Dina-Leigh Simons

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✨#pint25 is in a month✨ 🗓19th-21st May 2025 📍45+ locations across the UK 🗣400 events Programme and tickets 👉 pintofscience.co.uk 👈

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I’m speaking at @pintofscience! 🍻🧬Join me to explore how climate change is transforming our oceans — and how DNA might be able to help🌊 🗓️ Tue 20 May 2025 🕖7–9 PM (Doors 6:30 PM) 📍 Frederiks, 32 Hope Street, Liverpool 🎟️ £5 (tickets linked) pintofscience.co.uk/event/science-…

ITRS 2025 ✅ 🌊 This week has been one of the best of my entire PhD. I met so many fantastic scientists doing meaningful work—and managed some well-needed exploring after sitting at a desk for so long. All my academic role models in one room? Amazing. #ITRS2025 #ITRS25

I’m at the International Temperate Reef Symposium in France this week! My first ever international conference and biggest conference of my career so far! I’ll be presenting my work on Friday. If anyone is around, come find me!! 🌊 🧬 #ITRS25

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world. Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story. And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

A surreal experience standing at the Royal Society podium to share my PhD research at the UK DNA Working Group Conference. Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on eDNA for coastal monitoring and to connect with such a brilliant community of researchers 🧬

Check out my latest blog post on how to secure a funded PhD in the UK! Whether you're just starting to think about a PhD or ready to apply, this guide offers practical tips and resources to help you navigate the process🎓 dinathebiologist.com/post/how-to-se… #Funding #Academia #PhD

Spent the start of the week at a @JNCC_UK marine eDNA workshop, discussing how to advance the technique in UK marine monitoring 🧬 Amazing to be in the same room as so many skilled and experienced people!

PHD OPPORTUNITY IN REEF RESTORATION! Development of Artificial By 3D Printing of Biosourced Materials for Reef Restoration criobe.pf/en/ph-d-opport… This PhD thesis is part of the NACRE-3D project, funded by the French National Agency of Research, which aims to overcome these…

Interested in doing a PhD but not sure? Try a PAID 6 week research internship with our YCEDE partner universities. Find out more at a free webinar on Wednesday 5 February 12pm - 1pm and hear from previous interns now studying PhDs and supervisors. ycede.ac.uk/how-our-resear…

Open access paper "Realising the potential of interoperable data products to improve..." from @EMODnet #Biology published in Marine Policy and available via tinyurl.com/Biology-Paper @tomjwebb @VLIZnews @IHCantabria @NIOZnieuws @deltares @GHER_ULiege @INRAE_France @EU_MARE

I keep getting distracted daydreaming about my alternate life if I weren't doing a #PhD in science—definitely a symptom of the final-year blues! I'm thriving as a West End dancer or a bestselling fiction author. What's your alternate career if #science hadn't been victorious?

Exciting #PhD #studentship @PlymUni predicting the effects of #heatwaves on intertidal animals using a physiological approach & work with @NaturalEngland to learn how to turn your findings into #policy. 👉plymouth.ac.uk/study/research…

Happy 2025! 🎉 As a New Year exercise, I’ve reflected on my #PhD journey. This blog offers a year-by-year breakdown of my progress as I approach the final chapter (pun intended). dinathebiologist.com/post/reflectin…

My resurrection blog post from internet death is all about finding my place online again and my thoughts on the use of social media in the scientific community #phdlife #socialmediainscience #marinebiology dinathebiologist.com/post/finding-m…

Also available is this macroevolutionary project led by @TGuillerme on Traits innovation and elaboration in marine ecosystems: findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

We’re delighted to announce our new ACCE+ Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) funding from NERC. First student cohort will start in October 2025. See our webpages for details: accedtp.ac.uk/acce-doctoral-… @LivUni @sheffielduni @UniOfYork @NHM_London @UK_CEH @NOCnews

Come and do a PhD with me! @ACCE_DTP funded studentship based @EEB_Sheffield in association with @CefasGovUK on Global patterns of fish feeding behaviour in a changing world: implications for food webs and fisheries findaphd.com/phds/project/a…