❓ 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

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

☀️New Paper!☀️ In @ecol-evol.bsky.social Dwarf mongooses lose body mass in hot weather due to limited behavioural plasticity With top co-authors: @josharbon.bsky.social, Amy Morris-Drake, @juliekern.bsky.social, @andyradford.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71963 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵⬇️

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

Excited to share that my first research article is now out in iScience: “Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging” www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to my co-authors and supervisors for their support throughout! #pollinators #bees #ecology #electrosensory #beeresearch

I thought #parenting was tough at times, but this #meerkat group of 7 adults have 12 (yes, twelve) small bundles of fun to cope with! Thanks to @laurenvane.bsky.social for the stunning photo from #fieldwork in the Kalahari.

First field season of the PhD starting strong alongside brilliant scientists and adorable subjects in the Kalahari 🌞🌵

#ECR highlights from 2024 include: 🌟Lauren Vane🌟 defending her #Masters thesis, publishing her first #paper on how #noise might affect #mongoose decision-making & starting her #NERC @gw4alliance.bsky.social #PhD. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 👏🥂 #ProudSupervisor @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

More amazing #ECRs to celebrate on International Women's Day include these wonderful folk I am privileged to work with: Julie Kern, Lina Yousry, Ayla Webb, Maddie Gasparro, Yoonjung Yi, @sophienedelec.bsky.social, Pernille Sorensen & Lauren Vane. #IWD2025 #WomeninStem @bristolbiosci.bsky.social