That’s a moray

Torpor is an incredible strategy that continues to blow my mind🤯. Animals in torpor allow their body temperature to drop, slowing their metabolism and saving energy. In this composite thermal image of a blue-throated mountain-gem: left- asleep, right- torpor. 1/5

This is a Pharaoh Cuttlefish and it's able to perfectly mimic a hermit crab [video: buff.ly/33qTYjZ] [read more: buff.ly/2snD2ZF]

Good morning from this amazing Jewelled Spider 🕷☀️

NERC just sent an email out recognising that the cost of living increase means its PhD stipend isn't sufficient to live on. Their solution isn't to increase it, it's to suggest students start selling Avon and sign up to clinical trials... ARIES Doctoral Training UK Research and Innovation Natural Environment Research Council

This must be the greatest typo ever.

Very strange sight in Finsbury park, London. A terrapin laying eggs! Think they'll hatch? I believe most of the terrapins in the UK are released pets #wildlife #turtle

Go on, treat yourself

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]

ACCEPTED for publication in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Global diversity and adaptations of avian eggshell thickness indices | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib… Marie Attard & Steve Portugal | #ornithology

Out in the sticks a Zebra Finch makes an unusual nest for its eggs. Bush recycling in the Murchison, WA.

Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?

It's time for ...*drumroll*... The Framing of the Shrew!

Congrats Stephanie McClelland on your 4th PhD paper out in Royal Society Publishing RSOS. Investigating the eggshell surface properties of avian brood parasites & hosts. Link below #OpenAccess #ornithology #birds With Marie Attard Gabriel Jamie Tanmay Dixit Bowen Research Group Honeyguide Research Project RHUL Biology

We have a PhD studentship available! All about eggshells! Looking at their surface properties. Part of the NERC DTP, but a tethered studentship to Royal Holloway (so a little different to the normal London NERC DTP). #birds #ornithology Advert in link below:

An open letter from scientists supporting #SpringerNatureStrike 🎉

Wild patch of Wolfsbane (Monkshood) I spotted up in the Scottish Highland. What amazing flowers!