Got very tricky photos during a bird survey in Jiangsu China. Here is the eagle eye challenge: spot and identify the bird (left to right-easy to difficult)!

Happy reunion after ten years in the 18th ornithology conference of China - how time swifts! (The second is in 2015:)

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

📢 Post doc! Want to join our team? We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years! Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us! DL 24.9. #universityofhelsinki

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD position. If interested, email me by 27 July (5 PM, Melbourne time). Please review the application requirements carefully before submitting your application. See more about our research here shawanchowdhurylab.com.

Just signed off all the necessary documents today and I'm happy to announce that I officially join the School of Life Science at Nanjing University as an assistant professor!

Postdoc position with Erin Saupe at Oxford on whales past and present my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Erin’s great! And who doesn’t like whales? 🐋🐳

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

Deadline tomorrow 12th of May 👇👇👇

Submit your abstract for presentations, lightning talks or posters at #LivingData2025 ⭐ Deadline: 20 May 2025 Submit now: 🔗 livingdata2025.com/sessions.html Join @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org and #InstitutoHumboldt in Bogota (Oct 21–24)

Please check out our new review in BioScience! We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication. #MacroEcology #ClimateChange #GlobalChange 1/4

Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research! Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Are we communicating biodiversity change effectively? Andy Gonzalez (@bio-diverse.bsky.social) argues that focusing solely on loss risks disengagement — scientists must highlight solutions too. 🌱Tune in to #InsideBiodiversity tomorrow and subscribe today: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐦Post-doctoral position in Avian Behaviour.🐦 Examining the evolution of escape behaviour in threatened bird species as part of an ARC-funded project Deakin Careers: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo... Seek: www.seek.com.au/job/83533248

We are looking for two PhD researchers to work on the resilience of #biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a landscape gradient in the #Netherlands! 4-years, fully funded, great place @w-u-r.bsky.social, apply by 12.5.24. Feel free to get in touch with questions! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.” A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation. theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

This is brilliant from Rich Grenyer on the Dire Wolf hype: "It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"

🚨 Macro-scale analyses linking bird traits and genomics reveal that the ancestors of modern birds underwent major pulses of evolutionary change related to ecological niche expansion immediately after the Cretaceous–Palaeogene transition. 🧪🌐🪶 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jyang19.bsky.social

A call to arms for eBirders and iNaturalists. 🚨 We want your bird photos! If you photograph feeding birds with flowers, fruit, seeds or prey, upload the image with locality details. We are data-harvesting species, size and type of food/prey to study foodwebs and species interactions. Thanks! 🧪🌐🪶

Rewilding is a promising tool to restore ecosystem. By comparing rewilding with species introduction, natural colonisation and expiration in changing diversities in the U.K., we tested the degree to which rewilding can fill native functional gaps. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

The first book I read in 2025 was Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. I was attracted by the title and wondering why reading can ruined someone. I'm going to share some thoughts and inspirations intriggered by reading this book. #reading #resolution2025 1/n

Got an interesting discussion with friends in humanities. Though don't fully agree with their opinions of STEM, I reckon it'd be good to read books in broad disciplines- also a shame I haven't read an entire book since last year. I'd therefore challenge myself to read a book every week in 2025 (1/2)

Interested in a PhD? Still time to get in touch and discuss. Lots of opportunity to shape questions in areas related to Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity We hope to get one to our department #biogeography A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪 #biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity Please re-🦋 www.su.se/english/news...

Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge! We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation. 3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

Three year postdoc on bird migration www.ab.mpg.de/639728/job_f...

JOB VACANCIES! We're seeking 3 Conservation Scientists to join our friendly team of #seabirders at the RSPB. We're an inclusive team where everyone is welcome. DEADLINE: Friday 3rd January. #conservationjobs #ornithology #seabirds #science Details: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...

First post here. I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just over six years ago we made the crazy decision to start a company - Habitat. It’s designed to accelerate the use and access to knowledge in biodiversity, forestry and ecological economics by any organization that needs it to change their impact. This article tells our story ⬇️

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for several projects: jonathanpdrury.com/opportunitie... #PleaseRepost

Really interesting blogpost here - and not for the first time theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Great tenure track jobs in Ecology in beautiful Bern (CH) 👇

Here is a list of labs in #ecology and #evolution who are recruiting graduate students for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... PIs looking to recruit can enter information here: t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip I believe this list is thanks to @drcarl.bsky.social #evosky #ecoevo #evolbio #AcademicJobs

The suspension of head-starting is a big set-back in the fight to save Spoon-billed Sandpipers. Interesting talk from Jodie about how to maximise effectiveness of head-starting. More about other work to help spoonies: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/s... #ornithology

A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges. Sounds like Global Ecology ! sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread ! go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

Interested in a PhD in Ornithology? Four full scholarships available here in Oxford from Oct 2025 in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social - more details available at the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2zymo...

Delighted that university and school teachers are using these 2 minute videos to support their teaching. They are typically in the field describing an ecological concept, how a habitat functions, a method, conservation management or a thought. Please use!

Delighted that this paper by Nilo Merino Recalde et al. is now published as the first Dataset paper in Anim Behav. It describes a fully annotated open dataset of 1.1M acoustic units from 110 000 songs sung by >400 individual Great Tits www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love birding as a way of connecting with Nature; cycling is also something that is very important as a way to wind down. Last year, I decided to combine them with an Oxfordshire 'Big Year' by bike - here's a write up of the 177 species that I saw: oxonbirding.blogspot.com/2024/01/an-o...

A great pleasure to share our work on connectivity conservation at BES2023 Belfast. Just realised this was my fourth attendance of BES but first in-person presentation!

Did I really sleep one night? Or a century...