10 February 2012
Dr David Hill receives the Ursula Duncan Award of the British Lichen Society
9 February 2012
Dr. Daniel Montoya has been awarded a Marie Curie post doctoral fellowship to work in the Community Ecology group. Daniel is already in Biological Sciences on a Spanish fellowship and will be now be staying for a further two years.
6 February 2012
The love song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been brought back to life by scientists at the University of Bristol. The song – possibly the most ancient known musical song documented to date – was reconstructed from microscopic wing features on a fossil discovered in North East China. It allows us to listen to one of the sounds that would have been heard by dinosaurs and other creatures roaming Jurassic forests at night.
6 February 2012
Four Lectureships/Senior Lectureships/Readerships are available in the School of Biological Sciences. Closing date Feb. 9th.
6 February 2012
The Ant Lab is very pleased to welcome Dr. Daphna Gottlieb, who will be joining its ranks for two years on a prestigious Marie Curie post doctoral fellowship.
31 January 2012
A major milestone has been reached in the progress of a new £54million state-of-the-art building at the heart of the University of Bristol’s precinct.
29 January 2012
A specialized camera that allows scientists to see as reef-dwelling animals do has been built by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol. The team will travel to Lizard Island off the coast of Queensland this year to capture images of the Great Barrier Reef which they hope will provide new insight into this underwater world.
26 January 2012
Four Lectureships/Senior Lectureships/Readerships are available in the School of Biological Sciences. Closing date Feb. 9th.
25 January 2012
Why different animals carry different amounts of fat depends on how they have solved the problem of avoiding both starving to death and being killed by predators, new research from the University of Bristol suggests.
25 January 2012
Ticks infected with the bacteria that cause Lyme disease may be considerably more prevalent in the UK than expected, according to new research from the University of Bristol that used pet dogs as ‘sentinels’ for human disease risk.