#NewPublication: We evaluated #biodiversity #co-benefits of #Gola #REDD+ initiative using a #quasi-experimental study. #Bioacoustics and DNA metabarcoding revealed that REDD+-financed #PAs were associated with additional biodiversity benefits compared to control areas. tinyurl.com/45pcasnv

Shamingly I’ve never considered the impacts of river crossings / infrastructure on ecosystems. This was a fascinating talk by @thiagobacouto.bsky.social about how nature and people can be reconciled through nature based solutions #conservation 🌎 🧪

Really enjoyed the opportunity to share some (in my opinion) cool stuff on Medflies and their microbiota… Thanks to the CEEC organisers for the opportunity. #Medflies #Tephritids #Microbes #Microbiota

Shared some findings from recent work at UEA CEEC today! Great to see what other researchers from BIO and ENV have been working on.

Nice wrap to the CEEC Rebellion today, was grateful to have received Runner up for Best Talk also. Brilliant couple of days, thank you to the organisers! #CEECRebellion2026

📅 The schedule for #CEECRebellion2026 is now live! Two days of ecology, evolution, and conservation research at UEA 🌿 Expect talks, posters, coffee ☕, pizza 🍕, and a pub quiz. 18–19 March | ZICER 2.02, UEA Full programme below 👇 @biouea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

🎤 We’re excited to welcome our internal & external speakers for #CEECRebellion2026 🌿 📅 18–19 March 2026 📍 ZICER 2.03, UEA Join us, next week for two days of talks, posters, and discussion. @louisemcrae.bsky.social @thiagobacouto.bsky.social @marius-somveille.bsky.social

Next up for #CEECRebellion2026: Our Chairs! 🌿 We are thankful to Prof. Aldina Franco and Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for their advice and guidance to the organizing committee. Stay tuned for more 🦋 @aldinafranco.bsky.social @drgdavidson.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Meet CEEC Rebellion Student Team 2026 🌍 from BIO & ENV. Different roles, same mission 🎯 Save the date 📅 for the CEEC rebellion happening on 18th and 19th March 2026, UEA #CEECRebellion2026 @ueaenv.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Dream seasonal contract! Seasonal shorebird monitoring & public engagement; 27th April – 4th September. Needs driving licence. #ornithology

Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An afternoon of excellent talks linked to islands and adaptation. See attached flier for the schedule and the link to sign up. Everyone is welcome.

Two funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p... #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question: Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates? We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Daniel Jolly, a postgraduate from @ueaenv.bsky.social has been featured by the BBC for his research into how biodegradable wet wipes break down. Watch the interview (from 2:16:37 onwards) 👉 https://bit.ly/44ir4RY Read the article here 👉 https://bit.ly/3LKDegk #ResearchMatters #Academia #WetWipes

New funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p... #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Rebound From Restoration: Assessing the Diversity of Bird Assemblages in Revegetated and Remnant Patches of Critically Endangered Lowland Subtropical Rainforest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Spectacular migration for the UK white storks this year! This stork, born at Knepp this year, is offspring of flightless parents and migrated around the Alps following a Southeastern migration route @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.

New lectureship in conservation biology (fixed term), come and join our group of ecologists and conservation biologists at UEA @ueaenv.bsky.social and @ueaceec.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ517/l...

Had a great time at CEEC Rebellion 2025 😊 @ueaceec.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social Thank you so much to the organisers for an exceptional conference. Photo credit: @drgdavidson.bsky.social

CEEC Rebellion has kicked off!! 1.5 days of exciting talks and plenary sessions!! @ueaceec.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @aldinafranco.bsky.social

The CEEC Rebellion Conference is coming soon! Join us on the 19th & 20th March at ZICER 2.03 for an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest research in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at UEA.

PhD alert! Come work with me, @deonroos.bsky.social and Lorraine Scott to develop & apply geoprofiling to identify breeding sites for mobile species of conservation importance, using citizen-science data & field surveys in a #trait based approach. Deadline 19 Feb! 🌍 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show North American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age. We link this to social learning in novel migration route development. rdcu.be/d57Mw 1/10 #ornithology

New paper looking at avian migration in flocks and how it influences their non-breeding range shifts. See thread. @ueaceec.bsky.social

📢PhD opportunity: Establishing past biodiversity baselines to guide UK wetland & freshwater nature recovery. The research will reconstruct past wetland biodiversity baselines for the Somerset Levels to understand change through time for conservation planning. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

In case you missed it: www.bbc.com/news/article... #SmartBirds #AnimalIntelligence #UniversityofCambridge @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A crisp morning & our final field data collection before Xmas break. We fit 330 great tits & blue tits with RFID tags + sighted 66 resident birds from last year. Ready to test the birds’ gut microbiomes and learning skills in the wild in Jan. Well done team! @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Our latest paper, where we showed how a lactobacillus gut microbe can benefit wild birds, was featured in @forbes.com. Thanks for the article @grrlscientist.bsky.social. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Call out to UK upland entomologists - please do get in contact

Amazing migration of one of the UK white storks. It migrated in December!! and crossed from Plymouth to France, taking app 1h40min. @ueaceec.bsky.social

Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4

One month and one week left to apply to this exciting fully funded PhD project based at UEA, @ueaceec.bsky.social please share www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!

I'm very excited that another of my PhD chapters is published today #OpenAccess in @britishecolsoc.bsky.social People and Nature! We investigate the links between #Birdsongs, #vineyard #soundscapes and #Wellbeing 🐦🍇🎶 🔗https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10721 #ornithology

Any Norwich based naturalists, see here for a range of September events at the new NWT Sweetbriar Marshes reserve www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/events

Job alert! 📢 Are you passionate about birds and data management? 🐦 We’re seeking a dedicated Surveys Support Officer to join our vibrant Surveys Team. For details ➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs #ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs #Ornithology

Associate Professor in Climate Change Ecology https://botany.fyi/td8z97 The Department of Biosciences at Durham University seeks to appoint an Associate Professor with research and teaching interests broadly in the field of climate change ecology. #AcademicSky #PlantSciJobs

To round off #CEEC24 Session 1b, we have a talk from George West on Genetic Rescue: Are outbred or inbred rescuers better?

Next up is Alice Stuart's talk discussing their work on the social acceptability of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG). #CEEC24

To kick off Session 1b at #CEEC24 we have a talk from Claire Buchan: Spatial and temporal variation in the characteristics of natural soundscapes.

Finishing off Session 1a of #CEEC24 is Jessica Peers with her talk: Novel gene pseudogenization in a species with long-term low Ne, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).

Next up is Liliana Fischer with her talk: Individual vs. Social Influences - What determines longevity in social insects?

#CEEC24 starts off with our first plenary talk from Jim Labisko: Right place, right time, and a little bit of luck: an unorthodox route into academia and working with tropical amphibians.

The back-from-hibernation #CEEC24 programme is live: 2 days of talks, posters and quizzery. Join us in person from 9.00am Thursday 07/03 to late on Friday at the Scholars lounge. Please note the new venue: Sportspark 1.27 or follow here on Bluesky

I'm very pleased to share this paper published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social! "Distinct bird communities in forests 🌵 and fruit farms 🥭🍇 of Caatinga landscapes" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Take home: fruticultural expansion = loss of species and community homogenisation | #ornithology