Becky Thomas

📢 I am advertising a PhD project on using #citizenscience as a tool for enhancing human-nature connectedness & pro-environmental behaviour. Collaboration w/ @Earthwatch_Eur #TinyForest programme. Short deadline - Oct 26th, January 2025 start. Email me! pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/jul…

Check out our new paper. We found that walking dogs off the lead greatly increases habitat disturbance in UK lowland heathlands @SarahKPapworth @BaobabJ @RHULBioSci @_RHResearch link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢 One week left to apply for this fully funded PhD project @RHULBioSci with me, @BeckyMicrocebus and @DBHayhow @Earthwatch_Eur. Cool project on tritrophic interactions in urban forests involving the use of #CitizenScience 🌳🐛🐦 #TinyForest findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Best way to start the day! Small mammal trapping in the sunshine with @RHULBioSci students on our Practical Field Ecology module. 7 wood mice caught and couldn’t resist taking a pic of one of our many bee orchids on my way to start the lecture! #LivingCampus

Looking for a fully funded (UK-students only) PhD in conservation zoology/ecology? Come join @BeckyMicrocebus's and my lab at @RHULBioSci to work on #NatureRecovery in collaboration with @SurreyWT. findaphd.com/phds/project/n…

Looking for a fully funded PhD in conservation zoology/ecology (UK-students only)? Check out this project with me and @rwriesch1976 at @RHULBioSci to work on Nature Recovery in collaboration with @SurreyWT. tinyurl.com/yc7u9j9s

📢Are you looking for an ecology/zoology PhD project and do you love 🌳, 🐛,🐜,🐦 and citizen science? Then this might be a project for you! Exciting opportunity to work with me, @BeckyMicrocebus and @Earthwatch_Eur on #TinyForest research programme. findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Great opportunity to join our department as a Teaching Fellow in Vertebrate Biology and Ecology to teach modules in Animal Physiology, Marine Ecology and Conservation Science to BSc students. Closing date - April 22nd 2024 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Our first event is Sunday 21st Jan and is focusing on mammal and winter tree ID. If you’re a @RoyalHolloway student or @RHULBioSoc member then get in touch for a discount code. All money generated will be donated to the local recording groups.

@RHULBioSci have teamed up with @SurreyWT + @RHULBioSoc + loads of amazing local wildlife recording groups, to run ‘Wild Recorders’. A series of training events to help people develop their species identification and recording skills. More info here: tinyurl.com/3rmtpbf2

That time of the year again when trees @RoyalHolloway campus are teeming with plasticine caterpillars. Something tells me predation experiments by @BeckyMicrocebus ecology class are underway 😉 🐛 🐦

If you are a current @London_NERC_DTP student choosing a PhD project or you are planning to apply to this DTP for next year's entry, have a look at projects I offer @RHULBioSci in collaboration with @KratinaLab and @wakehurst_kew london-nerc-dtp.org/2020/12/11/eff… london-nerc-dtp.org/2023/10/23/can…

@KorichevaLab @RoyalHolloway They have been spotted quite a bit this year, from people and the birds and mammals! The students have definitely been enjoying this set of practicals though 🐛 🌳

@MajaIlicZg @KorichevaLab Yes! In the first part, they compare red and green caterpillar predation, and in part 2 they develop their own hypothesis. Some groups are testing predation of caterpillars on native vs non-native trees and others are looking at caterpillar size (and many other questions!).

@KorichevaLab @BeckyMicrocebus Great, thanks so lot! Would be exciting to see if color affects thhe predation! We've only used green caterpillars so far

Post-doc opportunity @RHULBioSci with @ElliLeadbeater1 and me as part of the new EU project WildPosh. If you’re interested in #bees #pesticides this could be for you jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… deadline 3 Oct so please retweet @poshbee_eu @JaneCStout @EdStrawBio @LynnDicks @WaspWoman

A new Teaching & Learning Case Study by @BeckyMicrocebus @RHULBioSci, @RHCareers & @RHUL_elearning/ @RHUL_ITservices: The creation and integration of an e-portfolio into the curriculum to help students identify, track, and reflect on skills development intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/staff/teaching…

Join the T&L SIG committee! We are looking for new committee members. Check out the link for more info and how to apply. besteachingandlearning.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/joi…

Did a little recce of Staines Moor ahead of @RHULBioSci field ecology practical with @BeckyMicrocebus next week. Everything is clad in yellow (buttercups and flag irises) and white (hawthorn) apart from yellow meadow ant mounds, which stand out in red (sorrel). Beautiful!

Alessandra Devoto @Devotolab, @RHULBioSci Professorial inaugural lecture 11/05/2023 Understanding of plant responses to stress to resolve wider challenges ‘We'll find a new way of living!’. Book free tickets royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/event…

Such excitement with the workshops at our Youth Action for Nature event with @SurreyWT today. Lots of joy at finding newts, sowing wildlife seeds and creating blue hearts despite the rain! @RHULBioSci