A request to the #eDNA #environmentalDNA community. We are working on a project related to eDNA and ethics and looking for feedback from the user community. Please help us and complete this survey. forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq Please pass it along to other users.

There is about a week left for eligible PhD students to apply for our BES POST Fellowship with the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology. Applications close at 23:59 BST on the 12th of June. More information here 👇 britishecologicalsociety.org/2024-2025-post…

We've been concerned at the lack of focus on #nature and #biodiversity in the UK's political discourse, given how important and urgent an issue it is. So we wrote to all the leaders and environment spokespeople in political parties contesting the election theconversation.com/the-uks-nature…

PhD scholarship to study landscape change, forest livelihoods & biodiversity in Indonesian Borneo. 4 years, fully funded for UK students. Become a The Leverhulme Trust 'Space for Nature' doctoral scholar DICE Kent.Other projects too! Deadline 25 June '24. (link follows)

📢 More The Leverhulme Trust scholarships DICE Kent !! 4 MSc+PhD scholarships available! We want to help UK students from underserved backgrounds gain postgrad education in conservation! So, MSc first then possible PhD - 5 yrs fully funded! Please share with students/graduates

Applications for WildCRU’s 2024 Postgraduate #Diploma in International #Wildlife #Conservation Practice close on 21st June. We welcome exceptional early career conservationists from around the world. For more about the course and eligibility visit: tinyurl.com/mvnhapvc

We are offering a #postdoc or #sabbatical fellowship for a female researcher in global change #ecology and #biodiversity #modelling in Potsdam, Germany. Funding is provided as stipend for 6-24months and can be split into several shorter stays.

Fully funded* PhD opportunity working with me and Fleur Ponton (also Helena Stage Ajay Narendra) *UK students only (funding rules) If interested in maternal effects, mosquitoes, microbes, models -- apply!! Get to spend time both at University of Bristol Biological Sciences and Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences

Fantastic maternity cover lecturship in conservation science and practice Bangor University. If you have conservations in your network please share. It's a GREAT place to live and work. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php.en…

Thanks Lynn Dicks and Helena Horton for putting the PoshBee Project #H2020 study on the negative impacts of normal pesticide use on bumblebee 🐝 health in farmland across Europe front and centre in this great article about insect declines theguardian.com/environment/ar… RHUL Biology

Here is, as Peter Mulhair says, a slide of love to Liam Crowley and all the work he is doing in identifying specimens for Darwin Tree of Life Folks like Liam are crucial in providing correct identifications to ensure the genomes match the morphology #SystAssn2024biennial

Closing soon...just 4 days left to apply for this opportunity to join us at Oxford Biology to work on a biodiversity baseline for University of Oxford's Begbroke Innovation District. Please share widely! For full details and to apply see: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Have you heard of the deathwatch beetle? The larvae tunnel through decaying wood! We sequenced the genome of the beetle, & our collaborators The National Museum of the Royal Navy and Oxford Biology are interested in further studying population dynamics & behavior. #InsectWeek Insect Week London Zoo

In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whether they'd get anything at all They did 🤩 ... 🧵 #Borneo #RainforestGiants

We have a bunch of paid work coming up doing species identification work. If you can ID bats, birds or frogs from audio, plants from images, or mammals from camera traps - apply using your form and we will be in touch! 🐦🦇🐸🌿 researchgate.net/job/1013726_Ec…

Nice to see a piece about Biodiversity Net Gain on yesterday's BBC news! See our researcher's Nat Duffus thoughts 🎞️ from 13:35 mins.🌳🐛 SoGE, University of Oxford ECI, Univ of Oxford bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

I’m proud to be one of 1,176 letter co-signatories calling on MPs to back the #CANBill in this week’s private members’ bill ballot. The time for science-led legislation to tackle the climate-nature crisis is now. Ed Miliband Steve Reed MP zerohour.uk/scientist_lett…

Interested (or have students that might be interested ) in joining us EvoBioMunich for a PhD on Heliconius visual preferences? Get in touch! DAAD/LSM studentship call is now open. Please RT. lsm.bio.lmu.de/apply/pdh_proj…

Hope you are all excited for the Open Day on September 20th! Use the link here to check out what we have on at Brasenose, including when you can meet our wonderful tutors! bnc.ox.ac.uk/prospective-st… Brasenose JCR University of Oxford #OxOpenDays