‘Bat accelerator’ unlocks new clues to how these animals navigate; but it wasn’t clear how they managed to navigate dense environments—until now! Read more about Prof Marc Holderied's work at the link below: www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-...

‘Bat accelerator’ unlocks new clues to how these animals navigate; but it wasn’t clear how they managed to navigate dense environments—until now! Read more about Prof Marc Holderied's work at the link below: www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-...

Are you finishing your undergraduate degree next year? Are you interested in animal eyes, and would you like to gain some paid research experience this summer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social? If so, get in touch! @rankprize.bsky.social funds 8-week studentships 👇 www.rankprize.org/grants/under...

Our researchers reveal that light pollution disrupts nocturnal insects & spiders' movements.🏙️🕷️ Dr Rochelle Meah & Prof Nicholas Roberts highlight two key effects: 1️⃣ Masked day-to-night transitions. 🌙🕷️ 2️⃣ Blinded polarized light for navigation.☀️🦋 Read➡️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

POSTDOC ALERT🚨 Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today! We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January. Collaboration with @dustinrubenstein.com @bristolbiosci.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

Great #BBC1 Breakfast feature on protecting sharks from illegal fishing in the Mediterranean. Some great science from @virginiatech.bsky.social and @bluemarinef.bsky.social, and top contribution from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social shark expert @clemencywhite.bsky.social

blown away by this, given the names of previous winners - recent and not so recent - hugely grateful to @zslofficial.bsky.social, and all the many students, postgrads, postdocs and collaborators who have helped make the last 14 years so fun and exciting Will go back to avoiding cameras now… 🫣

Absolutely outstanding stuff from @andyradford.bsky.social! #changinglives

Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

The ZSL Scientific Medal is also awarded to Professor Stephen Montgomery, @bristolbiosci.bsky.social whose research has provided insights into the relationships between ecological niche specialisation, brain structure, and cognitive function 🏅 @ebablab.bsky.social

We can't think of a more deserving person!

Bahr al-Hayat ("Sea of Life") is out! – immerse yourselves for 11 mins of hope... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8z... Congratulations to our PhD, Research MSc and MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students for producing this stunning film, showcasing our valued collaboration with #HEPCA

A brilliant afternoon #symposium and evening of #fun with the best #researchgroup in the world (I may be slightly biased!). Fantastic talks from everyone; interesting discussions; great food; laughter throughout. What more could you want? @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social

Thanks to #ProfPeteFalloon @metoffice.gov.uk for hosting our wonderful @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students. Great to hear from the #KnowledgeIntegrationTeam, @stottpeter.bsky.social & #JenniferWeeks, and visit @alexdeakin.bsky.social in the weather room

Check out our very own Dave Lawson doing his thing! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

And last - but definitely not least! - for anyone interested in spider vision / light pollution / eye development / evolutionary morphology, come and work with us @multipleye-lab.bsky.social ! This funded PhD is open globally, incl. fees+stipend! ⏰Apply by 15 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens 🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD 👥With #RobMagrath @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish? Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB. Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here: ioannougroup.com/china-schola... @asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

💚 We do love a flash talk! Great bunch of speakers ahead of their poster session 💚 🌿 Cristina McBride-Serrano @crismcbride.bsky.social 🌾 Henny Lowth 🌱 Emily Carr @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ♻️ Victoria Pitts 🪱 Catriona Willoughby @organicrescent.bsky.social 🦠 Nazree Zainurin 🚜 Kellie Smith

🌟Fully funded #PhD🌟 Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges. #NERC funding With @ljnbrent.bsky.social, #PatrickKennedy & me. Based in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #LongtermData #Fieldwork #Mongooses #Macaques Deadline: 8th Jan 2026 Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Delighted to support the amazing #PratchayaPhinthong with his #PhuketBiennale2025 installation. Our collaboration took us to meet the Moken people, capture video and audio at degraded inshore and also pristine Surin Island reefs to bring to the installation, and build a restoration reef of hope!

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...