School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Ocean Explorers Tom Heap and Helen Czerski explore how robots and DNA are expanding our oceanic knowledge.

🎧Listen now to the lastest episode of the @BBCRadio4 Show Rare Earth, Featuring Dr Sofie Spatharis. Episdoe Ocean Explorers:

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🆕@SBOHVM Researchers contributing to The Scottish Government's Natural Enviroment (Scotland) Bill.

➡️https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/s6/natural-environment-scotland-bill

➡️https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/about/news/headline_1249051_en.html

New Naturally Speaking Podcast!

Episode 101 – What shapes perception of risk in horse racing?

Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/02/23/e...

Scotland Outdoors - Tawny Owls, Pearl Mussels and Jelly Ears - BBC Sounds Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors

Our research on Tawny Owls at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk was featured on this episode of BBC Radio Scotland - listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We discuss how we track Tawnies' movements and the way they are adapting to noisy and light-polluted areas

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For more information, please contact Professor James Cotton (James.Cotton@glasgow.ac.uk).

New vacancy in SBOHVM!

Research Assistant to contribute to molecular parasitology projects and lab management.

Full details here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Closing date 23rd March

Read this interview with one of our @UofGSBOHVM technicians Joey Humble. Joey recently visited University of Naples Federico II - Department of Agricultural Sciences (UNINA)

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🦎PhD project in data sciences - collab of my team in @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and Maths&Stats with @anaignatieva.bsky.social - reconstructing evolution in hybrid zones with recombination graphs 🧬 applications thru DTP. closes 06-Mar. details eligibility ▶️ ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html

From idea to impact! This paper from @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and @uofgsii.bsky.social shows what’s possible with electron microscopy
👉 www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Congratulations to the team! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @pnas.org

Left: Adult and nestling White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus; adult on top, chick below). Right: Microscopy images showing microplastics from nestling faecal samples. Birds were handled under license.

🔈New study!

Microplastics found in 62% of White-throated Dipper broods in Scotland & Basque Country. No body condition effects detected.

Led by @cmartin3.bsky.social

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#Ornithology🐦 #Microplastics #Freshwater💧

Our latest paper showing how fish use the underwater seascape, showing the importance of a diverse mixture of substrata in nursery areas.
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Graeme Cullen @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk Dr Charlotte Hopkins @uniofhull.bsky.social and Dr Neil Burns (UofG SES)

Visiting our research partners in Tanzania YouTube video by University of Glasgow

In January, Chris Pearce, Vice-Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) and @maryraryan.bsky.social, International Research Development Manager, visited Tanzania to see how long-term collaborations with our Tanzanian partners deliver real-world impact 👉
youtu.be/jpW6c2f0b3U
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Phenology underlies inconsistent urbanization effects on avian malaria (Leucocytozoon sp.) in juvenile songbirds Urbanization can modify species interactions, including those between parasites and their hosts. In birds, urbanization can either increase or decrease avian malaria (haemosporidian) infection, depen...

Our new work:
Phenology underlies inconsistent urbanization effects on avian malaria in juvenile songbirds doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Timing matters!
Early-hatching blue tits face lower malaria risk & heavy infections reduce fitness
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Hello Steve. Please email me @ Siobhan.Petrie@glasgow.ac.uk and I will provide details to view online.

Further integrating social context into comparative and environmental physiology Summary: Social environments affect all aspects of animal physiology. We highlight how overlooking social effects might lead to inaccurate physiology-based predictions of species’ responses to environ...

🚨New paper out now! Excited to see this commentary, led by @shaunkillen.bsky.social, showing that social context is key in comparative physiology and must be integrated! Read more here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #ComparativePhysiology #Behaviour #Ecophysiology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Fantastic opportunity to work in @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and Maths & Stats on funded PhD scholarships in Ecological Data Science - projects here: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html (deadline 6/3/26), including a great project with me on the impacts of climate change on plant biodiversity!

Stage-dependent trade-offs in thermal performance: fluctuating temperatures reverse larval and adult fitness in Anopheles gambiae and An. coluzzii Abstract. Temperature is a key environmental factor influencing the development, survival, and transmission potential of malaria vectors. While most labora

Our new paper! 🦟❄️🔥
Stage‑dependent trade-offs in thermal performance under fluctuating temperatures
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
Fluctuating temperatures flip larval vs adult fitness in the #malaria mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae & An. coluzzii.
By @mauropazmino.bsky.social & others @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

🚨PhD Opportunity: Early‑warning Surveillance of Mosquito‑borne Diseases (Philippines)
Deadline 6 March 👉 ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html
Work on fieldwork, molecular screening, Bayesian models & data platforms
Supervised by Drs Mafalda Viana, myself & Betsy Miranda @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Photo of 4 people standing in front of a presentation screen in a meeting room at Public Health Scotland. On the left side, Prof Calum Semple, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland, Prof Heather Ferguson, University of Glasgow, and on the right side Prof Dom Mellor and Dr Jim McMenamin, Public Health Scotland. The screen has the title slide from the Mosquito Scotland presentation; reading "Investigating the risk of mosquito vector-borne diseases in Scotland and their response to environmental change"

Pleasure to visit Public Health Scotland & present results from @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social to Prof Calum Semple, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland, Prof Jim McMenamin & Prof Dominic Mellor. Great opportunity to discuss future #mosquito-borne disease risk in Scotland
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Let me check and get back to you Steve

We are delighted to announce that @pimientoc.bsky.social will be giving this year's Darwin Day Lecture. Her talk on the causes and consequences of extinctions in the oceans will be held on 11 February in GKT1 from 4-5pm. This will be followed by cheese and wine in the Zoology Museum. All welcome.

@shaunkillen.bsky.social has received £980,000 UKRI funding to lead a new project which aims to improve fish welfare in the global ornamental fish trade, while strengthening incomes for traditional fishing communities in the Brazilian Amazon.

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#HappeningNow | @fao.org joins scientists and vet officials for animal #trypanosomosis research and control

#SALTTz

•🔗Opinion: doi.org/10.1016/j.pt...
•🗺️Disease intelligence: doi.org/10.1016/j.pt...
•📘Progressive control: doi.org/10.4060/cd79...

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EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems In this episode Dr. Oskar Brattstrom and undergraduate students Bridget Nielsen and Katie Mulholland speak with Naturally Speaking’s Anders Erlandson, Caroline Sharp and Taya Forde about some…

New Naturally Speaking Podcast!

It's our 100th episode! Thank you to all who have contributed to allow us to reach this milestone!

EPISODE 100 – A Field course on the Conservation of African Ecosystems

Listen here: naturallyspeaking.blog/2026/02/01/e...

Little win: pre-viva went great 🥳 Questions & chat were also so good! I left motivated (and relieved 😅). Next up: PhD viva 🎓 Thanks to everyone who joined! Huge thanks to @stevensonlab.bsky.social @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social @physiologyuog.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk 💖🐹 #PhDLife #Academia

Temporal and spatial drivers of Lyme disease hazard differ between urban and rural environments Our ability to predict how urban planning may influence public health and wellbeing is limited, because our understanding of the ecological drivers of…

New paper out!
We used structural equation modelling to investigate spatio-temporal drivers of #ticks and #Lymedisease hazard in urban greenspaces and rural woodland.
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Authors: Alexandra G. Raftery, Lauren Gummery, Karelhia Garcia, Dinesh Mohite, Paul Capewell and David Sutton

<em>Equine Veterinary Journal</em> | BEVA Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Equine trypanosomiasis is a neglected protozoal disease. Objectives To answer the study question: In equines what are the effects of disease management of trypanosomiasis on disease sev...

New Research Publication!

Equine trypanosomiasis, a systematic review: Disease management

Read here: doi.org/10.1002/evj....

Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: artificial light at night creates an ecological trap for wild reef fish. Settlement ↑ under artificial light (up to 8× higher), but survival ~50% lower due to predation, disrupted settlement timing, and altered metabolic rhythms: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....