Coal tits open the show as usual (even though later than previous years) - the 10th (🎉) breeding season for our Bergen nestboxes has officially started under a splendid sun 😎

Ny studie: Lakselus trives dårligere i miljø der det er mange fisker tilgjengelig – et resultat som overrasket forskerne Lus kan bli mer skadelig. – Bekymringsfullt, mener forsker.

www.forskning.no/fisk-laks-la...

Scandinavian University Press

J. Mangeruds artikkel
Hvor mange istider har vi hatt i Norge? 👇
www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Scandinavian University Press

J. K. Knutsons artikkel:
www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

Jan Mangerud er vinner av årets fægripris Professor emeritus Jan Mangerud ved Institutt for geovitenskap (UiB) er vinneren av årets fægripris. Prisens formål er å hedre god, populærvitenskapelig formidling i tidsskriftet Naturen.

Litt forsinket, men gratulerer til Jan Mangerud (hovedpris på 10.000 Kr) og Jacqueline K. Knutson (studentpris, 5000 Kr) som vinnere av årets Færgripris, tildelt av det populærvitenskapelige tidsskritet Naturen! Hilsen jurymedlem 🎉
www.uib.no/nt/180965/ja...

Parasites perform poorly at high host densities: an experimental test in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis Abstract. The link between host density and parasite population size is well-established. However, while high host density facilitates parasite transmissio

In #ParAnthropE with @illgottencranes.bsky.social we tagged and monitored female salmon lice at contrasting host densities to test how intensive aquaculture affects their life histories.
The paper is finally out 🎉
Check it out 👇
#parasites #lakselus
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Voyage extraordinaire chez les animaux médecins Comportement inné ou apprentissage social ? Du chimpanzé à la fourmi, en passant par les abeilles, de nombreuses espèces ont développé une aptitude au soin. Une automédication qui leur permet de trait...

On y parle aussi de mésanges bleues et de lavande 😉www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/10...

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:

1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

30 years of conservation: Celebrating our Ukrainian Partner’s legacy In 2025, our Ukrainian Partner, the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds (USPB), marks its 30th anniversary.

From saving iconic species to publishing the Ukraine Breeding Bird Atlas during wartime, USPB has spent 30 years protecting Ukraine’s nature.

We’re proud to have them in the @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Partnership and support their work for people & the planet 💛💙

www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

The Bergen data for 2025 are finally entered and checked 👍
69 clutches 🪺 monitored (36 forest, 33 urban), 111 adults 🐦 (re)captured, 448 nestlings 🐥 ringed.
Plus, nest-dwelling ectoparasite data for most of those!
Small team, great effort @freyacoursey.bsky.social 💪

#valg2025 - selv om valgkampen har handlet om alt mulig annet har dette valget enorme konsekvenser for #klima og #natur. Her er min appell, formidlet av @naturvernforbundet.no @naturvernhordaland.bsky.social #jegståropp

🇪🇺🌍🐦💚 -> 🗳️

How is this possible?

This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

Bats may mistake wind turbines for open sky, causing deadly collisions Study may help explain why giant blades kill millions of the animals every year

"Scientists estimate that millions of bats die every year after slamming into the giant blades, making turbines one of the top killers of the animals worldwide." www.science.org/content/arti...

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

🌍🍄‍🟫🌱🌾🌳🌼🌺🌹🪷🧪 About our disconnect from nature - with a note of hope at the end! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FNs klimapanel: Disse norske forskerne blir hovedforfattere 12 forskere fra norske institusjoner er valgt til hovedforfattere på neste store rapport fra FNs klimapanel. Trump vil trekke USA ut, men allianse av universiteter sørger for fortsatt amerikansk delta...

These Norwegian scientists will be leading authors in the upcoming IPCC report (Including: @vvandvik.bsky.social 🙌): www.energiogklima.no/nyhet/fns-kl...

How to share good open data

Plenary by Antica Culina @anticac.bsky.social : Collaborative & robust bird research - why & how. Registration, open data, open code #eou2025 #OpenScience #OpenData

Great last plenary by @suviruuskanen.bsky.social about the microbiome of birds! What a fascinating microscopic world!

#ornithology #EOU2025

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

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

Where is the next conference gonna be?
So many countries are still missing from the map... All info to participate are here!

Deadline 15th of October 2025

#EOU2027 #EOU2025 #ornithology

Superb weather in Wales for a splendid excursion in costal heather landscape yesterday, at RSPB's South Stack reserve 🤩 #EOU2025 #ornithology

@freyacoursey.bsky.social's poster, showing the first preliminary data from her first PhD season, got quite a number of visitors at #EOU2025. Well done, and thanks to data & sample contributors and of course, to @spibirds.bsky.social for facilitating such large-scale studies 🙂 #ornithology

Last captures and last chicks ringed today, 9th monitoring season and @freyacoursey.bsky.social's 1st PhD season successfully completed ✅ Finally a good year for our breeding tits! despite the pine marten taking some late broods... my fingertips will now recover from those fighter females 😉

Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Conflict Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — f...

House cats and windows may kill more birds than wind farms do, but turbines pose a real threat to some endangered species.

Experts are testing new ways to avert collisions, from painting stripes on turbine blades to using A.I. to spot incoming birds.

What a field season... earlier than ever, superb weather up until most broods were >10 days, lots of fat nestlings, but now the pine marten has found our nestboxes 😱 The later broods race against the clock to fledge before they get taken 😢

Today a huge crowd of humans in Vatican looked up and cheered at a yellow-legged gull chick #ornithology

Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.

Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.

Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

La mésange bleue, portrait d'un oiseau familier En charge d’un programme d’étude à long terme sur les mésanges, Anne Charmantier et Claire Doutrelant s’intéressent au chant, à la biologie et à l’adaptation de ces passereaux au changement climatiqu...

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