For urban birds, vegetation acts as a natural buffer against urban stress. Even vegetated noisy areas can support high functional diversity, when human access is restricted. #UrbanEcology #Birds #Modelling #FunctionalDiversity New paper out @springernature.com / Urban Ecosystems 🪶🏘️

Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.

Exciting 5 year postdoc position in Berlin!

‪📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors. Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities ▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr

Please RT! 📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling. 🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦 Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

🐾 Our PhD student Yutong Liang presented her first project on lynx excursion behaviour at the Movement Ecology of Animals conference (25 July to 1 August) in Ventura, CA with a poster and flash talk! 🎤📊🐱 #GordonResearchConference #MovementEcology #WildlifeResearch #Lynx #PhDLife

✨ New preprint! "Too few, too many, or just right?" 🌍🌎🌏 We explore how to evaluate study design in animal tracking studies by assessing sampling duration, interval, and, now, the number of individuals needed for reliable population-level estimates. #movementecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage. go.nature.com/41PkgKn

Published 📖 🥳 In a new meta-analysis @mariusgrabow.bsky.social studied whether subtle infection, traditionally often considered as relatively benign, affect phenotypic and demographic traits. Using avian blood parasites, causing #avianmalaria as an example, we performed a systematic review 🧵

Finally back in the field with @ecodynizw.bsky.social Currently erecting some ATLAS antennas at our new field site 🚀 #movementecology

🐦 Eine gemeinsame Studie von #TUBerlin, @unipotsdam.bsky.social & Leibniz-IZW zeigt: Mit Blutparasiten infizierte Stare bewegen sich weniger, suchen in schlechteren Gebieten nach Futter & ihre Küken sind im Schnitt 12% leichter. Das kann gravierende Auswirkungen auf nachfolgende Generationen haben.⬇️

Starlings really are the most extraordinary-looking birds...

I have created a Movement Ecology feed here on Bluesky! 🌍🐾 bsky.app/profile/did:... Currently, it tracks posts with the #movementecology, #animalmovement, #animalmigration, and #wildlifetracking tags from contributors. 🔹 Want to be added? Message me or reply here! #Ecology #WildlifeResearch

Postdoc Alert 🚨

Shiny Happy Pheasants🎵 Looking for someone with decent Shiny App skills to put together app for conservation managers to explore pheasant movement data. All backend analytical code is completed. Now needs GUI frontend developed ~1-2 months work (paid!), can be remote Interested? Reply/DM Pls RT

PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch [email protected]

The weekend was all about capturing Rough-legged buzzards, kestrels, and other birds of prey in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany *all birds handled by trained professionals under a banding permit #birdringing #birdmigration #science

Free Workshop on #wildlife demographic resilience 7th-8th August 2025 in Berlin, Germany - great course, great lectureres, great location! #population #demography temporal variation #RStats #models ▶️ www.leibniz-izw-akademie.com/seminare/wor...