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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
30 May 2023
📢All MARiS participants and friends are welcome to join our social fundraising event, MARiS Quiz Night!
Come ready to have fun, test your general knowledge & socialize with the MARiS research team.
Details are below. Entry fee: R30pp.
Sign up here now: forms.office.com/r/Z6ZL0hjiV…
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29 May 2023
Job Opening!!!!
🌻🌼🌷🌻🌼🌷🥀☘🌴🌵🌾
LESLIE HILL CHAIR IN PLANT CONSERVATION (Professor level)
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UCT
uct.ac.za/sites/default/file…
Deadline is: 18 June 2023
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
18 May 2023
Prof @MarcelloVichi shares some insight on what the @MARIS_UCT research centre aims to achieve through three different research foci and further elaborates it's role in South African #PolarResearch 🇿🇦🌊🌍
Thank you to all who attended today's
#UCTScienceResearchSeminar2023
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REPORT your sightings of caracals in Cape Town here please:
urbancaracal.org/report-sigh… also roadkills 😔
#scienceMatters
#ConserveCapeCaracals
#BiodiversityDay
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
The 4th International Conference on Community Ecology (ComEc 2023) will be held in Trieste, Italy, 20-22 September 2023. Abstracts due 15 June.
Keynote speakers include local scientists 🇿🇦 Profs Lynne Shannon @BioSciUCT & Thulani Makhalanyane @UPTuks akcongress.com/comec/
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
26 Apr 2023
Please spread the word. join our team in Nigeria!
26 Apr 2023
🚨Vacancy
Thanks to @TheWCS, Pangolino is expanding! We seek a Conservation Project Manager to provide technical and strategic conservation project management support to our work in Nigeria.
Apply by 5 May '23: pangolino.org/careers
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
16 Apr 2023
Data chapter 6: my last bit of PhD data is published! In @BehavEcol, @mandy_ridley, @kiwi_sjc and I show that helpers don't help when it's hot, particularly when there are many helpers, explaining limited buffering effects of cooperation in some species. academic.oup.com/beheco/adva…
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
24 Mar 2023
📢 Check out this News Article:
It highlights upcoming opportunities for #Training and #CapacityDevelopment in #OceanSciences in Africa 🌍🌊🎉
Read more here: bit.ly/3JEd6ip
@UCTscience @BioSciUCT @OceanographyUct @EBE_Postgrads @UCTEBE @UCT_news
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
12 Apr 2023
We are excited to host Dr. Estelle @Razanatsoae from @BioSciUCT on zoom this week to talk about her research into #biodiversity and #conservation in #Madagascar. Visit our website to join us virtually this week: uh.edu/nsm/earth-atmospheric…
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
14 Apr 2023
🆕📰 Just out in Environmental Pollution. Metal(loid) exposure in Cape Town caracals... Fully OA paper!
A heavy burden: Metal exposure across the land-ocean continuum in an a... sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @Rhodes_Uni @BioSciUCT @iCWild @IREC_CSIC_UCLM @LaurelSerieys @PantheraCats
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
24 Mar 2023
Pied Crows - love them or hate them❓❓
If you are based in #SouthAfrica - we really want to hear your opinions on this species.
English :
surveymonkey.com/r/2LZ8BCP
Afrikaans:
surveymonkey.com/r/7RDHDTZ
This information will form part of Temitope Adelola MSc thesis.
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
14 Mar 2023
Delighted by the launch of the African Raptor Leadership Grant 🦅
Applicants must be African students intending to enroll as MSc or Hons students at one of three African universities (incl. UCT) and to conduct research on African raptors or their threats.
raptorresearchfoundation.org…
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
13 Mar 2023
Our @GlobalChangeBio review paper is out
Interactive effects of rising temperatures & urbanisation on birds across different climate zones: A mechanistic perspective
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16645
Output from @NRF_News @STINTtweet collaboration between @Fitztitute & @lunduniversity
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
8 Mar 2023
Post-doc Alert! Come join us at the University Cape Town within the @Fitztitute to work on the movement ecology of raptors with myself and @Meg_Murg
fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/n…
The closing date is 18th March
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#postdocjobs #Raptors #Conservation #movementecology
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
1 Mar 2023
📸 The BirdLife South Africa Photography Competition, in partnership with @CanonRSA, is NOW OPEN! 👏
• 10 categories = 10 chances to WIN!
• Feature in African Birdlife magazine.
• Contribute towards conservation.
Visit birdlife.org.za/photography-… now to enter, or to learn more.
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
16 Feb 2023
📢Marine Offshore #CapacityBuilding cruise led by ECR @LutherAddams along the East Coast of South Africa - stay tuned for updates! 🎉🇿🇦🚢
@marbel_uct @BioSciUCT @OceanographyUct @EBE_Postgrads
15 Feb 2023
Be sure to follow along this awesome cruise in South Africa’s offshore led by ECR @LutherAddams. Such an exciting capacity development model! 👀🐠
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
14 Feb 2023
Our population-level utilization distribution for the Cape Vulture is now published online and open access!
doi.org/10.1002/eap.2809
#OpenScience, @UCT_Research, @Fitztitute, @ESAApplications, @Meg_Murg, @arjundevamar
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
25 Jan 2023
Here's to persistence!😅 This paper was conceived 12yrs ago. So happy to see it published at last. A neat, technically difficult study, that considerably expands our understanding of fynbos plant responses to moisture stress. rdcu.be/c37cQ
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
@leonard_shapiro shares the 13th ed. of Biomedical visualization with @uct_bmhsl @UCT_ICHLibrary. @UCTLibrary. @BioSciUCT This edition published by @SpringerNature highlights the benefits of innovative, art-based teaching and learning approaches in the biosciences.
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Biological Sci UCT retweeted
28 Jan 2023
Seal stress levels dropped following the decline of white sharks in False Bay, South Africa, with seals rafting farther from shore and over deeper water. Read the full #BiololgyLetters paper here: ow.ly/ReH450HEpwW #predation #apexpredator #ecology
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