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Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

Delighted to have contributed to this study published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🐦🌙 Multi-sensor tracking across 56 species revealed that 82% of migratory flights are entirely nocturnal. Congrats to @pauldufour80.bsky.social and all collaborators! | #ornithology #birdmigration

🐦️ Passerine birds in temperate Europe can fill a role as pollinators, and this may be most functional when the availability of insects, as both pollinators and food, is least reliable 👉️ buff.ly/bIrvaGY

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/...

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Great to see this new stable sulfur isotope map (δ34S) and its application for tracing outbreak dispersal events in insects! 🌐 Time to move on with the pan-African sulfur isoscape we work on. #insects #movement #migration #isotopes Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧵 Excited to share my final PhD paper in Ecology Letters! A classic question in ecology is why some clades contain more species in local assemblages than others. We argue that part of the answer lies in the timing of speciation itself. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]

How to force a @nature.com retraction and get zero credit for it. A short thread on "invisible correctors" and bibliographic erasure in top-tier journals. 🧵 Read the full behind-the-scenes story at @retractionwatch.com below. Our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #OpenScience #ZebraFinch

Our (Jenny Dunn, Carolina Chagas, @willjsmith.bsky.social) paper on the evolution of island Wrens is finally out @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We describe the evolution of island gigantism in the St Kilda and Shetland subspecies. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Registration and abstract submission for #Ecology2026 are open! 🌿🐛🐦 Join the 10th Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology in Prague (9–11 Sept 2026) Early-bird registration & abstract: 15 June More info: www.cspe.cz/konference/e... @ceskaekologie.bsky.social #Ecology #Ecologyconference

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New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Why don’t Common Cuckoo host races turn into separate species? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/w... Based on the Science paper by Justin Merondun et al. | #ornithology

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

New in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biol Lett: 🐦 Thrush nightingales migrate at night and stay completely inactive during the day while crossing ecological barriers 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... 👏 @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social @hedenstrom.bsky.social #ornithology #birdmigration #animalbehavior

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

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New paper in Animal Behaviour: After centuries of debate, we finally have direct evidence that common cuckoos use different egg-laying tactics 🥚 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Check the appendix videos! #ornithology #broodparasitism #cuckoo @animbehsociety.bsky.social @ivb-cas.bsky.social

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

New paper on common cuckoo behaviour is out! When cuckoo females parasitize a nest, they always take an egg out. And we found that they strongly prefer red over green experimental eggs. Check what we think about it: doi.org/10.1016/j.be... @lisandrinamari.bsky.social

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email [email protected] 📧

Wonderful seminar today by @pauldufour80.bsky.social on how vagrancy in birds can help us understand aspects of bird migration! Particularly interesting to see the altitude Richard’s Pipits reach each night during migration (27:50) Now also on YouTube! m.youtube.com/watch?v=UD1h...

📡 Woodcock male Yeti is back! 🪶 Last data were from 17 Sept at Jizerka. It turns out he wintered near Helston, UK 🇬🇧! He left on 10 March and via 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪 reached the Czech Republic on 14 March. 📍Now he is near Raspenava, close to “home”. 🗺️Map: waderscope.fzp.czu.cz/en/r-20738-w...

A winter journey from Brno to the Alps 🐦⛰️ On 2 Dec 2025, we colour-ringed two young Black Redstarts at a brownfield site in Brno (Czechia): L5 and M0. Both birds disappeared soon afterwards. Then something unexpected happened… 🧵👇 #birdringing #blackredstart #BrnoRedstarts

🐦📡 The male woodcock Xixao from the Brdy Mountains is back. Until the end of February he stayed in the forests of Normandy 🇫🇷. He started his migration on Feb 28, which took him 4 nights, flying each evening from 18:00 until after 2:00 a.m. 🌙 Map: waderscope.fzp.czu.cz/en/r-20738-w...

PhD position: Evolutionary Physiology of Avian Energetics Review of the applications begins on March 16, 2026, and continues until the position is filled. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/413707

New paper links Salmonellosis disease dynamics to avian irruptions mediated by transmission at bird feeders - with subsequent spillover to humans causing severe illness and death 🪶🌎 #ornithology #UKBirding www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #BirdFeeding #Rethink @mwtingley.bsky.social

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Call for Volunteers – Antikythera Bird Observatory (Spring 2026) The Antikythera Bird Observatory (ABO), run by the Hellenic Ornithological Society, is looking for volunteers for the Spring 2026 migration season 📅 25 March – 30 May 2026 #BirdMigration #Volunteering #Ornithology #Conservation

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

🎉 Abstract submission is open for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 in Gdańsk, Poland (27–29 March 2026)! 📝 Submit your oral/poster abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Deadline: 16 Jan 2026 More info: eounion.org/fledglings #EOU26 #Ornithology

✈️ Great news! Travel grants for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting are available thanks to the German Ornithologists’ Society (DO-G, @dornitholges.bsky.social), supporting early-career researchers attending #EOU26 in Gdańsk. ℹ️ Details & eligibility: eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/travel/ #Ornithology

🦅 New Research - Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long-lived bird of prey. "It gives us better understanding of the role of early experience in selection of breeding sites in long-lived species with high breeding site fidelity" 📖 buff.ly/z8j4gn0

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

New paper on brood parasite genomics! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🟠 Je 1. prosince a začíná další ročník mapování rehků domácích zimujících v Česku. Zapojte se! 🌐 www.birdlife.cz/zacina-dalsi... 📲 Svá pozorování zadávejte na avif.birds.cz do databáze Avif (či prostřednictvím stejnojmenné aplikace).

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We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New article! Researchers GPS-tracked 349 individuals across 18 species. Result? 👉 Home range scaling is sex-driven — and we were missing it. 🐆 🦌 🐗 With NINA-researcher Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr dos Santos and many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...

Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds* Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

Storch et al. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Cradles, museums & disequilibria: authors.elsevier.com/a/1m5jLcZ3X3... Equilibrium dynamics clarify biodiversity patterns: tropics may now sit above equilibrium, while temperate zones act as today’s cradles @cts.cuni.cz @graceridder.bsky.social

There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

BehaveAI is live! Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease. Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source. Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI