I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

Thinkin about lizard belly buttons. Baby lizards connect to their yolk sacs through a tube like baby humans connect to a placenta. Unlike humans, the mark where the tube used to be isn’t permanent and will disappear by adulthood. 📷Northern Exotics

Some big news to share! @rhythmsoflife.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...

Bangor University awarded £5 million doctoral training grant from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the rhythms of life

Bangor University has been awarded a £5 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust to establish the Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme. Over the next three years the University will r...

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Stop scrolling!!! A puffling* has been spotted in Purbeck, Dorset for the first time in 30 years! *Baby puffin (yes, they have the cutest name)

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....

I’m a bit biased as I’m married to him BUT this will be a great project and a brilliant opportunity for an evolutionary ecologist who values variety (genomics, fieldwork, entomology) and who’d like to live in beautiful North Wales!

Benjamin Jarrett@bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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....

G is for Geode. And that's good enough for me.

Looking for a postdoc? Letter of Intent deadline for the Human Frontiers postdoc fellowship is in early May! www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp... My husband had one of these and they were a great funder to work with. Get in touch if you think I/my lab might be a good fit for your research ideas!

Thrilled that the Women in Ecology & Evolution podcast is listed here! So many of the topics we've discussed are still so timely, so hope this generates some new listeners. I would love to revive this someday soon...

British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 5mo ago

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr

It’s me!

Nature@nature.com · 5mo ago

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research, says Juliet Turner go.nature.com/4sQu3uX

Some geckos reflect uv light.

Often, lizards & snakes serve as models for thermal biology studies. However, these studies rarely employ a standard methodology, making comparisons difficult. In their Commentary, Alvarez & Watson suggest a conceptual framework to address this problem journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

For those interested in the relation between HPS and science itself, here is our new page about HPS Mentoring in Science (with Alan Love and Tobias Uller) www.hps-mentoring-in-biology.org

Exciting news! Our website is now available in CYMRAEG! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bangor.ac.uk/cy/ygan/beps...

Ymddygiad, Ecoleg a Ffisioleg ym Mangor

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In their Review, Gilbert & Warner discuss how warming due to climate change can have effects across multiple generations of ectotherms and highlight knowledge gaps which would benefit from future research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Has anyone used Cayman Chemical kits for faecal glucocorticoid metabolite assays? Validating this kit for lizard faeces and on the struggle bus with some strange results. Trying to figure out if we've messed up the prep steps or the calculations. Would really appreciate some input/advice!

📣 I am excited to share some new collaborative work published in Biology Letter @royalsocietypublishing.org on spatial learning and lateralisation in lizards 🦎! Check out the full OA paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #AnimalCognition #ThinkLikeALizard

Spatial learning and lateralization in lizards

Abstract. Spatial memory is a fundamental cognitive process that allows animals to navigate and interact with their environment effectively. While extensiv

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New 2026 paper led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, @kruthsatz.bsky.social & I in @conphysjournal.bsky.social show studies on embryos make up <10% of conservation physiology studies, highlighting a major blind spot in predicting vulnerable life stages to climate change. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/conp...

My favorite part of this article, in addition to the interesting new research on beneficial microbes (of course! of course!), is the picture that makes the gut microvilli look like hot dogs at a rave. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health

Scientists have pinpointed a group of bacteria that consistently appear in high numbers in healthy people, suggesting that these could one day be targeted through diet or probiotics

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"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

If Epstein is Trending, Why Isn’t +1.7°C?

The news cycle has become a hall of mirrors: Epstein, Trumpism, war, outrage, retribution. A thousand scandals designed to keep us anxious, tribal, and tired. We have to hold multiple truths at once: ...

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I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Our new paper! Led by @miaryras.bsky.social with @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social and others 🦎

Journal of Experimental Biology@jexpbiol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Winters are warming faster than summers, which could affect hibernating ectotherms, but it turns out that wall lizards cope well with warm winters & mini winter heatwaves, although they suffer more DNA damage, so the effects of warm winters may be concealed journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Winters are warming faster than summers, which could affect hibernating ectotherms, but it turns out that wall lizards cope well with warm winters & mini winter heatwaves, although they suffer more DNA damage, so the effects of warm winters may be concealed journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Folks, the first paper of my PhD is now officially out! 🦎🔥 (👇🏼comments) doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Experimental winter warming increases activity with signs of potential DNA damage in common wall lizards

Highlighted Article: Winter warming makes hibernating wall lizards more active, with signs of DNA damage after emergence, but no change in body condition, revealing subtle costs of milder winters.

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Very cool to see this "Research Highlight" of our recent @animalecology.bsky.social paper that tested the potential for social buffering of maternal glucocorticoids in a facultatively social lizard. Grateful for this feature by Lange & Aracena! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Maternal glucocorticoid exposure drives social tolerance and growth with limited evidence for long‐term social buffering

Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T. and While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of oppor...

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🎉 Exciting milestone … my first PhD paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Biology! 🥳 Not all winter warming is equal: steady, mild winters increase activity and can cause molecular damage, but short, warm spells have little effect on wall lizards 🦎

Kirsty MacLeod@kjmacleod.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Accepted manuscript now online! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's exciting PhD work on the consequences of warming winters for lizard physiology and behaviour, in collab w/ @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social, @arc-trust.bsky.social, & others: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

A big week for our research group! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's PhD thesis has been accepted. Looking forward to sharing some nice results about the effects of winter warming on wall lizard behaviour and physiology very soon. Well done Miary! 🤩

Big milestone for me - the 1st MacLeod Lab get-together! @miaryras.bsky.social & I have been a dynamic duo for 3 years but we are now joined by Charlotte (cosupervised w/ @asutto.bsky.social) & MRes students, Keya & Sacheus. Research is even more fun when you’re part of such a great team 🤩

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