Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist | Lecturer at Bangor University | he/him
Joined July 2013
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Our new paper on disentangling coadaptation in pre-hatching care behaviours between parents, using experimental evolution populations of burying beetles. Published in @royalsociety @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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👀🐸🦠 We're recruiting for a postdoc! Please share. Get in touch if you want to chat about the project:
🚨Job alert!!🚨
I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @BangorSENS - funded by @BBSRC.
Deadline: 8 July 2026
jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/postdo…
Submit your abstract to Ento26 and come and join us in Cardiff for some fascinating insect science! Deadline is tomorrow!
🚨 Abstract submission for #Ento26 closes this Friday.
There’s still time to take part - Talk or a poster, this is your chance to:
🔬 Share your research
🧠 Get feedback from experts
🤝 Build new connections
royensoc.co.uk/ento26-abstra…
⏳ Deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 12 June
ALT Attendee reading a booklet in front of scientific posters at Ento25 - Advertisement for the Ento26 conference held at Cardiff University in September 2026.
I am very happy to share that I will be exploring herbivory and native insect adaptation to the invasive Rhododendron ponticum across North Wales with funding from an ARIA seed grant! @BangorBioZoo @BangorSENS
Meet our Engineering Ecosystem Resilience seed Creators 🌱
Backed by up to £500k, these projects span advanced ecosystem sensing, nature-based interventions, autonomous robots and molecular tools for conservation.
Discover the teams: link.aria.org.uk/EER-seed-cr…
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Please consider to submit a proposal to our Special Feature in @MethodsEcolEvol about time-dependency in micro- and macroevolutionary rates!
We are extending our deadline to July 10 2026.
Please RT!
We are extending the deadline to our 'Time-dependency in Micro- and Macroevolutionary Rates' special feature.
⏰️ Deadline for proposals is now the 10th July.
Find out more 👇
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⏰ Final chance to #StandTallForTheSmall
Every donation helps us grow #InsectWeek and bring #InsectScience to communities across the UK - Don’t miss your chance!
Donate by midday 29 April - Tomorrow! - to make 2x the difference 🔽
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ALT Close-up of two wasps on a green plant stem against a blurred background, highlighting their detailed wings and striped bodies. Paper Planes (c) Jamie Smart
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Last few hours to support our campaign before midday today UK time!
I'm so excited to see this impact this funding will have on this year's Insect Week.
⏰ Final chance to #StandTallForTheSmall
Every donation helps us grow #InsectWeek and bring #InsectScience to communities across the UK - Don’t miss your chance!
Donate by midday 29 April - Tomorrow! - to make 2x the difference 🔽
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ALT Close-up of two wasps on a green plant stem against a blurred background, highlighting their detailed wings and striped bodies. Paper Planes (c) Jamie Smart
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🐞 Interested in taking a #course in #entomology?
We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽
🔗 royensoc.co.uk/membership-an…
#Education #Research #Science
ALT Looking for Entomology courses? RES advertisement featuring a Broom Weevil, Exapion fuscirostre (c) Timothy Sexton 2016
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, researchers report in Science.
Learn more: scim.ag/4qaJ3TF
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A new paper published in 'Science' by an international team including Professor George Turner, Professor in Zoology at @BangorUni takes us one step closer to answering the question of 'How ‘supergenes’ help fish evolve into new species'.🐟
➡️ ow.ly/L7h750WeCUP
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Very happy to get this paper published in @NatureEcoEvo
on how divergent selection and plasticity promotes reproductive isolation in the early stage of speciation.
Thanks to 1th author, former postdoc @bjmjarrett for this excellent collaboration:
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
Divergent selection and plasticity both increase reproductive isolation during incipient speciation! You can find our new meta-analysis of experimental speciation studies here: rdcu.be/ek019 with @EvolOdonata and Philip Downing
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Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May.
If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/?)
bangor.ac.uk/conservation-an…
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Heat stress effects on offspring compound across parental care: ow.ly/sCel50VkBnN #ProcB #ClimateChange #ecology
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15th March 2017
Canada geese had become a real problem for Trinity College, with the accumulation of droppings and damage to the lawns so, in desperation, the College placed plastic effigies of coyotes on the grass banks to scare them away. It didn’t work.
From my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'.
Please check out our new paper on how heatwaves affect fitness if it acts during both pre- and post-hatching care in burying beetles, but not if the heatwave acts during a single care period. Thanks so much to Tanzil Malik, Mu-Tzu Tsai, and the wonderful @SyuanjyunSun
Check out our new @RSocPublishing paper, led by Tanzil Malik and @bjmjarrett
We found that heatwave disrupts reproduction of burying beetles, particularly when pre- and post-hatching care are both affected.
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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We are just 10 days away from the Lund Thermal Biology meeting, covering everything temperature in across the tree of life 🌞❄️🐸🐦🐟.
ALL talks will be live-streamed and registration not needed. Check out the conference website for the final program 👉shorturl.at/rKqeY
The second biannual (!) Lund thermal biology symposium will take place @lunduniversity 25 to 27 November this year. Top-notch invited speakers and wide range of contributed talks over 3 days. Join us by following the link👇Please RT.
@biology_LU
shorturl.at/WF0XI
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📆 Join the @North_Wales_WT for their annual lecture at the Eric Sunderland Lecture Theatre, Main University Building, Saturday, 9 November.
Follow the link for more information and to book your place 👇
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Delighted to share our new perspective article @JEvBio: rising evidence suggests unexpectedly robust link btw micro- and macroevolution. It challenges past views of evolution and calls for interdisciplinary research. #Evolution #EvoDevo #Paleontology 1/7
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae103
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🚨 I've got a @PhdOpportunity for someone interested in social behaviour & threatened species - with hihi of course 🐦 Funding through @SalfordUni (sorry, UK only eligibility): salford.ac.uk/doctoral-schoo…. Know someone who might be interested? Get in touch! #PhD #phdlife @AnimalOpps
