Tag us in your stories from your summer of research, whether it’s in the field or lab! @owenstorer.bsky.social is currently in Zanzibar , studying the endemic Zanzibar red colobus (not pictured)!

Zanzibar Red Colobus Project@zrcp.bsky.social · last yr.

PhD students @hannahfrog.bsky.social from UCSB and @owenstorer.bsky.social from @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social chilling at our Jozani base discussing colobus science and such.

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Lizard science at Bangor !

Matt Armes 🦎 🇪🇺@lizardkmatt.bsky.social · 2y ago

For my PhD, I need to catch lizards to take a mouth swab to retrieve a DNA sample. In comes the lizard lasso! A fishing rod with a small lasso loop tied to the end, I sneak up on lizards as they bask and (hopefully) slip them into the lasso 🦎

CoSE PhD research in action! Congrats @microbiolucas.bsky.social on your first field sampling session!

Lucas Le Brun@microbiolucas.bsky.social · last yr.

First PhD sampling completed! I went to sample the blackout experiment with 20-year old bare fallow plots at the Henfaes Research Farm (Bangor University) Here, we want to study SOM/SOC and the cycling of “old persistent” carbon in the absence of new fresh plant input.

Interested in maternal effects, sociality, stress, climate change, reptiles, or any combination of the above? Chat to me about your ideas and come and join my group at Bangor 👇

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣 Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence. 🗓️ Apply by 11 June

And the winner of best Y3 talk from Day 3 of the conference is : Sourish Kuttalam from SENS (Genomic insights into the population structure of India’s “Big Four” medically important snake species). Congrats!

Well. PhD Conference over now and we have our last two prize-winning presentations! Congrats to Tom Gale from SOS for best Y2 poster and speed talk (Non-breeding season habitat selection of European Shags in tidal stream environments)!

Day 2 recap: 2 great keynotes from Prof Yueng Djern Lenn (SOS) and Dr Katherine Steele (SENS) +

Day 2 of the College PhD conference about to start at Reichel Hall

Day 1 - career panel 1. Early career researchers (postdocs, fellows, newish lecturers) discuss academia, transitions beyond PhD, industry jobs and work life balance. Big thoughts!

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉@aosiecka.bsky.social · last yr.

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats to Rhiannon Owen - winner of best poster/speed talk (Y2) at the CoSE PhD conference today! Great work on empathy driven care with patients with dementia.

Congrats to Harvey Plows - winner of best Y3 PhD talk from Day 1 at the PhD Conference today - covering computer sciences, electronic engineering and nuclear!

Prof Shelagh Malham -Co-Dean of Research for the College get the show under way

Ready to go!

Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May. If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/3) www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

Fully funded PhD at Bangor! Restoring the Celtic rainforest for net zero. Apply by 5/5/25. www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

Salamanders! Climate change! Fully funded PhD project (competitive) at at College! www.envision-dtp.org/2025/shiftin...

Shifting climate, shifting threats: understanding the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in a global salamander biodiversity hotspot

Amphibians are among the most threatened vertebrate groups globally, facing a dual crisis of climate change and emerging infectious diseases. Salamanders, especially those in the biodiversity-rich App...

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PhD project at the college open for application. Fully funded completion. www.envision-dtp.org/2025/biodive...

Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity

The benefits of biodiversity for forest resilience and delivery of many ecosystem services underpin “nature-based solutions”. However, there are major gaps in knowledge of the ecological mechanisms, l...

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MScRes projects available within BEPs and across the @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social - more info here! www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/post... #postgrad #biologicalsciences #careers

Biological Sciences

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We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Including many with BEPs group members!

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni)@bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv

Today we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv

Another great paper by one of our PGRs here at Bangor! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Graeme Shannon@graemeshannon.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out today led by Amy Gresham exploring fallow deer diet using metabarcoding. Results were very different to what we expected! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Graphical abstract: @linecordes.bsky.social @markuseichhorn.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #deer

Very excited to see this out from @metallophyte.bsky.social's lab looking at plasticity and adaptation to environmental stressors! Led by @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social student Sarah Coates!

Alex Papadopulos@metallophyte.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

Apply for a conservation, research or captive care grant up to the value of £1250. Applications must be submitted by the 1st March. For information about how to apply, and previous projects funded by PSGB, see the grants page of our website: buff.ly/48dv99h

One of our PGRs out in “the wild” !

Wolfgang Wüster@wolfgangwuster.bsky.social · 2y ago

@bangoruniversity.bsky.social MScRes student Harry Searle -Webb presenting his Honours project work on the ecomorphology of viviparous lizards across different habitats in the UK.

Interested in a herpetological MScRes projects at Bangor? See www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fsv70...

I am really happy that I was able to present my first PhD results and I am grateful to the jury for this prize 🦠🧬

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni)@bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · 2y ago

And the winner for best PhD talk is Lucas Le Brun @microbiolucas.bsky.social for his work on soil microbiomes!