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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just refreshed my menu of essay themes for final-year Bristol biology @bristolbiosci.bsky.social students. Very much looking forward to seeing where they go with it.

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Proud of fantastic students Ayla Webb, Ellie Trelfa-Stewart, and Dylan Thatcher for giving two great talks and one great (and wine-fuelled) poster at #IUSSI2026!

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've to put down some of my down to free up head space, feel free to read! "We must stop giving succour to those who do not care about evidence or data, and simply want to live in a world where they can grind their latest axe in a never ending culture war." nadinebh.substack.com/p/less-than-...

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Less than one per cent of Cambridge professors are black, but the columnist class wants to tell a different story

As an industry we must stop giving succour who do not care about evidence or data, and simply want to live in a world where they can grind their latest axe in a never ending culture war.

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Lord's Prayer sounds much better in Swahili than it did in sombre chants back at my English Catholic school... 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEx...

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Baba Yetu - Gospel Choir in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

YouTube video by AfricanSolarRise

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The result of 10+ years of fieldwork & analysis of 1000s of data points is out now in @natecoevo.nature.com... and on the cover! Mongoose pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social @juliekern.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution August 2026 issue featuring a dwarf mongoose

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🐝 Are you advertising a job or PhD in social insect biology? Get the word out by adding it to the PhDs/jobs noticeboard on the main IUSSI website! www.socialinsects.org/positions @iussi-nwes.bsky.social @ceiussi.bsky.social @iussi-nas.bsky.social #IUSSI2026 #IUSSI

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Student and Postdoc Positions in Social Insect Biology

PhD, masters, and postdoc positions in social insect biology.

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are you part of a social insect lab group? Is your lab proudly displayed on our shiny new map of all the social insect labs around the world? If not, why not?! Add your lab here! www.socialinsects.org/map #IUSSI

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Map | IUSSI

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“When I browse among my sixty-five albums of these selected photographs, my most cherished possession, I live once more in a vanished world.” - Wilfred Thesiger, ‘Visions of a Nomad’

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Currently taking Swahili lessons, but on the lookout for a more perfect word than “mihang’o” from Kikuyu, which a friend defines as “being busy in a useless way” 🤣

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“The very concept of an artificially generated video of wildlife is profane, operating on a level of self-interest that I struggle to comprehend. These videos make me fear the future”

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just came across this a beautiful 20 minute film about fig wasps - apparently produced as an MSc project at the University of Leeds! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg73...

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Incestuous fig wasps: death in paradise [HD]

YouTube video by Peter Chen 2.0

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Great week with Bristol 2nd year biology students on our Animal Behaviour field course, Pembrokeshire coast. Anemones fighting, bats echolocating, puffins hunting, gannets plunging, barnacles hiding, and 420 million year old fossils - all going on! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Deeply shocked not to see wasps at the top

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Chris Jernigan @chrisjernigan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My lab is recruiting a #postdoc! Please share! See ad below. If interested please reach out to me via email. Deadline to apply is Sept. 1st, 2026. #wasplove

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

An immunostaining section through a Heliconius brain. Staining and imaging by Dr Max Farnworth.

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For #DavidAttenborough’s 100th birthday, new research on the Panamanian wasp stars of his series #LifeInTheUndergrowth! Co-wasped with: @andyradford.bsky.social, Chris Wyatt, Emily Bell, Daisy Taylor @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough! 🐋 🦀 🐆 At the launch of @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, I fed mealworm brownies to him and the Lord Mayor (whilst randomly wearing a beekeeping suit). Here's him raving about my insect cooking on the radio 😆 So I hope he celebrates properly - mealworm cake?

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Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab @kirindy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🥇Poster prize awarded to #AylaWebb at @asab.org #ASABSpring2026 🐝Reproductive hierarchies & queen succession in paper #wasps 🌟CONGRATULATIONS Ayla 🎉 @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social #ProudSupervisors @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social #fieldwork #ECR #PhD #experiments #evolution

PhD student Ayla Webb presenting her prize-winning poster at the ASAB Spring Conference in Bristol in March 2026.

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Always get a thrill from flying over the (absolutely vast) Sahara!

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 08/01/2026

🆕 The threat of large-scale deforestation is well known, but this new study reveals a surprising risk factor: small clearings of tropical forest account for more than half of net carbon losses across the Tropics. 📷 These satellite images show how deforestation has expanded in Peru’s Loreto region.

NASA’s Landsat-5 image from 10 July 1995 of the Loreto region in Peru

Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 3 August 2020 of the Loreto region in Peru

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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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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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

blown away by this, given the names of previous winners - recent and not so recent - hugely grateful to @zslofficial.bsky.social, and all the many students, postgrads, postdocs and collaborators who have helped make the last 14 years so fun and exciting Will go back to avoiding cameras now… 🫣

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

POSTDOC ALERT🚨 Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today! We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January. Collaboration with @dustinrubenstein.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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