Congratulations to Tim Weil on the award of the Pilkington Prize for Teaching This prize recognises outstanding contributions to teaching and learning at Cambridge. Tim deserves to receive this award for his exceptional and sustained contribution to teaching. Tim is a natural communicator and has brought his unique blend...

Assistant/Associate Professor and Curator of Invertebrates incorporating the Watson Curator of Malacology The Department and Museum of Zoology seek to appoint an Assistant/Associate Professor and Curator of Invertebrates. We are searching for an outstanding research scientist, with experience of working with collections, a...

In a new paper Berthold Hedwig and Adam Bent analysed a new aspect of auditory orientation in crickets. When the amplitude modulation of species-specific acoustic signals is distorted in the transmission channel, signals become difficult to recognise by the receiver. Tolerant auditory pattern recognition systems, which...

The pattern of evolutionary relationships among species is crucial for understanding the diversity of life. Which species share evolutionary descent from a recent common ancestor, and which share one that is more remote? Figuring out this pattern for living species benefits from the presence of many kinds of information...