A blog post by Manchester's Jon Williamson for Leeds' Centre for Theoretical Philosophy. Enjoy!

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐 Regardez-moi ces "dessins". Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration. #IA

1500th bat species discovered in Africa www.batcon.org/press/1500th...

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Gracias a todas las personas y organizaciones que han hecho posible este encuentro. Ahora empieza el verdadero trabajo: proteger los humedales a lo largo de la ruta migratoria del carricerín cejudo. 💪 #LIFE_AWOM #Biodiversidad #Natura2000 europe.wetlands.org/awom/

🌍🐦 This week we’re gathering in #Madrid to launch the LIFE AWoM project. An alliance between Europe and Africa to protect the Aquatic Warbler and the #wetlands it depends during its migration to survive. #LIFE_AWOM Learn more about the project: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/...

Q: What happens when a #PublishOrPerish" research culture meets #AI readable biomedical databases? A: "An explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries." New in @plosbiology.org... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧠🎶 ¿Te interesa la inteligencia artificial y el comportamiento animal? ¡Tenemos una beca para ti, del programa JAE-INTRO del CSIC)! Buscamos estudiante para un proyecto sobre comunicación vocal en estorninos usando redes neuronales (BIRDNET). 🕊️🎙️ #IA #Bioacústica

New funding programme: From now on, students and PhD candidates can easily apply for up to €1,000 funding immediately after joining the German Ornithological Society. Find out more: www.do-g.de/forschungsfo.... Next application deadline: 1st of June!

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention. -With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames! #CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am searching for a dedicated someone to take a research support/coordinating role in my lab, working mainly within @erc.europa.eu project "HotLife". MSc level and up, keen interest in energetics, physiology, or thermal biology helpful but not essential. Details 👇 Would appreciate a re-post!

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

Extinction of experience among ecologists www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... This seems directly related to me to the lack of engagement of community scientists in academia, and to the greying of OSS. Capitalism and fascism squeeze out the opportunities for the lower and middle to join in.

Hi bird people! Anybody knows if there is some field evidence of continued skeletal growth in birds? I have some starling data that suggests so for beak and tarsus length and cannot find much elsewhere. Thanks in advance!

The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today. It’s not good news. 😔 The ‘all bird species’ index shows an overall shallow decline of 16% since 1970. Find out more ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/s...