Carl Soulsbury
@cds-york.bsky.social
Professor of Animal Ecology @UniLincoln Married to Graziella+3 kids+1 hound. Views: agrees with Sheena, views are own.
🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
Come and work with us.... jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Animal Interactions
Lecturer salary starts from £38,784 per annum.Senior Lecturer salary starts from £44,746 per annum.The School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lincoln seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lec...
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Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474
Always great to see more research on the welfare of captive invertebrates - here the very pretty Flamboyant Flower Beetle doi.org/10.1002/zoo....
Effects of Sex and Substrate Type on the Inversion Risk and Righting Behavior of Flamboyant Flower Beetles (Eudicella gralli): Implications for Habitat Design and Beetle Welfare
This study highlights the importance of substrate selection in mitigating inversion risk and promoting righting behavior in scarab beetles. We recommend a heterogeneous substrate composition incorpor...
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I’m excited to be presenting some of my work on Thursday at #Ento26! 🪲 We investigated whether sublethal pesticide exposure impacts cricket behaviour.. come along at 9:45AM on the 10th in the Small Chemistry Lecture Theatre to find out more! 🦗 @royentsoc.bsky.social
Excited for everyone’s talks and posters this year @ecbb2026.bsky.social! Come hear about our latest research from the #CoexistProject at 16:00hr this Wednesday (Day 2, parallel talk session) on the longterm effects of urban exposure on #wild #fox #behaviour! #urbanwildlife #animalbehaviour #ECBB
Invertebrates make up most animal life on Earth, yet almost nothing is known about their welfare in the wild — or how to measure it. Funded by WAI, research by @cds-york.bsky.social will work towards developing a welfare assessment toolkit for wild insects. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/r5CuWvW
We're launching a one-day workshop at Newcastle University on an important topic at the frontier of animal welfare science: "Validating Welfare Indicators in Invertebrates." Co-hosted with @newcastleuni.bsky.social and @arthropodafound.bsky.social Abstracts will be accepted through August 15:
Workshop on Validating Welfare Indicators in Invertebrates
Please send your abstract by August 15
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Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅
🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨 Excited to share our latest paper, published today in @asab.org, showing that #exploration and #problem-solving behaviours in #wild red #foxes are explained by length, not rate, of #urbanisation 🦊🧠🧩🌃 #CoexistProject Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust
PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/
From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded) | University of Exeter
The University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.
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New position: Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Lincoln. As our long-standing programme leader retires, there is an opportunity for a new person to join the team. Drop me a message if you have any questions: jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Senior Lecturer in Zoology
The School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lincoln seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Zoology to support teaching, research and scholarship across our undergraduate and postgraduate provis...
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From tracking nature's ghost particles at new energy frontiers to discursive framings of insects and their effects on urban public perceptions, the Trust Board awards fifty-nine innovative and original research projects. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/fifty-n...
Funded PhD studentship for UK students on insect eggs: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Lead supervisor is @g-iossa.bsky.social Deadline 31st May.
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Living in #Yorkshire? Looking for opportunities to help local #wildlife and community-based #conservation? We're seeking #volunteers to help with our new #COEXIST project to monitor human-wildlife conflict in the UK. See advert below ⬇️🌳🦡🦌🦊🦜🦫
Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus! Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it. www.canids.org/resources/Le... Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.
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In 2025, Wild Animal Initiative became a member of the BAHSCR's Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research. We're excited about the opportunities this partnership creates 👇️ buff.ly/6aYalMq
WAI joins the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research — Wild Animal Initiative
In June 2025, Wild Animal Initiative became a formal member of the Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research, housed within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,…
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🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
PhD Scholarship
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The Effects of Diet on the Expression of Male Dimorphic Colouration and Weaponry in a Species of Neotropical Katydid - Holmes - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Effects of Diet on the Expression of Male Dimorphic Colouration and Weaponry in a Species of Neotropical Katydid
Male alternative reproductive tactics are widespread, often involving distinct morphs influenced by genetics or the environment. This study confirms two male morphs in the bush cricket Satizabalus jo....
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📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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It was such an incredible, enriching, and fun experience — I learned so much ❤️ So thankful to the amazing leadership team who welcomed me! @drrmiller.bsky.social @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social @nomascus.bsky.social @stephanreber.bsky.social @cds-york.bsky.social Megan Lambert & Claudia Mettke-Hofmann
So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
ManyBirds Project@themanybirds.bsky.social · 12mo ago🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
Bird species with specialized diets and migratory habits tend to show higher fear of novelty, a stable trait that may influence their adaptability to environmental change. doi.org/g96v62
Chickening out: Why some birds fear novelty
The largest-ever study on neophobia, or fear of novelty, has discovered the key reasons why some bird species are more fearful of new things than others.
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Ecological drivers of neophobia in birds dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
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