiting an #ECR Associate Editor! This is a great volunteer opportunity for a postdoc or early-career faculty member to gain editorial experience and build connections! ▶️ buff.ly/QGdDC1k #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

Through an interdisciplinary and participatory action research approach, Sarah Oakes is investigating sociocultural potato knowledge among Quechua farmers in the Peruvian Andes. Read more about her fascinating project here: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/soakes @extinctionleeds.bsky.social

🌏 🧪 🌊🐬New paper led by Lucas Bernier: Fraser’s dolphins are among the least studied dolphins on Earth—offshore, deep-diving, and rarely seen. Lucas' work reveals they are surprisingly common along the Lesser Antilles, with a connected population across the arc. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/mms....

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

This time last month, I performed probably my coolest science show to date, hanging 8m above the ground, and @ri-science.bsky.social were kind enough to let me film it. Today, I'm happy to share my recording for you to enjoy: youtu.be/wPQsq5GRigw

All, if you've had your federally-funded research disrupted due to the admin's chaos, consider this funding opportunity from Robert Wood Johnson: Rapid Response Research Rapid Response Research awards are exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding... 🧪🧵

If you'd like to hear @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social speak about their recent work on "Rethinking extinction “crises”: The case of Asian songbird trade", there's a talk that is available here: doi.org/10.52843/cas... #extinction #conservation #bird 🌍🧪

Congratulations to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social on successfully defending their PhD thesis! I can honestly say that this was one of the most interesting projects I have been involved with, the most talented students I have supervised, and the least stressful waits for a viva outcome :-)

congratulations to Dr @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social , for successfully defending their thesis on the songbird trade in Indonesia. A highly interdisciplinary study, with some wonderful papers and a cool interactive website here www.uncagedconservation.com

This was a really interesting project to work on. How do you communicate complex layers of geospatial data under different scenarios of environmental change? #ShinyR offers opportunities for #dataviz that you just can't achieve in static images.

You can explore data from our paper and visualise the impact of different water level decline scenarios on protected areas and other ecologically significant areas, and human infrastructure with this interactive Shiny app chassall.shinyapps.io/CaspianShiny... made by @katatrepsis.bsky.social 🧪🌏

Declines in the water level of the Caspian Sea driven by climate change will hit biodiversity & human populations hard. A decline of 5-10m will threaten ecosystem integrity, reduce coverage of marine protected areas by up to 94% & compromise key infrastructure. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪🌏🦭🐋🦑

Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

🔎 🌍 🧪 How reliable are biodiversity trend assessments? A new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by the amazing @wilkesma.bsky.social, reveals hidden sources of uncertainty in monitoring data and modeling choices that can dramatically alter conservation conclusions… (1/5) 🔗 bit.ly/4ibhAgq

Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊ The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪 The whole union is behind you 🪧 Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...

Hey #WildlifeDisease & #conservation folk, please check out our survey on attitudes to parasite conservation. Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n

"COP28’s historic agreement, and the pursuit of climate justice" - Extinction Studies PhD student Catriona Flesher writes about the landmark Loss and Damage agreement (in all its complexity) at the COP28 summit in late 2024: https://buff.ly/42D8Sm1 #climate #lossanddamage

My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

"Awe and Extinction" - Extinction Studies PhD student @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social writes about reflections on a recent photography trip to the Scottish Small Isles:

"How #poetry can help us understand mass extinction events" - a new post on @theconversation.com by #Extinction Studies Researcher @kate-elspeth.bsky.social on #paleontology and poetic methods (strata/stanza, negative space) and how they interact

"The Authenticity of Absence" - Extinction Studies PhD student MT Talensby shares her thoughts on #presence and #absence, #emptiness and #extinction during a recent trip to the Scottish Small Isles during a #photography project:

Lovely to see so many Extinction Studies DTP people - both PGRs and supervisors - in this special issue.

Excited to share our new preprint, in which we show that mimic hoverflies' flower colour preferences tend to follow those of their models. If the bees you are mimicking prefer visiting blue flowers, then so do you! Comments welcome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (LH image credit: Peter O'Connor)

Fantastic to start the day with @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social leaping into my office with some highly positive reviews on their recent PhD output. "Interesting", "novel", "great paper", "valuable perspective", "significant" and "immediately useful"! Brilliant work and I look forward to sharing it!

Very excited about this #photography exhibition this evening, run by the @extinctionleeds.bsky.social Doctoral Training Programme. The PhD students are an extremely talented bunch and this collection of images arose from confronting #extinction, loss, and #wildness through a photographic lens.

Jonathan's brilliant work has, like the rest of the @extinctionleeds.bsky.social projects, absolutely zero respect for the niceties of disciplinary boundaries. It's a wonderful exploration of the social, cultural and biological aspects of hookworm eradication. History, philosophy, epidemiology.

"You say potato, I say biocultural heritage that safeguards global food security" - Extinction Studies PhD student Sarah Oakes shares her thoughts on the importance of diverse food crops https://buff.ly/40D8zW0 #extinction #foodsecurity #potato

Ever heard of parasite conservation and thought "Why on earth would we want to do that 😱"?! Read our new paper to find out... We cover key questions including: Why conserve parasites? How do you conserve parasites? & What parasite conservation is already happening? doi.org/10.1111/cobi... [1/3]

This was a fantastic viva and Jon did a great job at putting together a compelling, interdisciplinary thesis. You can read some of that work in his first published paper from the PhD: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

Delighted to announce that the @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme at @universityofleeds.bsky.social has now migrated to Bluesky: @extinctionleeds.bsky.social. Follow for lots of #envhum #interdisciplinarity #conservation from our brilliant PhD students.

@universityofleeds.bsky.social are the latest university to cease posting on X. They are the first one I have seen to have made a formal statement about it.

We're BACK! Right, 2025, let's be having you. <eyes the #UKHE sector> We're going to need each other. Whatever you do, join a union & don't go into these next few months on your own. You may not like it, but by now unions are the only organ for staff to be heard in unis. qmucu.org/qmucu-2/join...

My 5 year old came home from (Catholic) school and asked his mum "if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" I came over all nostalgic about the old creationism-evolution wars! I'll let this one slide, but if it happens again, I'm pulling rank on the primary school bio teacher...

Hippos, one of Africa’s most iconic species, are classified as vulnerable due to significant threats. Despite their importance in the ecosystems, they are often overlooked in research. A new study led by the School of Biology highlights data gaps and calls for immediate conservation efforts 🦛

Bluesky seems a little more serious and work-related than the old place, but here's this year's gingerbread house just in case anyone is interested!

Our latest read on the state of our University: how the University of Sheffield wasted tens of millions of pounds on the scrapped 'Student Lifecycle Project' ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

🌍 I had an interesting conversation about a new project (funded by Peter and Susan Cheney) with business researchers Ulf Andersson and Ziko Konwar about biodiversity and business. Where are the win-wins and the tensions? Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/53sn... #biodiversity #business #podcast

Pls RT: Interested in doing a PhD on the behaviour of #bees & other animals at CRAB Uni Exeter and Bristol Uni? Check out SWBio swbio.ac.uk www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/pr... (apply by 11.12.) & NERC GW4 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... @seanrands.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social apply by 13.01.

**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you! go.bsky.app/AdXdpZd