🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Flikk getting her Christmas cards sorted for next year (although her eyes are closed!)

Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology

Great news! @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

We’re delighted to announce that the winners of NORRN’s 2025 Open Science award are Dr Caitlin Mandeville and Dr Anders Lorentzen Kolstad 🏆

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

We are ready for you in the exhibitor’s hall at the #BES2025! Publishing chat, Christmas spirit, free swag and friendly faces await you! @avianbiology.bsky.social @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Young people's attitudes to lynx/wolf reintroductions Based on @ark-ni.bsky.social data from 5,000+ children & teenagers in #NorthernIreland, my new report discusses their attitudes to potential #lynx & #wolf reintroductions to the UK/ROI It's complicated! www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de... 🌳 🌿 🌍🦤🧪🦊

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher interested in gaining editorial experience with a peer reviewed journal? Check out this brilliant opportunity with our journal over at @conphysjournal.bsky.social! @sebiology.bsky.social

Breaking The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center (WCC) has tonight confirmed a brand-new jaguar in the United States, Jaguar #5, never before identified, just days after the Trump administration’s new double border wall construction waivers (see below).

Love looking through all the submissions on the Gulls Eating Stuff project website. Getting pretty good coverage of the UK too! If you have photos of gulls eating stuff, you can submit them at citsci.org/projects/gul.... Thanks to @scistarter.bsky.social for promoting the project too :).

🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN #BOUasm26 | 29 September 2026 | York, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity Submit your talk or Bluesky abstract now! bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOUasm26 #ornithology

Beautiful morning walk with Flikk before the awful weather arrived. “Red sky in the morning- shepherds warning” being very apt.

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opposition to both population growth and hunting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

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Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷‍♀️ github.com/Cghlewis/dat...

It’s been a frustrating week so far - digging our way out of the house and then digging our way back in to the house each day. But my cycle ride home today makes up for it all. Winter here is so beautiful (not all the time!)

I just had a look at Twitter and people (men) are still attacking @juliet-turner.bsky.social for the crime of being happy about becoming a PhD (or perhaps for being a woman with a PhD). I don’t understand what has happened to the world. Huge congratulations Juliet!

We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.

This years open, reproducible & transparent science course is underway. There is always one «student» who falls asleep in the back!

#EnvironmentalEvidence #AI #EvidenceSynthesis @biljana-macura.bsky.social

Great to be a small part of the joint methods group for AI use in Evidence Synthesis

Which one is more English?

Dynamic meta-analysis tools promise transparency by letting users explore evidence by species, region or outcome — but each filter is a new test. My new post argues that without safeguards, transparency can become multiplicity. 🔗 drmattg.github.io/Uncertain_Ec...

We've got loads of resources here for people to get started and be convinced to try it: asapbio.org/about/why-pr...

New research led by @scanavan.bsky.social analysing >500 000 tweets from 2006-2021 reveals how public discourse around invasive species is dominated not by plants, but by charismatic mammals and aquatic habitats. Just 1% of users generate 60% of retweeted content.

Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing arstechnica.com/science/2025...

It's important to work with people who have integrity and rigorous scientific standards. It does not necessarily follow that these important requirements automatically come with prestige. Prestigious institutions don't care about you. Make sure that the lab you're going to has high ethical

Camera-traps work best for surveying wildlife when site-level covariates are considered. Owain Barton led our study showing more cameras reduce error, longer deployments help only if occupancy varies, & ignoring key covariates can skews results zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

It’s exhausting to see so much ignorance about what’s happening in Argentina. The U.S. bailout isn’t helping us Argentinians, just like the recent IMF loan didn’t. These moves aren’t about rescuing Argentina, they’re about protecting U.S. investors and financial elites (& maybe ideological allies)

We said goodbye to summer last night and hello to winter this morning. This is our last winter in our “cabin in the woods” - it is going to be hard to say goodbye

Open science rhetoric to justify jamming agi into predatory journals and convert rando data to “papers”

I’m at the stage of the holiday when my mind turns back to research. Does anyone know of a high quality systematic review on the effectiveness of bird scaring devices? These ones don’t seem to work well. (If you have pictures of them failing that would be interesting too!)

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Can we please take climate breakdown seriously now....? "Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave"- BBC "for the 14th day in a row a temp of 30C was measured somewhere in Finland - 1st time since records began" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

please think about this deeply & consult with experts who do NOT have Conflicts of Interest! See: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Now watch humanity embed the minimum levels in policy… rather than maximising this important habitat. 🤡

Forget environmental implications (altho most national parks are already trashed by overgrazing, etc) the sheer idiocy of choosing the most expensive option to deliver housing is breathtaking. Build new homes where there is no infrastructure to support them. No jobs. Poor connectivity. It’s moronic.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

"Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. No complete overview has existed on how much is disappearing – until now". www.nina.no/english/Abou... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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...

Excited to be kicking off our symposium on improving research quality & impact with a plenary by Tracey Weissgerber. We have also been lucky with the weather!

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB! We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...