Fully-funded #shark #research experience in Pembs, UK, this summer. Applications now open!
We are encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply 🙏🦈🦈

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Thousands of years of fine particle cave sediment dust falling off our collaborator Allan McDevitt 's gloves after his first time inside Castlepook cave, during our 2024 successful excavations funded by Royal Irish Academy Site photo processing ahead! #IrishCaveBones

Shiny new project.
Do you have the time?
No: --> Don't do it.
Yes: --> No you don't.

A hermit crab in a transparent shell

🌊 1/2: Transformative power lies in technology and open data.

🪸 Recognizing the need for an innovative tool that supports the effective design, management and monitoring of #MPAs , we joined forces with Dona Bertarelli to develop our Marine Manager portal.

Are you a Brazilian or UK-based early career researcher interested in 🦐🐟? Join us in July in Bragança, Brasil for the workshop 'Global problems, local solutions: developing an integrated framework towards sustainable fisheries and aquaculture' Apply here forms.gle/jUnE7FgmSTgqBX…

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Last year Matthew O'Donnell who is now our Curator of Herpetology introduced us to the cute baby giant green anoles bred here in the museum, and their brand new enclosure.

1 million visitors later, let’s see how they’re getting on… 🦎

Proud to be part of the team at LWC, where we prioritise #conservationeducation for the next generation. By empowering kids with knowledge, we are fostering a culture of conservation that will have a lasting impact on the environment. 🌿🌏

SCFM of the FAO- COFI was held virtually from 15 to 18 Jan 2024.The Sub-Committee stressed the importance of fisheries in ending poverty, hunger and malnutrition, and emphasized the need for effective fisheries management ... fao.org/3/cd0256t/cd02…

🪝New paper! We reviewed recent advances in marine science-policy knowledge exchange ⚓️

🌊More diverse strategies are used
🌊Progress in outcomes & enablers
🌊Critical research needs: marinstreaming, choice of strategy, value addition, use of AI

doi.org/10.1016/j.ocec…

Invited speakers presentation time! ⏰
Let's kick it off with the first invited, that will also be opening the 10th SIBE congress: Dario Riccardo Valenzano🐟🦠🤌🏽
He's based at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena 🇩🇪, working on “microbiome and aging”

Find out more: sibe-iseb.it/napoli2024-inv…

Impact of Quaternary Amazonian river dynamics on the diversification of uakari monkeys (genus Cacajao). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…. In this paper, we showed how river rearrangements influenced the geographic distribution, gene flow, and genetic structure of uakaris.

I have a new research website!

find my contact details, research updates, and PDFs to publications on: claudiawascher.github.io

Huge thanks to Friederike [freddy] Hillemann for teaching me some css and html and how to host my page on GitHub!

!!!Animal behaviour students!!!🐷🐵🐻🐦🐯

Would you like to become involved in a new student subcommittee for ASAB?  We are looking for some enthusiastic students from all levels to form this important new representation for the student voice.

More details ⬇️

🚀 Food and Agriculture Organization's intrapreneurship program #FAOELEVATE wraps up a 3-day bootcamp with 14 teams after showcasing innovative projects in food & #AgInnovation , from camel breeding to fish leather production. 🐫🍍

Learn more➡️shorturl.at/cjlS8

And stay tuned for the 8 winners! 🌐

Second: Using the best scientific knowledge for the sustainable management of estuaries and coastal seas

This is the editorial of the special issue about Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) conference 2022

AZTI #GES4SEAS

authors.elsevier.com/a/1iud3%7E1MBr…

🔖 #ASABEditorsChoice #AnimalBehaviourJournal featuring:

🐦Great tits! 🌲Wytham woods! 🥜PIT-tag activated feeders! 🕸️Social info transmission!

New research by Kristina Beck Dr Charlotte Regan Keith Mc Mahon Sam Crofts Ella Cole Josh Firth Ben Sheldon Wytham Tit Study

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With a staggering 735 million people facing hunger, there is an urgent need to transform agrifood systems.

#SOFI2023 provides in-depth analysis of the key drivers behind these trends which are challenging our efforts to end hunger & malnutrition.

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