Caroline Bettridge
@cmbettridge.bsky.social
Zoology Lecturer. Behavioural Ecology, primates, sociality, dogs, wildlife, science, conservation, nature.
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
Who do I know going to @ecbb2026.bsky.social? Unfortunately I can’t go anymore but my excellent Masters student is presenting a poster. I’d love to link her up with some friendly fellow grad students! Conferencing alone can be a little lonesome.
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Job alert! Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning for Wildlife Audio https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Machine-Learning-for-Wildlife-Audio/16811-en_US - here at the University of Leiden with me & my #bioacoustics team. Please share! #university #leiden […]
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omg: mama eating a berry, and baby in pouch eating a berry!
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou're looking at a long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) Well, TWO, actually. These odd-looking animals native to Australia are in a group called "rat-kangaroos". They're also mighty 'truffle'-hunters. Let's talk about their neat relationship with subterranean FUNGUS.
Another massive jump in Ebola cases in DRC (reflecting new cases as well as "data harmonization"). Now 2,905 cases including 1,269 deaths. I find it harder every day to square the size and speed of spread of this outbreak with the lack of attention it is getting. insp.cd/sitrep-n069-...
Academic advice travels downhill: manage your supervisor, publish early, protect your time. Where is the genre in which early-career researchers advise the people who hire, fund and judge them? New post 👇 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first curriculum
Academic survival guides teach junior researchers how to live with the judgements of senior scholars. No corresponding genre gives young researchers authority to advise the people who judge them.
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New doctoral training programme at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - 30 PhDs funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk starting over the next 3 years! Spread the word.
Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme@rhythmsoflife.bsky.social · 3mo agoBig news to share today: www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
The only thing about this that surprises me is that I’d expect it be higher than 75% tbh.
Izzy Jayasinghe@ijayas.bsky.social · 3y agoA study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Aside from the personal sympathy and anger on behalf of the staff, I also still feel complete bafflement that the government is letting the sector fall apart. Direct job cuts lead to indirect cuts on other staff at universities, in the area, and suppliers.
Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 4mo agoMany are following this. Those at risk here on Exeter's Cornwall campus include myself and colleagues in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Maths, Humanities, and 1/2 the Environment and Sustainability Institute. I really hope this can be resolved.
The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H
This campaign needs you now
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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It is only very large cities that will not be severely affected by university shrinkage or collapse. A loss of students and universities in mid-sized places like York, Coventry, Exeter, Southampton will change the area fundamentally. In many, universities are the second biggest employer, after NHS.
In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.
🚨Job alert!!🚨 I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC. Deadline: 8 July 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...
Great sounding project, great place, and great PI (and guy). I would apply.
Benjamin Jarrett@bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 5mo agoI am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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I recently rejected a manuscript (as editor) on animal ethics grounds. Just because a study has ethics approval it doesn’t mean it passes BES ethics standards. Glad the BES journals are taking this seriously and developing their animal ethics policies. Check it out if relevant to your research!
Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 5mo ago2026. Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial on animal and plant ethics in research. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.
Let's goooo! #ECS2026 🏴 @jeannemrdl.bsky.social is presenting work on humpback song in soundscapes of New Caledonian lagoons 🥳 🐋 🦑🧪 🏴
#GreatAdaptations Such a great adaptation that angler fish did it again and again www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/s...
How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All
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If you're at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conf26 today Pop & see our colleague Dr Lynda Yorke btwn 12.30 & 1.50 in T211 as she's collecting stories on #inclusive & #accesible #fieldwork Tell her your experiences It's for an @rgs.org funded project
Any ECRs interested in joining a journal editorial board? I’m leaving an associate editor position due to upcoming maternity leave and other commitments and am happy to offer suggestions to the journal for a relacement. Broad zoology remit, reasonable workload.
This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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