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Have you ever wished YOU were in #TeamWildDog? If you are Kenyan, now is your chance! Here is an exciting opportunity to help set up our new ZSL Conservation ZSL Science Wildlife Research & Training Institute TSAVO TRUST wild dog monitoring project in Tsavo careers.zsl.org/vacancies/220/… Please share in Kenya!

Heard of a midwife toad father? Did you know stickleback dads provide 100% of parental care to their babies? Dr Judith E Lock from Biological Sciences examines the very varied role of the father in the animal kingdom in this fascinating piece for The Conversation: theconversation.com/what-fathers-i…

Not just sad for the nation for some it can be dangerous. Call if you need help.

Supporting parent academics through staff networks: a combined voice can make working life easier for university faculty and staff with children. On #THECampus, University of Southampton’s Dr Judith E Lock lays out the challenges of mixing parenthood with academia and how networks lead to more

Supporting parent academics through staff networks: a combined voice can make working life easier for university faculty and staff with children. On #THECampus, University of Southampton’s Dr Judith E Lock lays out the challenges of mixing parenthood with academia and how networks lead to more

I’m seeing a lot of anger and disappointment in badger circles today that the badger cull is ending, but not ending fast enough. Apologies for the long thread 🧵, but tet me explain why I think the news is the best it could be 1/25

Supporting parent academics through staff networks: a combined voice can make working life easier for university faculty and staff with children. On #THECampus, University of Southampton’s Dr Judith E Lock lays out the challenges of mixing parenthood with academia and how networks lead to more

Do you have a passion for dragonflies and damselflies, & share observations in any way?  We are conducting a survey about dragonfly recording in the UK.  Whether you are a beginner or expert, specialist or generalist, we would really welcome your input: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online-s…

Natural selection is seen as 'survival of the fittest' - but what if there's more teamwork than we think? Learn more about our fantastic genes on OUPblog: oxford.ly/3ZgxMWY

Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns theguardian.com/environment/20…

<1 week left to apply for this PhD position! If you’re interested in… Skeletal anatomy How skeletons move Animal feeding behaviours Mixing biology, engineering, and a bit of art Solving problems creatively Working with an international team …contact me or see link below

Do you teach ecology or conservation? Want to learn about ecology or conservation? The British Ecological Society have produced this resource for teachers listing sixty short videos, with more to come. britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-r…

Producing offspring takes more energy than previously thought. I’m unsure about the quote saying that the underestimate may be due to lack of females in the field. Maybe, but maybe it’s a lack of focus in general on anything regarded as a female matter nature.com/articles/d4158…

🍃🪲The flowers of Meiogyne heteropetala imitate leaf litter clumps trapped in the undergrowth to trick beetles into pollination: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

PhD studentship on ecological interplay between tree planting and natural processes to create future forests is available University of Stirling with @EFuenMont, @KirstyJPark and @watts_km iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…

What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/cla…

Job in Ecological Remote Sensing of tropical forests at BioEO lab jesusaguirre-spatialecology.com ECI, Univ of Oxford SoGE, University of Oxford working with me, Yadvinder Malhi Felipe Martello Laura M. Suz KewGardens and many more across the tropics -> Apply! shorturl.at/uM4F0

Selection for tameness alters play-like behaviour in red junglefowl in line with effects of domestication | royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… | Biology Letters | #ornithology

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...