One more week to apply!

Last few weeks to apply!

Happy Birthday to us! 🎉  The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451!  This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world. #UofG575

Our new paper by Katie Crawford @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is out! OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: From Leaves to Litter: Use of Anthropogenic #Nesting Materials in #Hibernation Nests of the European #Hedgehog onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @julianowack.bsky.social @cebeardsworth.bsky.social

Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me. Application deadline 8 Jan 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍🌐🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Only three days left to apply for this PhD on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global change with @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social 🦇🧬🌍🌐

Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... 📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026

New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PhD opening for a project on wild & captive #animalwelfare, related to heat stress and climate change @bristoluni.bsky.social with Dr. Benjamin Lecorps! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please help us classify all fish species by their social systems 🙏! Any and all observations or general knowledge are useful. Log them at shoalbase.org, the form takes about a minute to fill in 😀.

Resharing & please pass it on! ACCE+ PhD project on the molecular evolution of insectivorous mammals that eat toxic amphibians 🦔🐸. Jointly supervised with brilliant colleagues in @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social & open to UK & international students. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social

Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... 📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026

Iapetus Diversifying Talent PhD Scholarship Scheme findaphd.com/phds/program... Applicants must be eligible for Home fees & from a UK Minoritized Ethnic group &/or a lower socio-economic background. PhD with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social: #hibernation #climate🦔 Deadline📅5th Jan

fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/... #ResearchFunding opportunity in #HumanEvoultion at the Smithsonian #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Marchand: compared to those born to a bighorn ewe when she's young, lambs born when she's old have shorter lives, wean fewer lambs. At any age, ewes that live longer have lambs that live longer and have higher reproductive success. url:https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/36/4/araf046/8126721

Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

How good is your garden for hedgehogs? 🦔 Take the challenge and find out how your garden rates! 👇 www.hedgehogstreet.org/garden-challenge #HedgehogStreet is a joint campaign run by us and the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

Calling all dog owners! We're currently conducting a research project at the University of Glasgow exploring how early social environments—such as staying with littermates or joining single- vs. multi-dog households—shape puppies' behaviour and stress resilience during their first year of life.

PhD opportunity in bTB modeling - "The transmission of bovine tuberculosis: deciphering biological mechanisms with statistical and mechanistic models" - see below for application process @ucdvetmed.bsky.social‬ & UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics #ResearchOpportunity #PhD #LoveIrishResearch

There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

🎓Congratulations to Dr Rachel Reid for passing her Viva this week! 🎉 📄 Viva title: ‘Assessing the Impacts of Urbanisation and Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on Avian Health using both meta-analysis and experimental methods.’💡🦜

Excited to share the latest publication from the group, which outlined how the bird brain detects light and the links to seasonal control of reproduction. @physiologyuog.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Exciting opportunity in animal welfare science with industrial experience and a lovely supervisory team! Closing date 28th March.

Last chance to apply!

It was an honour to present my work to The Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology @klivvvienna.bsky.social & members of the Konrad Lorenz Institute @vetmed.bsky.social last week. Thank you for the invitation & making me so welcome. I look forward to future collaboration! #WilhelminebergSeminarTalk

We are hiring a postdoc to work on a data-rich evolutionary genomics project about origins & maintenance of viviparity vs oviparity. Details in advert and evoldir. @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social please re-sky!

One more week to apply for @uofglasgow.bsky.social's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉 "From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X24... Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

Last week we enjoyed a captivating and inspiring #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Tyler Stevenson @stevensonlab.bsky.social about the molecular mechanisms behind seasonal adaptations in Djungarian hamsters (and more!)🐹 @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Our new paper led by John Cook @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social is out! Open access in Journal of Dairy Science: Assessing #transition #cow management in #dairy cows for improved #health, #milk production, #pregnancy, and culling outcomes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociality #stocking density

Last chance to apply for a funded PhD on #health and #welfare in #dairy #cattle! Deadline Monday 6th January. Instructions to apply here: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Last week to apply for our funded NorthWestBio PhD! Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our new paper led by @rachfinrob.bsky.social is out! Open access in Research Elements journal MethodsX: A systematic scanning method to locate cryptic terrestrial species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #dormouse #conservation #hibernation #crypsis @ptes-org.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... The NWB admin team will be running an information session tomorrow Wed 11th Dec at 11am-12pm GMT to answer any questions. Send me a direct message for the link to register.

Fully-funded NorthWestBio BBSRC PhD studentship on Johne's disease in cattle 🐄 based at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social . For further information or to apply: NWB (gla.ac.uk) 📅Deadline: 6th January 2025 🔁Please share widely

An absolutely stunning Autumn morning here at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment aka SCENE, the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social field centre on Loch Lomond.