Rudy Riesch
@evolecollab.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway; research interests include speciation, phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection, livebearing fishes, invasive species, extreme environments, pollution
It was a fun day indeed and great to hear what everyone is working on or thinking about :)
Today we had research day @rhulbiology.bsky.social. Many thanks to @devotolab.bsky.social for organizing! Lots of interesting presentations and discussions and great attendance
November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It was a fun day indeed and great to hear what everyone is working on or thinking about :)
Such an amazing honour for an amazing person and colleague!
It is wonderful to see a new genus - Morrittospora - named after @rhulbiology.bsky.social's Professor David Morritt, to mark his recent retirement and in honour of his research career which included the study of invasive species in the Thames!
Meet Morrittospora corbiculae - a newly discovered microsporidian parasite of the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea in the Thames. Evidence also suggests infection spillover to declining native Unio mussels. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Such an amazing honour for an amazing person and colleague!
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📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣 Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...
Applications for PhD Studentships with @treesdla.bsky.social
now open for 2026 intake. @kratina.bsky.social and I offer a PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish in Italy, France, and Spain (www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...). Please get in touch if you are interested.
now open for 2026 intake. @kratina.bsky.social and I offer a PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish in Italy, France, and Spain (www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...). Please get in touch if you are interested.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Applications for PhD Studentships with @treesdla.bsky.social
now open for 2026 intake. @kratina.bsky.social and I offer a PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish in Italy, France, and Spain (www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...). Please get in touch if you are interested.
now open for 2026 intake. @kratina.bsky.social and I offer a PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish in Italy, France, and Spain (www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/tro...). Please get in touch if you are interested.
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Congratulations to Dr Walter Lucchesi and Dr Becky Thomas (@beckythomas.bsky.social) who have been awarded Senior Fellowship of @advancehe.bsky.social (formerly the Higher Education Academy). This reflects their leadership in education both within and beyond @rhulbiology.bsky.social 🎉👏
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Congratulations to Dr Walter Lucchesi and Dr Becky Thomas (@beckythomas.bsky.social) who have been awarded Senior Fellowship of @advancehe.bsky.social (formerly the Higher Education Academy). This reflects their leadership in education both within and beyond @rhulbiology.bsky.social 🎉👏
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One of @rhulbiology.bsky.social UG students, Alice, attended @britishecologicalsociety.org summer school this year and shared these lovely phots. She befriended many like-minded ecologists, networked with people from different environmental sectors, and studied a wide range of topics & organisms
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
One of @rhulbiology.bsky.social UG students, Alice, attended @britishecologicalsociety.org summer school this year and shared these lovely phots. She befriended many like-minded ecologists, networked with people from different environmental sectors, and studied a wide range of topics & organisms
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First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration
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Our 3rd year students are having great time at Borneo fieldcourse expedition setting camera traps, doing behavioural observations and participating in tree planting for the Regrow Borneo project
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Our 3rd year students are having great time at Borneo fieldcourse expedition setting camera traps, doing behavioural observations and participating in tree planting for the Regrow Borneo project
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Great post from our alumna Izzy Frey reflecting on her own journey from receiving unexpected #ALevelResults to her current job as an ecologist at Tetra Tech and why studying biology @royalholloway.bsky.social ended up the best decision she ever made
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#alevelresultsday | Izzy Frey
Now that the dust of the much-anticipated (and often dreaded) #ALevelResultsDay this week has begun to settle, having heard mentions of it all over the news, radio and TV, it has me sat here on a Sund...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Great post from our alumna Izzy Frey reflecting on her own journey from receiving unexpected #ALevelResults to her current job as an ecologist at Tetra Tech and why studying biology @royalholloway.bsky.social ended up the best decision she ever made
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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I recently wrote about a cool new paper by another research group on Antarctic leopard seal communication for The Conversation; it was fun to focus on some #bioacoustics again for a change. 😃 theconversation.com/antarctic-le...
Antarctic leopard seal ‘songs’ are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes
The fact that animals don’t use words makes it hard to decode their communication. But technology is starting to make it easier.
theconversation.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I recently wrote about a cool new paper by another research group on Antarctic leopard seal communication for The Conversation; it was fun to focus on some #bioacoustics again for a change. 😃 theconversation.com/antarctic-le...
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Congrats to Danny Hodgson on successful PhD viva today! On the left is Danny with her supervisors after viva and on the right Danny is shown working at home during COVID lockdown in a specially constructed desktop clean room to prevent sample contamination. Incredible resilience and determination!
May 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Congrats to Danny Hodgson on successful PhD viva today! On the left is Danny with her supervisors after viva and on the right Danny is shown working at home during COVID lockdown in a specially constructed desktop clean room to prevent sample contamination. Incredible resilience and determination!
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@evolecollab.bsky.social lab cleaned up at the RHUL biology PGR symposium 🐟💪 best MSc talk (Ella) + runner up (Rebecca) and best PhD poster (yours truly)😎
May 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@evolecollab.bsky.social lab cleaned up at the RHUL biology PGR symposium 🐟💪 best MSc talk (Ella) + runner up (Rebecca) and best PhD poster (yours truly)😎
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.