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...

If the UN security council won’t act and states including the US and UK continue to support Israel, this report is unlikely to change anything.

Peer review rant incoming... I reviewed a paper. My job was easy, the science was sound and the work was well thought-out and well-written. The other reviewer felt the same way. Now the editor has asked the authors to do major revisions... (1/2)

my heart is breaking for waldo

Ireland will not take part in 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if participation of Israel goes ahead, RTÉ Director-General says

Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists said late Monday that one of their boats was hit by a suspected UAV off the coast of Tunisia, but authorities there said "no drones" had been detected jrnl.ie/6811260

The first confirmed birth of a white-tailed eagle in Co Waterford for over 150 years has taken place

Apropos of nothing.... Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude. Critique the work, not the author team. Explain, don’t sneer. Build science up, don’t beat the authors down. Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

What a great and welcoming community at #BESMove2025! Was a real pleasure to share a cultural perspective on #bird #migration based on field and tracking studies of raptors and shorebirds.

If you're interested in hearing about the @besmovesig.bsky.social annual meeting, I am posting updates (irregularly!) from the group's account #BESMove2025

Our 2025 annual meeting is off to a great start with a wonderful morning of talks so far. Follow along and join the conversation with #BESMove2025

Wildlife science is a big one for this too. Paying for work experience and working for free or for a small weekly stipend is distressingly common. Many entry level paid jobs are barely living wage

Mary Robinson: It is utterly devastating to see the sheer volume of vital materials sitting there. Oxygen tanks, generators, wheelchairs, crutches. It is unbelievable www.independent.ie/irish-news/m... #speirgorm

Former President Mary Robinson says Donald Trump could end the “awful” Gaza crisis by telling Israel the US wants a ceasefire now - and by halting the supply of arms. Robinson has spent the last three days visiting the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing. #VMNews

There’s a public survey open for the general public to give input as to whether the Basic Income for the Arts scheme should continue. I implore you to take the 2 mins to fill out this survey and call for the BIA scheme to be continued and further developed. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

It was such a pleasure to attend this writing retreat organised by @darastanley.bsky.social and @jonyearsley.bsky.social in a hidden corner of campus last week. Writing can be lonely, but it doesn't have to be!

🌿 Exciting Announcement! 🌱 Join us for the Movement and Rewilding Ecology (MoRE) Workshop on September 22, 2025, at BES, 42 Wharf Rd, London! 🌍 Powered by the #BES-rewilding @besmovesig.bsky.social SIGs. Link to Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem... #BritishEcologicalSociety

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...

Golden eagles were reintroduced to Ireland, but without prey they’re now struggling to thrive "Reintroducing a species isn’t enough. The systems that sustain it also need to be restored." #RestoreNature theconversation.com/golden-eagle...

Nice start to my week, thanks LinkedIn #ECRchat

The next BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting is taking place on the 2nd-3rd of September 2025 in Norwich. Come and discuss your results or data with movecologists! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/move... @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Could anyone send me the pdf of this article? Schnell & Hellack (1979) Bird Flight Speeds in Nature: Optimized or a Compromise? The American Naturalist, 113:1, 53-66 #icanhazpdf 🌍🪶

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 paper by Paule-Émilie Ruy et al - "Expanding wildlife serosurveillance: a study of influenza A virus exposure in Irish carnivores" This was a nice crossover for me as I moved from my PhD on foxes to my postdoc on gulls!

Fully funded PhD available with me and @npwsireland.bsky.social looking at islands off Ireland as monitoring stations for migratory birds. You'll be based at SBES in University College Dublin. Deadline is 30th June. More details here tinyurl.com/2p9pe97j

New preprint alert! 🚨🧪🌍🦊 Foxes are just as clever as our bedtime stories and fables suggest! This was one of the main things I learned as I set out to catch foxes to fit them with tracking collars during my PhD. Here's how we did it, while maintaining high animal welfare standards

"Sorry just looking at cheese" is one of the best things anyone has said to me all week. Me too, friend. Me too.

I hope the hurling players support the women's protest and turn up to all games in skorts this weekend.

and so the evening begins 🦊 (the little one at the front had just picked up a leaf 🥹) #FoxOfTheDay

Garden duo . Shared by @urbanponds101 for today's #foxoftheday

Reports this evening that Israel is forcing Palestinians to southern Gaza (south of Khan Yunis towards Rafah) raising concern of an eventual mass deportation to Egypt

Nothing like going through your spam folder to boost your confidence #academicsky

I think the abundance of Easter chocolate from colleagues has served me well today, just sent a manuscript to co-authors! 🥳

We haven't had the best weather for the Easter break... but the sun is out and I've spotted my first swallows of the year so the bank holiday is making up for a wet and grey weekend! 🪶

“Our review provides a framework to better understand & predict animal movements & distributions in human-modified environments. Exciting opportunities now available to advance the movement ecology field into a more predictive science..” 🦁 buff.ly/uB9RyET

Still excited about this project, which has just been published - with @hollyenglish.bsky.social Thanks again to the @besmovesig.bsky.social team !

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

📣Big congratulations to Sara Gomez (a graduate of the RAINET master's programme) for her first published article.👏🥂🍾🥰🍹 Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene, Journal of Animal Ecology (2025). dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene | Journal of Animal Ecology @britishecologicalsociety.org | besjournals.onlineli... |#ornithology #animalmovement 🪶🧪

Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene - @animalecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org g via @wiley.com besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delighted to see our latest paper getting some media attention! Link to the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When @mauritiantales.bsky.social and I began leading this study, we never thought it would get 10 citations let alone the 200 it reached his week! But what started almost 5 years ago as a lockdown data project has taken us on an unimaginable rollercoaster... (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene 🐾🌍 📖 doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧠 Really enjoyed working with the great team @besmovesig.bsky.social on this one 🧪🦑🦉🌊

I'll talk about this more next week but can't resist finishing my Friday with this update Our paper is online now in early view! Sara Gomez, Luca Börger & I led a fantastic team of researchers in this review: Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene

New review out in J Anim Ecol! We explore how to predict animal movements in human-modified environments, highlighting the need for mechanistic models to guide conservation. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #MovementEcology #Anthropocene

Fabulous way to end the week: new paper published, a great collaboration of the @besmovesig.bsky.social community!!! 🙌😍

Delighted to share our new review paper on "Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene" 🎉🐾🦌🐧🦅🌍 #AnimalMovement #MovementEcology @besmovesig.bsky.social

I'll talk about this more next week but can't resist finishing my Friday with this update Our paper is online now in early view! Sara Gomez, Luca Börger & I led a fantastic team of researchers in this review: Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene

This is so interesting. Don't think of flies as migratory? Read this thread and think again! 🌍