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Still buzzing from this weekend’s festival on Amsterdam’s closed ring road, part of the city’s 750th birthday celebrations. A unique chance to share our science and all about the birds 🪶 moving in and above the city. It's not every day you get to do #scicomm 🧪 at a festival w/ 250,000 attendees!

We are hiring a new PhD candidate 🎉as part of the No-REGRETS (NOrth Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the TranSition) consortium. If you are excited too, have what we are looking for and interested in joining us please apply. #ornithology #animalmovement

Meet the team: @judyshamounb.bsky.social, Stacy Shinneman, Maja Bradarić, @barthoekstra.bsky.social, Johannes De Groeve, Berend-Christiaan Wijers, Jan Geisler, Nomikos Skyllas, @shreyasgadge.bsky.social, Roberto Cappabianca, @eldarrak.bsky.social, Bart Kranstauberm and Emilie Manzo

Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

Het neerslagtekort in Nederland is opgelopen tot 91 mm, net zo hoog als rond deze tijd in het recorddroge jaar 1976. De droogte begon dit jaar al vroeg en zal door het uitblijven van neerslag de komende weken verder toenemen. 🔗 www.knmi.nl/over-het-knm...

The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

PHD OPPORTUNITY aiming to examine/investigate key sources of pollution, the resulting ecological impacts, and beyond. 📅 Deadline 11th June Part of The de Freitas Studentship, to improve access and participation in PhD study for Black British students. 🏆 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌐🦤🌊🧪🦑

I have created my first starter pack!!!! It focuses on movement ecology as a scientific discipline. If we reach 150 members I will create Movement Ecology II. go.bsky.app/F4ZLXcx

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

I can't stop watching these!

We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....

⚠️ Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse? Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology. 🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...#ornithology ⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025 🪶🧪 Please repost!

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Please come and take my job! I’ve been the social media support officer for the @bou.org.uk for almost 4 years and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it! I made so many new friends, met new colleagues, attended many amazing conferences and learnt a lot. This is an ideal role for #ECR folks in #ornithology 🪶

Another 10 days to apply for a 2-year fixed term Lecturership in Conservation Ecology @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social join us @ueaenv.bsky.social and @ueaenv.bsky.social

📡 Weather radars = animal tracking goldmine! #GloBAM ( #BiodivScen) and #HiRAD ( #BiodivMon) present datasets unlocking continental-scale bird movements. 141 radar stations in 18 countries, from 2008 to 2023!

An outcome of years of collaboration among ecologists, meteorologists and open science developers, working together to support a broader research community #ornithology and radar aeroecology. Supported by eCOST, @biodiversaplus.bsky.social and more. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you @bou.org.uk for nominating me for the award lecture and to a great audience, who had my heart racing for the whole talk! Now time to relax and enjoy talks to come on Frontiers in #ornithology @ #BOU2025. Special shout out to @natbzielonka.bsky.social for the thread below

📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Eligible events: #AOS25 (11-15 August) #EOU2025 (18-22 August), #BOUasm25 (18 Nov) & AOC2025 (18-20 Nov) ⏰ Deadline: 30 May 2025 bou.org.uk/funding/m...#AOS25#EOU2025#BOUasm25amornith.bsky.social @eounion.bsky.social @birdlifeoz.bsky.social #ornithology

What a nice welcome to bluesky! This is such an incredible honor, just a few more days until #BOU2025, lucky too because every time I think about my presentation I get butterflies in my stomach. #ornithology

1/2 A brief introduction to some of our research through this storymap summarizing our project "Interactions between birds and offshore windfarms" with links our papers. Funded by NWO, @rijkswaterstaat.bsky.social & Gemini windpark storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/51e7...