Had fun talking corals at Brownies tonight - such an enthusiastic and engaged bunch! My daughter couldn’t stop giggling when I dressed her up in all the dive gear 😂🥰

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y

#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds

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Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is encou...

For anyone waiting on the NERC AI for Env Science Phase One call outcomes, the timeline has been updated www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Decisions in Aug, project start Oct. Good luck!

Ecological Solutions and Evidence is accepting proposals for their latest Special Feature!

They invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't turn out as expected, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species 🌱

Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

I've deleted my ChatGPT account. To explain why, I would suggest reading
the #QuitGPT website but it has mysteriously disappeared.... If you want info, it's summarised here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

Ready for our “masterclass” next week with 16-17 yr olds. Should be fun!

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.

Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.

📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Thanks to all the @lancasteruninews.bsky.social students who took part in this research - all now alumni 🎓😊

Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear

Scientists have discovered hedgehogs may be communicating at frequencies up to 85 kHz.

Set an AudioMoth to a sample rate of 192 kHz or higher and you can try listening in!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enhancing motivation to learn marine ecology and increase ocean literacy through virtual reality in higher education Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly recognized as a tool for enhancing engagement and motivation in education. This is particularly true where access to experiential learning is limited, as is often...

VR dive experience tested on my coral reef ecology module @lancasteruninews.bsky.social found it helped consolidate knowledge & motivated learning+pro-environmental behaviour. Just avoid that uncanny valley! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lec-reefs.bsky.social VR by thehydro.us

This international women’s day we celebrate the inspiring women that are part of, and work alongside our group.

The UN’s theme for #IWD is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”- learn more here: www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol...

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📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs

Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 !

Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Fun science times at iDiv this week working on sMacrobehaviour 🤗

Today our Applied Data Science for Biodiversity MSc students took a trip to our underwater Coral Crisis Centre to coordinate a rapid response to an upcoming heatwave. Ready to dive? 👌 @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

a kitten is sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table . Alt: a kitten is sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table .

Fellowship proposal submitted! Whatever happens now, I've made some great new connections with project partners. Happy to be off the grant writing carousel for a while now

a group of people are crawling through the mud . Alt: a group of people are crawling through the mud .

Marie Curie fellowships are madness this year. A score of 97% required for funding. To all those who didn't succeed - you and your project are probably brilliant, hang in there and keep trying

Is the public actually talking about biodiversity? 🐾

Our new #OA paper in @ConBiology introduces an automated NLP pipeline to measure wildlife saliency and attitudes from digital media

Essential for tracking GBF targets! 📈

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#ConservationScience #AI

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

a penguin is sitting at a desk with a sign that says help on it Alt: a penguin is sitting at a desk with a sign that says help on it

Is anyone out there currently marking coursework managing to NOT do it in their "free" time?

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aquarist - South Bimini, Bahamas (MSC Foundation)

Learn more here: careers.msccruises.com/gb/en/job/16...

#coralreefs #jobs #aquarist #careers #bahamas #bimini #coral #nature #coralreefecology #coralrestoration #coralresearch #marinebiology

Marine biology scientist recognised by Fellow status in world’s oldest ecological society - Lancaster University A Lancaster University marine biologist has been recognised with prestigious Fellow of the British Ecological Society (BES) status.

Very excited to be one of the new Fellows of the BES! It has always been the society where I feel I belong the most 🥰 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/marine-... @britishecologicalsociety.org @lec-reefs.bsky.social @dsilu.bsky.social @macrobehaviour.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

Super excited to be part of this! I’ve been a member since the 1st year of my PhD and love this society 🥰

A hex sticker with a text that reads Hello Data Science with green, yellow and pink scatterplot points in the background. There is a web address www.hellodata.science

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇

🔗 www.hellodata.science

#rstats #datascience #tidyverse

This is a great group to get involved with. Particularly looking for ECRs and people based outside the Uk to apply. But everyone welcome!

A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE.

Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species.

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