The Guardian has a piece about my new Centre with some lovely comments from longtime collaborators @jeffsebo.bsky.social and @kristinandrews.bsky.social. It follows the golden rule of animal minds journalism: emphasise the pet angle. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

PhD Opportunities in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-di...

PhD Opportunity: I am looking for a student to join our Authoritarian About Anything project. Follow the link to find out more including about home student funding. www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-di...

We are offering Vice Chancellor’s PhD scholarships at UWL for the September 2025 intake. Take a look at this amazing opportunity here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA511/t...

My review of Lala et al. (2024.) Evolution Evolving is now out in QRB: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Job alerts! 📢 We’re looking for a BirdTrack Organiser and a Birds in Greenspaces Engagement Officer to join our team. 🐦 Find out more and apply ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology #UKbirding

More vile behaviour which led to a rare conviction in this case , this time from the East Essex Hunt – let’s look at day 9 of my countdown of the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social #RealBanNow

Many new papers have been published in our topical collection on postgenomic determinism over the last few months. Find all of them in this thread and here: link.springer.com/collections/... #HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟

New and recent Darwin and #evolution books: tinyurl.com/25joaxb7 #HPS #histsci #books

Herald of a Restless World reviewed in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We need something like this for offshore wind: youtu.be/WuxiaK5MqYg

Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, was usually quite generous about paying for maps, plates, and in-text images for D’s books, and D attended closely to his illustrations, so it’s surprising that the Origin featured only 1, a diagrammatic model of change through time. 2/4 🌱🐋🧪 #histSTM #evobio 🐡

So how should we think about second guessing appeals processes and using that to influence the initial decision? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I appreciate folks engaging with my Science and the Public Element, published last spring. Here's a review by @pelagictom.bsky.social: medium.com/scicomm-book... And, I've just learned that @sts-dach.bsky.social has authored a forthcoming review. Earlier thread about the Element below. #philsci

discern (v.) to belittle European research on particle physics

Us in Leicestershire & Rutland are very keen to welcome a Youth Rep into our lovely Regional Team, so please do apply and share with your local #LeicsYouth #Leicestershire #birding #birdwatching