You’re invited to join the party to celebrate 10 years of Biological Sciences in the Life Sciences Building! We’re opening our doors to all to share the wonders of biology with a series of events! Keep your eyes peeled for tickets and event details... coming soon 👀

Check out Prof. Steve Simpson's lovely interview with Bristol Alumni below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

New paper led by the brilliant Alice Rosen where we explore some of the opportunities and limitations of using airborne LiDAR to track changes in forest canopy strucutral complexity through space and time nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

We’ve spruced up the Sky Lounge terrace! The jet wash on the paving looks 🔥🔥🔥🔥

We’ll be celebrating 10 years of Biological Sciences in the Life Sciences Building with a week of exciting events from 21-24 Oct! We'll be opening our doors to the public, with interactive stalls & talks from experts! Click the link below for more info! bristol.ac.uk/biology/events…

A pair of peregrine falcons are nesting on the chimney opposite the LSB! Love this shot taken through binoculars!

Does temperature, light or inter-individual variation explain feeding motivation in a tropical freshwater predator? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Our new University of Bristol Biological Sciences #fishsci preprint our now, lead by a brilliant MSci undergraduate student!

Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact! The finding suggests that this likely increases their efficiency and effectiveness as pollinators! Find out more at the link below: bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/july… The Royal Society

We are running a photo competition as part of our 10-year celebrations! The competition has 3 themes: • BOLD AND BRISTOLIAN • WILDLIFE • UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Enter at the link below. Please note, this comp is for university staff and students only! forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Beach goers in Lincolnshire have suffered a rise of weever fish stings. Why are the little burrowed threats on the rise further up the country? And how can you protect your feet from their venomous barbs this summer? Fran and I will be chatting on BBC Lincolnshire today at 11:30.

How does flower constancy affect bee diets? Simulations suggest it reduces diet diversity in social bees, posing a nutritional challenge in habitats with low plant diversity: 🔓 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… With former University of Bristol Biological Sciences MSc student Lucy Hayes and Francisca Segers.

Landscapes featuring varied habitats boost biodiversity and function better, new research by University of Bristol Biological Sciences experts out today in nature has shown. Check it out 👇bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/augu…

We are delighted to announce that we achieved GOLD in our latest Athena Swan application! Huge thanks to everyone involved in submitting the application, it was a huge task and achieving gold is nothing short of what your hard work deserved! 🥳🎖️🥳🎉🥳🎖️🥳🎉🥳🎖️🥳🎉🥳

A groundbreaking study conducted across 30 field sites in the southwest UK has revealed the importance of incorporating varied habitats into the landscape at large! Find out more at the link below: bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/augu…

Have you ever wanted to directly synthesise kilo-base scale DNA fragments?✍️🧬Our latest pre-print does just that exploring the "doodling" capability of DNA polymerases to write DNA without a template😲Biology never fails to amaze! #synbio #nanopore #dna doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Interested in the impact of pesticides on bumblebee disease susceptibility? PhD position at the University of Bristol with me and Chris Bass (university of Exeter). Link below. shorturl.at/B40j7