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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wondering if any academics out there tried using ipad as their main work computer? Or tried it & stuck with it, or decided to back to macbook, & why. How do things like reference managing work out, using onedrive, stats packages like R? #ipad #macbook #academia #workflow

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Dr Rachel Floyd @drrachelfloyd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Freshwater invertebrate analysis to study wildfires impact on river and stream water quality in Die 🇫🇷 @livunifrance.bsky.social #zoology and #phagehunting to collect water samples to screen for the @cf-trailfinder.bsky.social bank. This is One Health research in action @livuni-ismib.bsky.social

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Dr Rachel Floyd @drrachelfloyd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Arrived safely in the incredible Old Monastery of Sainte-Croix field centre, close to Die in the Drôme department of France. Beautiful surroundings for our @livunifrance.bsky.social field course, where our Biosciences @livuni-ismib.bsky.social students carry out ecological studies #LivFrance2026

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livunifrance.bsky.social @livunifrance.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning to the beautiful #Vercors Natural Regional Park, Drôme, and the first full field day of the #LivFrance2026 #Zoology field course! Sweep nets and binoculars at the ready! @drrachelfloyd.bsky.social @stuartwigby.bsky.social

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org "The seminal proteome of a monandrous fly, Drosophila subobscura". We discovered that, despite monandry, D subobscura's seminal fluid is surprisingly similar D melanogaster's, and likely shaped by conflict! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

BBSRC, NERC and Future Leaders fellowships are fantastic opportunities for ECRs to transition to independence. My institute (IVES) at Liverpool Uni is keen to support applicants (vet/ecol/evol/infection/omics etc.). Get in touch with me (ives.fellowships@liverpool.ac.uk) if you're interested!

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Oxford and Liverpool have signed a partnership agreement “to work together to tackle global challenges through research, innovation and partnership”. It builds on existing scientific co-operation between Harwell and the Daresbury research campus near Runcorn. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/joining-forc...

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Liverpool and Oxford join forces to tackle global challenges

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the University of Liverpool, the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire County Council and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA), ...

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Sharon Zytynska @szytynska.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🌟 I’ve recently moved to The University of Manchester! I'm advertising several PhD projects on plant–microbe interactions 🌱🦠🪲 🧪🖥️ Projects span experimental to computational. Diverse supervisory teams, collaborating across the UK Plant Microbiome community. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Liverpool Research Fellowships are back, this time with a focus on AI. If you're a postdoc with ideas about "harnessing the power of AI within research", then take a look. Application deadline 1st December 2025. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...

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University of Liverpool Research Fellowships open for applications for 2025-2026 - University of Liverpool News

University of Liverpool Research Fellowships open for applications for 2025-2026

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Jo Wimpenny @jowimpenny.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Here it is! So happy to announce that my next book, Beauty of the Beasts, will be released by Bloomsbury Wildlife on Feb 26th (April 28th in the US). And I couldn’t be happier with this stunning cover, designed by Abby Cook, which works so well to show a vilified creature in a beautiful way 😍

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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New out in Molecular Ecology! In which we show that small males try harder when it comes to seminal fluid proteins. w/ @ju-morimoto.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @becks-seascience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Update – @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social got back to me with a download link to the obsolete software. Good service! (though I'm not quite sure why they don't just keep the old software on their website to save some admin).

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Anyone out there have a copy of the old @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social‬ "Firecam" software? From the mid/late 2000s. I'm trying to resurrect a EZ4D with integrated camera, but the software for it seems to have disappeared from the internet... www.leica-microsystems.com/products/lig...

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EZ4 D Educational Stereo Microscope with Integrated LED llumination and Digital 3 MP Camera

Educational Stereo Microscope with Integrated LED llumination and Digital 3 MP Camera

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Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... A 5 minute listen: @jojofoth.bsky.social describes exciting work at the Microbiome innovation Centre at the University of Liverpool

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Could Scousers have the best gut health? - BBC Sounds

A new science hub in Liverpool could be the reason why.

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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Delighted to have been awarded a BBSRC Fellowship to look at the genetics of how insects have adapted to living in freshwater habitats 🧬🦋🪰🪲🌊 Extremely grateful to all who have supported me over the years and excited to be at Liverpool with some great colleagues! www.ukri.org/news/9-milli...

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£9 million investment fuels groundbreaking bioscience research

From unlocking the secrets of animal movement to tackling antimicrobial resistance, UK’s brightest bioscience minds are pushing the boundaries of innovation.

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Ramakrishnan Vasudeva @rvasudeva.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

PAPER ALERT: Inbreeding can be detrimental causing inbreeding depression resulting in lower fitness. Here, we track its consequences on sperm, testes, body, lifespan in a 🪲 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #mattgage @jevbio.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

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Clare Heaviside @climateclare1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We're recruiting a postdoc urban climate & environmental modelling at UCL Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering. You will be part of an established urban climate and health group working on active projects. Looking for someone with regional climate (pref WRF) modelling. Please share!

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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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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Masud has nailed it here. "Each of the administrative burdens that we are confronted with on a daily basis might seem small on their own but cumulatively they amount to a ‘mountain of small things’ that is killing academia"

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social 📷: Dani Edmunds

An image of a fruit fly created by collage.

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Grant C. McDonald @gcmcdon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Huge credit to @daniedmunds.bsky.social and everyone else for this work, and Dani's Drosophila Collage!

Collage of a fruit fly credit @daniedmunds.bsky.social

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Grant C. McDonald @gcmcdon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Does the ratio of males to females predictably influence the ability to monopolise mating partners? Is male sexual selection more intense when femaleIs are rare? 🪰 We investigated by manipulating sex ratios in polyandrous fruit flies in our new #OA manuscript published in @evolletters.bsky.social

Image of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) credit: Sanjay Acharya

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Peto's Paradox—that cancer does not increase with body size of mammals—was wrong. A new, comprehensive study of 263 species documents higher cancer prevalence with increasing body mass. Some large animals (e.g. elephants) have some built-in genetic adaptations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

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No evidence for Peto’s paradox in terrestrial vertebrates | PNAS

Larger, longer-lived species are expected to have a higher cancer prevalence compared to smaller, shorter-lived species owing to the greater number...

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Current reading. I rather like it! 🤓

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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oh, this is us! With Tracey Chapman, Emily Fowler and Lucy Friend at UEA we have been trying to work out fine scale egg laying decisions by Drosophila females. Turns out it’s more complex than we thought (again)…🪰🧪

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ASAB @asab.org · 11/02/2025

It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Lifetime reproductive success (LRS) is a key metric in evolutionary biology and ecology. But what counts as a success? And whose successes do we count? @sevans.bsky.social doesn't shy away from the big questions in this new paper just out in @journal-evo.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

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Counting chicks before they hatch: extending the observed lifetime to better characterize evolutionary processes in the wild

Abstract. Evolutionary theorists have emphasized for over half a century that population sampling must be conducted at the intergenerational boundary if th

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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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rajwhitlock.bsky.social @rajwhitlock.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

... and if you're interested in using the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab—the world's longest running climate manipulation experiment—in your fellowship work, then it would be great to hear from you! #grassland #climatechange #biodiversity #ecology #evolution

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rajwhitlock.bsky.social @rajwhitlock.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

... and if you're interested in using the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab—the world's longest running climate manipulation experiment—in your fellowship work, then it would be great to hear from you! #pasture #climatechange #agriculture #ecology #evolution #biodiversity

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

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2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Wanhe Li @xseedling.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Promises like this are vanishing fast from UK universities, on top of a challenging outlook for securing permanent positions in the sector. Well worth thinking about when choosing a host institution.

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

NERC Fellowships are open! We (Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social) have a policy to provide a PERMANENT JOB to successful candidates at the end of the fellowship. Please in touch if you're interested!

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NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2024

Apply for funding to further your career through an independent research fellowship.

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Stuart Wigby @stuartwigby.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

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Greg Hurst @greghurst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Also worth noting that UKRI fellowships are also open to International applicants. These are 'first group leader' positions (you have a mentor but are the PI). NERC is early March, BBSRC usually in May. Think you can add visa/relocation as costs on the application. And of course Liverpool is grand!

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