Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime, with this house wren about to feed the kids. #Birds 🪶

Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere? I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill My piece in Bristol 24/7⬇️ www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

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🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

Las crías de tortugas gigantes prosperan en Seychelles tras la primera incubación artificial exitosa www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

Broken families can have huge effects on children, even later in life. But is that the case in species other than humans? Read my latest article in the ‪@aunz.theconversation.com‬ on mate switching effects in offspring of the ‪@seychelleswarbler.bsky.social‬ 👇 theconversation.com/the-chicks-a...

In this position, the impact of plant-based diets on the gut microbiome will be explored in metagenomes, including tracing bacterial strains, reconstructing their genomes and metabolic food-webs in the gastrointestinal ecosystem. 💷 £37,500 - £42,000 🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/9qwinfu

💬 “Our recent work in #Lichen has been particularly fascinating, to see how #cells from unicellular organisms interact and specialise to make up a multicellular organism.” In a new article, we chat to Prof Irene Papatheodorou her group's work on global #cellatlas projects. 👉 buff.ly/9nWE5GE 🧬💻

An excellent PhD opportunity - at a great place - with a great system .....and with a great group! Should be fun....as well as very scientifically rewarding😀

New research from @ueaenv.bsky.social reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean 🌊 🧊 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4kMXw5r #ThisIsUEA #SouthernOcean #Carbon #Antarctic @climateuea.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Some excellent facts and fun relating to this wonderful bird. An iconic example of how science and conservation can work hand in hand! Delivered by those doing the work! @chuenlee.bsky.social @clairetsui.bsky.social Alessandro Pinto pintofscience.co.uk/event/the-fa...

📣 @pintofscience.uk returns to #Norwich again this month! Researchers from across the #NorwichResearchPark will be heading out to share their science! @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Check out the great set of talks below 👇

A great, fully-funded, PhD opportunity starting October 2025 Working on a hot topic using a wonderful natural bird system, at a great place (UEA), with a lovely team 😁. APPLY ASAP - deadline 19th May biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/avi... for my group see dsrichardsonlab.wordpress.com

The deadline for applications to this conceptually and practically exciting and well-funded PHD is soon. 19th May apply now!

We're recruiting - funded PhD "Adaptive social flexibility – a powerful mechanism to cope with a rapidly changing world" @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social Deadline 20th April www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Great to be involved in this piece - making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology.

We're back! We hope everyone had a lovely Spring Break! 🌼🐇 Check our latest research news, from academic experts commenting on dolphins in Suffolk rivers, to GPS systems helping older drivers stay on the road: www.linkedin.com/posts/uea-re... #ThisIsUEA

A great, fully-funded, PhD opportunity starting October 2025 Working on a hot topic using a wonderful natural bird system, at a great place (UEA), with a lovely team 😁. APPLY ASAP - deadline 19th May biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/avi... for my group see dsrichardsonlab.wordpress.com

A new study from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health confirms what many of us already suspected: cycling to work actually makes you healthier, more productive, and takes a real chunk out of sick days. road.cc/content/news...

A change to our symposium line up for @eseb2025.bsky.social, Belinda van Heerwaarden @bvanheerwaarden.bsky.social is now joined by Matthew Koski. Abstract deadline in 25th April. @rhondasnook.bsky.social, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and I would love to see you there! #🧪

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

Field assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠

We are excited to announce a support scheme for ECRs wishing to attend ESEB 2025 and participate in the WAME-sponsored symposium “Contribution of the microbiome to host adaptation and plasticity” See here for more details and please share! www.wamestn.com/eseb-2025

Excellent news for an excellent teacher ...and colleague!

and a waste of money

a short lecturer contract at UEA. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Good news! The Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution STN is providing ECRs funding to support the presentation of a talk or poster at ESEB 2025 within the WAME-sponsored symposium “Contribution of the microbiome to Host Adaptation and plasticity”. APPLY NOW DL 12 May. €500 www.wamestn.com/eseb-2025

🔬 My latest work w/ @immler.bsky.social et al: Env. stress alters sperm sRNAs, linking gene expr. + transposons in #zebrafish offspring. @heredityjournal.bsky.social 🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations #Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social rdcu.be/eeAwB

"Correlation does not equal causation" has had a chilling effect on what we've learnt from observational data in ecology & evolution (meanwhile obs data are widely used in medical analyses!). This paper lays out how ecologists can draw causal inferences from obs data doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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

Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA. Follow us... #UEAScience go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz

Population collapse of the Canary Islands stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae) is driven by a decrease in rainfall www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Berthelot's pipit fieldwork Tenerife. Studying anthropogenic effects on the avian gut microbiome. Postgrad students Liz Allocca, Eugenio Carlon & Max Pearson from UEA. A great field team. Sorry Juan-Carlos! @biouea.bsky.social @lizallo.bsky.social @mpearson24.bsky.social @andalgalornis.bsky.social

What is #researchculture and why does it matter? This complex topic was at the heart of last week's Connecting Research Culture Conference. Bringing together the #BBSRC Institutes, we explored wide-ranging areas including mental health and wellbeing, inclusion, and understanding neurodiversity.

Daughter had the same problem. You are stuck with '"you do not need an ETA" or the option to not declare joint citizenship (illegal?). We had to get her British passport to her to allow her to travel back to UK (she normally travels with the Danish one). What a mess!

Viruses do not respect borders and crucial that we support efforts to monitor and control mPox - USAid cuts and WHO withdrawal are massively detrimental 🧪

Go home everyone, there is absolutely nothing happening here. .... 😍 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 (Photo by Andreas Kay)

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Norwich Science Festival is here! 🧪🔭🔬 See our students and staff in @theforumnorwich.bsky.social and venues across Norwich and Norfolk. Check out the event website to see what's on: norwichsciencefestival.co.uk #Norwich #NorwichScienceFestival

Congratulations Agus Bentlage on first-author paper from your MSc thesis 🎉 - rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to know how divorce in birds is associated with rainfall? 💔🌧️ Frigg Speelman wrote a piece (in non-scientific jargon!) theconversation.com/divorce-in-s... about our recent paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Listen to Frigg Speelman speaking on ABC radio national drive about the love life of the Seychelles warblers: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Our new paper, using shotgun metagenomics on the gut microbiome, shows small but interesting longitudinal changes with age in a natural population. 🧵1/5 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

A huge thank you to everyone involved in this project ❤️ Sarah Worsley, @charlisdavies.bsky.social , Ece Silan, @terryburke.bsky.social , Jan Komdeur, @bioinf.bsky.social, @hannahdugdale.bsky.social , David S. Richardson @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social NRPDTP