COAL TIT APPRECIATION POST Coal has a lot of negative connotations at this time of year, so let’s give this beautiful little bird some love 🖤 #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife #Nature #Wildlife #Christmas

New paper alert! Microclimate temperatures are more extreme than we previously thought! Near-ground temperatures are amplified in hot weather, cool refugia is lost and replaced with heat traps ☀️🔥🥵 escape from heat will be very hard for small ground-dwelling organisms doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Wytham gives, david takes.

Great talk by @rona-learmonth.bsky.social at #BES2025 on the absence of small scale local adaptation by winter moths to oak tree bud burst. Read more in this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

***New** Latest wild bird trends in Europe: Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) indicators 1980–2024. Data = 168 bird species, 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ebcc.info 🐦@rspbscience.bsky.social pecbms.info/european-wil... pecbms.info/trends-and-i...

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

This week's seminar - last of this term - is our annual Christmas Seminar. We're welcoming Prof Tim Birkhead back to where he studied as a DPhil student ~50 years ago (can you can spot him in this 1978 photo?) Tim will be talking about "Sperm to Egg: Making a Biologist" - 3pm LT1 in the LaMB

‘Game changer’: System to track small animals from space takes flight—again | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology

Just a reminder of this week’s Seminar - 3.30 in LT1 in the LaMB

Someone know the authors?? Have they account here??? I have a doubt to ask them

This week’s EGI seminar will be given by @peterkorsten.bsky.social from Aberystwyth on the ecology of behavioural variation in the wild at 3.30pm Friday 5 Dec - LT1 in @biology.ox.ac.uk. All welcome & live-streamed: see joining details below.

El restaurante Kresala, de Barcelona ("Un tribut als pobles pesquers d'Euskadi") ha organizado un banquete en el que se han servido 15 kg de angula. Unos 30000 individuos de una especie En Peligro Crítico de Extinción José Carlos Capel lo cuenta en IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRuw4bVCOc... Va hilo

Thermal physiology meets quantitative genetics - our new paper explores the drivers of body temperature in nestling sparrows #ornithology @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

#AcademicRant Can we talk **again** about conference registration fees? I'd love to attend "big" conferences, but with EARLY-BIRD fees of €650, I just can't. And I am based in Western Europe. I'd also like to point out the total lack of remote attendance options. Who are those conferences for? 😤

Our next seminar on #UrbanEcology is in less than two weeks. This time it's on a Wednesday! This time, Juan Diego Ibáñez Álamo (@animalecpurban.bsky.social) from @universidadgranada.bsky.social will be talking about landscape configuration of urban green areas. 🔗 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

There are still two more weeks to apply for the PhD position on nematodes, isotopes, metals and PFAS in the terns. Don't be shy to reach out when having questions about it either. :-)

Just a reminder of today’s @egioxford.bsky.social seminar - all welcome

We are looking for a PhD student to join the Animal ECO Urban group (University of Granada).

Reposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link: We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...

A great seminar from @mmoiron.bsky.social walking us through how to disentangle the causes of similarity among partners & the estimation & implications of indirect effects in natural populations

This week’s seminar will be given by Prof Daniel Field of @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social on the origins of modern birds. 3.30pm Friday 28 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk - all welcome & see below for live streaming joining information

A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026. Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more. 👉 evoxeco.uk 👈

New publication: Phenological Plasticity and Its #Temperature-Related Drivers in Common #Songbirds Across Europe. #climatechange #phenology doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

There is still time (until 25 Nov) to apply for this #postdoc position 🐦. Get in touch if you have questions. Details 👇 @erc.europa.eu @evoldir.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

I was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>

Pedigree = Crane’s foot 🤯

Nice way to split the week :-)

Welcome to #BOUasm25 “A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world” the BOU’s autumn conference. Today we’ll be in-person at the Natural History Museum (London) and online on Teams Follow the #BOUasm25 feed to stay updated. #ornithology 🪶

This week's @egioxford.bsky.social seminar is by @mmoiron.bsky.social at 3.30 on Friday. Still a highlight of the week getting people together and hearing about new science

This week's EGI seminar is being given by Dr Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social of the University of Bielefeld at 3.30pm on Friday 21 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk. See below for online joining details - all welcome!

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Estamos preparando una movida guapa...

📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT "The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"

🎄🎄🎄 Delighted to announce that this year's EGI Christmas Seminar will be given by Prof Tim Birkhead at 3pm on Friday 12 December - in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building in @biology.ox.ac.uk 🎄🎄🎄

Welcome to this week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk when Prof Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social from @monashbiol.bsky.social will talk on The Evolution of Metabolic Rate and Life History: 3.30pm Fri 14 Nov in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Life & Mind Building. Also live-streamed: instructions ⬇️

This is really cool!

New paper out, the last one from my PhD 🎓! Age shapes behaviour, survival, and reproduction. By using longterm great tit data, we ask whether age covaries with territory quality, and if territories show spatial age structure over time: tinyurl.com/ya2xp3zc

Fantastic news. 😍

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

We're all looking forward to this week's seminar, being given by Kristen Ruegg from Colorado State University on the power of avian landscape genomics in the Genoscape Project. Seminar at 3.30pm on Friday 7 Nov in Lecture Theatre 1 in LaMB. Welcome in person or to join online - details ⬇️

Avocetta journal is now also on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/avoc... Follow us for news regarding our articles and other ornithological news! 🦜

Very happy to finally have this out! 🎉 A review of the diets of European insectivorous birds. Huge thanks to Klaus Birkhofer, @johanekroos.bsky.social, @henrikgsmith.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🙏 #ornithology @biologylu.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @helsinki.fi doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Reminder of today’s seminar at 1530 - actually will be in Lecture Theatre 1 - come along!!

Similar optimism (tho that ofc was a croc-eyed optimist)

I'm very excited to go back to Oxford, where I did my undergrad, to talk about the group's recent work on jackdaws and what it tells us about the evolution of sociality and cognition!