Safe to say that we are very excited about this here at ESEB!
Huge thanks to Brian Golding for entrusting us with the fantastic service that you have created and curated for the years!
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Please share this PhD position in my group - guaranteed funding for a home/UK resident student. (i.e., non competition). Damselfly genetics, plus travel opportunities, fieldwork, and policy internship.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please share widely: courtesy of the British Council, Durham University are offering FULL scholarships (visa fees, flights, etc) for MSc in STEM for women from a selection of countries.
www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...
Including our Biotech and Plant Biotech MScs!
www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
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...
One minor issue is that many institutions require you to use their institution's email to be eligible for their open-access publishing deals with journals. All my prior use of, now dead, emails on publications is because of this.
📢 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....
The Durham cathedral
A male smoky rubyspot damselfly
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!
Send us an email 😀 we have a fair few from Scotland and potentially further a field.
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
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.
Next Map Men (mappa homines)? @jayforeman.bsky.social
Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!
@willjsmith.bsky.social
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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
Thanks to the continuing support of my supervisor @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social. I always say this.. but there is more to come!
We estimate the divergence times between multiple pairs of allopatric & sympatric rubyspot damselflies. Including the discovery of a deep split (3.7ma) between Pacific and Atlantic smoky rubyspots.
Our sequencing includes an F1 hybrid at a zone of secondary contact at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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.
Yes, and I had the perfect spoon for the observation.
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)
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