Joanna Bagniewska

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Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧. #AcademicSky 🧪 I write books, buy them! https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska

Female orangutan with her young baby in Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia; photo by Bernard Dupont, Wikimedia Commons
Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères, Paris: Le Muséum,1843
Common rain frog bottom. Image from https://www.youtube.com/@pampermoony
The shortlist Mammals bottlenose dolphin brown hare European hedgehog grey seal pine marten red fox Birds Atlantic puffin barn owl common kingfisher Eurasian curlew great spotted woodpecker white-tailed eagle Amphibians, insects and fish Atlantic salmon basking shark buff-tailed bumblebee common frog emperor dragonfly marsh fritillary butterfly
A family of computer-generated blue-tits, with two big ones and one smaller one, used as part of RSPB advertising.
Yellow budgerigar, photo by Frances76 (Wikimedia Commons)
A OneZoom node saying: Dictyostelium purpureum, sponsored for Dr Joanna Bagniewska
Three bee submersion regimes - control (no water), left to float and maintained underwater. Figure from Rondeau and Raine (2024).
Common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens, on a plant. Photo by Mousebelt (Wikimedia Commons)
Trashline Orbweaver - Cyclosa walckenaeri - by Judy Gallagher (Wikimedia Commons)
Life restoration of the Attenborosaurus with Asteroceras obtusum Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.ca/)
Two good looking people at a polling station.
JOANNA spelled in satellite images of land forms
Trees viewed from below.
Joanna reading The Modern Bestiary to a dead bear.
Male (left) and female (right) emperor cichlid B. microlepis breeders with free-swimming fry. Image from https://royalsocietypublishing.org/view-large/figure/19969769/rsos.251919.f001.tif
Indian pangolin, photo by Sandip Kumar, Wikimedia Commons
These hybrid sessions are primarily aimed at doctoral students but all postgraduate researchers external to the University are welcome to attend. All sessions can be attended either in Oxford or online. Sessions for March/April 2026: Academic Reading: Approach and Critique Writing an Abstract Improving Your Presentations Writing Your Methodology Research Interviews: Styles and Techniques
Bengal slow loris, Nycticebus bengalensis, from Laos with 6-week-old baby. Photo: Helena Snyder, Wikimedia Commons
The colonial spider web in Sulfur Cave, is home to a mixed colony of Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans. A. Side view; B. frontal view. The swarm of adult chironomids is visible near the cave stream. Photo A: Marek Audy.
Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
Joanna (R) and a llama.
A visual of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, saying "Men can do science too".
Oskar Kindvall, Francesca Froy, Thomas Hesselberg, Joanna Bagniewska
Photo of a Virginia opossum
Tweet from Laila Cunningham, mayoral candidate from Reform UK, where she walks with a penguin through icy mountains with London Bridge in the background.
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
Composite image: sparrow, blue tit, wood pigeon, starling, blackbird, robin.
Two pronghorns
Blackbird with a peanut. Photo: Zeynel Cebeci, Wikimedia Commons
Cow uses a broom to scratch herself
Oxford skyline.
Pizzly in Osnabruck Zoo, photo by Corradox (Wikimedia Commons)
Conference talk with a slide showing an urban gradient of nest boxes for blue tits.
Thomas Hesselberg, Joanna Bagniewska, Ada Grabowska-Zhang at the British Ecological Society meeting.
Owls in an exotic animal cafe. Photo Kainoki Kaede, Wikimedia Commons
Innovative artificial hollows made from mycelium (top-left), 3D printed wood (top-middle), and hempcrete (bottom/right) at test sites in south Australia. Image by Deep Design Lab.
Striped hyena, photo Rushikesh Deshmukh DOP (Wikimedia Commons)
Viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara) in the Aamsveen, The Netherlands. Phto: Ocrdu, Wikimedia Commons
Examples of images obtained from iStock of arthropods being attacked or killed by domestic cats. (a) Dragonfly (Odonata) (credit: iStock.com/EkAterina Fedulyeva), (b) beetle (Coleoptera) (iStock.com/Olja Simovic), (c) fly (Diptera) (iStock.com/Ivan Katsarov), (d) praying mantis (Mantodea) (iStock.com/Ivan Katsarov), (e) fly (Diptera) (iStock.com/Ivan Katsarov), (f) moth (Lepidoptera) (iStock.com/Irukawa Elisa), (g) grasshopper (Orthoptera) (iStock.com/Caíque de Abreu), (h) dragonfly (Odonata) (iStock.com/Mickis-Fotowelt) and (i) grasshopper (Orthoptera) (iStock.com/Alice in otherland).
Top panel: kissing across the animal kingdom (clockwise): Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta; credit: Paula Bronstein, Getty Images); Galapagos albatross (Phoebastria irrorata; credit: Vladimir Jurek, Shutterstock); Polar bears (Ursus maritimus; credit: Smiler99, Shutterstock); Wolves (Canis lupus, credit: Soren Wolf, Flickr); Prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus, credit: Brocken Inaglory, Wikimedia Commons). Bottom panel: non-kissing mouth-to-mouth behaviours (left to right): premastication in orangutans (Pongo sp., credit: Sunsetman, Shutterstock); trophallaxis in ants (Camponotus compressus, credit: Rakeshkdogra, Wikimedia Commons); and kiss-fighting in French grunts (Haemulon flavolineatum, credit: Luiz A. Rocha, Shutterstock).
Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.
Bee with small black horns on the head.
A tickled rat. Photo by Natalie Gloveli
Egyptian Foreign MInister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign MInister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening. Look how happy he is.
Joanna and other academic colleagues in front of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.
From Sextants to Machine Learning: The Hunt for Planets and Galaxies 29 October 12.30–2pm Weston Library, Oxford Admission FREE. Booking essential. Discover how science, curiosity and collaboration shape our understanding of the universe. Astronomer Professor Chris Lintott and zoologist Dr Joanna Bagniewska explore how discoveries are made from Johannes Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647), one of the first lunar atlases, to today’s citizen science projects on platforms like Zooniverse. Why are some constellations “obsolete”? Could anyone find a new planet? And what does global collaboration in science look like in an age of politics and misinformation? Part of IF Oxford: Festival of Science and Ideas
Baculum in laterial view of: A Helarctos malayanus; B Ursus thibetanus; C Tremarctos ornatus; D Ursus americanus; E Melursus ursinus; F Ursus arctos; G Ursus maritimus; H Indarctos arctoides; I Ventral view of the Baculum of Ailuropoda melanoleuca; J Dorsal view of the baculum of Ailuropoda melanoleuca.
Three ghosts lounging in a library.
Two clownfish
A giant prickly stick insect on an arm, in front of my book chapter on giant prickly stick insects.
Very pleased Joanna in an orange top; Jane Goodall on the right in the blue shirt.