Steve Simpson

What a week in Bristol! Highlights included our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Art+Science exhibition tackling EcoAnxiety, Sir David Attenborough's Ocean with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and a chat on the Career Ladder with the wonderful Max Klymenko

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 5):

Athena Swan Gold - Committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity

Our teaching, research, local & global civic activities aim to make fair, supportive & inspiring contributions to society

Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 4):

Plant Sciences and Transforming Sustainable Food Production

Our research includes plant physiology, pollinator networks & sustainable agriculture

www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...

Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

Rainforest to Reef - by Steve Simpson

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 3):

Ecology & Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis

Our research includes mapping ecosystems, monitoring ecological change & restoring biodiversity

www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...

Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

Dwarf Mongoose - by Shannon Wild

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 2):

Behavioural & Sensory Ecology & Responding to Anthropogenic Change

Theme includes animal senses, underpinning behavioural theory & mitigating human impacts

www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...

Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 1):

Evolutionary Biology & Understanding the Evolution of Life

This theme includes origins of life, evolution of complexity & drivers of biodiversity

www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese...

Advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

We are recruiting three new lecturers!

Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators:

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

8 posters all describing influential women that have passed through Biological Sciences

To celebrate Women in STEM day on Wednesday 11 February we’ve printed some banners to highlight some of the incredible work that the women of Bio Sci at Bristol have achieved over the years!

Pop into the LSB for the remainder of Feb to check out who’s done what and when!

Thanks to @lukejerram.bsky.social for bringing some glorious sunshine into our lives in the depths of winter. Helios, compiled from 400,000 photographs, shows the architecture of the sun in exquisite detail. Deeply warming to swim so close to the sun

Breakfast - 30/12/2025 The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.

Watch it back in the UK,
07:15am here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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

🔊New paper: coral reef #fish #calls exhibit consistent acoustic characteristics across different bioregions!
#bioacoustics

@timlamont.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/rem...

Congratulations to @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social for leading this collective analysis of coral reef soundscapes, building a universal songbook for the tropics. Valuable guide for #ecoacoustic biodiversity surveys.

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

@timlamont.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social

Dr Patrick Kennedy, winner of the ASAB Christopher Barnard Award.

🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗

Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.

#worthywinner #ECR #proud

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025
@asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...

Thanks to Rosa Vásquez Espinoza for bringing "The Spirit of the Rainforest" to our @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Christmas Lecture. Stunning combo of biochemistry, traditional medicine, conservation, indigenous wisdom & spirituality

Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the songs of fish filled the sea.

Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean

Imagine an ocean without noise pollution. The pandemic gave a rare opportunity to listen to the ocean, and we were ready!

Fabulous article by #FrankieAdkins for #BBC_EARTH covering our work in the #IQOE community:

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

WHALES! Excited to see the latest Usborne Beginners book is out in time for Christmas. Great honour to contribute into these wonderful books as scientific consultant. As a boy growing up in London, I know I would have spent days and days in my local library discovering the wonders of the deep.

Together we are testing scalable coral reef restoration tools for the Red Sea.

Alex Dobson, Jess Hodge, Rachel Piper, Hattie Doyle, Rosie Rallings, Sam Hill-Cousins & Minnie Turnbull from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social, and Nour Farid, Nora Boumhaoud & Mahmoud Hanafy from #HEPCA

YouTube video by Marine Restoration Films Bahr al-Hayat "Sea of life"

Bahr al-Hayat ("Sea of Life") is out! – immerse yourselves for 11 mins of hope...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8z...

Congratulations to our PhD, Research MSc and MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students for producing this stunning film, showcasing our valued collaboration with #HEPCA

Thanks to @hugotagholm.bsky.social and all @oceanauk.bsky.social and @oceana.bsky.social for curating a fabulous gathering at the @royalsociety.org of ocean advocates, scientists and conservationists. Plenty of powerful and hopeful messaging, including from #BaronessJennyJones and #LizzieDaly

Thanks to #ProfPeteFalloon @metoffice.gov.uk for hosting our wonderful @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students. Great to hear from the #KnowledgeIntegrationTeam, @stottpeter.bsky.social & #JenniferWeeks, and visit @alexdeakin.bsky.social in the weather room

Well we went early with this year's research group Christmas Symposium, and what a superb collection of talks and films from a wonderfully talented collection of MScR, PhD & Postdocs! Great to mix wasps, birds, mammals with our fish & corals thanks to @andyradford.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy

Research group of Professor Andy Radford, Professor Steve Simpson and Dr Patrick Kennedy following annual symposium in Bristol.

Research group relaxing in the pub.

Research group enjoying dinner at Coconut Tree in Bristol.

A brilliant afternoon #symposium and evening of #fun with the best #researchgroup in the world (I may be slightly biased!). Fantastic talks from everyone; interesting discussions; great food; laughter throughout. What more could you want?

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@profstevesimpson.bsky.social

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social on tour at the #ClovellyHerringFestival. Great food, stunning choral music, mulled cider, and a cheeky dip in the sea with #HugoHarrison and #ShelbyTemple

Fabulous evening with #SophieLewis #WorldCetaceanAlliance, @tommustill.bsky.social & #LukeMcMillan @whalesorg.bsky.social exploring the past, present & HOPEFUL future for humpback whales (and their cousins!). Thanks to Rob Hutchins (@oceanographicmag.bsky.social) & #Finisterre for hosting

Delighted to support the amazing #PratchayaPhinthong with his #PhuketBiennale2025 installation. Our collaboration took us to meet the Moken people, capture video and audio at degraded inshore and also pristine Surin Island reefs to bring to the installation, and build a restoration reef of hope!

Two great opportunities to join a wonderful team working on the business of marine restoration...