Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild. But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...

"A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured" Whaaaaaaaat? @sjurdur.bsky.social Have you seen this?

Hey #ornithology folks - lots of great talks by a wide range of folks from all over the world. I'll be talking about how we maintain hope at @adriftlab.bsky.social when our work is emotionally difficult. It's only £10 in person/£5 online (concessions available). Spread the word! #AvianOdyssey

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it @ibrc2025.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We've got an open position at Pivotal Future for someone to manage and grow our global network of expert ecologists! 100% remote position in any country ±3 hours from GMT. Guide salary £50-60k p/a. More info here: pivotalfuture.bamboohr.com/careers/67 #ecology #job

Just spent two late weekend nights nerding the f* out, and now I'm going to spend a little of my Sunday morning bringing you the fruits of my labors! Stare at these trees with me. What do you see?

A paper describing the history of AviList and how the new unified global bird checklist was created has now been published - free to download until 1 September: rdcu.be/euZjH

Can anyone ID this moth seem in deciduous woodland (mostly Sessile Oak) in Somerset today? @mothiduk.bsky.social

Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

Closing tomorrow! Last chance to apply for postdoc to explore the role of animals in savanna ecosystem productivity & nutrient cycling! Link to job: tinyurl.com/53dy4584 #savanna #termites #largemammals

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

Unpick the definitions of invasive species in this blog from BTO’s Head and Principal Ecologist David Noble. Have a read ➡️ www.bto.org/community/bl... #InvasiveSpeciesWeek

Pied Flycatcher! 🥰🥰🥰 This will be my first year since 2012 where I'll not see a Collared Flycatcher. But at least I got to see a singing male Pied today in a woodland in central Shropshire 🪶

Each year there are new horrors to be found inside the stomachs of Sable Shearwaters

Do you know what it is? Have you used something similar (it's hard and not rubbery). Let us help identify this item! Thank you. #plastic #seabirds

A great, fully-funded, PhD opportunity starting October 2025 Working on a hot topic using a wonderful natural bird system, at a great place (UEA), with a lovely team 😁. APPLY ASAP - deadline 19th May biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/avi... for my group see dsrichardsonlab.wordpress.com

Hoy toca acabar el día con una charla en el Centro de Formación Profesional de Cerdeño, Oviedo, hablando sobre radiactividad, #Chornobyl y nuestros trabajos con la fauna de la zona. #UOdivulga

A little (well quite big for me actually) piece of joy from last autumn, as I try to distract myself from incredibly non arty admin, and beat down the desire to pick up my bins and skive off work. A winter thrush kerfuffle on the East Coast of Yorkshire. #birds #birdart

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“No se debería pescar ningún salmón, hacerlo es condenarlo a la extinción” Lo dice bien claro hoy mi compañero @natcantabrica.bsky.social en una entrevista @elpais.com elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

Safety and wellbeing during fieldwork has been recognised for decades as an issue for all kinds of reasons. Although we are still so slow in making any progress on this topic. It's never a priority and demands for change are resisted. An interesting recent update here undark.org/2025/04/17/o...

Maybe I won't get much birding done over Easter after all 😕

If you're in #Sweden and you find a tick, my friend @muriellealund.bsky.social wants to have it! www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/10-0...

Still staying with shorebirds (my favourite bird group), here is a very special one, the Ibisbill. It's a high altitude species from the Himalayas. I was lucky having seen it in Ladakh. I share 2 watercolours and 1 oil painting.

[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Are they naming their journal "The Auk"?

Okay this is dirty laundry I didn't want to air, but since I did my MSc with the main guy behind this, I feel like I do need to say that he has been FURIOUS about my involvement in BN4B since it started, to the point where he has been trying to hobble my local AK research program.

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint. so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality. also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

At least half the male pied flycatchers back at East Dartmoor now, with some pairs starting nest building.

This will be a great exam question for an undergrad evolution course.

There's something indescribably exciting about encountering black and white male Pied Flycatchers on their spring migration. This bird was found on Sunday flycatching in the Quarry from the lichen-clad boulders normally home to thousands of Storm Petrels.

PhD position on Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage in my group. Fully funded 4 year position in Stockholm University and SciLifeLab! :-) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

First male Pied Flycatcher singing this morning at East Dartmoor. Second earliest arrival recorded on the reserve. #phenology

I just remarked to my other half that today feels like a likely day to see my first Swallow of the year. Not 5 seconds later, a pair flew over the car! Spring! 🐦‍⬛🪶

📣 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is hiring a research assistant for 1 year to work on the flycatcher project. Responsibilities include sample organization, data management, lab and field work + management. MSc + relevant experience required. Apply by Apr 4 👇 #ecoevojob www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

An interesting article on isolation in the field (in the context of a Mars mission), but anyone (ANYone) who has spent time in or been involved with multi-month deployments will know the challenges www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

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I've done some mammal classifying for Pivotal, it's nice straightforward flexible bits of freelance work that can be done from home, handy for bringing in some extra £s now and then #ecology #conservation

💸Paid opportunity! Please spread the word! We're very keen to hear from anyone who has experience identifying birds, bats and frogs from audio data and plants from photographs from anywhere in Africa, especially Ethiopia and coastal West/Central Africa. 🐦🦇🐸🌷 Please get in touch via the link:

Real missed opportunity to describe this as stolen Madonna with the big baby www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy. I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. They will never revive mammoths. 2. Their plan isn’t to revive mammoths it’s to express mammoth-like genes in modern elephants (which…ethics?). 3. They just found some fluffy hair genes in mouse DNA and modified their genes to express them.

I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.

A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.