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🦋 On this International Day for Biological Diversity, join Dr Henry North Girton College, Cambridge University Dept of Zoology as he shows how we’re monitoring moths in Cambridge to better understand local biodiversity. Big insights from small wings. #BiodiversityDay #MothMonitoring #CambridgeScience

📢WE'RE HIRING📢Could you be our Senior Collections Lead? Would you enjoy working with one of the UK's most important natural history collections? Apply by 22 June to look after our amazing Collections Management, Care & Conservation team. University of Cambridge Museums jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51272/


Did you know flies can help to solve crimes? Find out more with NHM curator & author of 'The Secret Life of Flies' Dr Erica McAlister. We'll be chatting LIVE to Erica at our livestream, 7pm on June 18th. Don't miss it! Dr Erica McAlister University of Cambridge Museums ow.ly/1ggn50W2Jni


📢Publication alert! How can we diagnose the causes of wild species population decline more quickly and reliably? A new paper by Prof Rhys Green and Prof Jeremy Wilson RSPB Science suggests a way forward. Read more about it here: bit.ly/43qvzdk British Ecological Society



Pangolins in West Africa hunted for food rather than for illicit scales trade. New research from Gates Cambridge Scholar Charles Emogor - cam.ac.uk/stories/pangol… #pangolins GatesCambridgeAlumni St Edmund's College, Cambridge Dept of Zoology

🎉We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Montgomery Stephen Montgomery will be the 3rd Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolution here at Cambridge University We look forward to welcoming him next year!


🎉Congratulations! Ellie Bladon on becoming the first Pathway to Independence Fellow in Ecology and Conservation Biology at Clare College Read more: bit.ly/4encSuX


Proud to see research on🐟cichlid fish by Aleksandra Marconi from our Morphological evolution lab featured in this article!

Huge thanks to the The Naked Scientists for featuring my paper with Insect Biomechanics Lab and for interviewing me! Also, massive thanks to Dept of Zoology , Gonville & Caius College , Oxford Biology , and BENHS for funding this work! Incase anyone has missed the paper, the link is below (1/2)

What is the future of food? Find out at the Science Museum's new exhibition, featuring research by our Agroecology group lead by Prof Lynn Dicks. Hear Lynn speak at the opening on 24 July. Free tickets: bit.ly/4nzpELd youtu.be/XVLCKp84UZI




Food security & biodiversity loss are inextricably linked, but usually managed separately in policy & practice. In May 2024, we held a workshop in Andhra Pradesh, to find ways forward. frontiersin.org/journals/susta… Led by Iris Berger with 32 authors. Dept of Zoology GlobalFoodSecurity


Opening tomorrow! The Future of Food at London's Science Museum.org.uk all about how food🥗must change to protect our planet🌍. Featuring research by Prof Lynn Dicks' #Agroecology Group, including Iris Berger. Book your free tickets: bit.ly/4lyxWkL


Fabulous to meet my former The Telegraph young science writer Lynn Dicks at the launch of our #FutureofFood exhibition in the Science Museum, which features the research of her Dept of Zoology group, inc Iris Berger !!!


We’re so excited to see the work of our #agroecology group members featured in the Science Museum’s new exhibition Future of Food. Work by Prof Lynn Dicks, Iris Berger , Katie Berthon, Ailsa Harris & Annie Northfield is on show. Read more: bit.ly/470rMFH


🔊Exciting new research by an international team of researchers, including Joana Meier and Prof Chris Jiggins, here in Zoology.