Looking for a job as a #buryingbeetle #technician? Are you skilled in insect rearing and husbandry, highly organised and enthusiastic about inverts? If so, please apply for this post with Ben Raymond and myself University of Exeter CEC: tinyurl.com/55jbuvyj. Exeter Uni Jobs. Pls retweet.

Exciting PhD project for competitive funding (start date Sept/Oct '24), exploring how gut microbiota affect pesticide resistance in aphids! The project is based at UExeter's wonderful Cornwall campus @uniexecec in collab w Rothamsted Research: tinyurl.com/wuddbhew

I am delighted that Beatrice Downing paper with Matthew Silk @dezdelahay @StuBearhop and myself on the impacts of culling on #Canadagoose #socialnetworks is published today in Journal of Applied Ecology. It is freely available here doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…. University of Exeter CEC

Scientists observed flocks of Canada geese before and after a population-management cull in which about 20% of the birds were killed. Some animal species increased 'social connectivity', mixing with many new individuals. University of Exeter CEC Nick Royle news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…

!!PhD Opportunity!! Seeking ecological statistician to work with us on epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers, please RT exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… University of Exeter CEC

If anyone is thinking about MSc programs, this new initiative covers our conservation, marine, eco/eco options (and more interdisciplinary things) at UoE penryn

#invasivespecies have much, much further to spread, Henry Häkkinen, Dave Hodgson and I found. #PLOSBiology: Global terrestrial invasions: Where naturalised birds, mammals, and plants might spread next and what affects this process. shorturl.at/kpBZ5. pls RT

Culling-induced perturbation of social networks of wild geese reinforces rather than disrupts associations among survivors Shows importance of generalised social system-based theory to understand how different species respond to management intervention 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

*New #evolution paper* Sparrow-weaver mothers lay larger eggs when they will have more help feeding chicks. Maternal reaction norms to help are *opposite* for egg size & nestling feeding rate. Cool. But why do this? 1 of 3. Fine work @p_capi. tinyurl.com/2djsp6zd #ExeterCEC

LOVE #EVOLUTION? LOVE #BEHAVIOUR? Join our MSc Evolutionary&Behavioural Ecology University of Exeter CEC in Cornwall ex.ac.uk/evolutionary. Online session to meet our fantastic students&staff on Wed Dec 6 1700, Fri Dec 8 1300 GMT. Register: ex.ac.uk/pgtSessions

I did this MSc course back in 2019/20 and couldn't recommend it enough! 🦔 Cornwall is a beautiful place to live, and the Penryn Campus is no exception - plus you'll be learning from ground breaking researchers... learn more about it in the Q&A next Weds 🦗

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Congrats to Brogan L. Pett on the first paper from his PhD on #bluegroundbeetles. Published in Insect Conservation and Diversity and freely available here doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…. Key characteristics of old growth #temperaterainforest predict #carabusintricatus occupancy on #dartmoor.

Our 2023 #BugsMatter survey results are out today, and the news is alarming. The data indicates a 78% fall in the abundance of flying insects in the UK since 2004. 🧵

Mini backpacks track movements of rare beetle bbc.in/3KPKtQe

Thanks also to Natural Environment Research Council for funding the wonderful PhD work by Brogan L. Pett on those icons of UK #temperaterainforests the #bluegroundbeetles. University of Exeter CEC Guy Shrubsole @JWentomologist

This is the first known video of the Amazon weasel, a rare small carnivore. Filmed by a group of coffee producers in Bolivia, where the species hadn't been recorded before. An example of the importance of citizen science to #biodiversity knowledge. 👉 bit.ly/3LrWmfl

Splendid PhD opportunity on ecology and conservation of #bluegroundbeetles in #temperaterainforests in the Southwest of England now available: tinyurl.com/BGBeetle. Come join the team! Interested? Email me: [email protected] for further info. Please share.

Only 1 week to go before the closing date on this PhD opportunity in Devon and Cornwall. Like rainforests, beetles and ecology? This could be for you. Apply now!