Welcome Trisha @trishg.bsky.social!

#animalcommunication A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight. #birds #mammals @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🪸 🪸 🪸 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...

Imagine choosing where to live for centuries when only 2 days old! How do free-swimming coral larvae detect their environment, and how are they wired to choose a suitable home? Find out with this fabulous PhD opportunity with @venky-vnm.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Huge thanks to #Life'sABeach for enabling our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 1st Year #BeachClean. >200 students collected >57 kg litter, including lego, shotgun cases and >30 shark/ray egg cases. All data uploaded to @mcsuk.bsky.social & #SharkTrust. Blog here: www.lifesabeach.org/back-with-br...

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement. Check out the details! 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

Looking for a PhD that combines global food security, climate change and environmental protection? Then read on... The amazing #JoleahLamb is joining us in 2026 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. You can join too with this exciting fully-funded PhD opportunity: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Why is hiking in a zebra onesie a smart move if you want to avoid being devoured by flies? And why are skunks more stripy in predator-rich forests? Find out this, and more, from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social experts @drmartinjhow.bsky.social & Tim Caro on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

❓ 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

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

Some amazing heroes of science celebrated this month in the foyer of our Life Sciences Building @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. Wangarĩ Muta Maathai a particular favourite for building the Green Belt Movement that empowered women across Africa to engage in rewilding.

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below #UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

What a phenomenally successful Y1 Retreat for 205 students in North Devon! Two days of woodland surveys, GPS hunts, sustainability workshops, pond dipping, bat walks, evening lectures and a pub quiz, a Marine Conservation Society beach clean, and a Shark Trust eggcase hunt!

🌴 Zanzibar’s Forests at Risk🌴 Pemba’s Ngezi-Vumawimbi Reserve-home to rare orchids, endangered trees & endemic wildlife-is threatened by a resort plan to convert c.17% into villas. 🌿 What’s at stake? ➡️Tim Caro & 13 biologists' @ScienceMagazine letter bit.ly/4mFJ13h

Prof Tim Caro and I both feature in this BBC World Service radio show about why zebra have stripes. Catch it at 8:30pm GMT on Fri 3rd Oct or replay on the link below. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social

Fancy joining us? Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship: royalsociety.org/grants/caree... If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Huge welcome to Venky! We can't wait to see what the future holds 😀

Great to have this finally out! A whole summer of experiments at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to look for behavioural and morphological signals of collapse in protists population🔬 Thanks to @duncanobrien.bsky.social @expecocons.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social and John Jackson for the great team work

Congratulations to our amazing MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students, who recently gave wonderful final presentations on their summer placements and projects! We wish them all the best of luck with their future careers!

Animal Behaviour from Exeter and Bristol, plus some of our alumni, went to @behaviour2025.bsky.social in Kolkata and had mountains of rice. @crab-exeter.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

We love these! Check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 – the best pictures so far, at the link below: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time. Find out more at the link below: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🎉NEW PAPER🎉 out today - our review in #ProcB about post-contest acoustic signalling. Started piecemeal and alone years ago, the brilliance and energy of #ECRs @josharbon.bsky.social & Amy Morris-Drake gave it impetus. ☺️ @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇 academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵1/9

New from @gadusmo.bsky.social’s PhD thesis 👐🏼 with @dickmerrill.bsky.social, Jake Morris, Camilo Salazar and Carolina Pardo-Díaz ‘Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude #Heliconius butterflies’ 1/n 🧪 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Much like humans, plants can go through difficult life phases, but how do they know when to move on? Dr Jim Fouracre explores what makes plant biology so unique, and how they know when to grow up: #SummerScience www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHq...

Last week we held our Insect Week showcase and had around 200 visitors to the LSB across the afternoon! We had visitors from as far as Bath and Taunton which is incredible! Thank you to all those who helped on the day! #insects #insectsofintagram #wearebristoluni #wearebristol

Last week we held our Insect Week showcase and had around 200 visitors to the LSB across the afternoon! We had visitors from as far as Bath and Taunton which is incredible! Thank you to all those who helped on the day! #insects #insectsofintagram #wearebristoluni #wearebristol

Apparently, it is 'World #Meerkat Day'. 🤷‍♂️ So what better excuse to post some photos of the #field team in action with the little critters, with thanks to the Kalahari Meerkat Project who make it all possible. @laurenvane.bsky.social @josharbon.bsky.social James Robertshaw @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity? Find out here @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 to Lola von Kietzell on completing a brilliant #Masters field season with the wonderful white-winged #choughs. 👏 Thanks to Chun-Chieh Liao & Rob Magrath (@scienceanu.bsky.social) for in-field support & @josharbon.bsky.social for additional advice. 👍 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Huge loss for @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - you’ll be sorely missed @ebablab.bsky.social!! Hope @camzoology.bsky.social know just how lucky they are! 🦋🧠🍾

For #InsectWeek head over to us here in the LSB on Tuesday 24 June to discover the amazing world of insects! See these creatures up close, learn about the research, and do some awesome crafting! All are welcome, and it's FREE admission! 12-6pm, Tues 24 June! bristentnet.weebly.com/insect-week

For #InsectWeek head over to us here in the LSB on Tuesday 24 June to discover the amazing world of insects! See these creatures up close, learn about the research, and do some awesome crafting! All are welcome, and it's FREE admission! 12-6pm, Tues 24 June! bristentnet.weebly.com/insect-week

For #InsectWeek, come to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Tuesday 24 June to discover the world of insects! See these creatures up close, learn about the research, do some crafting! All welcome, free admission, 12-6pm. @harrysiviter.bsky.social @drlucyalford.bsky.social bristentnet.weebly.com/insect-week

Very enjoyable day talking roots, shoots and stomata @festofnature.bsky.social with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

So proud of Beibei Zhang for leading this paper in @newphyt.bsky.social showing how soils & topography shape variation in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes 🌳🔃🌐 Link to 📃: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A short 🧵

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Thank you to Louis and @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the fascinating look behind the scenes at your insect collection for our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Amazing Insects field course! What a collection! 🫶🏻🦋🪲🪰

Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna... 🦬🐗🌳🕊️ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Today we celebrate #Natura2000Day, shining a spotlight on Europe's largest coordinated network of protected areas! 🌳🦅 Did you know that you can explore all 27,000+ Natura 2000 sites across the EU using our interactive map viewer? Discover these biodiversity hotspots right from your device.

Bit late to the party due to fieldwork, but whilst I was away this was published alongside a host of fascinating papers investigating how animals cultures interact with conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Happy Wrensday! Today’s #NestKnowledge: Male Wrens will build several dome-shaped nests to impress a female, who chooses her favourite to line with feathers. Tucked deep into bushes or crevices, Wren nests are very well camouflaged. Egg ID: 5-6 white with light brown specks 🪺

The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals & beyond. New paper, led by Josh Arbon with fab collaborators Neil Jordan & @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0136 @uniexecec.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

The #Kalahari field season is in full swing for the team of @laurenvane.bsky.social, Josh Arbon & James Robertshaw, aided by the smallest of assistants. 😊 Not jealous of them AT ALL! Bring on the exciting #experiments and data... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #meerkats #fieldwork #helpers

Now out in #ProcB 🧪 Ancestral complexity and constrained diversification of the ant olfactory system 🐜 Expertly led by Simon Marty and Antoine Couto, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @agencerecherche.bsky.social 🙏🏻 #socialinsects @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Fascinating talk by Marie Dacke about navigation and dung beetles. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @lundvision.bsky.social

Learn how Cas9-enrichment + @nanoporetech.com sequencing can more fully uncover biodiversity in complex environments via targeted metabarcoding in latest from lab! Led by the hugely talented Lucia Nikolaeva-Reynolds who started this as her final year undergraduate project! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...