Dr Bryony Blades

I gave a workshop today on my experiences doing a PhD with ADHD. I learnt a lot about the specific challenges (and strategies to mitigate them) over the last couple of years, and I’m passionate about helping anyone else in this situation! It was great, and we had an hour long discussion afterwards!

Thanks for sharing 😁

🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸

We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.

🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA

If I asked you to picture the Zambezi River, I'm sure this wouldn't be what comes to mind! More often captured where it's vast and powerful, I was lucky enough to visit the quiet source of Africa's fourth-longest river on fieldwork in Zambia in 2022.

Thanks Denise! Hope you’re well x

Beyond delighted to share that I passed my viva on Friday! Thank you to everyone who helped me get here, I couldn’t be more grateful.

Delighted to have started my postdoc on the SABER project yesterday. Thank you so much @neil-r-edwards.bsky.social for the welcome, I’m so glad to be on board and can’t wait to get stuck in!

Absolutely delighted to share that I submitted my DPhil thesis last week after 3.5 years delving into the world of biodiversity data. Thank you to everyone who helped me get to this point. Next stop, a postdoc modelling the evolution of Amazonian biodiversity at the Open University! I can’t wait.

One of the best parts of my PhD was my research stay in Joaquín's group in Madrid, and I'm delighted that the fruits of our labour has now been officially published!

Great to see this summary of our recent work! Muchas gracias @gbifes.bsky.social

I miss this view 😩

Thanks on both counts 😁

Would love to be added please! Thank you

Hi Dan, I hope you’re well? If you’re still adding people, I’d love to join. Thank you!

Mobilisation of data from natural history collections can increase the quality and coverage of biodiversity information Aim Quantify potential gains to insect data on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) through further digitisation of natural history collections, assess to what degree this would fill bi...

New pre-print alert for my first post! With wonderful collaborators from the MNCN Department of Biogeography & Global Change in Madrid, we found that increased mobilisation of natural history collections can still improve quality and coverage of insect biodiversity data doi.org/10.1101/2024...