We’re very pleased to announce that Professor Andrew Balmford FRS has won the inaugural Royal Society Environment Medal and Lecture for outstanding and sustained work in environmental science. The award recognises Andrew’s 'groundbreaking contributions to conservation science, having built transformative partnerships and...

New research has shown that some butterflies’ ability to smell others of the same species allows them to identify potential mates in areas where multiple species all look the same. The research was carried by a large international team including scientists based here in the Department of Zoology and at the Wellcome Sanger...

The accelerating rise of AI-generated fraudulent academic papers is fuelling an existential crisis for evidence synthesis. But AI also presents hope - both in speeding up literature searches, and in detecting these very same phony papers. In a comment piece published in Nature today, Department of Zoology's Sam Reynolds...

Are you planning to submit a senior research fellowship application for funding competitions with deadlines after March 2026? We are seeking Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for externally funded fellowships that will allow them to start an independent research group in our...