1.5 BILLION vehicles clog our streets. Transport is the fastest growing source of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions & one of the largest contributors to climate change.

Ready to act? Let’s change the trend! See you at Urban Future 2024

💙 urban-future.org
🇳🇱 Rotterdam | June 5-7

We cleared a HUGE amount of rubbish from Pigeonhouse Stream in South Bristol a little while ago.

Thank you to volunteers from Babcock for all their help.

If your workplace would be interested in a corporate volunteer day, visit our website: bristolavonriverstrust.org/corporate-volu…

The climate impact of the foods we eat.

There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

I am looking for a place to publish a short article about country happiness rankings. It questions the authority of ranking countries by their happiness, suggesting the need to consider happiness/wellbeing holistically. Does anyone have any ideas as to any outlets? Thanks.

Our CEO, Simon Hunter talks about BART's work to re-wiggle Stoke Brook on Radio 4's Today programme.

Re-wiggling this tributary of the Avon helps reinstate natural river processes, creates habitat & helps 'slow the flow'

Listen in on BBC sounds from 1:41
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Do you like fish, behaviour, and evolutionary genetics?Seeking a tech/RA to join our us University of Exeter CEC. 3yr post supporting a Natural Environment Research Council grant with Dr. Bonnie Fraser and Erik Postma on convergent behavioural evolution in guppies. Ad and links to app at jobs.ac.uk/job/DGC269/res…

Funded ESRC PhD studentship on 'Engagement with nature among LGBTQIA+ communities'. #phdlife #PhD #phdposition #LGBTQIA

Details on the studentship and application process: aru.ac.uk/research/postg…. Deadline for applications: 15th March. Do get in touch if you are interested!

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling infrastructure, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, and the over-80s cycle around 10% of trips.

These people aren’t ‘cycle freaks’, Charlotte.

Cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

Zoology lectureship (teaching focussed) at the University of Manchester

More info in the link (& mini thread) below... Please RT & spread the word to outstanding candidates! 🦥

Christos Ioannou Matthew Cobb
Prof Tom Cameron ASAB Josh Firth Darren Croft

jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

We are looking for a post-doc student (18 month) to work on collective movements in swarms of drones: enac.flatchr.io/company/enac/v…

'Up to 43% of car trips in some parts of #London are linked to the school drop off.[...] Grassroots group Mums for Lungs is calling for a school street at every school by 2025.'
— airqualitynews.com/headlines/scho…

We went river dipping in the River Chew and Bristol Frome!

The Co-op funded this series of events to get children out to the river having fun and learning about what lives there.

Read more about the events here: bristolavonriverstrust.org/river-dipping-…

Thank you to Co-op for funding

New paper with Théo ROBERT and Karolina Tarapata finally out! 🎉🎉

Learning modifies attention during bumblebee visual search

Read more here:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

BREAKING: Paris voters won referendum 55% to TRIPLE parking charges for SUVs!

“We’re doing this to reduce pollution & to make our children safer because these cars are dangerous. Paris is transforming itself to allow people to breathe & live better.”
theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

If there's one thing that all of the business wizards who run UK universities agree on, its that their hands are tied and they are powerless.

One week to go for Abstract submission for ASAB's ASAB Spring Conference hosted by CRAB in Exeter. ASAB Conferences 2024
asabspring2024.github.io/register/

My first paper published! Happy to share this research with the world🤩 🐠🐠

'Effect of social context on behaviour in anemonefish hierarchies' with Theresa Rueger, Marian Wong and Siobhan Heatwole.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There is a potential PhD studentship co-funded by industry to work with our swarm team. The deadline for applications is short - 25 January. Please email me your CV if you would like to discuss this further. The studentship only covers UK fees.

Study links cycling to work with better mental health:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Including 378 .253 Scottish commuters
🧠 Cycling benefits their mental well-being
💊 Cyclists have less antidepressant prescriptions
🚲 Proximity to bike infra matters for cycling uptake

📑 Read: academic.oup.com/ije/advance-ar…

Two weeks left to apply for Conference Attendance Grants for ASAB Spring 2024 in Exeter CRAB
Don't miss out on these easy-to-get travel grants and another brilliant @asab_tweets meeting!
asab.org
asabspring2024.github.io