The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

Happy to announce a postdoc position with me and Jakob Strand, to work on data from the revamped Danish beached bird survey organised by DOF BirdLife Denmark. How many seabirds end up on Danish beached, where do they come from, and why did they die? #seabirds ecos.au.dk/en/about-us/...

New postdoc alert! 👀🧪🏖️

3 research positions available at ERI - please get in touch if you are interested

The original paper was published in Nature yesterday: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 out now in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social "Constraint and convergence in the evolution of vertebrate sound production". Thanks to Christian Herbst, Coen Elemans, and @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social for a great collaboration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exiting new MbyRes programme @uniexecec.bsky.social 👇 I am offering multiple One Health projects - get in touch if interested. 🦡🦌🐭🧪🦠🔬🧬

PhD on greenbeards! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Life is full of difficult choices. This isn't one of them.

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PhD position: Indicators of demographic risk and resilience in wild birds Investigate how seasonal environmental change influences population vulnerability and to develop new indicators of demographic risk and resilience in wild bird populations. Apply via our website: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Get these #ECBB2026 social events on your schedule! Please note: Full conference registration includes entry to our Gala Dinner and Ceilidh. Dinner will be served at 7.30pm. We will then move to a ceilidh in the Great Hall.

Masters by Research at @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho... these are *funded* - covering home tuition fees, a research/training support grant and a prog of cohort activities. Lots of projects available (including one w/ me!) - pls share!

Israel has killed "Lebanon’s most respected voices for marine conservation and biodiversity protection". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

This @noemamag.com article by Ryan Huling, author of Hidden Nations, beautifully covers our Nature Sustainability paper with @merikatariina.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social! If you can’t access it, let me know 😉 doi.org/10.1038/s418...

🔴 PhD advert alert! Want to do a PhD working on ocean protection and restoration in a vibrant research community @exetermarine.bsky.social? Link here!! DM or email me if you'd like a chat about this opportunity :) Please share University of Exeter website: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

When I meet people in the real world, they have 0% - and I mean zero - knowledge of the disaster unfolding in British HE. Even if their kids are actually at uni. They look at me as if I've gone mad. This is why. 👇

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

Check out the master's work of @lenagies.bsky.social on unsupervised clustering of animal vocalizations! Also, yes, she has a master's on #greylaggoose and her last name is Gies (pronounced "geese")... #bioacoustics

Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 July 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn

First analysis of the #greylaggoose call repertoire using #machinelearning broadly matches early descriptions and shows how much different representations of audio data can influence clustering results. @univie.ac.at www.nature.com/articles/s41... Gies et al. 2026, Scientific Reports 📸 M. Klymenko

My master’s thesis is a paper now ☺️

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas ⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026 🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybrid Come join our fantastic team! Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...

Bioacoustics Winter School 2027 👇Applications are now open Do not hesitate to disseminate this info ☺️ #bioacoustics www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

and a Galapagos yellow warbler gracing the landing page :) @alperyelimlies.bsky.social

🎉 New IBAC website just dropped. ibac.info Fresh look. Same passion for #bioacoustics. 🔊🦇 🐸🦉🐊🐟🐝 Now with more info on who we are and what we get up to.

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

A female Northern Yellow Warbler gathers dandelion seeds to line her nest.

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

Anyone keen to work on one of the coolest birds in one of the coolest places? 😎

Lol. They had to exclude casual and zero hour contracts in order to show the bleeding obvious. Peak UK.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Coming to @ecbb2026.bsky.social ? Then get your @asab.org travel grants submitted by June 1st! Fantastic opportunity for support from our brilliant society. See you @angliaruskin.bsky.social in Cambridge!

Dünya biyoçeşitlilik günü için: Yaban hayatı dostu tarım. @pinarea.bsky.social'dan @bilimakademisi.bsky.social sarkac.org/2026/05/yaba...

Dünya biyoçeşitlilik günü için: Yaban hayatı dostu tarım. @pinarea.bsky.social'dan @bilimakademisi.bsky.social sarkac.org/2026/05/yaba...

New preprint on monitoring avian acoustic diversity in agricultural landscapes of western Turkey led by Irmak Akoglu and @pinarea.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #bioacoustics

Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦‍⬛ 🎶 ⬇️ Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?

Big thanks to the cool team! 👏 Chiti Arvind, @ra-barber.bsky.social, Oscar Johnson, Katie O'Brien; Richard Stanley, Gustavo Bravo, Evan Buck, @sclaramunt.bsky.social, Robb Brumfield, Mike Harvey, Elizabeth Derryberry, and @josephtobias.bsky.social.

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

Shareable link to Nature Human Behavior paper on polygenic scores. Hope it works.

'The course is technically still running, but the experience you were promised is dying via 1,000 cuts.' 'Thing is though, implosion isn’t some vague potential future risk. It’s the survival strategy.' Good points, but very sobering.