Applications closing 5th Jan for Fully funded PhD through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social Studying behaviour and ecology of anemonefishes. Need to be happy to spend lots of time in Papua New Guinea and need to be SCUBA qualified. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

1 week left to apply for this PhD. ✅ Field surveys ✅ Cutting-edge modelling ✅ Collaboration with @ptes-org.bsky.social 🗓 Deadline: 5-1-26 #PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #WildlifeMonitoring @prof-r-hill.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

Looking forward to #BES2025 this week! If you're interested in restoration, complexity and ecoacoustics you should definitely check out my talk on Thursday 🌳🌲🌳🐦🐦‍⬛

I'll be presenting some stuff about bugs in restored landscapes, and how they might have more in common with wolves than you might think. Anyone around? #BES2025

Linking persistence, predictability and extremes in a changing climate PhD project through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social with me, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Nick Dunstone (Met Office) & Chris Taylor (CEH) iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Want to get better at reviewing & classifying camera trap footage? 📹 Join our webinar on 19 Mar 2026 (£12.50) with Dr Sammy Mason ( @mammalweb.bsky.social ) covering species ID, using MammalWeb, data processing + sharing results. Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1818786642...

How are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... #ornithology

Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhD #Job Alert! Interested in #sedimentary processes & #turbidity currents? ..then consider applying for this exciting post as a part of @iapetusdtp.bsky.social, based in @newcastleuni.bsky.social. For more details visit - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... or Dr Sanem Acikalin

Super interesting talks by Sonam Rinzin and Mark Pitt at this week's @iapetusdtp.bsky.social seminar! Lovely to hear from colleagues about completely different environmental topics :)

We're advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position on modelling ecosystem resilience/vegetation patterning with @ecogeo.bsky.social, Denis Patterson, Roy Sanderson, and John Wainright! Keen to chat with anyone trained in geography/maths/ecology/physics etc. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

A new @iapetusdtp.bsky.social funded PhD opportunity based at @newcastleuni.bsky.social @ncl-geography.bsky.social

New PhD opportunity: Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @chrissuthy.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social 📷Ben Andrew

Are you interested in doing a PhD in modelling Aedes-borne disease control? We are offering a fully funded studentship at @ukceh.bsky.social , with @uofglasgow.bsky.social and ALTOPICTUS, via @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Open to UK nationals and overseas students. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Delighted to be advertising an exciting PhD opportunity on South Georgia's glaciers through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you want to discuss and forward to any interested parties! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Returning home from a lovely trip to Durham (where I was a student back in the olden days). Had a fab time as always with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social doing Presentation 101. A very informal session in a very fancy building!

📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects at @geogdurham.bsky.social funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on these projects, and info on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Applications are now open for a Glasgow-based Iapetus DTP project centred on using in situ 14C to study glacier histories in East Antarctica! tinyurl.com/3ddvynn2 @stever60.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Applications are now open for this years’ BAS Iapetus PhD projects … including one working on our Big Thaw project investigating extreme precipitation in Nepal from sediment core and climate data - more details in this link @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis - an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD Opportunity: with me, @dmevans.bsky.social, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor and Luis Fabio Silveiro. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Great paper by Sandeep Tegar and colleagues. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding!

New exciting new global lake sediment temperature calibration paper and dataset by @geochemem.bsky.social, including the first 5- and 6-methyl brGDGTs measured in lake sediments from Antarctica - eg Fan Lake. See link for details: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... @bas.ac.uk @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

Fantastic @iapetusdtp.bsky.social training and induction session last week - lovely to meet the new cohort and explore #Durham and its many bookshops!

Huge congratulations to Iapetus alumna Hazel Cooley on the award of the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Doctoral College Thesis Prize for her thesis on Chronic bee paralysis virus spillover and impacts. The award recognises outstanding research achievement and contribution to a research area/discipline.

A huge thanks to everyone at @sceneuog.bsky.social for hosting us - in particular Prof. Colin Adams for his phenomenal support, & Iain Geldard - we couldn’t have done it without both of you! Jodie Geldard did an amazing job organising the whole trip as part of her @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD

Some pictures from the last couple of weeks lake sediment coring on Loch Lomond with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

That's all for Loch Lomond coring: 12 cores collected in 10 days, 2 gravel layers reached and lots of very fine grey clay in between! @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Postdoc Job offer for Arthropod Ecologists 🪲🕷️ Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social offers a 3 year postdoc starting in October latest. Arthropod diversity, interactions & functions in different research programs, e.g. @bexplo.bsky.social Apply by June 19th www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

great work by Nic Strowbridge in the PhD homestretch, bringing together a wide literature and range of species. How does methylation relate to colouration and what do we need to test next? @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

Invasive species cost Britain more than any other country https://www.byteseu.com/1046902/ Britain has topped a global list for damage caused by invasive species, with various types of moth, beetle, water hyacinth and wild boar causing more than £1 trillion of damage since 1960, up to eight …

Back from the IAPETUS Postgrad Conference 2025 — and honoured to be selected as the Best Poster! Grateful for the feedback and great ideas about my kelp forest & urchin barrens research! What do you think, BlueSky friends? @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social #PhDLife #ScienceComm

We have just sent out the latest of Iapetus DTP's periodic newsletters. If it fell foul of your institution’s junk filter, read it here: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Newcastle team representing nature & environmental research at IAPETUS postgraduate conference 2025! @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Today I spoke about systematic maps, abundance models & the achievement that presenting is in itself - to the wonderful @iapetusdtp.bsky.social students & co in sunny Scotland at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌞

Final @iapetusdtp.bsky.social student conference of my PhD. Thanks to Heriot-Watt University for organising & hosting! A good @newcastleuni.bsky.social turn out! @sagencl.bsky.social

Finally heading home after what may be my last @iapetusdtp.bsky.social student conference! As always, fantastic to hear everyone’s research updates and catch-up with my cohort.

Another @iapetusdtp.bsky.social student conference complete! I feel so lucky to be a part of such a welcoming and fun cohort of incredible researchers who produce endlessly interesting work!

Edinburgh looking fine on the first day of the Iapetus student conference 2025, funded by @ukri.org.

Looking forward to seeing our students at next week's Iapetus DTP conference at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social! A great line-up of talks, including Prof. Colin Moffat (Scottish Govt's CSA, Marine) on how to have a positive influence on policy. Thanks in advance to organisers - and funders, @ukri.org!

Undergraduates: fancy a 6-8 wk paid placement in environmental sciences at an Iapetus institution? Check out NERC's REP scheme to support placements for those from groups underrepresented in this area More info: iapetus2.ac.uk/new-rep-sche... Deadline: noon 16/05/2025 #minoritiesinstem #environment

Undergraduates: fancy a 6-8 wk paid placement in environmental sciences at an Iapetus institution? Check out NERC's REP scheme to support placements for those from groups underrepresented in this area More info: iapetus2.ac.uk/new-rep-sche... Deadline: noon 16/05/2025 #minoritiesinstem #environment

We’re advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social undergraduate summer research experience project on ‘Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate’, with me, @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson & @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social. Please share with your undergrads! iapetus2.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Join us for the new CASCADE webinar series! In our opening webinar on 21st March, we will be joined by Sarah Chaytor (CAPE) and Nils Bunnefeld (@eklipse-europe.bsky.social) to discuss how to improve linkages between academia and policy. Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H

Thanks @canopyrobin.com for a great careers talk for @iapetusdtp.bsky.social this week - super to see someone a few years out of the PhD loving what they're doing and to think about how they got there and the variety of options open to us!

Enjoyed a talk from Jodie of @stir.ac.uk (funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social) this week on mapping the glaciology of Scotland during the Younger Dryas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️ Not my area of expertise at all, but I love an opportunity to broaden my environmental understanding 😊

Earlier this year, we were lucky to attend an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social training session on project management from Dr Peter Whitton of @durham-university.bsky.social - it must have been especially timely for first years and I was introduced to the power/interest grid for the first time!