Eloise Hunt

Thanks @lsmonster.bsky.social! I had the best time yapping about birbs! 🦢🐣🦤

Workshop: Basic Collections Techniques 2025 Basic Collection Techniques training at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Great *FREE* training opportunity for anyone interested in working in Natural History Collections! www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/ev...

bluetiful!! 💙

the only appropriate birb dosage for a Tuesday afternoon! 🦢

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

You know why you should never ask a goose for directions?

They always anserinae honk 🪿

If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.

Big data palaeoecology and palaeogenomics - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

These calls for postdocs in Oslo will be open in April 2025 in case folks want to plan ahead. I am involved in a couple (1)
www.uio.no/dscience/eng... (2) www.uio.no/dscience/eng... Postdocs design their own projects! And Oslo is a great place to live, work and play!

It’s such a privilege to work here! Glad you had such a positive experience!

Fascinating! Humans tend to have fashion trend cycles of 20-30 years so why is it longer in orcas? 🤔

Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and now the craze is back

Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats

www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

Volume 37 Issue 12 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Special Issue: Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms

Wow! A lot of interesting papers to read in here!

Our #Wrapped may not feature Chappell Roan, but our Still Life exhibition is HOT TO GO!

Artistic rendition of a giant yellow worm lizard curled in an attack position, its mouth wide open and ready to eat a large brown snail. Artwork by Jaime Chirinos.

The world's largest worm lizard?! A new trogonophid with extreme dental morphology (including one #massive tooth) has been discovered, thought to be the largest to ever exist!
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#zoology 🧪🌎

I stumbled on this insane story: Every year, Sweden builds a giant straw #Christmas goat in Gävle. And every year, people try to burn it down 🔥

Despite guards and cameras, 42 out of 58 goats have been destroyed since 1966. I’m obsessed with this #ChristmasGoat 🐐🎄! Know a wilder story? #AcademicSky

Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U:
www.su.se/department-o...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy - Nature Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.

The new paper from our lab has dropped! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Avian Dispersal Ability Shapes Species–Area Relationships on Islands Worldwide We show how variation in dispersal ability in island birds worldwide explains variation in a canonical biodiversity pattern—the island species–area relationship (ISAR). Dispersal had scale-dependent ...

Avian Dispersal Ability Shapes Species–Area Relationships on Islands Worldwide | Baldwin & Myers | Ecology Letters

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in a PhD? Still time to get in touch and discuss. Lots of opportunity to shape questions in areas related to Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

Photo of Eloise with a marble statue of Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum London

Hey, I'm Eloise & I'm a final year PhD researcher at the Natural History Museum London. I'm currently researching how ducks & their relatives evolved 🦆 🪿 🦢 Looking to learn from & be inspired by likeminded folks. Let's be friends! 🫶