VACANCY 🌎 Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment A tremendous opportunity to advance your academic career in a world-leading, vibrant and interdisciplinary environment, and to make a difference by steering exceptional research: tyndall.ac.uk/news/sir-ant...

Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

A tremendous opportunity to advance your academic career and steer exceptional climate/environmental research.

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Our first chicks have hatched! 🐣 Last week we welcomed the first hatchlings of the season. We’re looking forward to following their growth and seeing them fledge in a couple of months! #ornithology #ecology 🌍🧪 Photo: @anna-thompson.bsky.social

Exciting #PhD project opportunity with @domcram.bsky.social mapping the architecture of meerkat burrows and it's consequences. Join us at UEA @ueaceec.bsky.social deadline for applying 30th April. #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #mammals

Dom Cram@domcram.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysical scanning 🌍 Field ecology & behaviour 📊 Big data & code with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysical scanning 🌍 Field ecology & behaviour 📊 Big data & code with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Attention ECRs! WAME is offering support to attend the ExE conference in Falmouth (sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/) & associated WAME microbiome workshop. For more information and the application form, see below! We hope to see you there! 🦠 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

7/ Finally, a big thank you to all who made this work possible. @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @sarahfworsley.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social Jan Komdeur @bioinf.bsky.social @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social

In London for a couple of days so walked back from @royalsociety.org via St James’s and Hyde Parks. Surprised to hear singing Cetti’s Warblers at both sites - so cool that these colonise these urban green spaces

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

Scientists @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social including Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sarahfworsley.bsky.social have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system – all thanks to a tiny island bird. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springernature.com @david-s-richardson.bsky.social

Host immunogenetic variation and gut microbiome functionality in a wild vertebrate population - Microbiome

Background The gut microbiome (GM) –important for host health and survival– is partially shaped by host immunogenetics. However, to date, no study has investigated the influence of host Major Histocom...

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University of East Anglia (UEA)@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Prof David Richardson from @biouea.bsky.social has been the senior researcher on a study that has uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system – all thanks to a tiny island bird. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cIV4vs #ResearchMatters #NewStudy #GutHealth

Congratulations to PhD Researcher Jade Van Wijk who is one of the Next Gen Leadership Award Recipients at this year's #AGBTAg2026! 👏 Jade's PhD research is using air #sequencing methods to identify and monitor cereal rust fungi. 🌱🧬 @nrpdtp.bsky.social @richardmleggett.bsky.social

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!) 7th January www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

David S Richardson@david-s-richardson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us. david… | david r...

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us. david richardson...

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As part of WAME wild animal Microbiome evolution STN @stn-wame.bsky.social

David S Richardson@david-s-richardson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Upcoming online seminar👇 Wild animal Mycobiome (not microbiome!) 4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303

Upcoming online seminar👇 Wild animal Mycobiome (not microbiome!) 4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303

⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime, with this house wren about to feed the kids. #Birds 🪶

Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere? I’m asking our local politicians to stand up and say something about this dangerous bill My piece in Bristol 24/7⬇️ www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

'Our government is about to sign a "license to kill" wildlife and no one is talking about it'

Next week MPs are voting on the fate of our protected wildlife and habitats. Lives are on the line so why isn’t this everywhere?

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still time to apply for this

David S Richardson@david-s-richardson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

Las crías de tortugas gigantes prosperan en Seychelles tras la primera incubación artificial exitosa www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation

Exclusive: Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction

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Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

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Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us. david… | david r...

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us. david richardson...

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Broken families can have huge effects on children, even later in life. But is that the case in species other than humans? Read my latest article in the ‪@aunz.theconversation.com‬ on mate switching effects in offspring of the ‪@seychelleswarbler.bsky.social‬ 👇 theconversation.com/the-chicks-a...

The chicks are alright: what songbirds can teach us about divorce and moving on

Parental separation in humans can deeply affect children. But in another monogamous pair-bonding species, it has no such effect.

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In this position, the impact of plant-based diets on the gut microbiome will be explored in metagenomes, including tracing bacterial strains, reconstructing their genomes and metabolic food-webs in the gastrointestinal ecosystem. 💷 £37,500 - £42,000 🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/9qwinfu

💬 “Our recent work in #Lichen has been particularly fascinating, to see how #cells from unicellular organisms interact and specialise to make up a multicellular organism.” In a new article, we chat to Prof Irene Papatheodorou her group's work on global #cellatlas projects. 👉 buff.ly/9nWE5GE 🧬💻

New perspectives on human health and biodiversity using cell atlases

Scientists have been characterising and classifying cells in increasing detail for centuries. From the development of new disease treatments to the genetic engineering of crops designed to withstand…

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An excellent PhD opportunity - at a great place - with a great system .....and with a great group! Should be fun....as well as very scientifically rewarding😀

Dugdale Research Group@hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

New research from @ueaenv.bsky.social reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean 🌊 🧊 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4kMXw5r #ThisIsUEA #SouthernOcean #Carbon #Antarctic @climateuea.bsky.social @ukri.org

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Andrew Stronach@aistronach.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a lot to be said for walking around your neighbourhood. Do love the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social campus ❤️

Take a closer look at this 'pint of science' evening!

David S Richardson@david-s-richardson.bsky.social · last yr.

Some excellent facts and fun relating to this wonderful bird. An iconic example of how science and conservation can work hand in hand! Delivered by those doing the work! @chuenlee.bsky.social @clairetsui.bsky.social Alessandro Pinto pintofscience.co.uk/event/the-fa...