Sad to hear and see in the figure how much we have lost. Just back from break in a small village and even there it was quite quiet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Want to learn about careers in marine conservation? I’m the marine expert-in-residence for conservation careers, and tomorrow we’re hosting a free webinar. It includes Q&A! conservation-careers.kit.com/marinejune26...

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

Professor Lars Chittka FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has transformed our understanding of animal intelligence by demonstrating that bees, despite their tiny brains, exhibit advanced cognitive abilities such as counting, attention and others. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/49xJuRy

The interaction between the zookeeper and the otters is just too adorable.

2026. Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial on animal and plant ethics in research. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“formal procedures obscure the work that actually produces their outcomes” I love this quote - so true. As is another from The same article “A worker who understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the institution cannot govern”. Managerialism does not want workers who use their judgment.

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

Agree with much of this, even if difficult to implement. But if people are not to lose faith with politics, something beeds to chnage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Possibly worst picture even of a wren, but it was singing on the tree outside my (dirty) window while I was having a cup of tea. How cool is that !

Fully funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU (and Claire Witham at MRC) - join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

The most amazing Xmas outreach by our technical staff for a school visit @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social All the inverts had their special Christmas decorations. I was so amazed! Well done Ness and Odie!

Last talk before the AGM! Can ultrasonic noise impact foraging in species that use echo location?! The results are not yet clear but seem to point in that direction 🦇🦗 #ASABWinter2025 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Heading to #Edinburgh for @asab.org Winter Conference. Can't wait to hear about exciting research, meet new folk & catch up with old friends. Seek me out to talk about #AnimalBehaviour journal or these #PhD #opportunities: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp @asab-meetings.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! 🦜🔭🌿 Are you passionate about #Birds, #Ecology, #Fieldwork, #Research? The University of Salford is looking for a #ResearchTechnician to assist with ecological monitoring of #Ringneckedparakeets in Manchester, UK. More info & how to apply 👇 Hurry! Closes 15 Dec @salforduni.bsky.social

Hong Kong Jockey Club, equine welfare research, PhD funding support [Application Period: 1 December 2025–31 January 2026]: www.hkjcequinewelfare.org.hk/en/grants#Tr... Feel free to get in touch via email if this might be of interest.

🦀🌱 BioBlitz Day: 10 Dec 2025! Join researchers from the @plymuni.bsky.social and the Ocean Conservation Trust at the University of Plymouth Marine Station to explore the incredible invertebrates living in Plymouth Sound’s seagrass restoration sites. FREE event. Registration essential.

PhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

Amazing visit to Wales, beautiful autumn colours. Also gorgeous dogs - Basil, Banjo and Wilson

Staff from @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social ready for Thursday’s graduation of Zoology and Conservation Biology students. Quite a mixed set of gowns, special mention to Anne Plessis French military university outfit, complete with sword. You can work out which one she is!

Very cool graphics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas report, co-authored by WCS and launched at #IUCNcongress, offers compelling case studies on how to achieve large-scale conservation in an increasingly complex world. bit.ly/478ALTS

Given the horrible state of many, many thing at the moment! Here is a little moment of joy as expressed by Basil, my dog. #springbatt #dog in case it isn’t clear he is a springer spaniel x basset - complete accident!

🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration. Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Interesting article, and not at all surprising! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My terrible attempt to capture a lovely little nuthatch. I only had my phone, but it was so lovely to see it. #HamWoods #Plymouth #bird #nuthatch

Through funding from #ResearchEngland and @plymuni.bsky.social, #CRISPS has opened the new Marie Lebour Marine Research Facility and our eDNA & Metabarcoding facility! #foodproduction #aquaculture #eDNA #metabarcoding #eDNAsequencing 🧪 www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/new-fac...

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

Some beautiful moths from the Phil’s moth trap in Harrowbarrow, Cornwall, this morning. Definitely worth getting up early for.

Wonderful day yesterday doing a recce on Drakes Island off the coast of Plymouth, to see how easy it would be for a Bioblitz exercise for our students. Fabulous cormorant nesting site and lots of lovely inverts busy on the plants.

Some photos of the cool beasts we saw on the 1st year BSc Zoology field trip to Zahara de Los Atunes in Spain. Beautiful place and the trip was great, but the power cut was quite a wake up call.

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26

Beautiful mining bee out and about at Plymbridge Woods, Plymouth, with a LOT of pollen on its legs!

I am not sure Basil realised quite how big he is!

I really hate @amazontv.bsky.social now. The ads at coming every few minutes, 5 times in a 20 min programme! It feels like they are trying to force you to pay by making the viewing experience awful. When I’ve watched the last of the series I started I will never use it again.

Timeline cleanse. Here is a happy Basil #Springbatt having a lovely walk down the beautiful Kingsbridge-Salcome estuary.

NEW JOB in #ornithology to study the diet of #seabirds in Norway: buff.ly/vOjoAfc . Application deadline 7 April 2025.

📢 We need your help to record Dartford Warbler for the Heathland Birds Survey. Find a priority survey site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #UKBirding #BirdingWales

Very cool noises

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...

Loving The Residence TV show. Perhaps because the main detective is a birder and the birds she discusses are real! #1

Join us next month at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social to explore the state of the South-West seas! 🌊 The #SWME Annual Conference unites marine experts to share research, discuss #ecosystem management, & enhance collaborations for healthier #marine environments. 🎫 bit.ly/4iAduOY @bd-stew.bsky.social

This is what some university leaders think of all these careers, lives and hopes getting trashed: all this means it's 'time to reflect' and use more AI. Oh yeah, I'll reflect all right. 🤯🙄 (2/2)

Request for volunteers! 📢 Can you help us survey priority squares for Woodlark for the Heathland Birds Survey? Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... 📝 We’re especially looking for volunteers in Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire. #Ornithology #UKBirding

Are you liking Bluesky, but thinking “gee, I wish there was more shark science and conservation on my feed?” I have the solution to your problem right here! 🌎🧪🦑🐠🦈 go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB

Is This Working? Charlie Colenutt “mountains of paperwork are being generated by organisations’ fears of failure….As a consequence, workers are doing less of their actual work, instead spending their time inputting data, writing reports and ticking boxes. Morale is sapped and staff turnover rises”