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This week’s CEC seminar is about the underpinnings of fitness! 👨‍🏫 Luke Holmann - Associate Professor in the Animal and Plant Science Research Group at Edinburgh Napier University - will present the seminar “The genomic and phenomic underpinnings of sex- and age-specific fitness”. #ExeterCEC

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Turtles are responding to #climatechange by nesting earlier 🐢 In sea turtles, temperature determines the biological sex of offspring, with more females when it's warmer - and fewer successful hatchings when it gets too hot Read more 👇 @exetermarine.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniexecec.bsky.social

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For tree planting initiatives to truly benefit people and nature, they must be designed with farmers at the centre – not just as recipients, but as guardians and active decision-makers New article by Ennia Bosshard of @uniexecec.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com

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💑 Relationships can be hard work. In fact, the challenges of maintaining social relationships are often thought to have favoured the evolution of intelligence in humans and other social animals. Photo credits: @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social and @stancaf.bsky.social

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New sea turtle research! This new study explores how individual green turtles adjust the timing of their nesting patterns in response to warming oceans. Watch the video for more. Full paper - doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🦑🌐🌍🦤🧪🐢 #AcademicSky @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Delighted to see Mollie Rickwood's @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc thesis out @royalsocietypublishing.org, in which she decomposes a nesting date 📉 in 🐢 into its individual- and population-level drivers. A brilliant collaboration with a great team, incl. Annette Broderick, @brendangodley.bsky.social

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Can't wait to welcome @englishse.bsky.social to our @uniexecec.bsky.social seminar series in March!

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A new study exploring how people's connection to #nature varies across countries and what might be driving those differences. Authors: Dr Masashi Soga and @kevinjgaston.bsky.social. 👉 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @uniexecec.bsky.social

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@uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsociety.org 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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The deadline for this year's #GW4OpenResearchPrize has been extended to 28th February, so there's still time to submit your work and gain recognition for best practices in open research. gw4.ac.uk/gw4openresea... @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

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New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social

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How can we protect nature, fight climate change and ensure food security? Agroforestry — the practice of integrating trees and shrubs on farms — offers a powerful solution! Read the full paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🌍🦤 #ExeterCEC #Agroforestry #SustainableFarming

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Join us this week for our annual celebrations for Charles Darwin's birthday! 🌍🦤 #ExeterCEC #Darwin #CharlesDarwin

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Each leopard has its own unique roar through which it can be identified, a new study finds! 📑 To read the full paper, visit: https://buff.ly/3WWnpFR 📻 Listen on BBC sounds: https://buff.ly/4jJ4gBb Image credits: Charlotte Searle 🧪🦤🌍 #ExeterCEC #Leopards #WildlifeConservation #WildlifeResearch

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Continuing with the @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc EBE field course sightings, here are some from Ol Pejeta: crowned hornbill, red-cheeked cordon bleu, golden-breasted bunting, and black-headed oriole. The bunting is my favourite of the trip, one I've wanted to see for ages and which didn't disappoint!

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A couple of days in Samburu to round off the EBE field trip, with white-rumped shrike, secretary bird, white-headed buffalo weaver, and red-and-yellow barbet. @uniexecec.bsky.social

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@royalsociety.org #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is back for 2025! You must be an #ECR to opt-in and submit your research by 30 April 2025 for the chance to win £1000. Two runners-up will also receive £500 each. Find out more: ow.ly/aCgx50UCo2H @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Volunteer Opportunity!! The Landmark Trust are recruiting residential volunteers for the Bird Observatory Assistant Warden role on Lundy Island! 📆 Deadline: 9th Feb www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lundyisland/... 🦤🌍 #ExeterCEC #Seabirds #LundyIsland #BirdResearch #BirdConservation #Volunteer

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SCHOLARSHIPS for international students seeking to join us in Sept 2025 for MSc in @exetergses.bsky.social . The deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦤 Scholarships: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Degrees: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/ @uniexecec.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

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It was a pleasure to work with Ennia Bosshard et al on this brand new paper! Read to learn more about factors that encourage or discourage adoption of pro-environmental practices by smallholder farmers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uniexecec.bsky.social #conservationscience🌎

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Black margins are important for size discrimination - female green swordtails prefer larger males but preference is lost when black margins on tail are absent. Seems they can't judge which male is bigger without black margin! shorturl.at/6GKA2 @uniexecec.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Our new paper uses #stableisotopes to investigate the diet of southern elephant seals 🦭 in 🇦🇶 - Spoilers: fish 🐟 and 🦐 @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social doi.org/10.3354/meps...

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A fantastic few days on the water with my marine biology students @exetermarine.bsky.social thanks to Cornwall IFCA. I'm so grateful to have such a great class of students, all so passionate about our ocean. #exetermarine #marinebiology @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

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This week’s CEC seminar is about zebrafish! 👨‍🏫 Prof Soojin Ryu - Mireille Gillings Professor of Neurobiology from the University of Exeter Living Systems Institute - will present the seminar “Life-long consequences of early life stress in zebrafish”. 📅 6th February, 1PM 📍 DDM LTA #ExeterCEC

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On Earth Day, the University of Exeter's Penryn campus will host Cornwall's largest youth climate festival in history, in partnership with Another Way. 🌟 You can help us unite youth for climate action at https://buff.ly/4jOzcA7 📍 Penryn Campus 🗓️ April 22nd, 2025 #PowerOf10 #ExeterCEC

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This week’s CEC seminar is about evolutionary conflict in genes and genomes! @hansonmark.bsky.social - Wellcome Trust ECA Research Fellow with us - will present the seminar “#Evolutionary conflict in #genes and #genomes: microbes, hosts, and selfish chromosomes.” 📅 30th January, 1PM 📍 DDM LTA

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Tomorrow is the RSPB Garden Bird Watch! 🐦‍⬛ Join us on Penryn Campus from 10:30 to 12:00 (Friday 24th January). 🧑‍🏫 Students, staff, and the local community are all welcome! For more information, visit: https://buff.ly/40L00JO #ExeterCEC #BirdWatching #UKBirds #Birds

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OneHealth PhD Opportunity to work at the interface of gamebird management, AMR evolution and spread, and zoonotic disease risk with me @Exeter’s Cornwall Campus and collaborators @UKHSA. #ExeterCEC #PhDsky #AcademicSky @uniexecec.bsky.social 🧪🌎🕷️🔬 Apply here: www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...

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First paper from her #PhD! Congratulations Hebe Carmichael 👏 with Ruth Warfield and Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher. "Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Do join in for tomorrow's hybrid ESI ECR network event about research development support for #EarlyCareerResearcher's. Free event, open to all @exeter.ac.uk #ECR's on all campuses. 👉 exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... @uniexecec.bsky.social @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

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Wanting to get involved with some conservation work? 🌳 Check out these volunteering opportunities based in Cornwall, giving you an opportunity to gain experience and give back to nature! 💻 Visit the organisations’ websites for more information. #ExeterCEC #Volunteer #ConservationVolunteer 🌍🦤

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Urgent Call for #Arctic Conservation Kirsten Young and @brendangodley.bsky.social have authored an article with the 90 North Foundation highlighting the pressing need to protect #ArcticWildlife and ecosystems from #ClimateChange and industrial activities. theconversation.com/why-we-need-... 🌍🦤

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Dr James Guest - Principal Investigator at the CoralAssist Lab and Reader in Coral Reef Ecology at Newcastle University - will present the seminar “Exploring the feasibility of selective breeding as a tool for coral reef conservation”. 📅 23rd January, 1PM 📍 DDM LTA #ExeterCEC #CoralConservation

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@ilyamaclean.bsky.social has taken up the #esiChallengeOfTheMonth "The art and science of prediction." Watch this space as we look at his work throughout January, culminating with his (hybrid) talk on 27 January. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... @uniexecec.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social

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Volunteering Opportunity! 🦡 ZSL are looking for volunteer support with setting up camera trap surveys from late January 2025 for 8-10 weeks. 🗓️ Application deadline: Midnight, 24 January 2025 💻 Visit: www.zsl.org/support-us/v... 🌍 #ExeterCEC #Volunteer #Cornwall #VolunteerOpportunities

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Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social

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Thrilled to see our work covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol on the cover of the January TREE issue 🎉. Stunning photo by Cyril Ruoso. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Let the travels begin! We are starting our journey south to work on elephant seals in Tierra del Fuego! Stay tuned for updates! @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Some of the bird species on the @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.

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Huge congratulations to Emily Cunningham, an Honorary Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter for being awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours List 2025 “for services to marine conservation and coastal communities”! @emilygcunningham.bsky.social #ExeterCEC #ExeterMarine 🌍

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Very grateful to have my research highlighted by BES! @wildcru.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social This paper is now out and can be accessed here 🥳 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Can leopards be identified by their roars? A new study led by @jonathan-growcott.bsky.social attempted identification using camera trap and acoustic data, which could estimate populations. 👉 bit.ly/4a25Uct @uniexecec.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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