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Current UCL undergraduate in the Division of Biosciences? Join us for an information event about Bioscience Master’s degrees on Thursday 23 January from 5-6pm in UCL Anatomy Building G29 JZ Young Lecture Theatre. Refreshments included! Sign up to attend: forms.office.com/e/nhTcHXpTxF
We're hiring! Looking for a Lecturer/Associate Professor of Biodiversity, Climate Change & Health to join our People and Nature Lab team at our East campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford. Check the link for details and to apply ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
A partnership programme -UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports Black, Asian, and minority ethnic postgraduate research degree students at the start of their academic career. The application is now opening! Deadline: Friday 10 Jan 2025 shorturl.at/rr9q5
We're hiring! Looking for a Research Fellow in Statistical Ecology to join our Biosciences team. You will primarily be based at the People and Nature Lab at our UCL East campus in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Check the link for details and to apply ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program/j…. Hosted by @ucl and @UniofReading with partners @NHM_London @kewgardens @OfficialZSL @UK_CEH. More details at ai-intervene.net #biodiversity #AI #conservation
Applications are now open for our UCL East London Scholarship. The value of the bursary is full home tuition fees plus £16,000 maintenance. The deadline is Thursday 26 June 2025. Find out more, including eligibility criteria ⬇️ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/u…
Warmest congrats to Diane Saunders OBE! Diane has been recognised for her outstanding scientific achievements and dedication to women in STEM with the honour of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024. #CelebratingAlumni…
Thinking of starting a PhD on Bayesian phylogenetics next October 2025?🎓You may want to check the TREES project led by the dos Reis Lab on integrating morphology and genomes for timetree inference! 🦴🧬💻Project supervisors: @mariodosreis & Ziheng Yang. trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/integ…
Conservation Palaeobiology PhD project @ZSLScience and @ES_UCL supervised by Clare Duncan, Sam Turvey and I on recent extinctions on islands as part of the @NERC_TREES_DLA. Application deadline = 20th Jan 2025: trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/ecolo…
The Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology is awarded to Tim Blackburn for communication of a zoological nature that has an outstanding impact on a general audience, for his book The Jewel Box 🦋🏅@TimBlackburn66
Watch Professor Jon Bridle's talk ‘A future we can get to safely: Why and how biodiversity matters’, which he gave on 4 December as part of our Life Sciences Lecture Series. youtu.be/cXKna8cyKIU?si…
Big congratulations to @UCLCBER researchers @tnewbold31, awarded the Scientific Medal for outstanding contributions by an early career researcher and @TimBlackburn66, awarded the Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology!
Last night we celebrated this year’s ZSL's Award winners, recognising their remarkable contributions to zoology and conservation science 🏆 We’re thrilled to announce our truly outstanding winners in this 🧵 📸 Brian Aldrich
My new pre-print is out! 📝On the energetic and #metabolic costs of harbouring #meioticdrive in stalk-eyed flies with a selfish X-linked SR distorter 🧬 @andrew_pom @fcamus
The metabolic costs of meiotic drive biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio
What does #COP16Colombia need to deliver? On the second day of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, hear from Dr Izzy Bishop who is attending COP16, Professor Kate Jones and Dr Tristram Wyatt. #UCLbiodiversity #PeaceWithNature #PazConLaNaturaleza
Are we really more closely related to #starfish than to #earthworms? Systematics Association's 2024 Founders Lecture by UCL's very own Prof Max Telford: 1st Nov 2024, 6 pm, Linnean Society of London @TelfordLab @ucl @CloeFor @SystAssn @LinneanSociety systass.org/founders-lectu….
Centre staff win UCL Medical School Top Teacher & Administrator Awards 23-24: From 900 nominations, Ryan Felice & Laura Porro are Top Teachers (Years 1, 2), & Romain Perera is runner up (Y2). @UCLMS @rfelice @LauraBPorro @PereraRomain @ucl @UCLLifeSciences @uclbiosciences
As five new species of seabird join the conservation 'red list', Professor @RichDGregory3 @UCLCBER @uclbiosciences explores the threats British seabirds face and how we can aid their recovery, in @ConversationUK. theconversation.com/seabirds-40-of…