Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University
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Updates from the Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology (BEPs) group at Bangor University.
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
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Very proud of all my students doing their first big conference talks at #PSGBCardiff2025 yesterday! In order of appearance: ….
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Very proud of all my students doing their first big conference talks at #PSGBCardiff2025 yesterday! In order of appearance: ….
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Big thrill to also see my @beps-bangor.bsky.social colleague @cmbettridge.bsky.social present some of her work on galagos in Senegal and Kenya - from her student Grace Ellison’s PhD! #PSGBCardiff2025
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Big thrill to also see my @beps-bangor.bsky.social colleague @cmbettridge.bsky.social present some of her work on galagos in Senegal and Kenya - from her student Grace Ellison’s PhD! #PSGBCardiff2025
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Our new paper! Led by @miaryras.bsky.social with @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social and others 🦎
Winters are warming faster than summers, which could affect hibernating ectotherms, but it turns out that wall lizards cope well with warm winters & mini winter heatwaves, although they suffer more DNA damage, so the effects of warm winters may be concealed
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December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our new paper! Led by @miaryras.bsky.social with @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social and others 🦎
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Had such a wonderful time at @primatesocietygb.bsky.social Winter meeting, where I presented some of our research on galago responses to predation. It’s always such a welcoming and enthusiastic group, thanks to all the presenters and organisers!
Thank you bringing your knowledge, enthusiasm, and hope to this year's Winter Meeting at National Museum Cardiff. We hope to see you all next year!
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Had such a wonderful time at @primatesocietygb.bsky.social Winter meeting, where I presented some of our research on galago responses to predation. It’s always such a welcoming and enthusiastic group, thanks to all the presenters and organisers!
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Great talk by @hannahfrog.bsky.social yesterday at @beps-bangor.bsky.social seminars! Full house and an interesting discussion of her preliminary findings on the ZRC physiological responses to habitat disturbance!
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Great talk by @hannahfrog.bsky.social yesterday at @beps-bangor.bsky.social seminars! Full house and an interesting discussion of her preliminary findings on the ZRC physiological responses to habitat disturbance!
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Very cool to see this "Research Highlight" of our recent @animalecology.bsky.social paper that tested the potential for social buffering of maternal glucocorticoids in a facultatively social lizard. Grateful for this feature by Lange & Aracena! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Maternal glucocorticoid exposure drives social tolerance and growth with limited evidence for long‐term social buffering
Research highlight of MacLeod, K., Bouffet-Halle, A., Wapstra, E., Uller, T. and While, G. (2025). Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of oppor...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Very cool to see this "Research Highlight" of our recent @animalecology.bsky.social paper that tested the potential for social buffering of maternal glucocorticoids in a facultatively social lizard. Grateful for this feature by Lange & Aracena! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Congratulations to BEPs PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social!
Accepted manuscript now online! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's exciting PhD work on the consequences of warming winters for lizard physiology and behaviour, in collab w/ @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social, @arc-trust.bsky.social, & others:
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Sleeping beauty awakened: Experimental winter warming increases activity with signs of potential DNA damage in common wall lizards
Winter is warming faster than summer, posing substantial threat to hibernating ectotherms, whose physiology depends directly on environmental conditions. While the effects of active season warming are...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congratulations to BEPs PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social!
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Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎
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Got to speak about my MScRes project (cave bear phylogenomics and admixture - with a behaviour twist!) in today's BEPs seminar! 🐻
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Got to speak about my MScRes project (cave bear phylogenomics and admixture - with a behaviour twist!) in today's BEPs seminar! 🐻
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
A big week for our research group! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's PhD thesis has been accepted. Looking forward to sharing some nice results about the effects of winter warming on wall lizard behaviour and physiology very soon. Well done Miary! 🤩
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
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New from me and wonderful collabs!
🦎 Maternal glucocorticoids have persistent effects on offspring social phenotype irrespective of opportunity for social buffering ➡️ buff.ly/i2B2Fkw
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New from me and wonderful collabs!
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What are my Environmental Policy class interested in? Here's my annual word cloud of their keywords
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What are my Environmental Policy class interested in? Here's my annual word cloud of their keywords
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A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A great day for the annual SOS beach trip with the new undergraduate students @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Sandcastles were built, beach pictionary played, and much fun had by students new and old, and staff.
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Nice write up of our paper on the Bangor Uni news website! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
New study sheds light on impact of stress on baby lizards
Research led by Dr Kirsty Macleod from its School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, found that lizards whose mothers experienced stress during pregnancy grew more slowly and behaved differently.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Nice write up of our paper on the Bangor Uni news website! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
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In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic ecosystems must evolve to support a sustainable postdoc workforce - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The postdoctoral experience is in need of reform. Here the authors outline concrete steps that institutions, postdocs and mentors can take to improve the landscape.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New research from BEPs! 🦎 #bangorherps
New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype:
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September 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
New research from BEPs! 🦎 #bangorherps
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Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️
This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm
This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️
This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm
This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm
An exciting new study now out in which I played a small part - Wood Frog Testicular Microstructure
Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations
During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is...
Excited to see this out, and to add a new taxonomic group to my pub list!! 🐸❤️
Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations
During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is...
Excited to see this out, and to add a new taxonomic group to my pub list!! 🐸❤️
www.herpconbio.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!
Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences
https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi
Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences
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PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!
Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences
https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi
Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences
https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi
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Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Temporary lecturer in Microbiology post available at Bangor University. Apply by 15th September: jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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I spoke with ABC radio Australia about the #PlasticsTreaty
📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Greek gods, Gama Festival and the battle of Cannae - ABC listen
Who were Apollo and Artemis and why Greek mythology so inspires space exploration.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I spoke with ABC radio Australia about the #PlasticsTreaty
📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
📻 Catch up: drag the slider to ~3.02 in www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social