Will Allen

The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.

Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪

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Lecturer in Marine Conservation at University of Hull An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Marine Conservation is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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...

Urban camouflage.

Celebrating a campaigning win today - after months of emails, calls, protests and meetings, Swansea Council backed down and decided to not to cover this beautiful historic bridleway in tarmac. Congrats to everyone who got involved - a victory for people power 🎉.

Having a final sweep of followers who've moved here from the other place with SkyFollowerBridge before deactivating my account.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

Cover image with sleeping baboon

Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover!

We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.

Join us Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Thanks Vivek

The serenity of rolling over crunchy snow on my commute this morning was shattered when I opened my office door and saw water damage everywhere. All my books, artwork, photos ... feeling pretty devastated right now.

Matt Sparks presenting his PhD research on fly visual ecology in urban environments #ASABWinter2025

Currently recruiting PhD students to follow up on this result - please come to have a chat if interested #ASABWinter2025

Application portal for 59 Crocus PhD project is now open - deadline 12th Jan.

Two studentships also available to BAME candidates.

More evidence of the benefits of lottery elements in funding.

We decided to put this one out before the end of the year "Gene expression and structural differences underpinning black and white colouration in spiders"
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First publication! 🥳 Very excited that my Master’s research project from @royalholloway.bsky.social is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social this week. Big thank you to @sjportugal.bsky.social for all the support from start to finish.

Please don’t come for me Britney…

Congrats Sam!

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina.

One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social

The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st

Please share among potential students!

Thank you bringing your knowledge, enthusiasm, and hope to this year's Winter Meeting at National Museum Cardiff. We hope to see you all next year!

Postdoc Caitlin Hawley sharing results from our work on Primate natal colouration at #PSGBCardiff2025

PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
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Thanks Vivek, it happened. See you in Edinburgh?

Haha, thanks Benito - there is certainly plenty more colsci to come.

Results of the lepidopteran survey, showing the proportion or warning and cryptic coloured lepidoptera globally.

We conclude that whether animals evolve camouflage or warning colouration as their antipredator strategy depends on multiple mechanisms. This helps explain the evolution and global distribution of camouflaged and warningly coloured animals. 6/6

Several other variables were important too, including whether the predator community had lots of insectivore specialists, the colours of other butterflies and moths in the prey community, and how gloomy the forest was. Please take a look at the paper for details! 5/6

Saxicola rubicola (c) Stansislav Harvancik

We found predator competition had the largest effect, and it was bad news for prey with warning colouration – they were more likely to be sampled but slow to be learnt when hungry predators were competing for resources. 4/6

Figure showing some of the locations, the artificial prey targets, and global variation in two key variables - predation intensity and illumination levels.

In 21 different forests we exposed over 15,000 camouflaged and warning coloured artificial ‘moths’ to avian predation 🐦‍⬛.

How do differences in predator and prey communities and light environment between locations affect predation on each colour strategy? 3/6

Map showing the faces and locations of the collaborators in the globally distributed experiment.

Iliana Medina and I assembled a team of 50+ amazing collaborators inc.
@jmappes.bsky.social @hannahmrowland.bsky.social hmrowland.bsky.social @facasaro.bsky.social saro.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social + many not on Bsky to run a field predation experiment across six continents. 2/6

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

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