Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...

Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Sad to leave @rhulbiology.bsky.social after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!

We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Selection shapes diverse animal minds: We recorded the talks at our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting last year to share with those who couldn’t be there. Our first speaker is Stephen Montgomery (Bristol University) @ebablab.bsky.social. youtu.be/BzmRZlhTcrc?...

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Biology/Geography/Earth Sciences colleagues: can anyone recommend a field centre or similar field course location that works well for students who are wheelchair users? This is a no-fly course so we're trying to find somewhere in the UK or Western Europe

We have some exciting new flies! First arrivals for our Ecolligence project focussing on the ecological functions of memory. These mutants, kindly provided by the Sigrist lab, lack specific phases of memory

Very lucky to work with these wonderful researchers! Not only did they give amazing talks and posters at our Annual @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium, they won *all* the prizes 🏆 So proud 🐝❤️ @leofordham.bsky.social @alexisggk.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @philstevenson.bsky.social

Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Wonderful evening celebrating Dr Alberto Linguadoca’s successful PhD viva 🐝 ☠️ Thanks to @darastanley.bsky.social for being an excellent external examiner! You can find Alberto’s papers here: scholar.google.fr/citations?us... @rhulbiology.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social

Well done to MSc student @lucyhouliston.bsky.social, amazing achievement to be featured in the Natural History Museum’s brand new Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition!

Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025 📅 Start date: June 1, 2025 💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇

🚨Join us in Bristol! We're hiring 1+ Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (similar to Assistant/Associate Prof) in Biology, incl. ecology, evolution, conservation @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city: shorturl.at/CCmXC

Mushroom body synaptic density in the bumblebee brain... [drum roll].... doesn't correlate with efficient foraging! :-) Read all about it.... led by Greg Pasquier and with Swidbert Ott authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk

Great talk by RHUL’s Morgan Morrison with @markjfbrown.bsky.social, with a very clear message!

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

We're delighted to host North-western Europe's premier meeting on ants, bees, wasps and termites on December 16th at QMUL. 🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜 Registration closes on the 8th: bit.ly/2024-iussi-q... Supported by QM's Centre for Biodiversity & Sustainability: bit.ly/QMUL-Biodive...

Here’s one of my very first (2013) cohort of first year undergraduate @royalholloway.bsky.social tutees, giving her viva talk at the end of her UCL PhD 11 years later. Well done Chloe (Metcalfe), so well deserved!

Our People and Nature lab seminars can be viewed on YouTube! Here's Dr Paul Woodcock talking about "How can nature in the UK recover, and how will we know if it has?" youtu.be/2MzU294RIZE?...

Just got a huge thank you to say to @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social for making this historic day a reality. Thank you for giving dying people a choice.

PNL researcher Joanne Littlefair explains how national networks for monitoring air quality could also be capturing eDNA of plants and animals. On Arte today for francophones www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

Congratulations to the People and Nature Lab’s Beni Kellenberger on Map Of Life RA’s 2nd place (of 300 teams) in the extraordinary 5year XPRIZE rainforest competition!

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Fully funded PhD studentship with field work in South Africa on baboon health resilience with me, Rich McFarland and Stefano Kaburu at Nottingham Trent University. Please share or get in touch if interested 👇 tinyurl.com/3uy8e6th

Tomorrow's People and Nature Lab seminar is by Tom Denton who leads the bioacoustics project Perch at Google DeepMind. Tom will talk about about next-generation bioacoustic monitoring, including threatened animal/population management and ecosystem health monitoring. 22nd November 2pm at UCL East

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Finally got here! Excited to have somewhere to share and read about science again :-)