Last couple of days to apply for this one with us. Applications for the postdoc on this same project shoudl go live about May (I just need to find time to do the HR paperwork !)

This looks like a great line up of speakers, plus Brittany in June (yes please!). I can't go, but you probably should!

And another position coming v soon!!!We have funding for a 3yr postdoc on the same project. Will be recruiting for this in a couple of months so watch this space

Come work with us! Guppies, behaviour, and genetics/genomics. What's not to like

Just 7 more sleeps until....

....Winter ASAB 2023🥳

Really looking forward to it.
asabwinter2023.org

Just a reminder - we've had so many registrations that if you've not registered already, please join us online rather than IP. See website for details

PhD studentship:
Come and work at The Moredun Foundation, are interested in regenerative farming and it’s impacts on roundworms?
Further info: bit.ly/41cb7tY
'Impact of regenerative pasture management & grazing strategies on livestock productivity, parasite control & pasture'.

Current starting point for postdoc salaries University of Oxford just over £36k - £2.7K under threshold. According to The Royal Society 62% of postdocs are non-UK nationals (5/6 in my lab). Two things: (i) postdocs are underpaid; (ii) UK science is screwed

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Out in eLife - the journal, our interdisciplinary & fun collaboration summarizing the ideas of 52❗️co-authors based across 🇩🇪 & beyond 🇦🇹🇩🇰🇬🇧

We discuss how to make reproducible & #OpenScience training the NORM at research institutions, providing 11 strategies

📰 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Last few days to apply for this PhD with myself, Christos Ioannou and Erik Postma. Harnessing animal personality and evolutionary ecology to improve welfare for fish. Deadline Dec 4, pls RTWT. Applications and info exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

*New #evolution paper* Sparrow-weaver mothers lay larger eggs when they will have more help feeding chicks. Maternal reaction norms to help are *opposite* for egg size & nestling feeding rate. Cool. But why do this? 1 of 3. Fine work Pablo Capilla-Lasheras. tinyurl.com/2djsp6zd #ExeterCEC

More PhD projects - this one on maternal effects in soay sheep, a topic close to my heart! Great project, super dept, lovely supervisors, top collaborators, super city, fabulous fieldsite ... and loads of sheep! Pic of me back when I did sheepie fieldwork findaphd.com/phds/project/n…

Really interesting PhD oppon 'social chaos' in pigs SRUC . Aspiring behavioural ecologists that haven't clocked incredible applications to (and data from) captive populations... should have a look. Animal behaviour can be interesting AND useful too! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Our tribute has been published in Evolutionary Applications 'For the love of fish, nature and people: A tribute to Professor Louis Bernatchez (1960–2023)' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Louis Bernatchez Anne-Laure Ferchaud Claire Mérot Clare Venney

!!PhD Opportunity!! Seeking ecological statistician to work with us on epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers, please RT exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… University of Exeter CEC

More amazing postdoc opps!! This one is with some of my University of Exeter CEC colleagues on a project led by Barbara Tschirren

If anyone is thinking about MSc programs, this new initiative covers our conservation, marine, eco/eco options (and more interdisciplinary things) at UoE penryn

Our paper is out now in JEB! Individual differences in inhibitory control in guppies, with evidence of GxE 🐟

Alastair Wilson Cornish Jackdaws and Niclas Kolm

We're looking for a post-doc for a 3 year BBSRC funded project on learning in sea anemones - With myself Alastair Wilson @SarahLane_Sci Prof Kerry Howell based MBERC - Behaviour, genetics and AI so should be a fun project! Please apply 👇or share
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We are looking for a postdoc! Have become a bit obsessed by cnidarians at the mo, so v excited about this project which will be based in Mark's group at Plymouth.