- British bats, their ecology and conservation. Online over 6 weeks starting on 10 June. All these and more can be booked here: www.bats.org.uk/events

🦇 The bat calendar keeps filling up! Here are some highlights for the next few months: - Bat Tracking Methodologies Panel discussion 2: lessons from the field. Online on 20 April. - South West of England Bat Conference. Online and in person at North Devon College on 25 April. www.bats.org.uk/events

Last chance to apply for work experience at BTO➡️ bit.ly/WorkExp2026 This is for young people currently studying for their GCSEs or A-levels, aged 14 to 18. We're also delighted to be able to provide local group accommodation & travel bursaries. 📆Application deadline: Sunday 26 April 2026.

📢 We’re hiring! 📢 Join Dorset Wildlife Trust as a Nature-based Solutions Team Assistant and help support projects that tackle climate change while restoring nature. 🌿 Find out more and apply 👉 bit.ly/4tvKX24 ~ Jack 📸 John Bridges

A 2,400-year-old alerce tree in Chile hosts twice the fungal diversity of its younger peers. This underground "web of life" supports the entire forest floor, but real estate and climate change threaten these endangered conifers. @sofiamoutinho.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD: 🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world 👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity #modelling #birds #mammals #Australia ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev

Brian Bleese, Dorset Wildlife Trust Chief Executive, met with @vikkislademp.bsky.social MP to discuss the Save Upton Heath campaign 🌿 Over £70,000 has already been raised by the local community - and we are SO grateful! 💚 Help us reach £100,000 to protect it forever! 👉 bit.ly/4mbKIqQ ~ Jack

Western red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius) are native to West Africa. Primarily arboreal, they run, leap, and swing through all levels of the rainforest, rarely descending to the ground. Threatened by hunting and habitat loss, populations are fragmented and decreasing. Listed as Endangered.

A new data from NGO Auriga Nusantara reveals a 66% spike in forest loss across Indonesia. Satellite data shows that government-backed projects and poor spatial planning now threaten to derail the nation’s 2030 climate goals. Story by Hans Nicholas Jong for #Mongabay.

UCL's Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment invites Early Career Researchers for fellowship applications. Deadline: April 30, 2026. Details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gee #postdoc

These colobus monkey males might look like harmless, adorable teddy bears, but think again…👺 😨 Read about how male coercion and reproductive strategies stress out females in our new article: rdcu.be/favqS @intjprimatol.bsky.social 🧪🏺 #Primates #AcademicSky #AnimalBehavior

Can you help us solve the mystery of the Brimstones on Portland? An island with butterflies but no food plant! Read more about it here www.dorsetbutterflies.com/2026/03/myst...

Achieving this goal is impossible without ecologists, so we're hoping to see as many of you there as possible to connect with like-minded people and drive positive change for our environment. Grab your tickets here:

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

Two PhD positions in fish physiology with an amazing supervisor, @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social ! 🧪🐟 Tell your friends! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New Job Alert! 📢 Join BTO as a Database Developer. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📝 Salary: £34,578 📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered 🏠 Hybrid working policy

The deadline for these two fully-funded phd projects is fast approaching (5th May). Do share far and wide.

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Fully-funded PhD with me in beautiful North Wales (field work in Sumatra). From conflict to coexistence: how can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? With @wwf.org.uk, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

#GreatAdaptations What a clever (not previously articulated, but in hindsight sensible) idea to test.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is invoking "national security" to justify running roughshod over crucial wildlife protections in the Gulf. So today, we're in court to fight it. Please help us stop this cruel, cynical scheme by giving now to the Freedom Defense Fund.

It’s Friday! Managed to make it to the end of this absurdly busy week!

Spring is a great time to look for wildflowers! 💛 Use our handy spring flower spotter guide and let us know what flowers you find. 👇 ~ Jack

We're looking for a Maintenance Technician for a permanent, part time role at our Thetford HQ in Norfolk. Discover more and apply at www.bto.org/jobs

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

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🦇Call for Abstracts! The National Bat Conference 2026 will take place 11-13 September 2026 at the University of Warwick and we're looking for abstracts. Abstracts should be submitted using the abstract submission form on this page: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con... by end of April 2026. Please share

My annual trip to Monkey world is always favourite with the students in my Primate Behavioural Ecology module. They especially like the climbing frame. The afternoon sun made the monkeys come out.

Applicant experience day @bournemouthecho.bsky.social today. We ran both a skull practical and a plant ID bingo (in the drizzle, led by our amazing students Stephanie and Skye). Come join us on BSc Ecology and Wildlife conservation next year. We have the best students.

Last December, the Planning and Infrastructure Act quietly became law. But its journey was anything but quiet. We explore what this means, what happens next & why ecologists should care.

Why are Dorset’s heathlands so special? 🌿 With decades of experience studying Dorset’s heathland, Dr Lesley Haskins shares why these rare landscapes are more fragile than they appear, and why spring is an important time for the wildlife that depends on them. 🐦👉 bit.ly/400Kqc4 ~ Jack 📷 Paul Dibben

Calling all primatologists & conservationists! 🐒 @doc-webber.bsky.social & I are looking for best practice around how we train future primatologists for a future special issue of IJP: link.springer.com/collections/... Please get in touch for an informal chat about possible contributions.

What’s better to read about on Valentine’s Day than our new paper on same-sex sex in Rwenzori colobus? ❤️❤️ Monkey love knows no bounds. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Incredible news! In 2022 The first chick to fledge for 180 years in the South of England was female ‘5H1’. Last year she raised 3 of her own chicks near Rutland including 8R3, which our team ringed. 8R3 was just seen in the Gambia by Fansu Bojang. Great to see 3rd generation Ospreys now thriving!

Let’s celebrate women and girls in science on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science! UNESCO reports that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates, about 1/3 of researchers worldwide, and just 1/10 STEM leaders.

I would love to hear from you if you are interested in applying for one of the early career international fellowships to work at a UK university and you have ideas for a solid suitable project. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

🦇Only 2 places up for grabs and the booking deadline is TOMORROW, 28 Jan 👇 www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...

The Agricultural Ecology Special Interest Group are excited to invite you to their new monthly online Agro-Ecology Connect coffee mornings, which aim to spark ideas, connections and curiosity within the agro-ecology field. The first session will run on 31 January, aimed at early-career researchers.

🦇 Not 1 but 2 NEW exciting vacancies: - Seasonal Bat Advisors for the National Bat Helpline. - Project Officer, Sibrydion y Coedwigoedd/ Whispers of the Woodlands Deadline for both: 9am 16 February. More info: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

Bird Camps are back! 🙌 Apply for a FREE place now ➡️ www.bto.org/birdcamps If you’re a nature lover aged 11-17 (12-16 in Scotland) join us and fellow nature enthusiasts for a weekend of birding, exploring and nature-based activities. 🐦🦋 @scottishbirding.bsky.social

The Youth in Nature Summit is back! 😀Book a FREE ticket➡️ bit.ly/YouthNatureSu... 📅 Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 February. 📍 David Attenborough Building, Cambridge. 📝 Tickets: Free! Organised by BTO Youth with Green Jobs for Nature. Supported by Opticron, Raptor Aid & private donors

Taking part in #BigGardenBirdwatch today or over the weekend? Head over to our dedicated BGBW feed for all the birdy chat, sightings and joy! PS Yes, of course we want to see your tea-and-biscuit set-ups ☕🍪👇 bsky.app/profile/did:...

🦇 Volunteers are at the very heart of bat conservation in the UK - without their dedication and support, much of our work would not be possible. And you can be part of it! www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

Lots of work parties coming up to save Marsh Fritillary and Duke of Burgundy. Do join us if you can. Booking essential www.dorsetbutterflies.com/events/

Our group at the University of Magdeburg 🇩🇪 is looking for a motivated PhD candidate to study cognitive fleixbility and uncertainty in mice within the DZPG/C-I-R-C (c-i-r-c.de). 🧠🐭 For more information, please see: www.med.ovgu.de/Karriere/Ste... #PhDPosition #BehavioralNeuroscience

I would love to hear from you if you are interested in applying for one of the early career international fellowships to work at a UK university and you have ideas for a solid suitable project. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost!