PhD researcher in lizard conservation genomics at Bangor University | Ecologist | Project Officer at the BBCARG | Passionate about conservation and herpetology
Matt Armes 🦎 🇪🇺
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Deadline for applying is 9 march. Don't miss out!
Amphibians migrating to breeding ponds has to be the best sign that spring is coming 🐸
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
Please consider filling this in for Tom Smith, an MPhil researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, if you have seen an alpine newt preying on/being prayed upon by another amphibian! UK only!
A mystery seed from a Breckland, eastern England ghostpingo core as found by @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social. help oh botanists!!! 1 mm scale @annasolcova.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social
Biodiversity and climate issues are holistically linked to other modern day threats, and we need to start taking them seriously.
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Awesome study out now from @miaryras.bsky.social studying the impacts of winter warming on wall lizards! 🦎❄️🌡
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎
New study modelling common lizard declines in Belgium, using structured survey and citizen science data 🦎📉
#lizard #zootoca #herpetology
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
Monitoring species distribution and dynamics is essential for conservation strategies. While monitoring efforts often focus on rare or endangered species, common and widely distributed species are oft...
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Simon Baeckens
Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University
