Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

New position: Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Lincoln. As our long-standing programme leader retires, there is an opportunity for a new person to join the team. Drop me a message if you have any questions: jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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From tracking nature's ghost particles at new energy frontiers to discursive framings of insects and their effects on urban public perceptions, the Trust Board awards fifty-nine innovative and original research projects. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/fifty-n...

Funded PhD studentship for UK students on insect eggs: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Lead supervisor is @g-iossa.bsky.social Deadline 31st May.

Living in #Yorkshire? Looking for opportunities to help local #wildlife and community-based #conservation? We're seeking #volunteers to help with our new #COEXIST project to monitor human-wildlife conflict in the UK. See advert below ⬇️🌳🦡🦌🦊🦜🦫

Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus! Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it. www.canids.org/resources/Le... Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.

In 2025, Wild Animal Initiative became a member of the BAHSCR's Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research. We're excited about the opportunities this partnership creates 👇️ buff.ly/6aYalMq

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

The Effects of Diet on the Expression of Male Dimorphic Colouration and Weaponry in a Species of Neotropical Katydid - Holmes - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

It was such an incredible, enriching, and fun experience — I learned so much ❤️ So thankful to the amazing leadership team who welcomed me! @drrmiller.bsky.social @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social @nomascus.bsky.social @stephanreber.bsky.social @cds-york.bsky.social Megan Lambert & Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!

Bird species with specialized diets and migratory habits tend to show higher fear of novelty, a stable trait that may influence their adaptability to environmental change. doi.org/g96v62

Ecological drivers of neophobia in birds dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

For the full publication, check out Nature Ecology and Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 6/6

The core chapter of my PhD has now been published in Nature E&E! 🧬🥳 In this paper, we investigate whether predicted deleterious mutations reduce fitness and if so, how? Do heterozygous mutations also contribute? And are non-coding mutations more deleterious? Read all about it here: rdcu.be/eAcM5

PDRA position available: 2 year Postdoc working on eDNA and citizen science as part of NERC grant. Deadline 10th August. jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/CHS217A

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in eDNA-Based Environmental Monitoring (24 months) jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

It's been a long time coming but today's been the first 100+ ringing day of the spring - 106 in total, mostly at the Obs but small contributions also from the Crown Estate Field and, for the first time this year, Culverwell; individual totals incl 62 WWs, 14 CCs, 9 Bcaps & 6 Wthroats.

"Stop guerrilla rewilding, say Scottish gamekeepers after feral pigs released." I'm ever more convinced that it's those who are adamantly *opposed* to rewilding who are most likely to be behind all these totally inept species releases. It's manna from heaven for them. www.yahoo.com/news/stop-gu...

"Mammals show faster recovery from capture and tagging in human-disturbed landscapes" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Matthews et al. Picky eaters: Selective microbial diet of avian ectosymbionts besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Le Coeur et al. No evidence of early life resource pulse effects on age‐specific variation in survival, reproduction and body mass of female Siberian flying squirrels besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....