In this feature, Oxford Biology's Dr Prathyush Sambaturu argues the complex and intricate relationship between climate change, human migration, and infectious disease transmission presents an urgent global challenge ⬇️ ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-1…

🐝 How do you track a bee? Insect and bird populations are in rapid decline. To help solve the problem, we need to understand what's happening to our pollinators. New video from University of Oxford with Engineering Science, Oxford 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=dvtu1B…

Antibiotic resistance poses threats to public health, making infection harder to treat. But how does resistance impact a pathogen’s ability to invade other bacteria (i.e. microbiome)? doi.org/10.1093/evlett… By Lindon, Danna Gifford, Divjot Kaur, Antonio Oliver, Rachel Wheatley et al.

Wild birds living close to humans are likely to carry bacteria with antimicrobial resistance 🐦‍⬛ New research from Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research means policy makers and health services must consider how antibiotic resistant bacteria can spread outside hospital settings 👇 bit.ly/3X0DhYn

🌎 Follow our Fellows Amy & Buntu with UN Tourism as they explore Cuixmala & Hacienda de San Antonio in Mexico, uncovering how #organicfarming #biodynamics and circular #waste management are revolutionising the #tourism industry.🌱✈️ 👉tinyurl.com/5czfs3cr #globalgoals #SDGs #ESG

Businesses need ambitious, evidence-based strategies to align with Nature Positive goals 🍃 Two new papers explore how researchers and businesses can address the challenges associated with making measurable contributions to the global goal for nature 👇 bit.ly/3YHpBTm

Hypoxia represses pattern-triggered immune responses in Arabidopsis (Brian C Mooney, Catherine M Doorly, Melissa Mantz, Pablo García, Pitter F Huesgen, Emmanuelle Graciet) buff.ly/4cypywk Brian Mooney @uniofoxford @oxfordbiology @maynoothuni ASPB #PlantSci

Does predator control increase the survival of black-footed #cats in South Africa? A new study by Sandra Lai and Holly O´Donnell with the Black-Footed Cat Working Group examined the question by comparing two sites, one with lethal #predator management and one without. 1/2

Protected Areas are crucial for #wildlife conservation, but their location is often influenced by human expediency rather than biodiversity benefit. A new paper led by Ewan Macdonald explores this in the context of Sunda #cloudedleopard conservation. See: go.nature.com/475FOUz

Larger ant colonies have favoured the evolution of more worker castes 🐜 New research in NatureEcoEvo on these 'superorganisms' could help us learn more about the evolution of complexity in multicellular organisms 👇 bit.ly/3AGVUrL

'The more information that is available on hidden wild harvests, the greater the opportunity there is to reduce pressure on wild species.' A study of thousands of patent applications has shed new light on hidden wild harvests ⬇️ theconversation.com/from-rhino-hor…

Conservation success has helped in the recovery of seals, sea lions and walruses but new research shows how it has had a harmful impact on small-scale fisheries Solutions that protect pinnipeds 🦭 without imposing large costs on fisheries must be found👇 bit.ly/4g7UZAT

We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Accounting for Nature which will support our vital role in informing environmental accounting in the UK and Europe and improve the management of nature and biodiversity. Read all about it👇 bit.ly/4gaU6r6

📢 Exciting News! A collaboration between Accounting for Nature and the Department of Biology, University of Oxford, is underway to advance global environmental accounting, with a focus on the UK and Europe. 🌍 Read more about the collaboration 🔗 bit.ly/3Z79gHX

Dept of Zoology Edinburgh University Thomas Ezard OceanEarthUniSoton The Marsh Charitable Trust for Ecology, awarded for an outstanding current research record goes to Prof Nathalie Seddon, Oxford from University of Oxford, @NaturebasedSols, Oxford Biology and Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

Many congratulations to Prof Nathalie Seddon, Oxford who has received the Marsh Award for Ecology 2024 from the British Ecological Society. Read more from Nathalie 👇 bit.ly/3MyuKG7 Or about the awards 👇 bit.ly/4cOOUGp

🎉More good news from Oxford Biology as we congratulate Berta Verd who was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 🇪🇺🎉 Read more about the project 👇 bit.ly/4gf0Swc

Less than 4 weeks to BGA24 we have 38 sessions, including Collaborative Annotation with Apollo3 (Matthew Berriman), Assembling VGP genomes in Galaxy (Delphine Larivière) and the Colora Assembly Pipeline (Lia Obinu) Sign up here: thebgacademy.fillout.com/attendee_form

Don't miss this review from Oxford Biology research fellow Dan on 'Cryptic Species Conservation'.

Simson Uri-Khob will be speaking at the Conservation Optimism Summit 2024. Come along and be supported, enabled, and inspired! Summit website - bit.ly/conservationop… Ticket shop - bit.ly/CO24_Tickets #conservationoptimism #natureconservation #conservationoptimismsummit24