🌊 Professor @profstevesimpson.bsky.social, marine biologist, warns: overfishing threatens UK seas, communities & our climate
🐟 Join Steve and add your voice to our petition to tell the PM to end overfishing! act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
What a week in Bristol! Highlights included our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Art+Science exhibition tackling EcoAnxiety, Sir David Attenborough's Ocean with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and a chat on the Career Ladder with the wonderful Max Klymenko
🚨JOB alert🚨
We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely
😊Come join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 5):
Athena Swan Gold - Committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity
Our teaching, research, local & global civic activities aim to make fair, supportive & inspiring contributions to society
Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34
5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 4):
Plant Sciences and Transforming Sustainable Food Production
Our research includes plant physiology, pollinator networks & sustainable agriculture
www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...
Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34
Rainforest to Reef - by Steve Simpson
5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 3):
Ecology & Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis
Our research includes mapping ecosystems, monitoring ecological change & restoring biodiversity
www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...
Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34
Dwarf Mongoose - by Shannon Wild
5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 2):
Behavioural & Sensory Ecology & Responding to Anthropogenic Change
Theme includes animal senses, underpinning behavioural theory & mitigating human impacts
www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...
Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34
5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 1):
Evolutionary Biology & Understanding the Evolution of Life
This theme includes origins of life, evolution of complexity & drivers of biodiversity
www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...
Advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34
We are recruiting three new lecturers!
Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
8 posters all describing influential women that have passed through Biological Sciences
To celebrate Women in STEM day on Wednesday 11 February we’ve printed some banners to highlight some of the incredible work that the women of Bio Sci at Bristol have achieved over the years!
Pop into the LSB for the remainder of Feb to check out who’s done what and when!
Thanks to @lukejerram.bsky.social for bringing some glorious sunshine into our lives in the depths of winter. Helios, compiled from 400,000 photographs, shows the architecture of the sun in exquisite detail. Deeply warming to swim so close to the sun
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
🔊New paper: coral reef #fish #calls exhibit consistent acoustic characteristics across different bioregions!
#bioacoustics
@timlamont.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/rem...
Congratulations to @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social for leading this collective analysis of coral reef soundscapes, building a universal songbook for the tropics. Valuable guide for #ecoacoustic biodiversity surveys.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
@timlamont.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social
Dr Patrick Kennedy, winner of the ASAB Christopher Barnard Award.
🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗
Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.
#worthywinner #ECR #proud
Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025
@asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
Thanks to Rosa Vásquez Espinoza for bringing "The Spirit of the Rainforest" to our @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Christmas Lecture. Stunning combo of biochemistry, traditional medicine, conservation, indigenous wisdom & spirituality
Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean
Imagine an ocean without noise pollution. The pandemic gave a rare opportunity to listen to the ocean, and we were ready!
Fabulous article by #FrankieAdkins for #BBC_EARTH covering our work in the #IQOE community:
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
WHALES! Excited to see the latest Usborne Beginners book is out in time for Christmas. Great honour to contribute into these wonderful books as scientific consultant. As a boy growing up in London, I know I would have spent days and days in my local library discovering the wonders of the deep.
Together we are testing scalable coral reef restoration tools for the Red Sea.
Alex Dobson, Jess Hodge, Rachel Piper, Hattie Doyle, Rosie Rallings, Sam Hill-Cousins & Minnie Turnbull from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social, and Nour Farid, Nora Boumhaoud & Mahmoud Hanafy from #HEPCA
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
Thanks to @hugotagholm.bsky.social and all @oceanauk.bsky.social and @oceana.bsky.social for curating a fabulous gathering at the @royalsociety.org of ocean advocates, scientists and conservationists. Plenty of powerful and hopeful messaging, including from #BaronessJennyJones and #LizzieDaly
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
Well we went early with this year's research group Christmas Symposium, and what a superb collection of talks and films from a wonderfully talented collection of MScR, PhD & Postdocs! Great to mix wasps, birds, mammals with our fish & corals thanks to @andyradford.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy
Research group of Professor Andy Radford, Professor Steve Simpson and Dr Patrick Kennedy following annual symposium in Bristol.
Research group relaxing in the pub.
Research group enjoying dinner at Coconut Tree in Bristol.
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
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social on tour at the #ClovellyHerringFestival. Great food, stunning choral music, mulled cider, and a cheeky dip in the sea with #HugoHarrison and #ShelbyTemple
Fabulous evening with #SophieLewis #WorldCetaceanAlliance, @tommustill.bsky.social & #LukeMcMillan @whalesorg.bsky.social exploring the past, present & HOPEFUL future for humpback whales (and their cousins!). Thanks to Rob Hutchins (@oceanographicmag.bsky.social) & #Finisterre for hosting
