Katy Chapman 🐝
@KatyEChapman
PhD researcher wondering how light alters bee foraging 🐝 @CrabExeter 🦀 + @SouthDevonAONB ✨ looking for sensory ecology postdoc in 🇬🇧 from June '23 ✨ she/her
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06-04-2019 09:11:51
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#Bumblebees take it easy when out and about earlier or later in the day.Katy Chapman 🐝 designed a clever method to observe at low light levels the slowing down of departures at the nest exit, with some bees even turning around. An opportunity to decide when to start/stop #foraging
If you have money to spare, please consider donating to the Animal Behaviour Collective fundraiser! It is guaranteed to go to an animal behaviour student in need (proof in the open finances!) 🐵
Thanks Defunct ASAB Conference and the #ASABangor team for curating such a friendly atmosphere for my first in-person PhD talk (never too late with 2.5 months left...)
Wish I could be there to support the picket line today Exeter UCU 👏 PGRs support the strikes, we know staff working conditions are student learning conditions. They are fighting for their & our careers & futures #ucuRISING
Really excited to share that our paper showing how sociality can mitigate risk of injury & thereby enhance survival in rhesus macaques is now out in iScience journal! 🙉
Led by the amazing Melissa Pavez Fox. Check out the great 🧵 below, in English and Español!
Interested in #social #behaviour ?
Looking for a #PhD ?
Golden opportunity with Sam Ellis and me on NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership project: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…
Deadline: 9th Jan 2023
CRAB University of Exeter University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Bristol Natural Environment Research Council
🎆🚨Before lighting your bonfires this week check out our 'Bonfire Checklist for Hedgehogs' 🚨🎆 #RememberHedgehogs
People's Trust for Endangered Species Hedgehog Society ZSL ZSL Science
🐝New #bumblebee #SensoryEcology paper out today in #AnimalBehaviour !🐝
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
How do bumblebees forage when light is declining before sunset?
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📢Funded PhDs📢Applications for South Coast Biosciences DTP 2023 are now open!
I'm offering a project Sussex Life Sciences in partnership with Dave Goulson + Daniel Ingram DICE Kent on the benefits of perennial crops to #UrbanAgriculture + #Biodiversity . Pls RT!
More info👇👉 tinyurl.com/mwjxanr3