The BBSRC Policy Internship Scheme gives PhD students the opportunity to undertake placements at influential policy organisations. These can include parliamentary departments or non-governmental organisations (NGOs). I recently finished my placement at Senedd Research, working in the Health and Social Read More …
Simon recently won the poster prize for the Open Electronics session at the SEB 2021 Annual Conference. Here he shares his top tips for producing/presenting a poster. For the design of my poster, I was focusing on two main ideas. Read More …
Following a stressful event, glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are secreted into the blood and act on the brain where they allow for active coping and adaptation to the stressor, for example through learning and memory processes. Additionally, GCs are secreted in Read More …
Rosie recently won the University of Bristol’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for her talk on ‘Fungal secondary metabolites: exploring a kingdom of possibilities’. Rosie tells us about her experience and some top tips about presenting your research in a Read More …
Many physiological processes and behaviours follow an approximate 24h pattern called a circadian rhythm, which are primarily entrained by the daily cycle of light and dark. Robust circadian rhythms are important for health, including our mood, metabolism and immune system. Read More …
Apathy is a psychiatric symptom that is characterised by a loss of motivation and emotional blunting. It is common in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, but also occurs in otherwise healthy ageing. Despite having a profound Read More …
New research shows that larger bumblebees are more likely to go out foraging in the low light of dawn. University of Exeter scientists used RFID – similar technology to contactless card payments – to monitor when bumblebees of different sizes Read More …
Stomata are microscopic pores found mainly on the leaves of plants that are key to plant survival. They open and close in response to a myriad of environmental signals and allow plants to regulate the flow of gasses into and Read More …
The mountain chicken frog (Leptodactylus fallax) is a critically endangered amphibian, extant only on the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Montserrat. Following numerous pressures on its survival, including hunting, volcanic eruptions, and most notably the recent incursion of the fungal Read More …
The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on global society, healthcare, governments and mass media. Public dissemination of government policies, medical interventions and misinformation has been remarkably rapid and largely unregulated during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting Read More …
The cornea is the transparent dome at the front of the eye that is essential to maintaining clear vision. In humans, the cornea is comprised of five layers, but in many other species there are only four. Bowman’s layer is Read More …
Zebrafish are one of the most well studied animals on the planet. But how they came by their beautiful black and gold stripes is more of a mystery. Our new research used mathematical modelling – and detailed observations of mutant zebrafish patterns Read More …
