Citizen scientists are still gathering important records of non-native species in UK waters! Come and join us at our community events up and down the country with The Rock Pool Project! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The wild rock dove is little understood and largely overlooked by scientists.

📢 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

We are recruiting for our committee! - Communications Rep - Events Officer Please get in touch by 12th January 2026 To apply please see more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!

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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!

Advances in computational methods for inferring networks from #genome-scale data and guidelines for deriving biological insights from #phylogenetic networks www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So excited to see this out! Check out what we've learned about smoky rubyspots 👇. Amazing work led by @christophe-patt.bsky.social

Thrilled to share the 3rd and largest paper from my PhD!🎉: "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Non-Ecological Speciation in Rubyspot Damselflies" is out now in Molecular Ecology! ⬇️Includes divergence times and an F1 hybrid Thanks to my fantastic co-authors & collaborators! 📖 doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧬🌎🧪

Couldn't say anything on April fools day, but just got some really positive reviews back for a manuscript. So making minor revisions and it'll be out into the world! 🍻

📢New volunteering opportunity 📢 BES Macroecology Group is looking for a committee chair to join its team! As part of the group, you will coordinate the committee’s activities, including events and communications. This is a perfect opportunity if you are a macroecologist and an active researcher.

The only real reason I own a colander.

Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧 Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

Starting my post-doc today @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Had a great time over the last six months organising Marine Citizen Science Week for Natural England, but now back to full-time research! 🧪 Watch this space for sticklebacks! (Still a few damselfly papers in the pipeline don't worry)

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

1 week left to apply to do a PhD with me & APHA on the Virome of British #bats 🦇🧬🦠 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ #OneHealth

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Damselfly fieldwork is the best! 🇸🇪☀️

🚨 #phdposition study the interplay between #globalchange & animal personality in #hermitcrabs 😍 with Mark Briffa, Pete Cotton (Plymouth) & myself Deadline: 8.1.2025 ▶️ shorturl.at/FGLec 🧪🦑🌊🌐🦀 #marineecology #marinebiology #marinelife #animalbehaviour #sensoryecology #lightpollution #noisepollution

PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity! 🧑🏾‍🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers. 💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #ExeterCEC 🧪

#PhD opportunity on "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" with me, @chris-nemeth.bsky.social Chris Cooney (U Sheff) & David Roy (UKCEH) thru new @exageo-dla.bsky.social based at Lancaster Uni www.exageo.org/phd-student-...

Just over one week left for international applicants to get in touch for this PhD studentship opportunity. #damselflies

I am a #PhDone! Passed my viva... no corrections‽ Thanks to all who helped me get here! Especially my 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓visors @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social & Adrian Brennan Had a fantastic time in me Viva thanks to Dr. Lesley Lancaster & Dr. Andreanna Welch Ace hat & cake from Laura Campbell & Ellie Ward

Our chromosome-level genome for smoky rubspots (Hetaerina titia) is now available on NCBI for all to use. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genom… Also here's all the code needed to assemble a genome, please use and share! github.com/ChristophePatt #genomese#odonatata 🧪🧬

Are you a UK-based undergrad studying ecology and need a little financial help to kickstart your career? Apply for the BES bursary, it's dead easy:

Its been a long complicated day with cancellations but ive finally got to Belfast for #BES2023 Sad to miss the welcome drinks but will be up early for the mentor workshop in the morning! Looking forward to meeting old and new 🦡🦇🦔🦆🐋

New #genome published! A chromosome scale assembly for smoky rubyspot damselfly, Heataerina titia. 🧬 Thanks to NEOF for support and all co-authors! See below for a github repository for anyone interested in making there own assemblies doi.org/10.1093/jher... Github: github.com/ChristophePa...

I'm reposting some of the things I made this past year that I'm proudest of. Here's an impassioned defense of Canada Geese.

There is! This one is manually curated and pretty up to date. The account OP mentioned got caught in it already.

"Everyone should be allowed to enjoy nature in the way that makes them feel like they belong". Some excellent talks and conversations happening at Kendal mountain festival about inclusivety in outdoor spaces. Very strong parallels to be learnt in the Ecology and Conservative sector.

Looking to do a PhD? Interested in behavioural interactions between species? Join my group in Durham! For more details, and to get in touch (by Dec. 15th), visit: jonathanpdrury.com/opportunitie...

Two achievements today! Paper accepted following minor revisions and got all my travel and accommodation sorted for BES annual meeting. Looking forward to 4 intense days of ecology in a months time!

Hello Bluesky! Christophe here, PhD candidate at Durham. Ecologist with plenty experience in bioinformatics, population genetics and genomics. Please send post-docs my way! See my lastest paper: Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...