Stick a pole through his eye and a spring up his butt and he’d also be shocked I suspect!

Small wooden playground ride in the shape of a seal. The bar to hold on to is through where the eye would be giving it a shocked expression.

Seal is very shocked and appalled to be a playground ride in this economy!

We have now published our first workflow article!

Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Very happy to discuss opportunities to come and work on marine biodiversity / macroecology with me here @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social!

If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!

(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)

Graphic announcing the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call. It shows the opening date (9 April 2026), closing date (9 September 2026), and a budget of €399.05 million. The design features scientific visuals such as cells, a leaf, and lab elements on a dark background, with the European Commission logo at the bottom.

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍

We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU.

The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open.

More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

The book in this was so amazing! Could have sat there reading it all day!

Sadly we might not be able to make any more of these due to budget issues, so if you’re enjoying them please share widely!

The book in this was so amazing! Could have sat there reading it all day!

Are unicorns real and can trees walk? | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep24 YouTube video by Natural History Museum

New episode today is MYTHICAL! m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYux... Featuring Jeff (who just moved to Cardiff Museum 😭). Available on Spotify and Apple too. 🐸 🦎 📕 🌴 No unicorns were harmed in the making of this podcast 🦄

a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

Climate Science Serving America Fellowship Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

Dear Friends,

Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.

Deadline is April 17.

drawdown.org/careers/clim...

Deadline this Sunday!

I had to eat my traditional Spanish rice dish without musical accompaniment. Totally acapaella.

A photo showing Dr Diego Vaz looking at a specimen jar held in his hands. Around him there are stand shelving units containing many other jars of preserved fish.

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the Museum?

Dive into the fish collection with us to see just some of the marine marvels we look after ⬇️

🚨New podcast episode🚨

Go check out the latest episode of our podcast! We've got the delightful Talay with us talking all things beetles, while I got my mitts on some rather incredible snails 🪲🧪🥰

Screenshot with the project information (title, grant number, etc.) that can be found in the link https://fapesp.br/18114/chamada-internacional-para-jovens-pesquisadores-tem-propostas-selecionadas

Happy to announce that I was awarded a Young Investigator Grant by FAPESP to explore causal associations in Macroevolution! Looking forward to starting my own team in the near future, and hopeful that this will help me get a permanent job eventually!

fapesp.br/18114/chamad...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Figure of historical timeline for ideas in the manuscript. Caption reads: "An evolving view of phylogenetic biogeography. Each period (arrow) corresponds to one of the four periods discussed in the main text. The ordering of themes within each period does not precisely correspond to when key ideas were introduced or popularized."

New preprint on the recent history of phylogenetic biogeography, with co-authors Isabel Sanmartín and Joel Cracraft, now up on EcoEvoRxiv: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

📣 SIG positions available! 📣

We're looking for three enthusiastic volunteers to join the committee as Chair, Communications Officer and Events Officer.

Find out more at: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/quan...

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

I have always struggled with the use of call playback in birds. I reviewed the published evidence & wrote "Ethical Use of Call Playback" together with Dave Bakewell & Andrew Whitehouse. Was surprised at what the data shows. malaysianbird.report/wp-content/u...

If you’re enjoying these please rate and share them with as many people as possible. We need more viewers to be allowed to keep making them! Thanks!

Black beetle in a white box. This one can be run over by a car and survive!

Lovely long horn beetle. Beetle is balck with iridescent green stripes and its antennae are folded back and longer than its body. Pinned in a white box with a barcode and label

Some dark coloured snails in a jar. Their skin is scaly and slightly shiny grey colour.

An open glass jar with a lump of green moss in it

Images of the specimens for this episode. Well an image of the moss which is full of meiofauna at least!

This beetle can survive being run over by a car! | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep23 YouTube video by Natural History Museum

Time for TOUGH! With our delightful guest Talay! m.youtube.com/watch?v=t1iE... 🪲 🐌 🐞🪱

Not only will you work on birds, but also bats, skinks, geckos & frogs. This research would come up with conservation strategies & a climate change extinction risk atlas for #NewZealand. Applications close 27th April 🦜🦇🦎🐸

Me too! But what a weird scam to come up with! Why???

You can't fool me, that's a man in some kind of suit