Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust

Another year, another #freshers week & getting to know a new bunch of great @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Wildlife Conservation students! Our "draw your lecturer" activity has become a big highlight... my colleague Rob doesn't have an official staff photo but now he has many options! 😅 #ljmu #university

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies? Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!! Check our new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Furness Railway No20 approaches Brooksbottom Tunnel during the ELR's Rail 200 weekend 14/09/2025 #trains #trainphotography #steamtrain #heritagerailway #steamrailway #eastlancsrailway

When the toddler falls asleep during #parkrun #PenningtonFlash so you have the rare opportunity to do some birding post-run! Great views of a couple of black terns. Nice chance to recover... #31weeks #pregnancy 🏃‍♀️

This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵

Great to be part of the British Science Festival today that has taken over Liverpool city centre this week - talking all things #ornithology & showing the public many ways we can monitor #birds for #conservation & research at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social (also a chance to big up @bou.org.uk)

I'll be in the Bluecoat Gardens giving a demo for all things #birds monitoring for #ornithology at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #BSF #BritishScienceFestival - hopefully see you on 10th September!

⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London ➡️ BOU member discounts ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ Visit Tring collections bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 Keynote 🧵 ⬇️ #ornithology 🪶

Great to have a 2nd @routledgebooks.bsky.social book chapter under my belt (prev freshwater birds, now wetland birds, yet I study passerines 😅) & absolute privilege to write with Dr Ann Hodgson. Definitely feel like I have a place in #ornithology after this year! @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #impact 🌍

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Don't miss your chance to submit an abstract for #BOU2026 Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | Uni of Nottingham & Zoom Talk, poster & Bluesky abstracts accepted Deadline 1 September bou.org.uk/event/bir...#BOU2026 #ornithology 🪶

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

It's time to join the #Motus wildlife tracking network! @woodcreeper.bsky.social gives an impressive overview of the advancement of Motus tracking & its potential for #ornithology #conservation - we need more stations, want to get involved? @eounion.bsky.social #ecology #migration #EOU2025 motus.org

Excellent keynote from @btobirds.bsky.social Science Director James Pearce-Higgins exploring key mechanisms driving golden plover populations & the need for long-term monitoring if we are to make #conservation decisions in an ever-changing 🌍 @eounion.bsky.social #EOU2025 #ornithology #climatechange

It's the final day of the @eounion.bsky.social conference at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & Dr Rose Thorogood @helsinkiupress.bsky.social gives great examples of how personal/social cues + signals help us understand and predict bird decision making. Tits, hihis & warblers, all before 10am! #EOU2025

Fantastic excursion to @rspb.bsky.social South Stack to break up the week-long @eounion.bsky.social conference at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Diving gannets, good numbers of kittiwakes, chorus of chough & raven, peregrines soaring & stonechat for company along the trails. Sunny weather, a bonus!

What a great bunch of birdy folk! @bou.org.uk #BOUatEOU #ornithology #EOU2025

Poster 52 @eounion.bsky.social conference: long-term insights into climate change effects on bird phenology at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social. Controversially we find birds are arriving later in warmer seasons, not earlier! Why could that be? Let's chat! Poster session 5-7pm today. #EOU2025 #ornithology

Excellent talk from @carladreon.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social in the life history & development #ornithology plenary @eounion.bsky.social evidencing lay date plasticity in alpine swifts with warming temperatures - a heritable adaptation that boosts individual reproductive success. #EOU2025

Good morning from the annual @eounion.bsky.social #ornithology conference - day 2 kicks off with @mylenemariette.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social - a fascinating plenary on how zebrafinch "speak" to their eggs to help embryos develop & adapt to challenging environmental conditions #EOU2025

What a venue for a conference! @eounion.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #EOU2025 #BOUatEOU #ornithology

Afternoon symposium @eounion.bsky.social conference: life histories & development #ornithology Dr Alex Sutton @bangoruniversity.bsky.social makes a strong case to use relative timing (rather than absolute) of reproduction in birds when looking at fitness consequences of adjusting lay date #EOU2025

A much needed topic takes the spotlight for this afternoon's @eounion.bsky.social conference plenary from @anticac.bsky.social - the how's and why of collaborative & robust research. How can we better design, do and share our studies/data with the science community 📊 #EOU2025 @sortee.bsky.social

Morning symposium @eounion.bsky.social conference: linking social & ecological aspects of urban #ornithology Prof Piotr Tryjanowski covers a range of topics from bird feeders to birdwatching & the subtle social role of urban birds. Are experience of the natural world at risk of extinction? #EOU2025

Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience? Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀 @eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social #ornithology

Prof Will Cresswell @uniofstandrews.bsky.social kicks off the @eounion.bsky.social #ornithology conference today with an excellent plenary on the challenges of migration 🌍 considering both the challenges for the birds, but also for us & #conservation #EOU2025

A special plenary lecture from Prof Tim Birkhead showcasing decades of research on Skomer Island studying guillemots. My favourite lecturer from my undergrad days @sheffielduni.bsky.social who continues to inspire through storytelling & science 🌍 #ornithology #seabirds @eounion.bsky.social #EOU2025

A common theme at the @bou.org.uk Woodland Birds symposium #BOUatEOU is we all work with birds in decline, which can be depressing! But @lesserspotnet.bsky.social boosted morale with great news that lesser spotted woodpeckers are doubling their brood sizes 🎉 A gold standard citizen science project 👊

Today's @bou.org.uk woodland birds symposium was the perfect warm up for the @eounion.bsky.social conference here at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. I especially enjoyed Gilberto Pasinelli's keynote looking at how seed masts, rodents + predators influence wood warbler fecundity & survival. #BOUatEOU

My first international conference research talk in 10 years - scary! It's hard starting up a study system from scratch with no research group but with strong collaborations, hard work & great study species - there is progress. It was great to share today with @bou.org.uk folk #BOUatEOU #ornithology

1/ Developing conservation policies for declining migrant species amid 🌍 change is challenging. I’m at #BOUatEOU presenting my findings on factors influencing breeding success for the conservation of Pied flycatchers in the Peak District 🐦 #ornithology #ecology #climate #conservationscience

Quest for Small Red-eyed continues but six Red-eyed on the St Helens canal in Sankey Valley this evening

Awesome to be at The Greatest Gathering event in Derby today to celebrate 200 years of the railway. The event was so well organised, with so much to do in a day (16K+ steps & that was just running around after the toddler!) #trains #trainphotography #railway200 #railadvent #flyingscotsman #deltic 🚂🚆

An excellent day at @chesterzoo.bsky.social as always! #zoo #conservation #familydayout

I nicked a pot plant from an All Bar One when drunk. Watered it for 2 years before discovering it was made of plastic. I have a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology.

When you unexpectedly notice a crap load of Jersey cudweed on the drive to nursery, having failed to see it on actual Jersey #cheshire #botany 🌱

Surprise 2nd award from our Faculty ProVice Chancellor to recognise my efforts supporting our postgrad researchers. I wish I'd had more support all those years ago so the best I can do is make sure our PGRs have all they need to realise their potential @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social

No tips or advice. Jeez, maybe it's time to leave academia?

Today I got a harsh paper rejection after waiting several months to hear back from the journal. Any tips for bouncing back from these things? It's hard having no research group & building a project from scratch. Just need to get this pilot data out there! #academia #despair #earlycareer #ornithology

A great day completing the @carbonliteracy.bsky.social project training at my university @ljmuofficial.bsky.social & making individual and group wide pledges to positive climate action. This @wwf.org.uk quiz helped me to identify where I could make cuts to my carbon footprint: footprint.wwf.org.uk

Not one for posting pics of myself first thing in the morning but this birthday present from the hubby was spot on! #academic #birthday

Great to be at the launch of the Infertility at Work Research Network @sheffielduni.bsky.social bringing together researchers & practitioners from ranging areas, expertise & lived experience of #infertility #ivf with a common goal of providing better support in the workplace. @ljmu-ris.bsky.social

Lovely to be nominated, even lovelier to have won - especially when there were some fantastic nominations across several schools in our Faculty. Well done all, research-led teaching is the dream job 🙌 @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #ljmu #wildlife #conservation #ecology #lecturer #earlycareer #researcher

Great to sit on a careers advice panel for our Biodiversity & Conservation research group PGRs today. Sharing lived experiences & lessons learned is important as is making it clear failure happens way more than success & the failures are what shape you @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmu-ris.bsky.social

That's a wrap on @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #SATH2025 conference! I enjoyed giving TWO talks today to 540 registered delegates: (1) research informed teaching on our Wildlife Conservation programmes using translocations as a case study, & (2) use of VR simulations to teach species ID skills 🐦 #impact

Another fab talk from our BES Diversity & Inclusion team led by Prof Nic Koyama on how increasing awareness, implementing a clear response to report policy & visible Inclusion Ambassadors has significantly reduced student reports of harassment in the last 3 years. @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #SATH2025

Great to be on our School (BES) Diversity & Inclusion committee & see our Lead's work presented by Dr Alex Wilshaw at the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Students at the Heart Conference #SATH2025 sharing our students' perspectives on gender diversity & its implications for student recruitment #AthenaSwan

Ending day 1 of the @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Students at the Heart Conference with a workshop from the T&L Academy on Driving Student Success through Equity: Applying the #LJMU evaluation framework using personal tutoring as a case study. Preparation, evaluation methods & survey tools! #SATH2025

Stories from the heart: the value of storytelling to teach complex concepts from a lecturer's perspective. Great talk Heather Kirby @ljmuofficial.bsky.social School of Nursing & Adv. Practice - duality of identity, lecturing skills & empathy/emotions help communicate hard to reach concepts #SATH2025

Especially enjoyed this session from @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Teaching & Learning Academy's Dr Phil Carey about the "hidden curriculum". We must better support students by linking curriculum + assessment design to wellbeing & acknowledge Uni power dynamics (students being least powerful). #SATH2025