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British Lichen Society Award for Honorary Research Fellow

10 February 2012

Dr David Hill receives the Ursula Duncan Award of the British Lichen Society

A second new Marie Curie Fellow for Biological Sciences

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.

Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song

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.

4 Lectureships available in the School of Biological Sciences

6 February 2012

Four Lectureships/Senior Lectureships/Readerships are available in the School of Biological Sciences. Closing date Feb. 9th.

New Marie Curie Fellow for Biological Sciences

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.

Next chapter for the Life Sciences building project

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.

Capturing an octopus-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef

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.

4 Lectureships available in the School of Biological Sciences

26 January 2012

Four Lectureships/Senior Lectureships/Readerships are available in the School of Biological Sciences. Closing date Feb. 9th.

Why bats, rats and cats store different amounts of fat

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.

Survey of pet dogs indicates Lyme disease risk much greater than previous estimates suggest

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.