Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE)

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Here at SCENE, we’re proud to celebrate our incredible SCENE colleagues Han, Phoebe, Pauline, Maddie, Jess, Jemma, Anna, and Ava for your inspiration, hard work, support, and technical know‑how. You make SCENE what it is, every day.

We will be holding our first writing retreat at SCENE soon - an opportunity to gather with other SCAF members and write, in a supportive environment. Interested? apply by jan 6th

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New paper from @sceneuog.bsky.social and colleagues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks Colin for your long-term and constant support!

Nestled amongst a range of highly protected areas for nature conservation this has to be the best field station available for terrestrial and aquatic teaching in the UK. I recognise the old wooden building, now replaced with a modern state-of-the-art teaching and research complex. A fantastic place👍

well worth a read! (even if we say so ourselves 😉)

Old (1990s?) aerial photo of the University of Glasgow field station on Loch Lomond, Scotland

Before @sceneuog.bsky.social was SCENE, it was the University Field Station (known to many as Rowardennan). Lovely postcard of the old building before it was rebuilt thanks to the kind support of many folk, projects and especially the leadership of Colin Adams.

Group photo of students and staff outside the Harry Slack building at SCENE

Last university residential field course of 2024 (we think!) honours go to the lovely students and staff of Saint Andrews who were here to put all that they have learnt about freshwater ecology into practice.

PhD Advert - title "Examining ecological shifts and impacts of adaptive divergence in response to geothermal habitats" Climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity, but some populations will undergo ecological shifts to persist with impacts on the supporting ecosystem. How this will occur is unknown but in some areas of geothermal warming provides unique opportunities to investigate the ecological impacts of a warmed habitat. In Iceland’s geothermally warmed habitats, we have discovered several populations of threespine stickleback. This has driven adaptive divergence in metabolism, morphology, and behaviour (Pilakouta et al 2020, 2023). However, evidence also suggests that ecological differences in diet occur. This could drive much of the adaptive divergence observed, while also impacting the broader community. This project will look directly at the dietary changes that occur in these populations to better understand the ecological drivers of thermally-driven adaptive change. To achieve this the project will address three main aims: 1. Analysis of long-term dietary variation between populations from geothermal and ambient habitats (across multiple locations) 2. Assess ontogenetic variation in diet to determine at what life stage ecological divergence occurs 3. Tests of heritable divergence in diet preferences, performance, and bioenergetic partitioning through the use of lab-rearing and mesocosm experiments

images showing a cleared and stained stickleback (above) from a geothermal habitat in Iceland (below)

A very exciting PhD on the ecological implications of divergence & adaption to warm water habitats in 3-spined sticklebacks combining field work in Iceland, mesocosms, tank studies & lab-work in the UK. Great team, lots of exciting ideas and techniques to test them.

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Several PhD opportunities available for Oct 2025 related to #OneHealth #PlanetaryHealth #HealthInequalities & #GlobalHealth in @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social availabile through the College Future Programme. 3.5 yrs & £17.5research budget.

Details 🔽 - Please share

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A
funded PhD is open on population genetics of the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis, using genomic data to understand mite populations in the context of ongoing control programs. Co-supervised by a great team at @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and Stew Burgess at MRI. More details at tinyurl.com/a873cvb4.

Some images from the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social Tropical Marine Biology field course, here in the Red Sea

An absolutely stunning Autumn morning here at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment aka SCENE, the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social field centre on Loch Lomond.

just arrived!