Sophia Bullock

Tomorrow is Newcastle's Discover Festival!

You can find me at the Animal Emotions stand doing a demo of gentle handling with "robot" mice and you can see how we use thermal imaging cameras to detect health and welfare problems in animals! 🐁
#newcastle #discoverFestival #kids #science #NewcastleUni

I'm delighted to say I'll be delivering a short talk on the use of gradual decompression as an alternative to Schedule 1 using carbon dioxide for laboratory rats at this year's UFAW conference. There's still time to register your attendance! 🐀

#animalWelfare #labAnimals #animalScience #UFAW

Congrats on your publication! 🐴

Mushroom foragers scour Hexham woodlands for tattoos Foraged from a forest floor, nature provides unique inspiration for custom tattoos.

Was invited to be part of a piece for BBC Look North news in an article about our fungi foraging and tattoo experience with Kezz from Cock A Snook Tattoo Parlour in Newcastle. That's my tattoo in the wee circle!
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#tattoos #fungi #foraging #mushrooms #newcastleUponTyne

Dimensions of corvid consciousness - Animal Cognition Corvids have long been a target of public fascination and of scientific attention, particularly in the study of animal minds. Using Birch et al.’s (2020) 5-dimensional framework for animal consciousne...

Ever wondered what life is like for a crow or magpie? Check out our new paper on corvid consciousness

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Not science related but THE best underwear you can buy! 🙌

I was excited to find some Scarlet/Ruby Elf Cup fungi yesterday 😄 I've seen lots of others find these and finally it was my turn 🙌

It is hard to identify the difference between Scarlet and Ruby Elf Cups without microscopy, hence the slightly dubious ID!

Common octopus

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

This comic is really making our whole lab crack up!

Watching this this evening! Intrigued so far...

📢 Registration is NOW OPEN for the #UFAW2025 International Animal Welfare Conference!

⏳ Today is also the final day to submit your abstract—don’t miss this opportunity to share your research with a global audience of animal welfare experts.

🔗 Visit: ufaw.org.uk/conf25

#AnimalWelfareScience

High prevalence of veterinary drugs in bird's nests The environmental impact of insecticides used as ectoparasitic treatments for companion animals is not well understood, since they are not subject to …

New paper by @davegoulson.bsky.social & team

For those with pets that use pesticides every month to ensure that there ‘aren’t no fleas’, take a pause. We are doing a lot of harm to our garden communities..

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A photo of me in a black jacket and rainbow lanyard standing next to my research poster. Research poster is A1, portrait, entitled "Killing in the name of science - Surveying anaesthetic overdose practices in the UK". There's is some text about the background of my survey and some images depicting my key findings and future experimental research.

Obligatory pic with my poster at the @newcastleuni.bsky.social SAgE PGR Conference last week! It was great speaking to people and seeing the other research happening in SAgE. 🧑‍🔬
#animalWelfare #laboratoryAnimals #labAnimals #animalScience #PhDStudent #NewcastleUniversity #newcastle

Photo of a rocky stack on a rocky beach with blue skies and white fluffy clouds. The sea is in the background and there are cliff faces in the background also.

Failed Twitter numerous times, now attempting this... 😅

I'm a #PhDStudent at #NewcastleUniversity using #animalBehaviour, #neuroscience, #physiology and #socialScience to improve #laboratory #animalWelfare. 🐀

I enjoy hunting and IDing #fungi. I also like #photography and #baking vegan goodies 🍰