⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

📣Job vacancy!📣 Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #ConservationScience 🌍

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

Biodiversity and human health www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our latest research shows that people who perceive local nature as rich and varied reported better wellbeing and less psychological distress, regardless of how many trees were actually there. Blog summary and link to full paper: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...

🚨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...

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...

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

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

And we’re delighted to have you join us! Here’s to four years exploring sex ratios and synchrony @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @jengill.bsky.social @catmorrison.bsky.social @btorobrob.bsky.social

Excited to have officially started my PhD at UEA! I’ve put together a blog about my PhD application process. I hope it offers some insight for anyone about to start their own journey. Especially for mothers who are juggling it all ✨ Thanks to @stemuntapped stemuntapped.org/rejection-do...

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

“If you've ever felt calmer after a walk in the park or a stroll through the woods, it's not your imagination - it's biology.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

📢🚨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

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’

Latest government stats show a continued decline in many bird species across the UK 🪶🧪 www.gov.uk/government/s... These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | www.science.org/doi/... | Science Advances | #ornithology 🪶

🎤Excited to be presenting at the britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting #BES2025! My talk: Birdsong as a Cultural Ecosystem Service: Understanding the pathways linking acoustic indices to human well-being 🐦🌿 #EnvironmentaPsychology @konraduebel.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social

Great to chat #shiftingsoundscapes with @bengarrod.bsky.social as part of his “Symphonies of the Wild” series for BBC Radio 3’s The Essay. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Get in touch if you want to know more

🌿🔊 New research find natural soundscapes—especially those rich in bird song—boost mental well-being. But how? 🧠✨ We found that these soundscapes work first through perceptions of bird diversity, and then building (awe) & restoring (stress reduction, restorativeness) capacity pathways.

Nice story of a 'European' Roller - equipped with a satellite tag over winter in South Africa, tracked up the east coast of Africa and across the Gulfs of Adan and Oman, to breed in north-west China - where it was eventually found by local ornithologists www.birdlife.org/news/2025/08...

This is a huge mistake. My experience on NERC panels is that resubmissions score higher and are more likely to be funded: the review process improves good proposals that should not be lost (along with the time spent on them).

Our new #OpenAccess paper How can long-term #ecology studies survive & resist political & social change, authoritarianism, war, but also embrace positive change? The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Can we see — and hear — biodiversity? New research in @peopleandnature.bsky.social shows people can assess forest biodiversity accurately using visual and acoustic clues, like birdsong, colour, and light. @uni-jena.de @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de www.idiv.de/study-shows-...

How biodiverse you think a place is more important for psychological benefits, than the actual number of species there. But what info do we use when making our judgements about how biodiverse a place is? Read our @peopleandnature.bsky.social blog post 👇 relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/06/25/p...

New paper out today in @natecoevo.nature.com on biodiversity & human wellbeing in UK forests, both seasonally and along a gradient of socioeconomic deprivation Funded by @erc.europa.eu and Woodland Trust 🌳, with lovely @dice-kent.bsky.social team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have a new paper out, in which we use brute force to identify combinations of land use/management changes which navigate the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity conservation and food production: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ConservationScience 🌍 @rspbscience.bsky.social 1/

Want to join our team of friendly, fun (personal opinion) and interdisciplinary fellows at @dice-kent.bsky.social? We’re interested in researching nature recovery from ecological, social and policy perspectives Happy to chat about my life as a fellow! Apply 👇 🌎 #ConservationScience

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

Great thread from @catmorrison.bsky.social on our recent Ecology Letters paper, which includes a lovely shinyapp to explore maps of synchrony in number, productivity and survival in European landbirds @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology

More exciting synchrony-based results can be read in the paper and many happy hours can be spent exploring our maps of abundance and demographic synchrony here: synchrony.uea.ac.uk. @jengill.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Using wavelet analysis, we show that synchrony in both demographic rates occurred more commonly over long timescales in European-resident species and short timescales in subSaharan-migrant species.

Using spatial correlograms we estimated the scale and strength of synchrony and show that synchrony is strongest and largest scale in productivity and weakest and smallest scale in count.

Our new OA paper is out: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology Using @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site data spanning 12 countries across Europe we explore geographic and temporal variation in synchrony in counts, productivity and survival rates.

New 📄 📣: Fab new paper using @euring.bsky.social ringing data to explore the geography of demographic synchrony in European land birds, and its implications for abundance synchrony | Ecology Letters | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @catmorrison.bsky.social @jengill.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Very happy to see this new paper led by @catmorrison.bsky.social out, using the amazing data collected by @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site ringers to reveal how demographic synchrony influences fluctuations in abundance of landbirds across Europe @simon-butler.bsky.social #ornithology

Something to sing about: Being both in and connected to nature unite human and nature’s wellbeing. Our latest research paper is available open access: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... And a blog summary: findingnature.org.uk/2025/05/14/s...

New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.

PhD opportunity in #Ecoacoustics at MMU - come and work with us! 🌍🌎🦗🐦🌱🪶🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are looking for two PhD researchers to work on the resilience of #biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a landscape gradient in the #Netherlands! 4-years, fully funded, great place @w-u-r.bsky.social, apply by 12.5.24. Feel free to get in touch with questions! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

New📄'Developing spatially comparable biodiversity indicators using objective scale-dependent species selection' @rspb.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🐦🐦

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...

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.

🔈 BOOK YOUR PLACE AT #BOU2025! Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK & on Bluesky ⏰ Early-bird rates end 3 Feb Programme & registration: bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025! #ornithology #ukbirds 🪶