New Woodland Birds Virtual Issue of IBIS in celebration of the #BOUatEOU symposium. Check out all these (free-to-access) great papers:

🔊 VACANCY Could you be our next Conference Support Officer? Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... ⏰ Deadline: 29 August #ornithology 🪶

📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept. Short deadline: 21st July Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE Any questions, then please email: [email protected] #phdchat #funding

We have developed guidelines on how to give linguistically friendly presentations in English for #ICCB2025 presenters. Please have a read to make your presentation inclusive. Amazing work led by @elizeyxng.bsky.social et al. docs.google.com/document/d/1... @iccb2025.bsky.social #languagebarriers

Want to join our team of friendly, fun (personal opinion) and interdisciplinary fellows at @dice-kent.bsky.social? We’re interested in researching nature recovery from ecological, social and policy perspectives Happy to chat about my life as a fellow! Apply 👇 🌎 #ConservationScience

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The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#BOUatEOU #ornithology 🪶 SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

Our new #DrForest paper has found canopy density & tree species diversity have varying impacts on health & wellbeing 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #foresthealth #biodiversity #urbanforests #forestmanagement #environmentalhealth #urbanplanning #research #Sustainability

More exciting synchrony-based results can be read in the paper and many happy hours can be spent exploring our maps of abundance and demographic synchrony here: synchrony.uea.ac.uk. @jengill.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

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Really looking forward to #BioBlitz 2025 at @dice-kent.bsky.social tomorrow! There’s still time to book yourself onto free walks and surveys that are running all day tomorrow 👇 🦅 🦇 🐞 🐝 🌱 🌻 🦔

Join @dice-kent.bsky.social for #BioBlitz 2025 on the 17th May 🌱 🪲 🐸 🐝 🦡 🌺 This is a family friendly event where we try to record as many species as possible! We’ve lots of free events! Find them all and sign up here 👉 lnkd.in/e5kjJRmd Why not join me for a walk to learn about #soundscapes? 🐦🔉

⚠️⏰ The deadline is today!! ⚠️⏰

⚠️⏰ The deadline is today!! ⚠️⏰

📢 BOU at #EOU2025 Join us for a woodland birds symposium on EOU registration day 18 August | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#EOU2025#BOUatEOUSPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social #ornithology

🎉 New paper out in Forest Ecology and Management. Effect of bark beetle outbreak and salvage logging on tree-related microhabitats in Białowieża Forest www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Based on the internship report of MSc student Flora van Eupen. A wonderful achievement for her!

1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology

⚠️ 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!

I promise this is the last post about this! If you followed any #BOU2025 on Bluesky, or if you added in person, please please 🙏 fill out this survey today! 💭 We really want to know what everyone liked and disliked about our first Bluesky #conference It only takes 5 minutes ⏰ 👇 #ornithology 🪶

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 🪶

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Conservation efforts could more effectively identify bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of conditions they need to thrive, says a new UEA-led study.🐦🌦️ Read more: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a... #UEAResearch #Birddeclines #ClimateChange

⚠️ Passionate about science communication? Join our team! We are looking for the next Social Media support officer 🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the... ⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025 Get in touch with our current officer if you have questions @natbzielonka.bsky.social #ornithology 🪶 Please repost!

📢Just two days left to fill out our Bluesky conferences survey following #BOU2025 💭 Did you follow the #conference on Bluesky? If so, did you enjoy it? If not, why not? 👇 see link below! #ornithology

⏰ DEADLINE IS A WEEK TODAY - Submit now! ⚠️ #BOUasm25 | A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world 📅 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London 🚨 Oral abstract deadline: 15 April 🔗 bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🪶🧪

Relax in a local greenspace and make your birdwatching count with our new Birds in Greenspaces survey - for all experience levels, anywhere in NI! If you're in Derry-Londonderry we'd especially love your feedback to help us improve this programme. More here ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces-... #ukbirding

Help us (the British Ornithologists' Union) understand how our community uses Bluesky during conferences - whether you attended in person, followed #BOU2025 online, or none of the above, please fill out this short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Did you follow #BOU2025 on Bluesky? 💬 If so, how did you find it? If not, why not? Please take 5 minutes 🕰️ to complete our survey: forms.gle/dVNDYs8wg5...#BOU2025 Your views will inform the future of our Bluesky conferences! #ornithology 🪶🧪 #conservationscience 🌎 Please repost!

⏰ ABSTRACT DEADLINE APPROACHING Submit now! #BOUasm25 | A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London Oral abstract deadline: 15 April bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 #ornithology

Shorebirds are more mobile than you might think - and that makes it hard to assess potential environmental impacts of new developments. Blog about important paper from 7 April 2023: wadertales.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/c... #ConservationScience🌍

Please please please fill this out 🙏 we are trying to understand people’s perspectives of hosting scientific conferences on Bluesky 🦋 and everyone’s viewpoint is super helpful #BOU2025 #ornithology 🪶 Please share with your networks / feeds

🧵4/6 Last, but by no means least, a big thank you to the Scientific Programme Committee and the #BOU2025 support team Christine Howard, Ailidh Barnes, @buchanding.bsky.social, Oliver Leedham, Marius Somveille, Ondrej Belfin, Angela Langford, Leila Walker, @natbzielonka.bsky.social

🧵1/7 What do massive insect crashes mean for insectivorous birds? And can aquatic habitats help? Today at #BOU2025 I'm exploring how aquatic habitats might help to buffer declining insectivore populations, using the Spotted Flycatcher as an example. #ornithology

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

A super talk this morning by Becki Lawson about wildlife health and how citizen science supports the research 👇 #conservationscience 🌎 #ukbirding

1/🧵 #BOU2025 #CitizenScience #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #Ornithology 🌏🧪 Hi, I’m Becki Lawson, a wildlife vet at @zslofficial.bsky.social, and today I will be exploring disease surveillance in wild birds in light of the overall health of people, animals, and the ecosystem – in short: One Health.

1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵 #ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪

1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology

1/6 Monitoring some #seabird species using observer-based methods is difficult, this can lead to infrequent data collection, or none at all Little data on populations= limited ability to understand how threats may impact these species #BOU2025

#BOU2025 MJE 1/6 Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in #ornithology requires field data. Technological advances can provide new sorts of data and more efficient data gathering in general. We should constantly be on the lookout for such opportunities.

1/6 Tidal stream environments are unique marine habitats characterised by fast tidal currents. Knowledge of how #seabirds use these areas for foraging is scarce. @tomgale98.bsky.social is at #BOU2025 presenting work on understanding drivers of habitat selection of Shags in these environments...

The Anthropocene is characterised by: ⚠️ biodiversity declines ⚠️ extinction of experience ⚠️ declining wellbeing At #BOU2025, I'm talking about how it may be possible to address all 3 challenges 🔗 besjournals.onlineli...#BOU2025, 1/6 🧵 #ornithology #conservationscience #bioacoustics 🔊🧪🪶🌍

Amazing thread about using bioacoustics in ornithology

A great start to #BOU2025 today with a talk by Ben from @migrationbio.bsky.social presenting this super paper 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #ornithology 🪶 #migrationresearch #movementecology🧪🌐

Day 1 of the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference is underway. Benjamin Van Doren @illinoispress.bsky.social presents a recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on migration sociality & its potential role in migratory decision making + mediating collision risk in urban areas. #BOU2025

The second day of #BOU2025 is starting and I'm looking forward to a series of threads that will be posted here on Bluesky #ornithology 🪶🧪

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

We've got another member of the "Bizarre monsters from the Cretaceous" club. Please meet this parasitic wasp that had a "flytrap" in its ass. In @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...