Sam England
@SamJakeEngland
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Postdoc with @multipleye_lab @mfnberlin 🇩🇪 looking at weird animal eyes 🕷️👀 PhD was @BristolBioSci 🇬🇧 researching electroreception in insects 🐛🦋🪲⚡
Berlin, Deutschland
Joined October 2018
Out today in @RSocPublishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 🧵👇
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RT @swshargi: Our paper with @BristolBioSci shows how to measure the charge on small objects found in environmental fieldwork - or those re….
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RT @jTroscianko: Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the….
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RT @KeironDBrown: ⚡ Explore the secrets of static electricity in nature!. Join Dr. @SamJakeEngland on Jan 23, 6-7 PM GMT for a FREE webinar….
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RT @KeironDBrown: ⚡ Explore the secrets of static electricity in nature!. Join Dr. @SamJakeEngland on Jan 23, 6-7 PM GMT for a FREE webinar….
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RT @EmmaFishGal: Coral reef nightlife becomes more predatory with light pollution 💡🐠. My first publication from my @TheFSBI PhD at @Bristol….
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It's truly such an honour to be awarded the prize for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Life Sciences @BristolUni for 2024. Thank you so much to my supervisor Daniel, his lab group, and my cohort of friends who helped me along the way! (and my examiners!)
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RT @UCSB_OakleyLab: I am thrilled to announce publication of a new paper led by Seth Frazer, showing we can accurately predict opsin phenot….
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This must be a good omen for the start of fieldwork right? The southern lights, aurora australis, along the great ocean road on our first night here
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A really beautifully illustrated and well-written article on electric ecology, including some of my recent work. So nice!.
While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. For a honeybee, static electricity is a certain kind of gravity. @laxmevy reports:.
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It was a pleasure chatting to @kensycoop for @ManyMindsPod about all things electric ecology. Give it a listen, I highly recommend their other episodes too!.
New episode!! 📣📣. A conversation w/ @SamJakeEngland about electroreception and "electric ecology.". Our world is buzzing with electricity—it forms a key part of the sensoria and ecologies of many animals. Scientists are starting to take note. Listen:
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Super chuffed to have my first journal cover with my photo of a peacock butterfly!🦋You can read more about these beautiful creatures and how their static electricity attracts pollen in the associated study in @RSocPublishing Interface:
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RT @PernilleMS: We have a new paper out today in @CurrentBiology ! 🐬 Our research shows that variation in acoustic communication range, dri….
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RT @JtdFinch: Please retweet! . We are recruiting a PhD student to work on Tasmanian Bumblebees @JK_Cappadonna . The successful applicant w….
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So thankful to have been invited to speak at this wonderful conference. It's beautiful here!
Next talk today at our @NCCRbioinspired Annual Center Conference is from @SamJakeEngland (@mfnberlin) on the #ecology of #electricity focusing on (lots of) insects. #evolution #research
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Messy eater - a Stejneger's snail sucker snake (Sibon longifrenis) gets egg on its face whilst enjoying its favourite snack, the spawn of the red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas). Photographed in Sarapiquí, Costa Rica 🐍🇨🇷
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Really proud to have played a small part in this absolute beaut of a study 🦋👀.
Bear witness! So very excited (yes, okay, I mean 'profoundly relieved') to finally send the magnum opus of my #PhD research into the world. The preprint of our big community-level study of visual system convergence in tropical rainforests is here! 1/n😀
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RT @CellPressNews: Orb weaver spiders manipulate the flashing signals of captured #fireflies to trick others into their webs, researchers s….
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