➡️ Our researcher Pablo Burraco and his colleagues have visited Chernobyl and the surrounding areas many times over the years. The BBC highlights some of their findings 👇

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

1/10 Really happy to have had the chance to present one of my #PhD chapters at the #EOU Fledglings meeting in #Gdansk. 😊

Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

We are looking for a new lab administrator (0.5 FTE) - come and join in pushing forward our research and impact in infectious disease! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Might be worth checking out some of the data on prophage induction and temperature? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... or journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly theconversation.com/friendship-i...

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!

377 #pigeons sampled later, I’m happy to share that the first paper from my PhD is published in One Health Journal It’s about monitoring #disease in the #urban #landscape and why a one number city-level #prevalence report can be misleading You can read the full PDF here: doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

🚨 New Research Alert! Urban air pollution harms wildlife too. A study in Journal of Hazardous Materials shows yellow-legged gull chicks in Barcelona act as sentinels for air quality. 🐦🌆 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140518 #OneHealth @icmcsic.bsky.social  @jnavarro.bsky.social

Half the southern elephant seals on South Georgia Island, one of the major populations, were wiped out by bird flu in the past two years: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

🎓 Funded #PhD studentships in pathogen biology and parasitology *Cell and Molecular Biology*; *Host-pathogen interactions* Part of the EastBio Doctoral Landscape Award Based in the Edinburgh area of Scotland PhD 1: bit.ly/Host-pathoge... PhD 2: bit.ly/Parasite-sca... @uoe-eid.bsky.social

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com Kudos to @tylim.bsky.social and @jameshay.bsky.social for a huge effort and thanks to all the collaborators for their hard work. See the final version here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week I had the opportunity to present some results from my #PhD project at the #NVG conference. I shared our work on #Chlamydia psittaci prevalence in feral #pigeons within a #OneHealth framework, highlighting why fine-scale reporting is essential when monitoring #disease dynamics in cities. 🏙️

NEW PAPER: how does urban noise, lights, and stress disrupt birds’ sleep? This review shows that our knowledge about this is fragmeneted and calls for direct tests linking disturbed sleep to bird behavior, fitness, and survival. ➡️ vist.ly/4e7dj #ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶

A different type of office 🐦🦠🏙️ #PhD #pigeons #fieldwork #urbanecology #sampling #diseases

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Delighted to see Hannah’s penultimate PhD paper come out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Strong evidence against the ‘warmer, sicker world’ hypothesis. Parasites 🪱🦠 and their hosts are just very variable! Another great collaboration with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Comparing the feral city pigeon with its wild form, Early Career Fellow @willjsmith.bsky.social endeavors to reveal whether feral species are experiencing reverse-domestication or proceeding down a new evolutionary trajectory. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Perceptions of #pigeons are not trivial. How we see them (either as companions or gross rats with wings) shapes the behaviour and #management policies that structure pigeon populations and the #pathogens they carry.

Cities aren’t uniform. Neither is disease. 🦠🏙️ Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling #DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25

One of my undergrad papers on coot eggs was referred to in a talk on blue tit eggs changing shape over time at #EOU2025, during the #BOU Woodland Birds pre-congress meeting Cool to see it resurface doi:10.24193/subbbiol.2021.1.04

Big day for psychedelic assisted therapy and research in the European Parliament! 🇪🇺 Today, was launched: 🔹 PAREA’s MEP Action Group on Psychedelics in Healthcare (relaunch) 🔹 The European Citizens #PsychedeliCare Initiative #PsychedelicScience #MentalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #EUPolicy

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Taking omega-3 and vitamin D supplements over a three-year period slowed biological ageing by three to four months, particularly when combined with exercise. https://go.nature.com/4hjjGdO

Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay

New paper! Out now in #Parasitology, open access: doi.org/10.1017/S003... Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie! #ornithology #wildlifemalaria

One of the standouts: calling for sharing fine-scale spatial data on infection patterns, as this fine-scale data is crucial for uncovering disease dynamics!

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...