Sam England

Postdoc with @multipleye_lab @mfnberlin 🇩🇪 looking at weird animal eyes 🕷️👀 PhD was @BristolBioSci 🇬🇧 researching electroreception in insects 🐛🦋🪲⚡

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

Out today in @RSocPublishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 https://t.co/UayKqSCOAc 🧵👇

[Giles Harrison @swshargi]

Our paper with @BristolBioSci shows how to measure the charge on small objects found in environmental fieldwork - or those released from acoustic levitation in the lab - using a new design of Faraday cup which encloses the sensitive electronics.

https://t.co/q0dxj6EkFr

[Ella Ackroyd @ella_ackroyd]

My first ever paper! So excited that this is finally out 🐟

[Jolyon Troscianko @jTroscianko]

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.

Paper: https://t.co/d3bg0sgZwS

Intro video: https://t.co/xDJPN0CPqC

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@ChristosA89 @KeironDBrown @LNHSoc @BritEntSoc Thanks very much! I hope you enjoy it :)

[Emma Weschke @EmmaFishGal]

Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution 💡🐠

My first publication from my @TheFSBI PhD at @BristolBioSci is out today in @GlobalChangeBio! https://t.co/xMUrQGVVR0

w/ @Dwarf_Mongoose, @DrSteveSimpson, @jules_schligler, @SuzanneCMills, @r_beldade

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[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@IsaacChenchiah @BristolUni Thanks so much Isaac!

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

It's truly such an honour to be awarded the prize for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Life Sciences @BristolUni for 2024. Thank you so much to my supervisor Daniel, his lab group, and my cohort of friends who helped me along the way! (and my examiners!)

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@cabotinstitute @BristolUni Thank you!! ☺️

[Todd Oakley @UCSB_OakleyLab]

I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenotypes from their gene sequences https://t.co/cJtuRApNEO...

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@YiHangPark @ISBE2024 That's so nice of you to say! Thank you :)

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

Just arrived in the field after the best conference I've ever been to. Thank you so much everyone who came to my talk - so many exciting ideas have spawned from the conversations! I was especially honoured to have had a few people write haikus about my work! #ISBE2024 @ISBE2024

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

This must be a good omen for the start of fieldwork right? The southern lights, aurora australis, along the great ocean road on our first night here

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@Zifang04 @ISBE2024 Ahahaha thanks Zifang! I spend too much time in Berlin and Australia 😂

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@hippocapensis @ISBE2024 You can download the abstracts here :) https://t.co/EYvlAZmusj

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

A really beautifully illustrated and well-written article on electric ecology, including some of my recent work. So nice!

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. For a honeybee, static electricity is a certain kind of gravity. @laxmevy reports:
https://t.co/E38P6z94eV

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@DrRossPiper I would be remiss if I didn't mention electroreception!

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@hugospiers @kensycoop @ManyMindsPod Thank you Hugo :)

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

It was a pleasure chatting to @kensycoop for @ManyMindsPod about all things electric ecology. Give it a listen, I highly recommend their other episodes too!

[Many Minds podcast @ManyMindsPod]

New episode!! 📣📣

A conversation w/ @SamJakeEngland about electroreception and "electric ecology."

Our world is buzzing with electricity—it forms a key part of the sensoria and ecologies of many animals. Scientists are starting to take note.

Listen: https://t.co/zFfAz1s1Fs

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

@EntsocAmerica I believe these are actually stingless bees, probably Tetragonisca angustula :)

[Sam England @SamJakeEngland]

Super chuffed to have my first journal cover with my photo of a peacock butterfly!🦋You can read more about these beautiful creatures and how their static electricity attracts pollen in the associated study in @RSocPublishing Interface: https://t.co/UayKqSCOAc