Christmas Eve Eve #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales

Exciting news! @btocymru.bsky.social is hosting its first Welsh Raptor Convention. Book a spot ➡️ www.bto.org/RaptorConvention2026 🦅 Find out results from our Welsh raptor survey Cudyll Cymru, listen to expert guest speakers, join our feather ID workshop and enjoy lunch! #BirdingWales

Fully funded #PhD studentships, start Sept 2026: 1. Weaponry and aggression in wild fiddler crabs, with me, Safi Darden, Martin How tinyurl.com/weaponsPhD 2. The emotional basis of behaviour, with me, Danny Williamson, Andy Higginson tinyurl.com/emotionsPhD #AnimalBehaviour @crab-exeter.bsky.social

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Lectureship in Zoology at Aberystwyth University! jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l... Come join our fantastic team at @aberdlsagb.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social in beautiful Wales. Application deadline: 14 Dec 2025.

Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

🦅 Are you a leader, influential, want to have a transformational effect on the fundraising and communications sector - and want to save Wales' nature? 🐝 🦆 We're looking for a very special someone to become the new Head of Fundraising and Communications for RSPB Cymru! Apply here! 👉 brnw.ch/21wX2x6

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

📢 JOB VACANCY Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government Application deadline: 7 Nov shorturl.at/tXeHn #ornithology

Job vacancy 🧪 Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales? Deadline: 3rd Nov Location: Flexible within Wales Duration: Permanent Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Jake Stephen

Five weeks to Conference - and tickets are flying out! Grab yours quickly! Pump wythnos tan ein Cynhadledd - ac mae tocynnau yn gwerthu yn gyflym! Bachwch un nawr! birdsin.wales/2025-annual-...

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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...

Check out our new paper led by Gaoyang Yu! Territorial aggression in blue tits is repeatable in both sexes, but females were the fiercer defenders. How does this challenge long-held assumptions about sex roles in territorial behaviour? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Chattering in your territory: Eurasian magpies vary in their response to chatter calls at different durations and rates. How do magpies perceive this alarm and terrritorial defence signal from intruders in their territory? Out now📜 link.springer.com/10.1007/s100... #openAccess #Communication #Corvid

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/3n8p3mv Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

We are very happy to announce the Baerends and Dobberke lectures and keynote speakers for the NVG meeting 19-21 Nov! Dobberke lecture: Rita Covas Baerends lecture: Elodie Briefer Keynotes: Nicky Staes, Suzanne van der Veldt, Jonathan Benichov Details on the programme and registration will follow.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

NEW JOB in #ornithology to study how young #eagles learn how to fly efficiently through the Alps: buff.ly/eJ5qJM6

Field assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠

📣 @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/...

Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology [Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

Lovely film about Tim Birkhead's long-term study of Guillemots on Skomer. More than half a century of study of this population: this kind of continuity critical for understanding vitality of these important populations. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... vimeo.com/1063680641/2...

Last week was the beginning of the 2025 field season on Corsican blue tits, 50 years after Jacques Blondel installed his first nestboxes! I feel so lucky to take part in this long-term research program: fantastic team at CEFE-CNRS, amazing bird populations, and stuning landscapes.

NEW PAPER OUT 📃: My first ever paper, which reports on my Master’s research, is now out in Animal Behaviour. Can blue tit nestlings sense their relatedness to their nestmates through smell? 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preregistration #AcademicSky🧪

We're recruiting - funded PhD "Adaptive social flexibility – a powerful mechanism to cope with a rapidly changing world" @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social Deadline 20th April www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

DEADLINE EXTENSION – EOU 2025: By popular request, you now have TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract for the August conference in Bangor. Send abstracts by 29 March here cutt.ly/krt8HHlk and check out the conference website here cutt.ly/Jrt8Jijz #EOU2025 #ornithology

Crank up the volume and lap up those joyous sounds of early spring. A little film from Pen Llŷn last week with some of my favourite sound recordings, including the pure dusk chorus of Blackbird and explosive dawn greeting of Song Thrush. Mwynhau, enjoy 🎧🎶 #PlantPotParabolic youtu.be/k_Enr8CspkE?...

Wow, this 🧵 on plastic in bird nests is both fascinating and sad ...

Great thread from @jbakcoleman.bsky.social on my story about ecologists reaching different conclusions from the same data. Should we be worried? Maybe about analytical ability – but maybe not so much about science's ability to reach a clear answer. 🧪

Job alert: postdoc position Wildlife Ecology (22 months) Are you or is someone you know looking for a postdoc position in ecology? Then go to our website and apply by 20 April 2025! www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #postdoc #postdocjob #academicjobs #researchjobs #vacancy #ecology #wildlifeecology

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter. Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age. Deadline: 11th Dec More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Every Monday we host our weekly Departmental Seminar! 🧬🌱 ⏰ Time: 4:10pm 📍 Location: Edward Llwyd 1.16 or DM us for a Teams link Monday's speaker: Tom Williams (NRW) on The Wales metal mines programme We extend our welcome to everyone!

🚨 Are you interested in avian ecology and do you have a BSc or MSc diploma? Then we have an interesting vacancy for you! We are looking for a research assistant to help in the lab and the field with a microbiome study on house sparrows. @melissahrowe.bsky.social nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN... ...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Application deadline: 31 March Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...#ornithology 🪶 #ukbirds

New paper out in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social! Research from our group shows that males of the polygynous ruff visit many potential breeding sites within a breeding season, travelling up to 9000 km and visiting up to 23 different sites! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 1/7

Do you want to carry out fieldwork in Togo, West Africa? Are you a bird ringer who is available from Feb-May 2025? Then check out the (paid) field worker positions available here: cutt.ly/yeM807A9. The deadline for applications is January 13 2025. #ornithology