She puts the Bu in Bush Cricket it’s……Jing Yi Bu! Congratulations on passing your MPhil viva this morning! Here she is showing off her award winning Bush Cricket costume in all its glory 🦗📖

Had a great time presenting my work at 100th year SEB @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBConference in Edinburgh! It was an amazing experience. Met so many awesome people and had such a wonderful time!!

The graduation grasshopper came out for Ritabrata Chowdhury ‘s MPhil graduation in a very rainy Cambridge today! Massive congratulations! 🥳🦗

Congratulations to Charlotte Andrew for passing her first year PhD viva, especially on her birthday!!!!🪴🐜🎂

How does a panda chew food? Pretty easy to imagine, right? But what about insects? How do they use their mandibles to bite and cut? Our latest paper (shorturl.at/hNT12) dived into the nitty gritty of insect mandible motion - a 🧵...#biomechanics #mandibles #joints #insects

The lab's 2024 international research experiences program is now open for applications: eng.vt.edu/academics/inte…

Join the annual #Orthoptera23 meeting Natural History Museum on the latest #grasshopper & #cricket research, #conservation, recording & more If you would like to present a talk/poster of your work, or bring along live specimens, please contact the SIG convenors 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/event/orthopte…

Calling all UK-based plant mechanics & mechanobiology researchers 🍃 Please join us for the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics Day on 18 April 2024 in Cambridge! Organised by Sarah Robinson Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) & Naomi Nakayama Imperial College London ➡️slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-biome… #UKPlantBioMech

Congratulations to Jing Yi Bu who graduated last week with her MPhil on bush cricket locomotion! 🦗 Of course the graduation grasshopper (or bush cricket, we aren’t actually sure) came out to celebrate! 🎉

1/ 🤖 New paper hot off the press 🐜 Automated behavioural analysis using machine learning is great, but still needs lots of effort to curate training data. What if a computer could generate that data for you? Say hello to replicAnt nature.com/articles/s4146… #OpenSource

2 weeks left to apply for a funded 3 year PhD/ Research Assistant position in our lab. Working on the functionality of cuticular lipids in insects Cambridge University Dept of Zoology !

Just 1 week left to apply! Funded 3 year PhD/ Research Assistant position working on the functionality of insect cuticular lipids in our group at the University of Cambridge. Apply here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/

Huge congratulations to Ritabrata Chowdhury for winning the best talk prize and to all the other prize winners at the Dept of Zoology Postgraduate Symposium last week! You had them hooked with your trichome facts! 🐛🌱🥇 Thank you all for a wonderful event!

Super excited to attend tomorrow! Good luck to Charlotte, Ritabrata and Walter who are all presenting! 🪴 🐜

Congrats to the winners of the poster prize! Amazing work and presentation skills from Nathanael Tan, Charlotte Andrew, Gediz Kocaoglan and Zoe Nemec-Venza

Huge congratulations to Charlotte Andrew for winning Best Poster at UK Plant Biomech Day at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) !! Sarah Robinson Naomi Nakayama Dept of Zoology Lucy Cavendish College

Happy to share the discovery of a new insect-plant interaction from Borneo, where one ant-plant has evolved sharp hooked trichomes to pierce and kill lycaenid caterpillars. However, one specialist can survive and has a counter-defence! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…