It’s the one year anniversary of ISBE2024 in Melbourne, Australia. So many fond memories. And now it’s time to start thinking about the 2026 congress in beautiful Torino, Italy. For further information, follow @isbe2026.bsky.social or visit isbe2026.com.

Interested in the feral cattle of Hong Kong? @tania-perroux.bsky.social and I will be talking about our PhD research next month; for more information and to register, check out the poster below! 👀🐂☀️

@ghodgson.bsky.social and I will present our PhD research on October 23rd, 4 to 5.30pm HK time
Zoom is open for all and in-person attendance is available for staff and students of City University of Hong Kong. Scan the QR code or use the following link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

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Interested in animal welfare, education policy & social research? Fully funded PhD (UK home) on dog welfare in schools. Get in touch & apply: www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...
(Dog photo purely for attention and moral support)
#PhDopportunity #AnimalWelfare #DogsInSchools #CamDTP #SocialResearch

2025. Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate. #FeralCattle #HongKOng scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publicati...

Sorry about that.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
This one should do?

You can find out more about HK feral cattle phenotypes in our paper royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/..., and learn more about this unique populations on our website hkcattleresearch.org
And let us know your thought about our findings 😀

We present the first evidence of seasonal coat colour changes in cattle, with paler individuals in the wet season and darker ones in the dry season, suggesting plastic phenotypes. The main driver of seasonal coat colour appears to be thermoregulation, supporting the thermal melanism hypothesis.

Despite the abundance of cattle globally, and the important variations of heat stress risk across phenotypes in livestock, evidence in feral populations is lacking. Hong Kong cattle present an opportunity to study phenotypic adaptations in one of the few cattle populations not controlled by humans.

Our latest feral cattle paper “Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate” is out today in open access
@royalsociety.org Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, @ghodgson.bsky.social & @amcell.bsky.social

Hong Kong feral cattle - new paper, 2025. Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate | Royal Society Open Science. led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

doi.org/10.25225/jvb... How lizards dorsal coloration directly influences their activity timing, instead of influencing their body temperature. The latest outcome of my PhD work.

Back from Behaviour 2025! I had an amazing time in Kolkata and wish to keep the good time going by moving to Bluesky! Only heard great things of the science community here so looking forward to meet the ecologists of Bluesky 😀