Exciting PhD opportunity - Passerine viromics and genomics David S Richardson, UEA Research UEA CEEC working on the wonderful Seychelles warbler SeychellesWarbler, and with @EvelienAdri and Dugdale Research Group biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/passe… Applications deadline Nov 25

PHD opportunity with my lovely group - see also dsrichardsonlab.wordpress.com

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A reminder that the next set of talks in the WAME STN ESEB virtual seminar series is happening this Thursday! We’ll be hearing about all things virome! 7th Nov 2024, 14.30-16.30 GMT / 09.30-11.30 EST / 06.30-08.30 PST

this should be excellent !

A great PhD opportunity PhD Opportunity: warfare in kalahari meerkats - Dom Cram domcram.weebly.com/1/post/2024/10…

deadline approaching - excellent, fully funded phd opportunity

📌 Several PhD Funded Positions in Biosciences at the Norwich Research Park Biosciences, UK 🇬🇧 (Open to all Nationalities), details at: wp.me/pbv48T-9M9

Our new (my first/first-author 🎉) paper is out Journal of Animal Ecology! We found that rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous SeychellesWarbler besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Big thanks to the team Frigg Speelman Dugdale Research Group Terry Burke David S Richardson Nature Seychelles 1/5

Using climate window analyses we found that specific months of rainfall before and during the breeding season best predicted divorce and other factors possibly linked to divorce, such as markers of reproductive success and territory quality. 2/5

We found that these 7 months of rainfall best predicting divorce had a significant quadratic effect on divorce, with divorce increasing in years with extremely low and heavy rainfall. The quadratic relationship was driven by a very wet super El Niño year in 1997. 3/5

Although the same months of rainfall best-predicting divorce were also significantly correlated with our markers of reproductive success, we found no significant correlation between reproductive success and divorce, leading us to discuss other possible drivers. 4/5

All in all, we add to the growing body of literature showing that environmental conditions influence the stability of socially monogamous partnerships and provide novel insights that may also be important for conservation efforts in times of climate change. 5/5

Excellent news!.... Come to UEA for a wonderful PhD experience!

NEWS - The John Innes Centre awarded major investment for doctoral students We are pleased to announce the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research has awarded us a Doctoral Landscape Award, in partnership with UEA The Sainsbury Laboratory Quadram Institute Earlham Institute Norwich Research Park okt.to/SwarpW

Good news! Come and do your PhD at the wonderful UEA - a hotbed of research into evolution, ecology and conservation....and wider environmental and biomolecular sciences. uea.ac.uk/about/news/art…

This will be part of a large, well funded, cohort of new PhD students at UEA, and across the Norwich Research Park, Norwich Research Park @ARIES_DTP