Ben Raymond

Making the transition to Blue Sky- @benraymond.bsky.social not sure if I have will to maintain multiple social media accounts …

🚨#PhD opportunity at @LivUni_IVES @ACCE_DTP🚨Do plasmids help soil microbes adapt to climate change? Join me and @RajWhitlock to investigate, using a 31-year-old climate experiment @BCCIL_UK 🌾🥵🦠 findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

A new PhD opportunity on climate change and vector-borne disease evolutionary ecology in collaboration with @MossieCator and @biocentis: findaphd.com/phds/project/p… #PhDposition

@JoeWilliamsonDB I remembered Joe working so hard to get a really substantial data set for his Masters- its seemed a shame to hide it. Some nice microbial ecology to come!

Just got back fairly minor revisions on a paper from my masters project that I did in 2014/15 (!!!) with @Raymond_Lab . Moral of the story - ITS NEVER TOO LATE 😅Massive effort from Ben to pump life back into this project during lockdown, now to push it over the line.

New Phd opporunity on the evolutionary biology of antimicrobial peptides with me @HansonM90 and @LukGroup based in Cornwall campus @UniExeCEC. Funded by BBSRC exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Manipulating multi-level selection in a fungal entomopathogen reveals social conflicts and a method for improving biocontrol traits biorxiv.org/content/10.110… New preprint from Zoltan Erdos- a tour de force showing convergent evolution and social conflicts on timing of sporulation

Anyone looking for a PhD student interested in behaviour and evolution, but with an applied (welfare) twist? If so maybe you could join @C_C_Ioannou @erik_postma and me. Info + app at exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…. More on the group at sites.exeter.ac.uk/wilson-group/ Pls RTWT

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Definitely 27 kgs but those are some seriously underweight mammals

@CraigMacLean9 @AlvSanMillan @baym @alice_ledda_ @Celia_Sqe nice work Craig!

#Ento23 Plenary speaker @Jaap_de_Roode presenting a talk on #Migration, #Microbes and medication in the #Monarch butterfly.

Waggle dance recruitment seemed to increase in usage in more urban environments. A brilliant study on #foraging efficiency in relation to individual short term memory and communication between bees. Thank you for sharing your research with us at #Ento23 @ElliLeadbeater1 🐝

Managing #antimicrobial resistance: How do burying #beetles and microbes sustainably coexist in competition over shared resources? Research shared by Michael Jardine, University of Exeter. @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Ento23

Next up is Loretta Mugo, sharing research on diet-dependent virulence effects of gut #microbiota: The symbiosis of #Enterobacter cloacae and Plutella xylostella. @MugoLoretta @UnivTours @insectdoctors @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Ento23

A beautiful spot to relax and unwind during #Ento23, @UniExeCEC campus boasts a walled garden for you to wander at your leisure when you'd like to muse over the talks, posters and exhibitors 🦋

Are you what you eat? Sheena Cotter, University of Lincoln. talks to us about how diet impacts body nutrients. @sheborg @unilincoln @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Infection #Immunity #Ento23

Adam Vanbergen, INRAE up next with a talk on implications for pathogen exchange: landscape type & floral resources modify plant pollinator network structure and stability. #pathogen #pollinators @INRAE_France @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Ento23

Susceptibility to bacterial pathogens across host phylogeny, research presented by Hongbo Sun, University of Exeter. @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Infection #Immunity #Ento23

Effects of Asaia bacteria on mosquito fitness for improvement of SIT programs, research by Alessandro Roman, University of Exeter and Wageningen University @WUR @UniofExeter @UniExeCornwall @UniExeCEC #Infection #Immunity #Ento23

@RoyEntSoc @vio_kaunath @AymanAsiri9 @BenSJHawthorne Go Hannah representing Raymond lab in style

Massive congrats to Hannah-Isadora Huditz on winning best #EntoFashion outfit at #Ento23! Big shoutout to our student reps and everyone for making an effort and making it such a memorable event! 🦋 @vio_kaunath @AymanAsiri9 @BenSJHawthorne

Student helper Maddie going through the moth traps for delegates; - Silver Y moth (migrant species) - Unarmed Stick Insect found on campus by one of the delegates 📸 Student helper Leela & @FinleyHutchins2 @darwintreelife #Ento23