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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌟Congratulations to @lolavk.bsky.social on her 1st #Masters paper. 📢Out today in @asab #AnimalBehaviour: Cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs use recruitment calls selectively in food-associated contexts. @josharbon.bsky.social & I are #ProudSupervisors #birds doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Lola von Kietzell conducting her Masters fieldwork in Australia

Lola von Kietzell conducting fieldwork with white-winged choughs for her Masters

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🌟Congratulations🌟 to @josharbon.bsky.social on two great #OpenaAccess papers about pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict from his #NERC funded postdoc out within a month of one another: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... doi.org/10.1038/s415... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #mammals #birds #cognition

Front cover of Trends in Ecology & Evolution featuring a dwarf mongoose.

Front cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution featuring a dwarf mongoose

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🤗Delighted our review on pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🎓Resulting from endless fascinating chats with @josharbon.bsky.social #warfare #NERC #conflict #mammals #birds @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Dwarf mongoose acting as a sentinel looking out for rival groups in South Africa.

Green woodhoopoes allopreening one another in anticipation of conflict with rival groups

Meerkats standing together in the face of a threat from a rival group

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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Andy’s mentorship is second to none (as nicely demonstrated by this incredibly well-deserved award). Congratulations Andy and thank you for your outstanding guidance and support 👏

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another great talk session this morning at #ASABSpring2026 : We covered meerkat sunning calls, fish colour patterning, cricket insecticide exposure, moth same-sex sexual behaviours, cold snap and heatwave effects on bees & farm bird song learning ☀️🐠🦗🦋🥶 🥵🐦‍⬛

A collage of students in front of slides

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

After lunch #ASABSpring2026 workshop about creating positive fieldwork experiences by @clemencywhite.bsky.social, including a very interesting panel with @josharbon.bsky.social & @laurenvane.bsky.social, and a thoughtful exercise on developing our own personal principles ✍️

Clemency, Josh and Lauren in front of a screen with their photos reading Panel Session Clemency White R&D Fellow (Defra), Lauren Vane (Phd Student), Josh Arbon (Herschel Smith Fellow)

Students in groups creating personal principles

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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! In celebration of the day, check out this virtual museum curated by UNESCO showcasing the discoveries of female-identifying scientists across history and the world. www.unesco.org/en/virtual-s...

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Women in Science

A Journey Through the Discoveries and Challenges of Women Scientists Across History and the World

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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

To celebrate Women in STEM day on Wednesday 11 February we’ve printed some banners to highlight some of the incredible work that the women of Bio Sci at Bristol have achieved over the years! Pop into the LSB for the remainder of Feb to check out who’s done what and when!

8 posters all describing influential women that have passed through Biological Sciences

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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very happy to have presented my poster today on vocal regulation of cooperation in meerkats at #ASABWinter2025 come chat to me tomorrow if you’re interested! 🤓

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Josh Arbon @josharbon.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Andy has been such a fantastic mentor to so many this is the least recognition he deserves. I can’t put into words the transformative effect Andy’s guidance has had on how I conduct both my science and myself. Get yourself a mentor like Andy.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

Certificate for winning Nature Award for Mentoring in Science

Professor Andy Radford with some of his mentees at the University of Bristol

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What a fantastic afternoon! 13 #homeeducated children met 6 scientists and asked them brilliant questions about their research.. Huge thanks to our #homeed students and #research scientists for taking part in another brilliant ‘Meet Scientists’ event! #STEM #outreach #scicomm #homeeducation

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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Very grateful for such a warm, fun research group made up of some truly brilliant scientists!

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

👋to @josharbon.bsky.social who has completed a truly outstanding #NERC-funded postdoc investigating #pre-emptive #behaviour in relation to #intergroup #conflict 👏 Loads of exciting #research, new #methods learned & an awe-inspiring level of help provided to others 🥇 Good luck in #Cambridge, Josh

Dr Josh Arbon with a meerkat in the Kalahari, South Africa.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa

Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Apparently, it is 'World #Meerkat Day'. 🤷‍♂️ So what better excuse to post some photos of the #field team in action with the little critters, with thanks to the Kalahari Meerkat Project who make it all possible. @laurenvane.bsky.social @josharbon.bsky.social James Robertshaw @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Masters by Research student Lauren Vane collecting data on wild meerkats in the Kalahari, South Africa.

Masters by Research student James Robertshaw out in the field with a meerkat on his head.

Dr Josh Arbon mimicking a meerkat... or vice versa.

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Victoria Mallinson @victoriamallinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Excited to share that my first research article is now out in iScience: “Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging” www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Huge thanks to my co-authors and supervisors for their support throughout! #pollinators #bees #ecology #electrosensory #beeresearch

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Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging

Ecology; Entomology; Ethology

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I thought #parenting was tough at times, but this #meerkat group of 7 adults have 12 (yes, twelve) small bundles of fun to cope with! Thanks to @laurenvane.bsky.social for the stunning photo from #fieldwork in the Kalahari.

Meerkat adult with 6 pups to look after.

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Lauren Vane @laurenvane.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

First field season of the PhD starting strong alongside brilliant scientists and adorable subjects in the Kalahari 🌞🌵

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

#ECR highlights from 2024 include: 🌟Lauren Vane🌟 defending her #Masters thesis, publishing her first #paper on how #noise might affect #mongoose decision-making & starting her #NERC @gw4alliance.bsky.social #PhD. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 👏🥂 #ProudSupervisor @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

More amazing #ECRs to celebrate on International Women's Day include these wonderful folk I am privileged to work with: Julie Kern, Lina Yousry, Ayla Webb, Maddie Gasparro, Yoonjung Yi, @sophienedelec.bsky.social, Pernille Sorensen & Lauren Vane. #IWD2025 #WomeninStem @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Amazing women in STEM that I am privileged to work with.

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