Very thoughtful and interesting blogpost by the EiC of @oikosjournal.bsky.social on the value of double-blind peer review in today’s publishing landscape. Well worth reading!

🧬 Excited to present some of our recent research on 🐦‍⬛: (1/3) Contrary to expectations, migratory Eurasian blackbirds had longer telomeres than residents at a major stopover (Helgoland), despite similar mitochondrial DNA copy numbers 🔗 #OpenAccess nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎥 Video abstract: part of the price of the JAB Review Award is a video abstract of the winning article - offering an accessible snapshot of the paper’s key takeaways 🏆 @nordicoikos.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social @pcapi.bsky.social #earlycareer #ornithology #birds #microbiome #migration

Thrilled to share my very first paper with you, now out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! We investigated whether innate immune function varies during moult in adult & juvenile blackbirds (undergoing complete or partial moult).

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology ➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring #ornithology

We are excited to present to you the keynote speakers of #NSO2026 and #gfoe2026! First off is @jessicakabbott.bsky.social, professor of evolutionary genetics at @lund-university.bsky.social, Sweden. She works on the evolution of sex differences and sex chromosomes. @gfoesoc.bsky.social

🚨 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

Submit your thematic session proposal by Friday, 16 January! @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social

🎉 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

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

I’ve asked this exact question 👇to editors-in-chief of many (even society) journals. Many answered “because it’s been always like that”. Even though we know that it can reduce some biases. So what’s to loose by being double-blinded?! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What's on your #BES2025 schedule today? We will be at the How to get published-workshop together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social to talk about just that! And if you can't make it today, the same workshop is taking place tomorrow.

🎉 Congratulations to @tashgillies.bsky.social and @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social, the runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award! 🏆 Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q #ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution

🎉 Congratulations to @pcapi.bsky.social and @alice-risely.bsky.social, the winners of the 2025 JAB review award for the best mini-review by early career researchers! 🏆 Winning article: vist.ly/4iq5m #ornithology #birds #award #review #microbiome #migration

Are you working on ageing in birds? Or maybe using PAM in your bird research? Come and see me at #BES2025 !

Come and meet us at #BES2025 + learn more about our society and our journals!

Well deserved!

Are you an ECR attending #BES2025 looking for some tips to help get your research published? 💭 Come along to our workshop, organised by @britishecologicalsociety.org, @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be covering each aspect of the academic publishing journey 📚

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. :-)

Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026! 📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark Open call for workshops & thematic sessions! Deadlines: Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026 Workshops: 17 Apr 2026 👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx #Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Not too late to state interest and contribute! Of particular interest at this point: studies related to immunosenescence, senescence of flight performance and studies looking at links between metabolome/proteome and senescence. All details in link below. Questions? Just get in touch!

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

@fieldornith.bsky.social new position search!

📣 🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT: issue 5 of 2025 is now complete! All content open access here: vist.ly/4cxmj Cover depicting a rock partridge pair featuring Bernard-Laurent et al: vist.ly/4cxmn Cover 📷 Jean Guillet #ornithology #birds #research #ecology #evolution #behaviour #hypotheses

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

🎤GUEST EDITOR INTERVIEW: read about the key takeaways, guest editor experience and the gaps in our understanding of the effects of human-induced changes on avian reproduction in the interview with Judith, Juan Diego and Elisa ➡️ vist.ly/4a4h5 #ornithology #birds #reproduction #humanchanges

Please welcome our new EiC: Christine Meynard! vist.ly/495uz

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...

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

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

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/46pfg Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨 "Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change" Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n #ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

Lund University is seeking a postdoc/researcher for an ERC project on gene expression in hybrid Italian sparrows. One-year position with potential extension. Apply here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:833332/ #postdoc

Thanks for a great #EOU2025 . If you are already thinking about where to go next, why not consider the #NSO2026 to present your avian research? Keep an eye on the webpage for important dates and news about the event: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic... @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Welcome to the new EOU President, Peter Pap, holding the traditional symbol of office! #EOU2025

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Congrats to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for a nice presentation at #EOU2025 about the effects of weather variability on CORT levels of migratory birds. Read the full paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @avianbiology.bsky.social #ornithology #birds 🪶

Interesting talk by #ArneHegemann to take MOTUS one step further linking tracking data to physiology at #EOU2025

#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on the importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution. Lots of great results in the talks from the different speakers! LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30 @alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social

#EOU2025 You are very welcome to join me during my talk to think about #urbanisation, #migration and #evolution. PS - If the science isn't of your interest, I promise cute pictures of owls... PPS - If you can't attend the talk but are interested in the project, follow us on Insta @migralight

[Please RT] Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology

Supernice editor dinner with 12 @avianbiology.bsky.social editors and 1 @oikosjournal.bsky.social editor at #EOU2025 ! Amazing food & great company, discussing research, publishing and conferencing. @nordicoikos.bsky.social is lucky to have you on the editorial boards!

Cool experimental study by @jaime-muriel.bsky.social at #EOU2025 with lots of interesting effects!

Any questions about the upcoming special issue? Are you at #EOU2025 ? Come to the @nordicoikos.bsky.social stand 17-17:30 today during the poster session! Guest editor Jan Engler will be there to tell you more about it and to answer questions. #ornithology #birds 🪶

Fantastic plenary talk by @anticac.bsky.social about the importance of open science in bird (and all) research. Publication bias, FAIR data and open code #EOU2025 @sortee.bsky.social #ornithology

📌 I really enjoyed @pablosalmon.bsky.social’s talk at #EOU2025! 🐦 Exploring how #mitochondria may shape avian #migration — lessons from Eurasian #blackbirds with different strategies. Great insights into the energetic basis of life-history strategies!