Becky Thomas
@BeckyMicrocebus
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Senior Lecturer @RHULBioSci. Associate Editor @FrontYoungMinds. #Urban #ecologist interested in HE teaching and wildlife photography. She/her.
Royal Holloway University of London
Joined February 2013
📢 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! https://t.co/YTLjjmyc84
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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
https://t.co/AwTmyd098C
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📢 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
https://t.co/3cUMpYYbYl
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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
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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. https://t.co/5KHXdvwMlI
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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. https://t.co/qfuhlR5V7w
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📢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. https://t.co/3cUMpYYbYl
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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
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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.
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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 😉 🐛 🐦
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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
https://t.co/O0iGUqtBn2
https://t.co/h1YNZ94Y8W
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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 https://t.co/YMjlImiRT6 deadline 3 Oct so please retweet @poshbee_eu @JaneCStout @EdStrawBio @LynnDicks @WaspWoman
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
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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 https://t.co/7QqU9L2U7w
@RHULECON @RHUL_Dclinpsy The creation and integration of an e-portfolio into the curriculum to help students identify, track, and reflect on skills development by @BeckyMicrocebus @RHULBioSci & Team in @RHCareers & @RHUL_elearning/ @RHUL_ITservices
https://t.co/BzoQcUtHhY
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Join the T&L SIG committee! We are looking for new committee members. Check out the link for more info and how to apply. https://t.co/pveEfh0s16
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The Teaching and Learning Group (T&L Group) at the BES is looking for new committee members.The Group’s remit is to engage BES members and non-members with a specific area of ecology…
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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!
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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 https://t.co/JTpPcIsDGs
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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
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Sarah-Jane Chimbwandira (CEO of @SurreyWT) kicking off our Youth Action for Nature event today with @SurreyWT. Loads of young people will be learning about the climate and biodiversity crises and how they can take action for nature @RHULBioSci
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On March 28th @RoyalHolloway will be hosting Youth Action for Nature event with @SurreyWT to empower young people aged 16 - 25 to take action for nature with workshops and talks on biodiversity, the climate crisis, nature based solutions and green careers https://t.co/l6N0fD0243
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@BeckyMicrocebus is guiding us through ur next Journal Club. Thursday 2 March 8.30pm GMT Drop @BeaulieuBio a message if you need the article, it even has a @FrontYoungMinds version! #ChatEcology @chatbiology
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