Our September issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now freely available to read online! - including a report and 'picture special' from #IMC21 🙂 🔬 Read all the latest content here: https://ow.ly/FeHj50ZPCaj

My latest video essay is live!! It's an elemental exploration of warmth, coldness, positive, negative, and neutral, explored through the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Link: youtu.be/qA1kbdyIYdA 🔥🪨💧🍃

Pan Macmillan have revealed the cover to next year's SF release from me: The Eighth Face. Creepy clone monks living in a crashed-spaceship monastery, horrible things from the sea, a past revealed in things cast up by the tide... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

The Eighth Face by Adrian Tchaikovsky

What hides beneath the waves of an alien world?A gripping sci-fi mystery from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky, featuring rebellious clones, deep-sea

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New evolutionary tree for all of the world's bumblebee species, from (1) slow-evolving nuclear genes, (2) fast-evolving mitochondrial genes, and (3) results from genomic data, to provide a complete starting point for comparative studies of all bumblebees www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Happy Bee Day (resin bees are the best little nuggets 🖤 )

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

Thanks to THE for publishing my article on masters funding! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uks-... #academicsky #university #studentloan

The UK’s master’s loan system is broken for all but the rich

Students currently need to find at least £10,000 from somewhere else to cover the cost of living. This is beyond the reach of most, says Alexis Gkantiragas

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Our department now has a LinkedIn account. Follow us! www.linkedin.com/company/rhul...

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RHUL Biological Sciences | 70 followers on LinkedIn. Department of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London. | We are a vibrant scientific community with staff, postgraduate researc...

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Cool new paper on amphibian declines and bd www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Rapid Emergence of an Amphibian Pathogen Coincided With Historic Amphibian Declines in the Neotropics

PDF | Aim The emergence of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in South America has been attributed to multiple introductions and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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CPS Sedgwick Studentships at Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Philosophical Society are requesting applications for two PhD studentships. Further details and to apply: www.aru.ac.uk/study/postgr...

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

Thrilled that the @camphilsoc.bsky.social has elected me as a fellow :)

We've been funding innovative research projects through Experiment.com, and here's one we're excited to spotlight: "Macrofungi of the California Archipelago" by Christian Schwarz and Dean Lyons. The Channel Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, but we know almost nothing about an entire kingdom of

They would also almost certainly be a large partner in any government that formed after the next election if they did this

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

We're protecting the future of food 🌱 Dr Tina Steinbrecher and colleagues in Royal Holloway Biology are researching seeds to provide the world with greater food security. The fruit of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, this project is conducted with Eden Research. https://ow.ly/R9Rp50YrUzs

Thank you to all who attended @rhulbiology.bsky.social Postgraduate Research Symposium over the last two days. It was great to see so many fantastic talks and posters! Many thanks to @lauren-bindsch.bsky.social for leading the organization of the event

Insects are fundamental to life on Earth, but if we want to protect them, we need people to understand and value them from an early age. 🐝 @DaveGoulson.bsky.social has a message for you. 🌱 #StandTallForTheSmall & help inspire the next generation 🔽 buff.ly/JiyJ2pq #BigGive

This week, every donation is doubled via Big Give

This week, your support helps give young people access to nature and insect science, sparking curiosity and building the knowledge we need to protect our planet.

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Cambridge histories through blur plaques

Well done!!!

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Congratulations to @elisaffueyo.bsky.social from @sarahpapworth.bsky.social's lab who has successfully passed her PhD viva today! Elisa's project explored intentionality and flexibility in animal communication using baboons as a study system. Thanks to Katja Liebal and Rob Lachlan for examining 🐒🍾🎉

A unique opportunity to join @rhulbiology.bsky.social as a Professor of Biological Sciences and Head of Department! Apply by 26 April 2026 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

Over a mile of road white with spilled fertilizer granules, all of which will wash into nearest stream. New Place Farm, Blackboys, E Sussex

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B is looking for guest Editors for a special issue #academicsky #biology #science royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/pages/s...

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

@ingolfsteffan.bsky.social (who led the project) shows what factors in protected areas and the landscapes around them drive pollinator populations in Europe @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting - identifying drivers enable conservation actions to enhance pollinators #bee 🐝 🦋 🪰

Really nice talk with some cool data on social immunity in honeybees #bees #ecology www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3kx...

Cooperation in Context: Nutritional, pheromonal, and hormonal regulation of honeybee social behavior

YouTube video by Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation

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