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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · 29d

Teamwork in action 😁 Reeling in 40 m of oxygen/temperature sensor cable on the @aberdlsagb.bsky.social Freshwater Field Course at Llyn Tegid. Love boat work in the sunshine! And we also found some of the very rare glutinous snails shore sampling which made my day 🥰 🐌

Students working together to reel in an oxygen sensor cable

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fantastic new study by @meg-alicemay.bsky.social using eDNA to monitor marine biodiversity at Tristan da Cunha. It identified species missed by traditional surveys, and demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique for use in challenging remote locations.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The First eDNA‐Based Assessment at the World's Most Remote Inhabited Islands: Investigating Marine Vertebrate Diversity at Tristan da Cunha

This study employed eDNA to characterize marine vertebrate biodiversity at Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote archipelago. The multi-assay approach successfully detected 51 Operational Taxonom...

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Hannah Vallin @hannahvallin.bsky.social · Mar 11

Diving into #BritishScienceWeek with our dolphin diets project at @aberuni.bsky.social showcasing DNA extractions, fish otoliths, dolphin skulls, and learning about echolocation, marine food chains and much more! @cbmwc.bsky.social @lauracaryse.bsky.social @sarahperry.bsky.social 🐬🐠🦑🐚🧬

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Feb 26

I am really looking forward to the opportunity to talk about my favourite things at the University of Chester today. Animal cognition, snails, and dogs 😊

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Alicia Hidalgo Lab @aliciahidalgolab.bsky.social · Feb 10

Looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, molecular and cellular mechanisms, imaging, optogenetics, neural circuits and behaviour will be used. At University of Birmingham campus, UK. Application deadline 19 March.
Pls RT.

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Jan 31

Fantastic PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities in aquatic animal welfare available at the University of West Scotland with Prof. Kath Sloman
Postdoctoral position: Shrimp aquaculture www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
PhD position: Ornamental fish welfare
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Post-doctoral Research Assistant, School of Health and Life Sciences - G72 0LH, Glasgow job with UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND | 387309

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the West of Scotland working in the research group ...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · Jan 31

Two more weeks to get your abstracts in: if funding the conference is an issue, check out @asab.org's conference attendance grants, open to ALL seniorities: www.asab.org/kolkata-conf...

Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Jan 25

📣🚨 Abstract submission deadline extended!!! 🚨📣

In response to continued interest from prospective contributors, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended.

🗓New submission deadline: 15th February 2025.

🗒️Submission requirements: A 300-word abstract.

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · Jan 23

New article by Roger Santer and myself 'Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges' available to read in Current Opinion in Insect Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Redirecting

doi.org

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ASAB @asab.org · Jan 17

There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025

ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in

Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Jan 15

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#eXit

Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll

The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.

www.nature.com

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Martin Giurfa @martingiurfa.bsky.social · Jan 14

Check out our latest work on transitive inferences (A > B, B > C, therefore A > C) in honey bees, just published in Frontiers in Psychology: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 12

Did you know the study of environmental DNA (eDNA) of microbes could transform how we understand and protect freshwater ecosystems?

Dr Amy Thorpe, a molecular ecologist at UKCEH, shares insights from the first national survey of microbial eDNA in English rivers 🦠🔬

Exploring the hidden microbial diversity of England’s rivers

In a blog, Dr Amy Thorpe, a molecular ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses the findings of the first national survey of microbial eDNA in English rivers, involving the…

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · Jan 7

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."

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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · Jan 2

I have a PhD position open to start fall semester 2025!

The position will include investigations of the structure of both phenotypic (behavioral) plasticity and genetic variation in behavior as well as lots of opportunity to develop your own project.
#Evolution #evobio #evolsky #Ecology 🧪

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Jan 2

Lovely photo, very atmospheric 🙂

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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · Dec 22

📣🚨Call for Workshops: Behaviour 2025! 📣🚨

🗓️Last date for workshop proposal submission: 15 January 2025

Are you ready to share your expertise, spark meaningful conversations, and inspire change?

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 31

Highlights of 2024 #6

Took the leap and deleted my Twitter account 🎉

Looking forward to the new year on 🦋🙂

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 30

Highlights from 2024 #5

My first dog research project led by MRes student Nerys Mellor published www.mdpi.com/2656782 The data indicates scent work training can improve inhibitory control in pet dogs. Nerys is planning future work to carry out more manipulative research on scent work and behaviour.

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Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social · Dec 19

Nominate your favourite mollusc for

International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀

A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!

Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...

@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 28

Hilights from 2024 #4

Re-homing a gorgeous border collie girl whose owner is no longer well enough to keep her. And most importantly my fussy dog reactive Welsh sheepdog boy has fully accepted her into our little family 😁

Border collie and Welsh sheepdog sitting in a wood

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 24

The PhD student, Eszter Monostori, will be training dogs to find the mud snails that are intermediate hosts for liver fluke. We'll be using eDNA as confirmation of snail presence/absence in the field. A step that's often missing in detection dog research when working with cryptic species.

Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 24

Highlights from 2024 #3

Getting involved in the amazing world of Ecodetection Dogs www.ecologydetectiondogwg.org This has included helping Holly Peek training her dog Marnie to detect invasive Chinese mitten crabs (video) & starting an exciting new PhD, training dogs to detect parasite hosts 😁

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Julia Bandura @juliabandura.bsky.social · Dec 23

Pleased to announce that one of my first-author PhD works has been recently published in the Journal of Proteome Research! We used #proteomics to identify signalling pathways associated with successful long-term memory formation in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Read more: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Distinct Proteomic Brain States Underlying Long-Term Memory Formation in Aversive Operant Conditioning

Long-term memory (LTM) formation relies on de novo protein synthesis; however, the full complement of proteins crucial to LTM formation remains unknown in any system. Using an aversive operant conditi...

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 22

Highlights from 2024 #2

Our study led by @drgdavidson.bsky.social in print. We showed antibiotics at environmentally relevant concentrations alter aquatic snail gut microbiome, disrupts memory formation and covariance among pace-of-life traits. Funded by @asab.org academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Antibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain host memory plasticity and disrupt pace-of-life covariation for an aquatic snail

Abstract. There is mounting evidence that intestinal microbiota communities and their genes (the gut microbiome) influence how animals behave and interact

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Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social · Dec 20

I would say that the reality is much higher, given our poor understanding of autism in people with an XX chromosome.

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