Last chance to apply for this PhD opportunity ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD Closing date: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social #ornithology

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟 Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me... +Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos! #seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

Dunlin needed some good news - @rspbscience.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/... Red-listed in UK: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u... Rapid decline in Iceland: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Really bad in the Baltic: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/d... #ornithology

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

🚨Great #conservationjob opportunity for a #seabird #scientist here working on one of the world's best long term studies of seabirds with a really lovely team. You'll learn loads along the way. #ornithology #seabirders

Some great PhD opportunities in conservation science/ ecology here.

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

BirdWatch Ireland is hiring a Marine Advocacy and Campaigns Officer. Deadline Jan 7th 2026. Details at link here: birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...

RSPB seasonal positions @rspbscience.bsky.social are live & we are ready for applications! 🌱🪶🌊⛰️🐣 Huge variety of posts available for 2026: seabirds, veg surveys, visitor questionnaires, upland monitoring, wader chick tracking... all listed on the attachments via the link 👇 Deadline 11th Jan 2026 📆

A great opportunity for anyone in a marine or conservation MSc! Work with some wonderful birds, (and wonderful folks) I got to call colleagues this year 🐧 (The project timeline would fit wonderfully with a taught MSc) @exetermarine.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk

I asked participants for tips attending scientific conferences #BES2025 youtu.be/ow_ickvkvbA?...

📢 APPLY NOW For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

Brilliant news

Keynote nominations are now open for the BOU 2027 Spring Conference on Avian Disease Ecology! Submit via the conference webpage: bou.org.uk/event/avian-... Also thrilled to announce that Prof. Dana Hawley (@danahawley.bsky.social) will deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture. Please share!

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Encountering this godwit always makes me think about the changes we have both seen in the 29 years since we first met, especially the planting of non-native trees all over Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...

We're hiring 🧪🌍 Two amazing senior science opportunities in Northern Ireland Seabird Scientist: Tagging, tracking and monitoring to inform marine policy in NI tinyurl.com/yeuw5znd Conservation Scientist: Restoration of key habitats and priority species tinyurl.com/4rj43dfp

📢 BOU COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN ➡️ Awards Nominations Committee ➡️ Engagement Committee ➡️ IBIS Management Committee ➡️ Meetings Committee ➡️ Records Committee Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

The Seabird Monitoring Programmes' breeding seabird data submission deadline is fast approaching - have you submitted your data!? #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Exciting news! We’re planning the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31, and have met with @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social and @birdsinwales.bsky.social to discuss how we can work together on what we hope will be the most productive Atlas yet. #Ornithology #UKBirding

When your 11 year old asks his scientist mum for help with his science homework and gets a much more detailed explanation than he bargained for, because using the right type of graph for the right type of data is one of mum's favourite topics...

Productivity 🐣 of gannets that have survived #avianflu does not differ from those that have never been infected - BUT productivity since the 2022 HPAI outbreak is worryingly low. New paper in IBIS @bou.org.uk 👇 #seabirds #hpai #wildlifedisease @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣 Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶

🚨New paper alert (2nd one in as many days!) Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets

🚨New paper alert! Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻 Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices... Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... #seabirds #ornithology

New job alert: An amazing opportunity - our International science team are hiring for a 2yr position (initially) for an experienced scientist to work on tropical forest conservation 🌍🧪 Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Nick Williams/RSPB

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Take a look at the programme for our 2026 Annual Conference in Northampton! ➡️ www.bto.org/BTOConfe... From enigmatic Nightjars & disappearing Blackbirds to adventures with seabirds, the programme is packed with inspiring talks from BTO staff & special guests. 🐦 Book your place! #Ornithology

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📣 Nominations for this year's round of @bou.org.uk awards are currently OPEN! Your chance to recognise those key people in #ornithology 👏 Find out more and make your nominations here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... 📆 Deadline 15th Sept 2025 1/5

These two studies do not contradict each other but reinforce the desperate need to get strongly regulated and strictly enforced MPAs in place - not just boxes on a map with little effect

How is that possible? Quite simple - the second paper only looks at a small subset of strictly regulated MPAs. They have good enforcement, and may never had any fishing in the first place - so very little occurs there now

The second paper finds very little industrial fishing in the highly regulated and strictly protected MPAs: buff.ly/HYHfwwh

The first paper finds a lot of industrial fishing in all coastal MPAs, which is alarming because there does not seem to be much protection at all: buff.ly/S9IIg0t

NEW PAPERS in #conservation that seem to contradict each other about whether marine protected areas (MPAs) effectively reduce industrial fishing

Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

This year, we’ll also be presenting a BTO Award of £500 for the best work in the show that celebrates the wonder of birds. 📆 Submissions are online only and close on Friday 22 August 2025 at 12 noon. 🎨 Preening Black-headed Gulls by Ben Woodhams.

Attention wildlife artists! 🎨 🪶 Last chance to submit your work for the Society of Wildlife Artists 62nd Annual Exhibition: The Natural Eye 2025! Sign up➡️ www.mallgalleries.or... 🎨 Gannets around the Bass by Kittie Jones.

💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰 Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries. Find out more now: Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c... DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛ #ornithology 🪶

Want to join our friendly and supportive #marine #science team @rspbscience.bsky.social? #conservationjobs for a scientist to provide scientific advice and contribute to applied #research affecting real world decisions about marine development and #seabird #conservation. shorturl.at/kdthM

The amazing @heyjooode.bsky.social is now ~90 miles into the 108-mile Pennine Spine race, which started on Saturday morning in the snow (>50% of participants have already dropped out), raising money for mountain rescue equipment. To give her a fundraising boost see www.justgiving.com/page/cro-win...

As the year ends, it was great to see four CEOs from BTO, RSPB, JNCC and WWT find the time to reflect on 2024 and share their ambitions to do even more, together, for nature in the coming year ahead! 🐦🌍 #Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @jncc-ceo.bsky.social