Had such a wonderful time at @primatesocietygb.bsky.social Winter meeting, where I presented some of our research on galago responses to predation. It’s always such a welcoming and enthusiastic group, thanks to all the presenters and organisers!

Great talk by @hannahfrog.bsky.social yesterday at @beps-bangor.bsky.social seminars! Full house and an interesting discussion of her preliminary findings on the ZRC physiological responses to habitat disturbance!

Very cool to see this "Research Highlight" of our recent @animalecology.bsky.social paper that tested the potential for social buffering of maternal glucocorticoids in a facultatively social lizard. Grateful for this feature by Lange & Aracena! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Congratulations to BEPs PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social!

Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎

Got to speak about my MScRes project (cave bear phylogenomics and admixture - with a behaviour twist!) in today's BEPs seminar! 🐻

We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)

Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

New from me and wonderful collabs!

What are my Environmental Policy class interested in? Here's my annual word cloud of their keywords

A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.

Nice write up of our paper on the Bangor Uni news website! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research from BEPs! 🦎 #bangorherps

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️ This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

I spoke with ABC radio Australia about the #PlasticsTreaty 📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Staff and students from School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social have steamed through the Irish Sea and the Caledonian Canal. After sampling in Loch Ness they move to the North Sea to measure the impact of tidal wakes behind floating wind turbines in projects funded by [email protected].

Busy day in the @bangoruniversity.bsky.social marquee at the Eisteddfod yesterday as Drs Mollie Duggan-Edwards and Dei Huws launched our new poster highlighting the unique wildlife and geological structures found around the Anglesey coastline.

Job opening: lecturership (research & teaching) in forestry or agroforestry at Bangor University. This is probably the best forestry programme in the UK and a great place to work. Deadline 1 Sep. More here: 🌳🌲🌏

FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New research led by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and involving School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social found genetic connectivity in a deep sea species over 1000s of km, but genetic isolation over depth. Read all about it here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Visited the Dyfi Osprey nest at the weekend, saw the parents and two of the fledglings. And lots of these little lizards

Working on our brochures and poster about the colobus!

Did you know that Whitney is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded project focusing on the effects of biodiversity on human well-being in soundscapes Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/w... Meet our Researchers

Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at @sosbangor.bsky.social were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱

The final talks to develop a global #PlasticsTreaty will commence next month The science is clear: we need ambitious action across the plastics lifecycle, from production through to disposal. The question is, will countries deliver? I share my perspectives theconversation.com/a-global-tre...

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? Our Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! Categories include Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology & Environmental Science, and Microimaging: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

Researcher Spotlight Dr Whitney Flemming Environmental Pyschologist: Whitney's research explores the relationships around human-environmental interactions and well-being Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/w... Meet our Staff

Did you know that Sopan's research utilises model-based evaluations of catchments to investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of environmental change Read more about his work in global catchments here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/s... Meet our Staff

The #Beatles, Bangor, Aug 1967

A bundle of axolotls

Thrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Good to see our own Dr Lynda Yorke in her favourite environment, Cwm Idwal, talking all things glacial

Researcher Spotlight Dr Rebecca Jones Food Geographer: Rebecca's research explores the the intersection of food experiences and place-making Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/r... Meet Our Staff

Lakes are feeling the heat too! @theconversation.com article by Iestyn Woolway @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. theconversation.com/underwater-l...

How many mamba species are there? Find out from our new paper: Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Did you know @thefsbi.bsky.social fund up to 2 PhD studentships each year? These include: 🐟 4 years of PhD funding. 🦈 A stipend higher than UKRI (on average). 🐠 Annual research budget of £3500. 🎣 +other benefits. See fsbi.org.uk/phd-students... for full details or grab Melanie or me at #FSBI2025

Are you a UKRI-funded doctoral student seeking policy experience? Then apply for one of three-month policy internship positions in 2026! 📆 Applications close on 8 September 2025 Learn more here: www.rsb.org.uk/ukri-interns... #PolicyInternship #EducationPolicy #SciencePolicy

New from @aaronc-research.bsky.social - drosophilid flies harbor a diverse microbiome! #drosophila www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Team photos from the last few days. In the field following the colobus and on the pitch playing a friendly students v field assistants football game.

Our NERC-funded research Inclusive & Accessible fieldwork contributed to the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social new Research Report on High-quality Geography Fieldwork Dr Lynda Yorke led the NERC research & is an advocate for building better fieldwork for all

Herring Knowledge Wanted! Bangor University FisHistory Project is investigating the history of the Irish Sea herring fishery so if you know anything about herring read more at www.solwayfirthpartnership.c...

Many congratulations to Molly Allum! She studied the crop foraging behaviour of the Zanzibar red colobus here in Jozani last year for her third year dissertation at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social ! Great dissertation - currently working on making it into a journal article!

An afternoon in the shambas following Camp Group: @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social @hannahfrog.bsky.social and @owenstorer.bsky.social

Happy to be able to see some of these beautiful creatures (Cordylus cordylus, cape girdled lizards) up close in the lab, despite striking out in the field! They are stunning - check out that flat body plan for squeezing into crevices 🤩 handled with permits (and a lot of love)