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!

If you are an early career researcher and at #EOU2025 come to the @nordicoikos.bsky.social booth and learn all about our @avianbiology.bsky.social review award. 🪶🏆 #birds #ornithology www.avianbiology.org/authors/jab-...

Come and see me at #EOU2025 ! Here all week and looking forward to hear about exciting bird research 🪶

If anyone fancys joining me and Jan-Åke Nilsson at Patrick’s Irish Bar in Bangor for a beer, you are mist welcome! #EOU2025

In her short career as an ornithological illustrator, Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841) produced over 650 lithographic plates, a significant contribution to the natural history of birds. Picture Curator Katherine Marshall uncovers her story on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2025/07...

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Lots of exciting research in issue 3!

📢 Now #hiring: @canjzoology.bsky.social is recruiting an #ECR Associate Editor! This is a great volunteer opportunity for a postdoc or early-career faculty member to gain editorial experience and build connections! ▶️ buff.ly/hpVApYd #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers @sonjabjelobaba.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social et al. edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

IN-DEPTH: read the blogpost about the mechanisms in dark-eyed juncos that match timing of migration and reproduction to the seasonal appearance of resources where breeding will occur ➡️ vist.ly/3n86k94 🚨Also contains informative videos about decades of junco research! #ornithology #birds 🧪🪶

Plenty of time to apply for this #postdoc in my group :) #genetics #microbiome #ecophysiology #evolution #avian #ECR

NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology studying foraging distribution of coastal #seabirds in #France: buff.ly/qBWQMVZ

Time flies! Save the date for the deadline of the 2026 review competition. Evaluation of the 2025 submissions is underway 😊

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

The JAB Editorial Board is happy to welcome Paul Dufour as a new subject editor! Read the short introductory interview: vist.ly/3n67rs7 @nordicoikos.bsky.social @pauldufour80.bsky.social‬ #ornithology #birds #migration #evolution #biogeography #movement #vagrancy

We are aiming for a broad range of contributions! From behavioural/cognitive senescence to physiological ageing and variation in senescence patterns across species and environments. See full list of suggested topics in link below. Get in touch if interested to contribute! Please repost 🙏

The DOG is awarding five travel grants of 400 Euro each to young scientists presenting a talk or poster at the 15th EOU Congress in Wales. Further information can be found here: www.do-g.de. Apply now!

Our special issue in @avianbiology.bsky.social is waiting for your contribution! Submit your work on #senescence #ageing #ornithology #birds Send us (@jaime-muriel.bsky.social @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jj255.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres) an email to state your interest

NEW ISSUE: read the full second issue of 2025 here: vist.ly/3n3t9ne The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe' by @steffopp.bsky.social et al. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.