Here's to persistence!😅 This paper was conceived 12yrs ago. So happy to see it published at last. A neat, technically difficult study, that considerably expands our understanding of fynbos plant responses to moisture stress. rdcu.be/c37cQ

Leonard Shapiro shares the 13th ed. of Biomedical visualization with Bongani Mayosi Health Sciences Library (BMHSL) @UCT_ICHLibrary. UCT Libraries. Biological Sci UCT This edition published by Springer Nature highlights the benefits of innovative, art-based teaching and learning approaches in the biosciences.

Seal stress levels dropped following the decline of white sharks in False Bay, South Africa, with seals rafting farther from shore and over deeper water. Read the full #BiololgyLetters paper here: ow.ly/ReH450HEpwW #predation #apexpredator #ecology

Our population-level utilization distribution for the Cape Vulture is now published online and open access! doi.org/10.1002/eap.28… #OpenScience, UCT Research, FitzPatrick Ins, Ecological Applications, Megan Murgatroyd, Arjun Amar

📢Marine Offshore #CapacityBuilding cruise led by ECR Luther Adams along the East Coast of South Africa - stay tuned for updates! 🎉🇿🇦🚢 Marine Benthic Ecology Lab Biological Sci UCT UCT Oceanography UCT EBE Postgrads

📸 The BirdLife South Africa Photography Competition, in partnership with Canon South Africa, is NOW OPEN! 👏 • 10 categories = 10 chances to WIN! • Feature in African Birdlife magazine. • Contribute towards conservation. Visit birdlife.org.za/photography-co… now to enter, or to learn more.

Post-doc Alert! Come join us at the University Cape Town within the FitzPatrick Ins to work on the movement ecology of raptors with myself and Megan Murgatroyd fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/news/vaca… The closing date is 18th March Please Retweet🙏 #postdocjobs #Raptors #Conservation #movementecology

Our Global Change Biology review paper is out Interactive effects of rising temperatures & urbanisation on birds across different climate zones: A mechanistic perspective doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… Output from National Research Foundation of South Africa STINT collaboration between FitzPatrick Ins & Lund University

Delighted by the launch of the African Raptor Leadership Grant 🦅 Applicants must be African students intending to enroll as MSc or Hons students at one of three African universities (incl. UCT) and to conduct research on African raptors or their threats. raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-awards/…

Pied Crows - love them or hate them❓❓ If you are based in #SouthAfrica - we really want to hear your opinions on this species. English : surveymonkey.com/r/2LZ8BCP Afrikaans: surveymonkey.com/r/7RDHDTZ This information will form part of Temitope Adelola MSc thesis. Please RT

📢 Check out this News Article: It highlights upcoming opportunities for #Training and #CapacityDevelopment in #OceanSciences in Africa 🌍🌊🎉 Read more here: bit.ly/3JEd6ip UCT Faculty Of Science Biological Sci UCT UCT Oceanography UCT EBE Postgrads EBE Faculty UCT

We are excited to host Dr. Estelle Estelle Razanatsoa from Biological Sci UCT on zoom this week to talk about her research into #biodiversity and #conservation in #Madagascar. Visit our website to join us virtually this week: uh.edu/nsm/earth-atmo…

🆕📰 Just out in Environmental Pollution. Metal(loid) exposure in Cape Town caracals... Fully OA paper! A heavy burden: Metal exposure across the land-ocean continuum in an a... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Rhodes University Biological Sci UCT iCWild IREC (CSIC, UCLM, JCCM) Laurel Serieys Panthera

Data chapter 6: my last bit of PhD data is published! In Behavioral Ecology, Amanda Ridley, @kiwi_sjc and I show that helpers don't help when it's hot, particularly when there are many helpers, explaining limited buffering effects of cooperation in some species. academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

Please spread the word. join our team in Nigeria!

Prof Marcello Vichi shares some insight on what the UCT MARIS research centre aims to achieve through three different research foci and further elaborates it's role in South African #PolarResearch 🇿🇦🌊🌍 Thank you to all who attended today's #UCTScienceResearchSeminar2023

Kindly share: REPORT your sightings of caracals in Cape Town here please: urbancaracal.org/report-sightin… also roadkills 😔 #scienceMatters #ConserveCapeCaracals #BiodiversityDay 🧵 3/5

The 4th International Conference on Community Ecology (ComEc 2023) will be held in Trieste, Italy, 20-22 September 2023. Abstracts due 15 June. Keynote speakers include local scientists 🇿🇦 Profs Lynne Shannon Biological Sci UCT & Thulani Makhalanyane University of Pretoria akcongress.com/comec/

Job Opening!!!! 🌻🌼🌷🌻🌼🌷🥀☘🌴🌵🌾 LESLIE HILL CHAIR IN PLANT CONSERVATION (Professor level) DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UCT uct.ac.za/sites/default/… Deadline is: 18 June 2023 [please retweet]

📢All MARiS participants and friends are welcome to join our social fundraising event, MARiS Quiz Night! Come ready to have fun, test your general knowledge & socialize with the MARiS research team. Details are below. Entry fee: R30pp. Sign up here now: forms.office.com/r/Z6ZL0hjiV0