Do vote for the Egyptian vulture project! There are so many reasons why. Here is just one: this project, with the amazing people running it, was able to stabilize the population of this amazing species, years before it disappeared from the area. 🪶

This new format makes the review invitation feel much less personal and much less appealing. I almost deleted it because I thought it is another Wiley spam. @bou.org.uk 🧪🌎🪶

📢 Update: We’ve extended our survey deadline! During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system. Help us build a more scalable, sustainable database for your projects. Your feedback will directly shape the future of Movebank. Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...

Who made these stickers, and why don't I have them yet??

There's a journal I really like and I was even lucky to publish in it. But, something in the publishing process there is wrong. Me and others had bad experiences, and here is an example from a recent publication. What can I do? Contact someone? Name them here on Bsky? 🧪🌎

Of course, I would love to participate in your very real conference that you so kindly sent me an invitation to. The fact that it is happening next week and you are still looking for key-note speakers is completely normal, and so are your highlights. How do you stop these #academic_spam emails? 🧪🌎

Would have been really interesting if that was the real result of the SDM.. Luckily, it was just a small mistake in my R code.

"To continue protecting birds in an age of chaos is an act of defiance against cynicism" An important and very relevant opinion: theornithologist.org/in-defence-o... 🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation

This is how you connect people to nature through science. Well done @theguardian.com ! 🧪🪶🌎🐾 #ornithology #conservation #movementecology www.theguardian.com/environment/...

She was inspiring. She really made a difference. And she really believed in mankind. RIP Jane Goodall, may we have the power to take the inspiration you gave us and keep fighting the fight for nature and mankind.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

A vagrant juvenile Sanderling turned up in Israel—likely after a single non-stop flight from the Dutch Wadden Sea. Here’s thread explaining why that’s remarkable and interesting. @wadertales.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social #Birds #Migration

Just started reviewing a paper that's supposed to be double-blind. There are indeed no names in the document, but the file names are the name of the first author... Which made me think - how often do you really not know who's paper you are reviewing? 🧪🌎

Happy to be included in the ‘Understanding Migration’ virtual issue at Functional Ecology — alongside many influential papers 🐦🎉 #birdmigration #movementecology #ornithology @funecology.bsky.social @besmovesig.bsky.social 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Larger than a blackbird, in one of the most populated areas in the world, but still unseen for who knows how long. A second paper from the story of the discovery of the Egyptian #Nightjar in the Dead Sea area was published recently. 🧪🐾🌎🪶 📷 Y. Wasserlauf #ornithology #conservation #ecology

Another touristic site with my parents, another cool #bird_behavior. This time, Mainau and its beautiful trees present a cool Nuthach. #ornithology

Took my parents to see the Rhine Falls today. They enjoyed the falls, I enjoyed other things enjoying the falls 🙃 #ornithology

A new study led by @moveandconserve.bsky.social used GPS tracking to test the monitoring potential of Eilat and Batumi. An invaluable step toward linking counted birds to their origins, but we found it needed some elaboration from a migration count perspective! Our commentary: tinyurl.com/nnbzu7kc

This is now officially out with the new @currentbiology.bsky.social issue (current Current Biology issue 🙃). @yaelbird.bsky.social 🧪🌎🐾🪶 #ornithology #conservation #movement_ecology

Science as a conversation: In January, we published a paper about migratory bird counts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... For different reasons, we did not include the managers of the bird counts. But the @batumiraptorcount.org people had some important comments #conservation #ornithology 🧪🐾🌎

Someone's being enjoying our garden 🤩

A great thank you to the organizers of #BESMove2025! It was really nice meeting new and old friends, hearing about so many interesting studies and even enjoying nice weather that allowed me to see the local wildlife 😅. See you next year?

What a wonderful day at the #BESMove2025! Fascinating talks, great people, beautiful campus (see pic). Really excited to talk about the migratory movements of Steppe Eagles tomorrow.

First time in England (kind of)! Excited for the @besmovesig.bsky.social #BES #Movement_Ecology annual meeting.

Yes! I like the idea! But why stop there? What about removing human settlements from remote areas so that Putin can't attack them (and to reduce human effects)? Reducing the number of flights to avoid being targeted (and reducing CO2 emissions)? Any other ideas?

I (only) recently started using notebooklm.google If you don't know it, it really is an amazing tool (with some problems, obviously). The most important thing is that it allows me to read (well, hear) a few more papers, missing a little less of what's new in science. 🧪 (some thoughts below)

Big congrats to Terry Ord for receiving this year's Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award! While Terry is an avid animal behavior researcher, he also is passionate about teaching and published a (free!) graphic novel explaining topics in animal behavior! www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/understandin...

How come I never heard of this amazing butterfly? Lesser Emperor Butterfly (I think..), changing colors from brown to purple depending on the angle of light. Beautiful! Southern Germany, Aug 2025

How are human-altered habitats affecting birds' migratory routes? And what is the role of age and wind conditions? We tested this for an #endangered #Eagle authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 🐾🧪🪶 @yaelbird.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social #conservation #ornithology

Got a paper published in early view in @currentbiology.bsky.social today! I'm to tired to write a proper post, so consider this a teaser :)

OK R, no need to be passive-aggressive, I know I'm asking for too much Error: [writeRaster] cannot write more than 65535 layers

"Why are you so happy to see this small brownish bird*?" I was asked during the first of a 4 day hike in the Alps. These high altitude habitats, plants, birds and other critters are amazing. Getting away from everything and celebrating life is important. *bird too small, in the pic: not-a-bird

Have been downloading weather (ERA5) data all night. 79 downloads required in total. I have 4 left and I need to close my computer in just over an hour. And people say* that there's no pressure in academia *I know nobody ever said that...

NEW on #theBOUblog Who are we counting? Coupling GPS data and bird count data to improve our understanding of bird migration Have a read of the latest blog contribution, from Ron Efrat bou.org.uk/blog-efra...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

Trying to figure out if we are doing what we think we are doing in migratory bird count surveys. Now the blog version: bou.org.uk/blog-efrat-w... @bou.org.uk @batumiraptorcount.org @yaelbird.bsky.social 🪶🐾🧪

When GPS Spoofing (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) becomes art . 🧪🐾🪶 #MovementEcology #Biologging

Asked the same thing from DallE in January 2023 and today (May 2025) from sora. Here are the results for "A realistic painting of an Egyptian vulture playing basketball". I am sure there is no need to explain why I asked this, probably one of the most common requests

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change 🪶 👉 rdcu.be/ehvAA #LesserKestrel #ornithology #ClimateChange #Conservation 🧵👇 1/6

Postdoc alert! 🚨 How do young raptors learn to migrate? 2-year postdoc at Uni. Laussane with @enourani.bsky.social is offered to model evolution of learning strategies for behavioral development. Application deadline is mid-June for a start in Jan 2026: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We keep studying conservation from a distance not knowing enough about what happens on the ground This paper is an example of important on-the-ground work, with implications to both conservation and understanding of animal behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Conseravtion #Ornithology🧪🪶🐾

🐦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

#Evolution ✔️ #Genomics ✔️ #Climate_Change ✔️ #Raptors (Lesser Kestrels!)✔️ #Migration (Throughout their range!)✔️ #Movement_Ecology ✔️ #Past_reconstruction_and_Future_predictions ✔️ #Conservation So thankful for the opportunity to be part of this amazing paper. It really has it all. rdcu.be/eh2Sj 🧪🪶🐾

A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

When bats emerge from roosts by the thousands, they experience a "cocktail party nightmare" of jammed echolocations. Scientists didn't know how bats avoid colliding. Now, they do. Study by @ayagoldshtein.bsky.social and team from Tel Aviv Uni ▶️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... youtu.be/mIockHSehYw

EU tells public to stockpile 72 hours of supplies. Germans in response: does this mean that we need to sell all the rest of the supplies we regularly stockpile?

Sorting out the history of whaling pressure on five populations of blue whales in the Indian Ocean and SW Pacific. So many years of work went into this monumental collaboration with many many coauthors. So pleased to see this paper finally published. doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Me: "Good news! I got the Humboldt Fellowship!" F: "That's amazing. But I don't understand why you don't look happier, I saw you much happier when you saw a bird" Yes, that's probably true. I'm not sure what it means about me, but I am happy with it :)