Wanna hear people talk about the sexy bedroom antics of #bed #bugs for far too long? Yes you do! Listen to the newest episode of the World's Only Science Podcast with Steve Cross, @amemorrell and I 🫶 spotify.link/93kOyuo9ZDb

NATURAL HISTORY #MUSEUMS TWITTER - help please! I'm on my last chapter: how collections can save the world. What's your favourite example of: 🌏specimen research that feeds into environmental conservation? 🧬novel ways specimens have provided data for scientific research?

Getting to the meat of it! 🥩 New research from @therealbcd & colleagues, as part of the The Animal Feeding Project project, shows that big cats in captivity have different skull shapes to those in the wild! 🐅 🔓Full paper ➡️ mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/2…

Hi internet, does anyone know of any travel grant/funding opportunities that could potentially #fund a research trip to Tasmania to extend my ongoing #PhD work on #thylacines? All ideas welcome, thanks!

Dr Angela Cassidy has taken up the #esiChallengeOfTheMonth for October with her talk "Conflict, Co-existence and Collaboration" on 21 October at 1pm. Watch this space for the next few weeks to hear more about how her research has tackled these challenges. exeter.ac.uk/research/insti…

In this week's episode, we slither into the dark, subterranean lives of worms! Below the ground (or in a box under your sink), worms practice vermicomposting: they eat food waste and transform it into extremely potent fertiliser. How does this work? Is it ethical? Listen now!

Academic careers can lead you down many paths, but stringing sausages together in a museum backroom isn't usually one of them 🌭🌭 (exhibit prep for the The Animal Feeding Project project at The Museum of English Rural Life of course!)

All in a day's work

Ah yes, the age-old question "Do birds smoke cigarettes?". I can already reveal that the answer is no, but in this episode we find out how an avian clean-up crew in Mexico City does use cigarette butts to fight parasites. Maybe warnings should say "Smoking kills (ticks)"?

We will now discuss the theme of co-existence for the #esiChallengeOfTheMonth talk: Public scientific controversy over #bovineTB and #badgercull involves politics, science push, media pull and a very long backstory which has been going on for years. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31961627/ 🧵

At the same time, people LOVE to feed other animals, often because we foster care and social connections with others by sharing food. Anthropologists call this ‘commensality’ while zoologists think about ‘commensalism’ and its importance for domestication processes. 🧵

Prof. Angela Cassidy is a co-investigator for the Wellcome funded The Animal Feeding Project project animalfeeding.org, which explores the causes and consequences of people feeding other animals in the past and present. #esiChallengeOfTheMonth exeter.ac.uk/research/insti… 🧵

In collaboration with Rebecca Jewell, the project team have created a Modern Bestiary which is currently being exhibited at The Museum of English Rural Life. View it here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/do-not-f… More at Prof. Angela Cassidy's talk next week on 21 October exeter.ac.uk/research/insti…