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I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW

(My phone doesn’t like me writing ‘and’. Usually it decides I wanted to write ‘AB’s’ (yeah, me neither), but here it’s chosen ‘ashes’, for a change. Anyway - recommendation still stands.)

Researcher/Senior Researcher in Benthic Ecology at the Greenland Climate Research Center at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources The Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC) at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) invites applications for a position as researcher/senior researcher within the field of marine benth...

We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities.

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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

BBC Sounds - Human Intelligence - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Human Intelligence on BBC Sounds.

I’ve recently discovered Naomi Alderman’s radio series Human Intelligence - 15 minute vignettes of interesting thinkers through the ages - ashes have been racing through series 1. Really recommend it! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Yeah the pockets on those luge suits are terrible. Almost had to give up wearing mine to work.

The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling Allometry is central to a wide range of ecological research including dynamic food web modelling. Here we updated the often neglected allometric coefficients for metabolism and production, deriving n...

Important new paper from colleagues here @sheffielduni.bsky.social Biosciences, providing robust new estimates of normalisation constants for allometric relationships between body size, metabolism and production, at genus and metabolic group level onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Please make some time to read this" - would that I could, dear emailer, would that I could.

Have bought a few of those as housewarming presents in the past!

📢 Save the date!

The 59th European Marine Biology Symposium ( #EMBS59 ) will take place 7–10 July 2026 in Peniche, Portugal 🇵🇹

🌊 Hosted by ESTM (Polytechnic of Leiria) & MARE
📍 Coastal campus overlooking the Berlengas UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 🙌

More here👇
www.embs-symposium.com

3 lecturer jobs at School of Biological sciences at Bristol! Apply by March 8!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Hard to watch the winter olympics without thinking back to my intense rivalry with @nickdulvy.bsky.social (plus other assorted Norwich-based reprobates) in the sofa-based static luge back in, jeez, it must be 1998…

This hit home. Our kids' school is very vocally anti phone, but also very much pro every bit of homework being done on a distraction machine.

God only knows how much we (HE) spend on our virtual learning environments, so why do we spend so much time developing bodges and workarounds to get them to do really basic things that anyone who actually teaches in HE would immediately list among their top 10 essential features of a VLE?

I like it when field guides get creative. The Collins tree guide describes the jack pine as ‘a real scallywag of a tree’.

Opportunity for Early Career Marine Researchers...

The Brian Morton Exchange Fund provides support for a research exchange at the MBA, or partner research institutions in Hong Kong or The Azores.

 👉https://mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homepage/discounts-and-bursaries/brian-morton.html

Join us in Sheffield this April to celebrate 70 years of the Ecological Genetics Group
Abstract submission is closing soon!

I found this really helpful years ago when I first came across it, great it's found a new home - a really interesting and accessible intro to the use of colour.

Six weeks or so in and progress has plateaued. I think I am doing just enough to precisely offset my daily decline.

And reviewer 2 bsky.app/profile/obli...

Comments back from reviewer 1

I'm now wondering if I can benefit from this by pretending I submitted a proposal then too.

The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.

I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:

Looks like Scotland are supposed to be wearing white but someone left a red sock in their kit wash.

Broken Narnia

#NBNawards26 are open! Know someone making a real difference to UK wildlife recording? A dedicated recorder, brilliant verifier, inspiring young naturalist? The NBN Awards celebrate the people and groups helping us better understand the UK’s biodiversity. Nominating is simple. bit.ly/NBNawards26n...

Anyone else shut one eye to avoid ITV’s split screen in-play advert in the rugby?

Yeah that's pretty good but have you ever got one of those paper sacks sealed with string stitching opened first go? That's something you never forget.

Parliamentlive.tv Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Some thoughts on the select committee appearance by the boss of UKRI, Ian Chapman yesterday. It’s a long watch but can be seen here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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