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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Tag us in your stories from your summer of research, whether it’s in the field or lab! @owenstorer.bsky.social is currently in Zanzibar , studying the endemic Zanzibar red colobus (not pictured)!

Zanzibar Red Colobus Project @zrcp.bsky.social · Jun 17

PhD students @hannahfrog.bsky.social from UCSB and @owenstorer.bsky.social from @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social chilling at our Jozani base discussing colobus science and such.

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Nature @nature.com · May 15

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!

Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences

https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you

Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 14

Lizard science at Bangor !

Matt Armes 🦎 🇪🇺 @lizardkmatt.bsky.social · Mar 31

For my PhD, I need to catch lizards to take a mouth swab to retrieve a DNA sample. In comes the lizard lasso! A fishing rod with a small lasso loop tied to the end, I sneak up on lizards as they bask and (hopefully) slip them into the lasso 🦎

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 12

CoSE PhD research in action! Congrats @microbiolucas.bsky.social on your first field sampling session!

Lucas Le Brun @microbiolucas.bsky.social · May 12

First PhD sampling completed!

I went to sample the blackout experiment with 20-year old bare fallow plots at the Henfaes Research Farm (Bangor University)

Here, we want to study SOM/SOC and the cycling of “old persistent” carbon in the absence of new fresh plant input.

Picture of a bare fallow plot covered with a black fabric to prevent the growth of plants

Picture of me removing dry grass that flew in a bare fallow plot when I opened it to do the sampling

Picture of a 10 cm soil core with some interesting colour variation depending on depth

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · May 9

Interested in maternal effects, sociality, stress, climate change, reptiles, or any combination of the above? Chat to me about your ideas and come and join my group at Bangor 👇

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · May 9

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣

Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence.

🗓️ Apply by 11 June

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 9

And the winner of best Y3 talk from Day 3 of the conference is : Sourish Kuttalam from SENS (Genomic insights into the population structure of India’s “Big Four”
medically important snake species). Congrats!

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 9

Well. PhD Conference over now and we have our last two prize-winning presentations! Congrats to Tom Gale from SOS for best Y2 poster and speed talk (Non-breeding season habitat selection of European Shags in tidal stream
environments)!

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 8

+ of course prizes for best Y2 poster (Khalid Bukhari, SOS) and best Y3 talk (Sijing Shen, SOS). congrats to them both!

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 8

+ lots of thoughts on how to get a lectureship from the Hiring Committee Panel - Senior college and school staff with combined experience of sitting on more than 160 hiring committees! +

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 8

Day 2 recap: 2 great keynotes from Prof Yueng Djern Lenn (SOS) and Dr Katherine Steele (SENS) +

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 7

Day 2 of the College PhD conference about to start at Reichel Hall

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 6

Day 1 - career panel 1. Early career researchers (postdocs, fellows, newish lecturers) discuss academia, transitions beyond PhD, industry jobs and work life balance. Big thoughts!

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · May 6

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · May 6

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 6

Congrats to Rhiannon Owen - winner of best poster/speed talk (Y2) at the CoSE PhD conference today! Great work on empathy driven care with patients with dementia.

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 6

Congrats to Harvey Plows - winner of best Y3 PhD talk from Day 1 at the PhD Conference today - covering computer sciences, electronic engineering and nuclear!

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 6

Prof Shelagh Malham -Co-Dean of Research for the College get the show under way

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · May 6

Ready to go!

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Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · Mar 29

Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni
in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May. If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/3)
www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · Mar 28

Fully funded PhD at Bangor! Restoring the Celtic rainforest for net zero. Apply by 5/5/25. www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

New PhD project: Restoring the Celtic Rainforest for Net Zero – A Just Land Use Transition? | Bangor University

www.bangor.ac.uk

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PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · Feb 28

Salamanders! Climate change! Fully funded PhD project (competitive) at at College! www.envision-dtp.org/2025/shiftin...

Shifting climate, shifting threats: understanding the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in a global salamander biodiversity hotspot

Amphibians are among the most threatened vertebrate groups globally, facing a dual crisis of climate change and emerging infectious diseases. Salamanders, especially those in the biodiversity-rich App...

www.envision-dtp.org

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · Feb 28

PhD project at the college open for application. Fully funded completion. www.envision-dtp.org/2025/biodive...

Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity

The benefits of biodiversity for forest resilience and delivery of many ecosystem services underpin “nature-based solutions”. However, there are major gaps in knowledge of the ecological mechanisms, l...

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Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University @beps-bangor.bsky.social · Feb 25

MScRes projects available within BEPs and across the @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social - more info here! www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/post... #postgrad #biologicalsciences #careers

Biological Sciences

www.bangor.ac.uk

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Owen Osborne @owengosborne.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)

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Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University @beps-bangor.bsky.social · Feb 14

Including many with BEPs group members!

PGR Research: College of Science & Engineering (Bangor Uni) @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social · Jan 10

Today we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv

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