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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We've designed a short UCL summer course for students who are interested in future-facing ecological careers and want to learn more about them. If that's you, come and join us in September! www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

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Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | TREES DLA

This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Sequences and animal intelligence

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Mutational origins and selection dynamics of cognitive traits in animals

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...

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The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Sad to leave @rhulbiology.bsky.social after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Selection shapes diverse animal minds: We recorded the talks at our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting last year to share with those who couldn’t be there. Our first speaker is Stephen Montgomery (Bristol University) @ebablab.bsky.social. youtu.be/BzmRZlhTcrc?...

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A circuit view of evolving cognition by Dr Stephen Montgomery

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Biology/Geography/Earth Sciences colleagues: can anyone recommend a field centre or similar field course location that works well for students who are wheelchair users? This is a no-fly course so we're trying to find somewhere in the UK or Western Europe

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We have some exciting new flies! First arrivals for our Ecolligence project focussing on the ecological functions of memory. These mutants, kindly provided by the Sigrist lab, lack specific phases of memory

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Very lucky to work with these wonderful researchers! Not only did they give amazing talks and posters at our Annual @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium, they won *all* the prizes 🏆 So proud 🐝❤️ @leofordham.bsky.social @alexisggk.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @philstevenson.bsky.social

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wonderful evening celebrating Dr Alberto Linguadoca’s successful PhD viva 🐝 ☠️ Thanks to @darastanley.bsky.social for being an excellent external examiner! You can find Alberto’s papers here: scholar.google.fr/citations?us... @rhulbiology.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Well done to MSc student @lucyhouliston.bsky.social, amazing achievement to be featured in the Natural History Museum’s brand new Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition!

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Olivia Bernauer, PhD @oliviabernauer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

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Native bees and crop pollination - Two PhD scholarships available | Western Sydney University

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Alexandra Klein @naturealexk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025 📅 Start date: June 1, 2025 💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...

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Awards | ZSL

ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions

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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇

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Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🚨Join us in Bristol! We're hiring 1+ Lecturers/Senior Lecturers (similar to Assistant/Associate Prof) in Biology, incl. ecology, evolution, conservation @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. Supportive colleagues, wonderful students, excellent facilities and a fun city: shorturl.at/CCmXC

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Mushroom body synaptic density in the bumblebee brain... [drum roll].... doesn't correlate with efficient foraging! :-) Read all about it.... led by Greg Pasquier and with Swidbert Ott authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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Home | UCL Trees

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Great talk by RHUL’s Morgan Morrison with @markjfbrown.bsky.social, with a very clear message!

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Yannick Wurm @yannickwurm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We're delighted to host North-western Europe's premier meeting on ants, bees, wasps and termites on December 16th at QMUL. 🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜 Registration closes on the 8th: bit.ly/2024-iussi-q... Supported by QM's Centre for Biodiversity & Sustainability: bit.ly/QMUL-Biodive...

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here’s one of my very first (2013) cohort of first year undergraduate @royalholloway.bsky.social tutees, giving her viva talk at the end of her UCL PhD 11 years later. Well done Chloe (Metcalfe), so well deserved!

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our People and Nature lab seminars can be viewed on YouTube! Here's Dr Paul Woodcock talking about "How can nature in the UK recover, and how will we know if it has?" youtu.be/2MzU294RIZE?...

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People & Nature Lab Seminar - Dr Paul Woodcock: "UK Nature Recovery"

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just got a huge thank you to say to @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social for making this historic day a reality. Thank you for giving dying people a choice.

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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

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Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel | Royal Society

Are you interested in shaping the future of scientific communication? Apply to join our new ECR Advisory Panel.

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Congratulations to the People and Nature Lab’s Beni Kellenberger on Map Of Life RA’s 2nd place (of 300 teams) in the extraordinary 5year XPRIZE rainforest competition!

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Dr Chris Young @drchrisyoung.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Fully funded PhD studentship with field work in South Africa on baboon health resilience with me, Rich McFarland and Stefano Kaburu at Nottingham Trent University. Please share or get in touch if interested 👇 tinyurl.com/3uy8e6th

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The social and environmental predictors of health resilience in a wild animal model

Find out about this studentship opportunity on social and environmental predictors of health resilience in a wild animal model.

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tomorrow's People and Nature Lab seminar is by Tom Denton who leads the bioacoustics project Perch at Google DeepMind. Tom will talk about about next-generation bioacoustic monitoring, including threatened animal/population management and ecosystem health monitoring. 22nd November 2pm at UCL East

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Finally got here! Excited to have somewhere to share and read about science again :-)

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