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...

RHS develops ‘robust lawn’ that works for people, pollinators and pets. What do we think? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In our latest paper, we describe how the passing-stripe hunting display of the broadclub cuttlefish camouflages the hunting predator during the final moments of the attack. Read more here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @drmartinjhow.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

'We are entering a new and exciting phase for New Phytologist. The journal is well placed to continue offering an exceptional service to the international community of plant scientists.' Valedictory Editorial by Alistair Hetherington: 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

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🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

To achieve our vision of a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together we depend on our members, donors, supporters, partners and volunteers. Explore all the different ways you can contribute and get involved www.bats.org.uk/support-bats 🦇

It was wonderful to host @zannaclay.bsky.social for our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social seminar this week - fascinating research on the origins of empathy, w/ experimental data from great apes and cross-cultural studies of human infants. Such an interesting topic and provoked lots of discussion after!

New issue of Ecology chose one of my pictures as cover image. Amazing to see hunting broadclub on the cover!! @drmartinjhow.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social

For Green Week, we will be sharing some innovative ways students learn about themselves, build their confidence as change-makers, hone their communication skills and get to make real impacts on their Sci Comm MSc. Book onto the session at the link below: bristol.ac.uk/sustainabili...

Excellent away day with the ecology team from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - talking grants and future research plans @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social @filipemfranca.bsky.social @drlucyalford.bsky.social @chrisleduck.bsky.social @harrysiviter.bsky.social

New Scientist video about our recent cuttlefish paper. @ecologyofvision.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @matteosanton.bsky.social

Dr. Pete Falloon, our very own Associate Professor in Climate Resilient Food Systems who also leads the Met Office’s Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming, and Natural Environment spoke to the Guardian about how extreme weather will impact food security: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dr. Pete Falloon, our very own Associate Professor in Climate Resilient Food Systems who also leads the Met Office’s Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming, and Natural Environment spoke to the Guardian about how extreme weather will impact food security: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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For some reason, there is disproportionate pleasure in seeing your study organism on the front cover of a journal. ☺️ #DwarfMongoose photo on @royalsocietypublishing.org to accompany paper about combined effects of natural & anthropogenic stressors. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment