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🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨

Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social

- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun

Deadline: 14/1/2026

Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We have 3D Xray vision!

The Cambridge Biotomography Centre, here in Zoology, is a leading facility for high-resolution 3D imaging & X-ray tomography.

It's available for hire by anyone seeking high-resolution imaging solutions

Find out more: bit.ly/4oTIJrv
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🦣Are your questions ready?🦣 Join us online as we put questions LIVE to Ice Age expert Dr Richard Preece. What is an Ice Age? Are we in an Ice Age now? How does climate change affect our wildlife? All welcome. You Tube - Mon 24 Nov, 7pm. https://ow.ly/tqGK50XsUWb University of Cambridge Museums
Winter Wildlife: Ice Age Earth
Join us as we step back in time to see the changing climate of East Anglia over the years, in fact, over the millenia. That’s right, we are going back into the Pleistocene, sometimes referred…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our tropical field course offers our undergraduate students a unique opportunity to experience tropical rain forest ecology and conservation.🐛

Read their accounts of their unforgettable experiences in Borneo. 👉 bit.ly/3WJwUrE
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Proud to see research by Dr Thomas Ball of our Conservation Science Group featured here:
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“Every time anyone eats anything, it has an impact on the other species we share the planet with." 🍽️

Researchers at @camzoology.bsky.social have developed a new way to measure how changes in land use affect the extinction risk of over 30,000 species: bit.ly/4qGL3Dr

#Conservation
A plate of food with the text Cambridge Research, "Every time anyone eats anything, it has an impact on the other species we share the planet with." Dr Thomas Ball, Department of Zoology
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📢FREE 'Meet the Conservation Scientist' workshop for 13-18 yr olds. Join Dr Stevens from TRAFFIC & discover how they work to reduce illegal & unsustainable wildlife trade + explore different conservation careers. Online: Wed 12 Nov 5.30pm https://ow.ly/Un4k50Xn4Gk University of Cambridge Museums
Meet the Conservation Scientist: A Zoology Club workshop with TRAFFIC
Meet Dr James Stevens from TRAFFIC, and find out how they are working to reduce illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🕷️It's Halloween at the Museum this Friday 31 Oct - follow our Spooky Trail & learn about the myths behind some of our specimens, like our komodo dragon. Get creative with some mask making 😀 or just pop by to see our spider display! 🕷️All FREE! University of Cambridge Museums
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Please repost!

I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information:

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function | Department of Zoology
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function Supervisor: Professor Rob Fletcher The world is facing several global challenges that are transform...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Join us! 😃

Thinking of applying for a fellowship? Could we sponsor you?

Find out more about our Senior Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme:

www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/senior-resea...

Deadline: 9 November 2025
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Engineering for insects! 🐜🐞

New butterfly🦋banks at Trumpington offer an unprecedented chance to investigate climate change mitigation measures for invertebrates.

Read more: bit.ly/42V03n3

PS Related postgrad research project currently being advertised: bit.ly/47ikYSh

@wildlifebcn.org
Researchers Rosa Pollard Smith and Prof Ed Turner monitoring insects at one of the sets of banks at the Wildlife Trust BCN’s Pegsdon Hills reserve. Photo by Ben Andrews
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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📢NEW exhibition - Fragile Harmony is now on! 🐚Curated by Year 12 students, Fragile Harmony explores the relationship between the natural world & man-made art from Cambridge's modern art gallery - Kettles Yard. Can you see the connection? @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @kettlesyard.bsky.social
Photo of the new exhibition panel 'Fragile Harmony'
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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REVIEW
Differing Impacts of Livestock Farming and Ranching on Aquatic Insect Biodiversity: A Global Meta‐Analysis

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@Andrew_Bladon @LynnDicks @CamZoology @cambridge_uccri @GLiTRS_Data @UK_CEH @ReadingBioSci @camzoology.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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We're delighted that Prof Claire Spottiswoode FRS is now Honorary Professor of African Evolutionary Ecology here at the University of Cambridge. 📜

Read more about her appointment and inaugural lecture here: bit.ly/3LhjIaE
October 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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📢Publication alert!

Research led by Dr Tiffany Ki integrates museum and citizen science records to reveal a 166 year story of tropical butterflies.

Published this week by @royalsocietypublishing.org

Find out more: bit.ly/3JgJJq3

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October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🦇Halloween at the Museum is coming soon! Join us on Friday 31st October for a day of Halloween fun! 🕸️Get creative with our mask making crafts & follow our trail to find out the more unusual stories behind some of our specimens 🕷️ Pop in between 10am - 4pm. FREE @camunivmuseums.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Start of the new term and excited to be teaching Conservation Science @camzoology.bsky.social

Working with these talented students gives me hope about our future
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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📢 Want to join a community driving scientific, medical and technological innovation?

Applications are now open for our MPhil in Therapeutic Sciences!

🔗 Find out more and apply: www.ats.cam.ac.uk/mphil-therap...

#TherapeuticSciences #MPhil #Cambridge #Masters
Graphic with image of scientist at microscope and text: Applications open for 2026 start.
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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RIP John Gurdon

Inspirational colleague, teacher and leader, world-leading scientist and Nobel laureate.

bit.ly/4nIZuoR
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Cambridge crew living their best lives and enjoying the @restpoll.bsky.social 🍎 🍏 production tour @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social
5 Cambridge scientists in protective gear before a tour of sustainable apple production facilities
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Remembering Jane Goodall 1934 – 2025

Primatologist, conservationist and alumna of this department. An inspiration to us all.

bit.ly/3VNtR0Y
Image: Jane Goodall at TEDGlobal 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania. Photo by Erik (HASH) Hersman
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Cambridge University Entomological Society is hosting a symposium on ”The good, the bad, and the monstrous: insects in mythology, literature and media”, at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, on 20th November 2025.

Huge thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social for supporting us!
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📢Publication alert!

Insect biodiversity research:

🪰Large-scale analysis finds livestock ranching threatens aquatic insects

🐝Model predictions show no overall UK insect occupancy decline

Find out more: bit.ly/3ItHlvU

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September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...
Postgraduate Cambridge University Scholarship | Gates Cambridge
A fully funded graduate education for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
www.gatescambridge.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
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September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Today meet the leadership team for our Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Research Theme! New lead Lucy tells us her thoughts on the Research Themes - find out more bio.cam.ac.uk #BiologicalSciences
@phar.cam.ac.uk @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social
Purple graphic with Neuroscience, Psychology and Beavhiour logo (profile of a head containg purple neurons). Headshots of Theme Leads Riccardo Beltramo, David Bulmer, Lucy Cheke, Hannah Clarke and Iris Hardege. Quote from Lucy Cheke: Cambridge produces world leading research addressing some of the most fundamental questions of modern science - but it also a large institution where individual researchers can find themselves looking for collaborations. The Themes are an amazing way to bring together people working on complementary topics to create value, discoveries and impact beyond what each of us can achieve alone - and they do so through friendly, fun and social interaction.
September 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM