Evolutionary biology lab at the University of Exeter, using flies and other small critters. Tweets not officially associated with the Uni of Exeter.
Joined May 2020
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
10 Aug 2023
Female guppies 🐟 subjected to food restriction 🍎 produce broods with a paternity bias towards the first mate (reversing the pattern observed in females with no food limitation 🍔), suggesting the importance of environmental variation on sexual selection dynamics @FunEcology
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
9 Aug 2023
Major funding opportunity for African PIs, based in sub-Saharan Africa, who received their PhDs within the last 10 years!
8 Aug 2023
Max Planck-Humboldt call to establish Research Units in sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with a Max Planck Institute.
Funding of 150k Euros per year for 5 years. Deadline: Oct 15.
More info: shorturl.at/kmwKQ
Feel free to get in touch with us if interested
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
9 Aug 2023
Can't sleep because you're wondering what feeding jackdaws strangely coloured cheese tell us about learning and culture? Well wonder no more. Delighted to share some of my PhD work with the wonderful @CornishJackdaws
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
ALT Two jackdaws standing on perches in an experimental arena. One of them has a cube of blue cheese in it's bill while the other watches.
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
7 Aug 2023
NEW: Sewage was dumped into our most PROTECTED areas for over 300,000 hours last year.
Check your local area or favourite holiday spot to see how bad it was. 💩
Link in🧵
ALT Map of sewage spills in England and Wales. Text - Check sewage spills in your area or favourite nature spot - click link
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
27 Jul 2023
⚡️ PhD opportunity on marine predators!!
If you are interested in working on marine top predators ecology or physiology in beautiful Cornwall, contact @LuisHuckstadt!!!
@ExeterMarine @UniExeCEC @GW4Alliance
#PhDposition #phdlife
⏰2 August
Info: nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
8 Aug 2023
Informative thread about heathland deterioration and butterflies
7 Aug 2023
Dutch heathland butterflies are dying. Where I remember that August was a great month to go there, now they are often a purple colored emptiness. What happened? 1/16
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
5 Aug 2023
Sewage caught on video pouring into sea on beach in #Cornwall where people 'swam in poo'.
@TheGreenParty wants the water companies back in public ownership so they're run for the common good, not private profit.
#StopTheSewage #MakePollutersPay itv.com/news/westcountry/202…
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
6 Aug 2023
Leafcutter bee (Megachile versicolor) bringing a piece of leaf back to her nest.
Using oval-shaped pieces to line the tube, she provisions each cell with pollen, lays an egg, & blocks the cells with round-shaped pieces, which amazingly she cuts to the exact diameter of the tube!
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
6 Aug 2023
A small selection of some of the most surreal moths we found while blacklighting last night
📍 Madang, Papua New Guinea
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
4 Aug 2023
You have been warned.
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
2 Aug 2023
Ireland now providing overseas aid to the UK
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
2 Aug 2023
Do false depth cues play a role in animal camouflage? Found out in our paper, published today in @BiologyLetters. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.05…
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
3 Aug 2023
Left: Rees-Mogg and Farage said we would get cheaper food after Brexit
Right: FT reports that we have delayed Brexit rules on food, again, because applying Brexit will make our food more expensive
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
2 Aug 2023
Thank you #MediterraneanSea! Often the only place where I can truly relax, recharge and reconnect is underwater! Grateful! #LaMiaLiguria
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
2 Aug 2023
Happening right now, at a sewage overflow near you.
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Nature research paper: Rewiring cancer drivers to activate apoptosis go.nature.com/3OcVgoX
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
27 Jul 2023
When kids are deprived of play, their mental health suffers.
Over the past 50 years, the time kids spend playing outside and inside has plummeted. They're missing opportunities to bond, build self-control, be creative, and feel joy.
Free play is a key to happiness and growth.
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
24 Jul 2023
🫶🏿Ahead of #BlackHistoryMonth 2023, we're looking for blog contributions which celebrate and profile the work of Black ecologists and ecological practitioners.
Want to share your story?
Get in touch👉admin@journalofanimalecology.org
💪🏿2022 series: britishecologicalsociety.org…
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Exeter Fly Lab retweeted
28 Jul 2023
The Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) - far from boring! 🦋
Hundreds may be seen together flying low over vegetation. They will fly even in dull weather when most other butterflies are hunkering down.
One to record in the #BigButterflyCount 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
ALT Meadow Brown butterfly resting with wings open on green leaves. Photo credit Andrew Cooper. Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo
ALT Meadow Brown butterfly resting with wings closed on grass. Photo credit Will Langdon. Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count
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