Our very own Nick Priest presenting at PGBio Bath Department of Life Sciences Research Day 2023! @LifeScienceBath Milner Centre for Evolution 🌵🧬

New pre-print with Santiago Ramírez Barahona - first from the Mexico trips! We searched for signatures of mass extinction of flowering plants at K-Pg with some huge phylogenies ☄️🌺🪷 Milner Centre for Evolution UNAM

A huge congratulations to Dr Jamie Thompson for passing his viva today with NO corrections! 🥳🎉🎊🍾

New preprint from PhD work: a deep investigation into dynamics and drivers of evolution of succulent lineages. By far the biggest project I've undertaken, this was a great collab between Priest Lab - University of Bath, Tania Hernandez Hernandez and Santiago Ramírez Barahona, involving several awesome trips to Mexico 1/4

What caused the rise of terrestrial orchids? Our results indicate that subfamily Orchidoideae is a stellar example of climate-driven diversification, with most radiations happening recently and associated with global cooling, across all major regions 1/2 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Beautiful snap of me rattling on about engaging the public with Drosophila self-medication research 🤓

Jingbo representing the Priest lab at #Ento23 University of Exeter, Cornwall today, chatting about his novel low-dose infection method and how this interacts with survival, reproduction and immune genes! Made us very proud 💪👏

Did you know that flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs? 🌻 🌺 🌹 New study by Jamie Thompson Milner Centre for Evolution shows how flowering plants are nature's true survivors, now making up 3/4 of all plant life on Earth. bit.ly/467AdeB Royal Society Publishing

While 75% of Earths's species were going extinct at K-Pg, the flowering plant evolutionary tree was merely pruned, without a detectable mass extinction. Really fun paper with Santiago Ramírez Barahona royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

It’s Evolutionary Fact Friday for the first Friday of the month! Did you know that it was global cooling around 10 million years ago that was the main driver of the diversity of terrestrial orchids that we see today? Here’s a lovely such orchid on campus University of Bath that some

Busy and fun day today Festival of Nature in #Bath with Ellie Jarvis and Priest Lab - University of Bath accompanied by lots of fruit flies in a starring role! 😊 Admin: Prof.Turi King Science at Bath University of Bath Evolution Education Trust Chris Lennard 🕷

Stinging in the rain! This new #RSOS paper looks at the behavioural responses of #bumblebees to simulated #rain. Read more: ow.ly/5pkW50S1KzE 🐝 Ellie Jarvis Sean Rands

Thanks so much UoB Doctoral College for awarding me a Doctoral Recognition Award last week! And thanks to Ellie Jarvis, who also won an award, for being my partner in crime! 😊 PGBio Bath

A huge congratulations to Milner Centre for Evolution’s newest Dr, Jingbo Liu! Passing his PhD viva today with minor corrections 🥳🎉 huge thanks to Jean van den Elsen and Prof Matt Tinsley for examining 😊 University of Bath Science at Bath

We were delighted to host our University of Bath Chancellor, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, earlier this week. He came to visit us & @lifesciencesbath. He started with a visit to Priest Lab - University of Bath chatting with Ellie Jarvis, Jingbo Liu & Gabriel Crabb about fruitflies. Then on to hear from me &

New paper from Jamie Thompson & Priest Lab - University of Bath! Cacti are amongst the most diverse plants! This study sheds light on the mystery as to why are there so many different types. You can listen to senior author, Nick Priest, chat about the paper and its findings here: YouTube: