Steve Simpson

🌟Congratulations to @lolavk.bsky.social on her 1st #Masters paper. 📢Out today in @asab #AnimalBehaviour: Cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs use recruitment calls selectively in food-associated contexts. @josharbon.bsky.social & I are #ProudSupervisors #birds doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

We are hiring a new lecturer in Bioinformatics! Hit the link below to find out more and apply: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #bristoluni #wearebristoluni #biologicalsciences

Best closing lines to a series? Still gives me goosebumps every time! "Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about it." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnME...

"Root everything in reality, but have that contract of imagination" - Delighted to host #KayVasey from oceanxorg.bsky.social during our summer retreat for the @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc in Science Communication for a Better Planet. Inspiring stories of personal adventure and epic missions.

Delighted to host @danowild.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to talk to our amazing MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet and MSc Global Wildlife Health and Conservation students. Inspiring examples of global collaborations to protect majestic animals. Can't wait for the new series...

Wonderful to see our work with Maldives Underwater Initiative and Prof. Peter Harrison pop up on Steve Backshall's Deadly 60 Coral Special, and to talk more about the project with BBC Newsround: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Wonderful to celebrate Earth Day with astronauts and marine biologists under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus! Old friends and new representing @marsglobalinc.bsky.social, @bluemarinef.bsky.social, @womenoceanscience.bsky.social. Strong messages of HOPE for a better ocean and planetary future.

🌊 Professor @profstevesimpson.bsky.social, marine biologist, warns: overfishing threatens UK seas, communities & our climate 🐟 Join Steve and add your voice to our petition to tell the PM to end overfishing! act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

What a week in Bristol! Highlights included our @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Art+Science exhibition tackling EcoAnxiety, Sir David Attenborough's Ocean with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and a chat on the Career Ladder with the wonderful Max Klymenko

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 5): Athena Swan Gold - Committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity Our teaching, research, local & global civic activities aim to make fair, supportive & inspiring contributions to society Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 4): Plant Sciences and Transforming Sustainable Food Production Our research includes plant physiology, pollinator networks & sustainable agriculture www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese... Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 3): Ecology & Reversing the Biodiversity Crisis Our research includes mapping ecosystems, monitoring ecological change & restoring biodiversity www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese... Job advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 2): Behavioural & Sensory Ecology & Responding to Anthropogenic Change Theme includes animal senses, underpinning behavioural theory & mitigating human impacts www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese... Job: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

5 days, 5 reasons to apply for a Lectureship @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (Day 1): Evolutionary Biology & Understanding the Evolution of Life This theme includes origins of life, evolution of complexity & drivers of biodiversity www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/rese... Advert: tinyurl.com/3ebphy34

We are recruiting three new lecturers! Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

To celebrate Women in STEM day on Wednesday 11 February we’ve printed some banners to highlight some of the incredible work that the women of Bio Sci at Bristol have achieved over the years! Pop into the LSB for the remainder of Feb to check out who’s done what and when!

Thanks to @lukejerram.bsky.social for bringing some glorious sunshine into our lives in the depths of winter. Helios, compiled from 400,000 photographs, shows the architecture of the sun in exquisite detail. Deeply warming to swim so close to the sun

🔊New paper: coral reef #fish #calls exhibit consistent acoustic characteristics across different bioregions! #bioacoustics @timlamont.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/rem...

Congratulations to @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social for leading this collective analysis of coral reef soundscapes, building a universal songbook for the tropics. Valuable guide for #ecoacoustic biodiversity surveys. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @timlamont.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social

🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗 Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models. #worthywinner #ECR #proud

Sad to be missing the #ASABWinter2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social conference this week, but two postdocs that may interest ASAB members:

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly theconversation.com/friendship-i...

Thanks to Rosa Vásquez Espinoza for bringing "The Spirit of the Rainforest" to our @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Christmas Lecture. Stunning combo of biochemistry, traditional medicine, conservation, indigenous wisdom & spirituality

Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean Imagine an ocean without noise pollution. The pandemic gave a rare opportunity to listen to the ocean, and we were ready! Fabulous article by #FrankieAdkins for #BBC_EARTH covering our work in the #IQOE community: www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

WHALES! Excited to see the latest Usborne Beginners book is out in time for Christmas. Great honour to contribute into these wonderful books as scientific consultant. As a boy growing up in London, I know I would have spent days and days in my local library discovering the wonders of the deep.

Thanks to @hugotagholm.bsky.social and all @oceanauk.bsky.social and @oceana.bsky.social for curating a fabulous gathering at the @royalsociety.org of ocean advocates, scientists and conservationists. Plenty of powerful and hopeful messaging, including from #BaronessJennyJones and #LizzieDaly

Thanks to #ProfPeteFalloon @metoffice.gov.uk for hosting our wonderful @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students. Great to hear from the #KnowledgeIntegrationTeam, @stottpeter.bsky.social & #JenniferWeeks, and visit @alexdeakin.bsky.social in the weather room

Well we went early with this year's research group Christmas Symposium, and what a superb collection of talks and films from a wonderfully talented collection of MScR, PhD & Postdocs! Great to mix wasps, birds, mammals with our fish & corals thanks to @andyradford.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy

A brilliant afternoon #symposium and evening of #fun with the best #researchgroup in the world (I may be slightly biased!). Fantastic talks from everyone; interesting discussions; great food; laughter throughout. What more could you want? @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @profstevesimpson.bsky.social

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social on tour at the #ClovellyHerringFestival. Great food, stunning choral music, mulled cider, and a cheeky dip in the sea with #HugoHarrison and #ShelbyTemple

Fabulous evening with #SophieLewis #WorldCetaceanAlliance, @tommustill.bsky.social & #LukeMcMillan @whalesorg.bsky.social exploring the past, present & HOPEFUL future for humpback whales (and their cousins!). Thanks to Rob Hutchins (@oceanographicmag.bsky.social) & #Finisterre for hosting

Delighted to support the amazing #PratchayaPhinthong with his #PhuketBiennale2025 installation. Our collaboration took us to meet the Moken people, capture video and audio at degraded inshore and also pristine Surin Island reefs to bring to the installation, and build a restoration reef of hope!

Two great opportunities to join a wonderful team working on the business of marine restoration...

Keeping it cruisy gives reef residents space to hear! Our latest paper, led by @sharkslikejazz.bsky.social, explores how motorboat noise can be minimised by adopting sensible cruising speeds around coral reefs: doi.org/10.1121/10.0... @sophienedelec.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social