Exeter Fly Lab

Evolutionary biology lab at the University of Exeter, using flies and other small critters. Tweets not officially associated with the Uni of Exeter.

[Silvia Cattelan @SilviaCat_telan]

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

[Christopher Krupenye @ChrisKrupenye]

Major funding opportunity for African PIs, based in sub-Saharan Africa, who received their PhDs within the last 10 years!

[Josh Arbon @JoshJArbon]

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
https://t.co/bfI4T6joaZ

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

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🧵

[EuroMarine OYSTER @EM_OYSTER]

⚡️ 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: https://t.co/eISHy3OppG

[Robbie McDonald @RobbieAMcDonald]

Informative thread about heathland deterioration and butterflies

[Tom Scott 🇺🇦 @Tom___Scott]

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 https://t.co/WrLCvXOZ51

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

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!

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

A small selection of some of the most surreal moths we found while blacklighting last night

📍 Madang, Papua New Guinea

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You have been warned.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Ireland now providing overseas aid to the UK

[Jen Kelley @JenKelley10]

Do false depth cues play a role in animal camouflage? Found out in our paper, published today in @BiologyLetters. https://t.co/rQtrTvZADs

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

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

[Chiara Benvenuto @cbenvenuto73]

Thank you #MediterraneanSea! Often the only place where I can truly relax, recharge and reconnect is underwater! Grateful! #LaMiaLiguria

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Happening right now, at a sewage overflow near you.

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Rewiring cancer drivers to activate apoptosis https://t.co/KTP8oNMnF5

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

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.

[Journal of Animal Ecology @AnimalEcology]

🫶🏿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👉[email protected]

💪🏿2022 series: https://t.co/PKqnFIoojq

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

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 👉 https://t.co/mtv6gZ0dPN