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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Personally, I’d settle for a single lock. I just want my earnings to increase by inflation for once.

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

He needs Harry Kane

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I just think it would be better if England played the whole match.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You can tell I’m overwhelmed by tasks when my beautiful online task management system is abandoned in favour of half a used envelope and the crappy green pen that refuses to die.

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In a small act of administrative defiance, I have renamed the monthly receipts subfolders in the shared expenses folder to use ISO 8601 date format.

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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When the GFC began unfolding in 2007, I was only a couple of years removed from my brief stint as a trader and was still following financial markets closely. I remember being struck by how little public alarm there seemed to be. Anyway, I’m not sure why that came back to me just now…

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Lovely sunny morning so I’m going into the office to feel the sunshine reflecting off the Arts Tower building.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I do enjoy my old college’s alumni emails: Could you donate a) £500, b) £5000, or c) £50000? My friend, I found 50p on the bedroom floor yesterday and that went straight into the cash-for-haircuts pot.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Starting to wonder if NERC's plan for the July 2025 PtF round is to keep their head down and just hope we all forget we submitted a proposal.

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Joey Baxter @joeybaxter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:

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The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control

Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is all starting to look like a "we can't put the shit back in the donkey" situation.

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Oliver Meacock @olimeacock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Identifying how chemicals shape microbial diversity through high-throughput ecological screens at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Identifying how chemicals shape microbial diversity through high-throughput ecological screens at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Josephine is going to need to install a trophy cabinet at this rate. (Well deserved, obvs)

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 26/11/2025

Distributed systems are hard

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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026 Please 🔁! Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈 👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3 #Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw. Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk

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ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Jennifer Morinay @jennifer-morinay.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 15/09/2025

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

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I did two different bits of science-ing today. Two different things. In one day. I feel 41 again.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Great (free) opportunity coming up this Tuesday for researchers who are interested in finding out more about outreach with children…

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is now open with a call deadline on 10 September 2025. Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This couldn’t be further from where UK HE is heading. Looks great, TBH.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

While waiting for my coffee to brew, I asked chatGPT to write a postmodernist critique of IPMs. It's magnificent.

The text of a post-modernist critique of integral projection models produced by chatGPT.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The next call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships scheme opens soon. Come work with me if you're interested in anything related to biodemography and population ecology. And if you're not, consider coming to work with one of my many fine colleagues instead.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The problem with having had a short stint in finance many years ago, is that in moments like this, I revert to reading about things like “Treasury basis trades” to understand how my personal finances will ultimately get screwed over again, which if you think about it, is not a very good use of time.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’m considering placing reciprocal tariffs on my inbox. £2 for each message from that guy who emails me once a month to see if I want to buy his reagents. £10 for every email from an MDPI journal.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It’s important to take pleasure in the small things in life, which is why I like to check the Tesla share price once or twice a day at the moment.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I'll give you my em dash when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.

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BES Macro @besmacro.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hello world! We are BES Macro, the British Ecological Society Macroecology and Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We're probably going to be pretty quiet on here, but if you tag us in things of interest to our members, we'll gladly re-post!

image of the earth (Africa most prominently) from space

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My visit to Boulby Underground Laboratory! 1.1km underground, learning about dark matter detectors like the ‘Button 30’ detector I’m standing next to here. It weighs over 50 tonnes and was built piece by piece in this ultra low radiation environment. Huge thanks to all for this amazing day! 😃😊

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Dylan Childs @dzchilds.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I do not understand the purpose of Meta’s AI profiles. What problem do they solve? Who are they for? Am I old now? Where did I leave my glasses?

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Started a Theoretical Ecology starter pack. For from complete. Respond if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/PwpvZLb

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