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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️ New BBC podcast: Digital Dolittles – Talking to the animals? 🐘🦉

Featuring UCL’s Prof. Kate Jones @profkatej.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social and UCL's PhD students, exploring how tech is changing the way we listen to nature 🌍✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 8d

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall.

She was a force for nature, tirelessly advocating for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

Her presence will be sorely missed." - Tanya Steele, CEO WWF UK.

Jane Goodall in forest habitat standing with a chimpanzee in her arms, as she purses her lips as if to kiss the chimpanzee.

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GroupGets @groupgets.bsky.social · 9d

📦 GroupGets.com/devcase🎤The AudioMoth Dev Case is a waterproof, injection-molded shell designed for the AudioMoth Dev. It offers complete flexibility for hardware setup, featuring built-in mounts and slots to accommodate external microphones, GPS, larger batteries, and custom auxiliary boards.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 14d

Truly inspiring! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 20d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 24d

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇

www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

www.eneslab.com

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RASC Montreal Centre @rascmontreal.bsky.social · 24d

Here are last nights Aurorae spotted from outside #Montreal and in the #easterntownships, #Sherbrooke!!

A suprise indeed, but a welcome one!

#Aurora #northernlights #astronomy #astrophotography

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · Sep 6

A starter pack for people & organisations that love #ponds! Whats not to love!!!

go.bsky.app/5ZMVBB1

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Sep 4

Quote: "Available evidence suggests that the ongoing extinction episode still falls a long way short of the devastation caused by the bolide impact 66 Ma, but that it has likely surpassed most other Cenozoic events in magnitude"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 29

Posts about scientific research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on Twitter. More importantly, you're far less likely to get sexist or racist replies.

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement

Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

go.nature.com

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · Aug 13

News via The Transmitter www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Xavier Mouy @xaviermouy.bsky.social · Jul 31

New Sonic Connexions event coming up on August 12! 🧪🔉#bioacoustics

Register here:
whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · Jun 11

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers

**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

www.mcgill.ca

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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · Jun 23

A newly identified group of deep-sea spiders carries methane-eating microbes on their legs, revealing a unique symbiosis and a surprising new lineage in the ocean depths
#DeepSea
#NewSpecies
#MarineBiology
#OceanExploration
#biology
🧪🕷️🌊

Paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New Discovery of Deep Sea 'Spiders' Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

www.sciencealert.com

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 13

Any kind of underwater sound recording equipment is good. An Aquarian H2a, HydroMoth, or GoPro Hero are popular options. Recording in a field tank is best, individual clips from soundscape recordings are OK if you can have a good guess at the family level.

See fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

fishsounds.net

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 10

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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · Jun 9

🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲
Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!

Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Pre-print: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

- 61 entries
- 35 contributors
- 16 countries
- 19 orders
- Your submission?

(PDF) The Freshwater Sounds Archive

PDF | Freshwater ecosystems are full of underwater sounds produced by amphibians, aquatic arthropods, reptiles, plants, fishes, and methane bubbles... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

www.researchgate.net

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

@fishsounds.bsky.social @xeno-canto.bsky.social @wildlifeacoustics.bsky.social @openacousticdevices.info @cornellbirds.bsky.social @docslinky.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Sometimes ecology is about being in nature and observing. On a Canadian lake, there’s only one way to do that: canoe.

It was exploring the edges of habitats & the edges of periods of the day that were so interesting.

I returned full of new research ideas and questions to be answered.

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Southern eDNA Society @sednasociety.bsky.social · Jun 5

The TropWATER eDNA lab (JCU) is looking for a Postdoc Research Fellow for a full-time, 2-yr role on applied biosecurity & biodiversity monitoring projects across Nth Aus. Join a passionate team applying eDNA tools to real-world conservation and management challenges.

tinyurl.com/bdh43rum