Happy to see our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters! 🌊🐦 A look into how the smallest seabirds deal with the windscape during movements across the open ocean. tinyurl.com/57vvpfsp

Really cool work on PNAS on conservation genomics of Europe's most threatened seabird!

Urban sensory pollutants, roads and risks for urban nocturnal avian predators. 🦉🌃🚦🚧 Very insightful new structured review out by Giuseppe Orlando, @dmdominoni.bsky.social and the @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social ! #owl #urban #conservation

Tawny Owl breeding season is underway 🦉A pair was recorded today at one of our nestboxes, with chicks present and plenty of prey delivered to the nest. Monitoring during this period allows us to assess breeding success, chick growth and parental investment. @ecarlonminoia.bsky.social #Ecology #Owls

New paper! 🐦🦠 Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species doi.org/10.1111/mec.... A 🧵

Capilla-Lasheras and Risely review the current knowledge on the gut microbiome during migration, highlighting how microbial composition and function could influence energy balance and immune function ➡️ https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jav.03406

🆕Scientists have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system – all thanks to a tiny island bird 🐦️ @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @bioinf.bsky.social buff.ly/gUZdSJ9

🧵 New paper! How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals? We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes. rdcu.be/e7Wxv Here’s what we found 👇

Artificial light at night, urban noise, psychoactive pollutants, agriculture, introduced species & a warming world are making it difficult to sleep. John Lesku & Anne Aulesebrook review how species are affected & suggest ways to minimise the impact #SensoryPerceptionInAChangingWorld bit.ly/469cNrT

Even more striking: during the 2024 population crash, unprotected areas became critical refuges, while static reserve borders failed to track the species’ shifting distribution.

Conservation on oceanic islands cannot rely on fixed lines on a map. If we want to safeguard endemic species, we need dynamic protection strategies that work not only in good times, but especially during population declines. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

A study uncovers the mechanisms by which a parasitic wasp uses a virus that it produces from its own DNA to disrupt the development of the testes of its moth host, diverting host resources that would have gone to reproduction. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/uCMe50Yf4l6

Baculoviruses cause infected insects to climb, which helps the virus spread on the wind. A study finds that the virus activates tachykinin receptors, stimulating visual signaling pathways, which increases locomotion and phototaxis. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/37cV50Y6zaE

Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: artificial light at night creates an ecological trap for wild reef fish. Settlement ↑ under artificial light (up to 8× higher), but survival ~50% lower due to predation, disrupted settlement timing, and altered metabolic rhythms: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

In our new paper, we show that native trees, particularly oaks, are crucial to support blue tits reproduction, likely via increasing preferred insect prey. Very relevant for urban planning. Leveraging 9 years of data from our Glasgow Urban Gradient study system. Led by @clairebranston.bsky.social!

Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.

Home student looking for a PhD & interested in AI, quantitative ecology & bridging the species to ecosystem divide? This ZSL project, entitled "AI-enabled construction of an ecosystem management framework that supports UK seabirds conservation", may be for you! See lnkd.in/edhp3_zy (deadline:12/1)

Great experience attending #BES2025 this week and presenting my poster. Very grateful to see my latest findings featured by @britishecologicalsociety.org. More updates on this work and on our owl project coming in 2026 🦉💡🚗 #owls #ecology #RaptorResearch

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU

Very interesting new research presented at BES by Giuseppe Orlando and the GTOP @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social ! 🦉🌃💡❓ -- @britishecologicalsociety.org @dmdominoni.bsky.social

New systematic review from @johankjensen.bsky.social and collegues* on the growing trend of "neophobia". Sounds like a great read! -- *Anna S. Persson, Masashi Soga

🎉 Congratulations to @pcapi.bsky.social and @alice-risely.bsky.social, the winners of the 2025 JAB review award for the best mini-review by early career researchers! 🏆 Winning article: vist.ly/4iq5m #ornithology #birds #award #review #microbiome #migration

If you're at #BES2025 and interested in owls and how noise & light pollution affect their foraging behaviour, come to check out my owl poster 🦉💡🚗 #owls #ecology #ornithology #RaptorResearch

Assembling a new batch of #tawnyowl nestboxes for our project! Looking forward to putting them up and welcoming more owls this coming season 🦉 @e-carlon-m3.bsky.social #owls #RaptorResearch #ecology

Leveraging publicly available data to facilitate urban ecology and evolution DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

NEW PAPER: how bird diets and gut microbiomes shape each other: synthesizing how diet drives microbiome shifts, how microbes may steer diet choices, and outlining key questions and methods for studying diet–microbiome links. ➡️ vist.ly/4gjuw #ornithology #birds 🪶

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!) 7th January www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

New online! Mangrove biodiversity and ecosystem services

NEW PAPER in #ornithology and #conservation reviews the marine threats to #seabirds and other marine #megafauna and confirms that #fisheries are a severe problem: buff.ly/5SXNdqr

Amazing work by @gwest16.bsky.social and colleagues 🥳

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

"Penguin diet from space: Links between sea ice, Antarctic food webs, and population change" doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population" doi.org/10.32942/X27...

A study in Nature Reviews Biodiversity, led by NIU biologist Holly Jones with contributions from NIU students and global experts, shows that restoring seabird populations can significantly protect biodiversity and enhance climate resilience. bit.ly/43M2SHt

How are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... #ornithology

I am very excited to share that we have a new paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com In it, we summarize the state of knowledge on the Circular Seabird Economy! 1/n 🧪 Link to paper here: rdcu.be/eMOUd

Fantastic new review out highlighting the importance of #seabirds and the Circular Seabird Economy, for healthy marine- terrestrial ecosystems globally, and for local communities reliant on marine resources. 📚🏝️🐟 @dochpjones.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social @nature.com

New paper out in Proceedings B! 🔊 Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠 Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

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

If you don't know Chuen yet you will soon. Check out this very cool gut microbiome - ageing study from the Seychelles Warbler project, first from his PhD! @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social