I recently saw this video by Aphra Hardwick on behalf of the Bristol University Neurodiverse Society (BUNs🎂). The video includes quotes from BUNs members explaining why nature is important to them. I found it so moving! Green and wild spaces are so very precious 🌳🌊🌺 Thanks Aphra for letting me post
We argue that the strange arrangement of cells and circuits is the consequence of a reduction of our visual systems to a simple median eye in our ancient filter-feeding ancestors.
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
This is at 1pm tomorrow, if you're around. 'Last chance to book a ticket' the email tells me. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shades-of-...
So happy to be presenting to one of my favorite community of scientists! (@neuroethology.org )
Come join us, to check out some of my “old” work with new insights about arthropod eyes and their molecular make-up!
#Neuroethology
No problem at all, thank you for the lovely dispatch!
This is great! Bristol's press office decided that our paper wasn't worthy of a press release because "this area has already been covered (to some degree) before in the media" 😵 a humbling moment for sure. Would it be possible to add a link to our paper in the press release?
JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 8 March
JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more! Closing date: Sunday 8 March
JOB ALERT!
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!
Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!
We look forward to receiving your applications!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Out in today's issue of Conservation Biology!
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Faculty #job alert - come and join our lovely friendly School! The School of Environmental and Life Sciences @uniofhull.bsky.social are recruiting a #Lecturer in Marine Conservation. Closing date 19 Feb - see details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l...
Environmental assessments need to account for spectrum and brightness of light affecting sensitive species. 🌙
We map impact zones using "moonlight equivalent" measures accounting for species visual sensitivity, then apply spectral tuning and shielding.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
New from Jessie Foley!
#Heliconius have elongated lives and excellent memory, but do they have excellent memory across their elongated lives? Find out now!*
Featuring learning and memory assays in 330 butterflies, and an absolute pig of an experiment to do.
*the title is a spoiler 🧪
📢 Join us for the @thefsbi.bsky.social annual symposium in Southampton! Celebrating all the good that can be done for fish biology and conservation when we work outside our traditional siloes.
#FSBI2026 #FishSci #FishBiology #FishMigration
ABSTRACT DEADLINE SOON 🐠🐟🦈😁
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Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
Come and join us to learn about insect brains with @stanley-heinze.bsky.social
Thank you!
Thank you @dmevans.bsky.social @fabusovam.bsky.social @nclneg.bsky.social for this wonderful dispatch on our paper 🤩
For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat.
Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.
Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
The rank prize summer internships are such a great opportunity if you’re thinking about postgraduate study and you’ll be in good hands with the Multipleye lab!
My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
For the presentation nerds: Have a look at this (free) font. It was developed by the @brailleinstitute.bsky.social to be the most readable for the visually impaired. I think its also beautiful and will use it from now on.
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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
Our researchers reveal that light pollution disrupts nocturnal insects & spiders' movements.🏙️🕷️
Dr Rochelle Meah & Prof Nicholas Roberts highlight two key effects:
1️⃣ Masked day-to-night transitions. 🌙🕷️
2️⃣ Blinded polarized light for navigation.☀️🦋
Read➡️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A super paper, congrats!
@laurensr.bsky.social @koralwotton.bsky.social @willleohawkes.bsky.social
To summarise: light pollution simultaneously impacts movement ecology in two very different nocturnal species by inhibiting activity and masking important visual compass cues. Very happy that this is out and that many collaborators-turned-friends are in the author list 😀🕷️🦋 (5/5)
