Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Ouch! Rejection again!

To mark the death of James Watson, please read this 2023 piece about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Fully prepping new Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc module now! Why do we need it, where we are now, macrobehaviour, XR and gamifying conservation, ecological role of colour and responsible AI. Others are on bioacoustics, automating species ID, acoustic telemetry & Earth observation 😎🤯🫠

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

So cool! Specific sounds attributed to 46 fish species in Curacao, linked to video of that fish www.fisheyecollaborative.org/library There's even an aggressive butterflyfish 🤗

Our new review on the “circular seabird economy” - how seabirds circulate nutrients betwem ocean and land, supporting ecosystems and livelihoods …https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-025-00099-w

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Who's coming to the marine one? Me 🙋🏻‍♂️

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

Hello Bluesky! 👋 HUB Ocean is new to this channel. We're building the #OceanDataPlatform to make ocean data open, connected and impactful. Let's accelerate ocean science and ocean protection - together. Access the Platform or connect with us. Links in Bio #HUBOcean #Bluesky #OceanData #OceanTech

Sun-dried and smoked fish are the overlooked yet vital nutrient-packed superfood providing much needed nutrition across tropical Africa, according to a new study 🐠 📰: https://tinyurl.com/yveejt7u 📸: Christina Hicks, Tane Sinclair-Taylor, James Robinson @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌 I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters. Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... #Aeroecology #AvianEcology

@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...

🌊 🎓Apply for a PhD to assess spatial and temporal approaches to managing scallop fisheries to achieve good environmental status with a viable commercial fishery. 🪸🐙 @sosbangor.bsky.social @em-oyster.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social

What skills we should keep teaching is one question, but there's no way around starting to teach prompting, critically evaluating and prompting to critically evaluate AI. Should be in every curriculum. AI is here and avoiding it is just as useful as avoiding a calculator or R for that matter.

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook. How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't? scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

I am organizing a one-day symposium (no online option) on Biodiversity and Health in a Warmer World Learn more here www.biodiversityhealth2025.com

I’ve been awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal 😃🥳 Still pinching myself! Best bit - this tiny card and flowers I found next to my bed when I went up last night 🥹🥰

"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' " Too true omg 😂 Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset! phys.org/news/2025-09...

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article by Santoro et al. 👉 Essential tools but overlooked bias: Artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data 📸 🌍 🧪

I'm in the final throes of writing a Turing Interdisc Fellowship, thinking of it as buying an unlikely raffle ticket for the total of 12 that will be funded across ALL disciplines. Already feeling like this to have got through the internal round 😂 Good luck y'all #InItToWinIt

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

Yes! My MSc was in Primate Conservation so she was definitely part of opening the route into science for me - a fantastic role model for so many of us

a life lived in defiance of patriarchy and human supremacy There will never be another Jane. RIP Queen

What an inspiration and a wonderful legacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... Pioneered animal behaviour with empathy - she was first person to give the animals she studied names rather than numbers and a tireless fighter for conservation 💪😥

Cool - newbie scientists less stuck to old ideas so can be more innovative www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does anyone have intel on why the new NERC AI call is explicitly "terrestrial ecology"? www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

More than 100 businesses from 21 countries are now sharing biodiversity data through @gbif.org . 🌱 Find out what companies are publishing here: https://www.gbif.org/

Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan... @jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social

New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social

Does anyone have a contact at @cefasgovuk.bsky.social who I can talk to abut possible research collaboration please? It's related to Turing Interdisc Fellowship application around remote monitoring & #AI

It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

New paper by Catherine Sheppard et al. examining aggressive behaviour in damselfish in the coral reefs of Honduras. Results showed predicting aggressive responses can be complex, extending beyond simply whether the subject of the aggression is a “neighbour” or a “stranger”: tinyurl.com/mr3vhef9

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Take a look at our new data and code guidelines for quality control below! This was a great collaboration between data editors from multiple ecology and evolution journals and @sortee.bsky.social! Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social!

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

Important article by Tara McAllister and her co-authors. We at Stanford University is encouraged by this paper as we launch a new faculty search in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (applications by Sept 30, 2025): facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Very cool paper led by @ruthedunn.bsky.social showing that birds choose particular wind conditions that seem to aid in foraging success! Plus, they put cameras on the birds' legs to film them catching flying fish - awesome!

New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social

Turns out it's very unlikely Nemo and Marlin lived in the same anemone.. Just out in Behavioral Ecology! with Pete Buston, Steve Bogdanowicz, Tina Barbasch @behavecol.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social