Also check our blog post about how this work came about: What to do when we realized that no partial migration theory at all covered what is happening in the shags, nor in many other species.
It's been a pleasure working on this with all of #TeamShag!
animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/03/18/w... (4/4)
For example, a local shock such as an extreme climate event perturbing a single site, may cause ripple effects in population and evolutionary dynamics throughout the entire metapopulation for many years to come. Results are general, but work is inspired by our European shag study system. (3/4)
However, these metapopulation dynamics are rarely included in theory of partial migration. Here we show that maintaining multiple migratory strategies may be easier in metapopulations than when only considering one population, and we explore how such metapopulations respond to extreme events. (2/4)
Check out our new paper out now!🐦 Partial migration - coexistence of year-round residents and seasonal migrants - often leads to #metapopulation structures where multiple subpopulations are connected by seasonal overlaps of different groups of residents and migrants from different populations. (1/4)
I'm excited to announce that I've officially launched Electric Flora 🌿✨, a scientific consultancy specializing in Manuscript Rescue. I help PIs turn stalled datasets into high-impact publications through focused service purchase blocks. Read on for my consultancy vision... (1/5)
The image contains a header at the top reading "Wanted: Shag resightings". Below this is a picture of a Shag weraing a blue colour ring with the code "UXE" and a text box of the information needed if you see a colour ringed Shag. This information is: date, location, colour of the ring, three letter code, and a photo if possible. All the information can be emailed to shags@ceh.ac.uk
Lots of reports of dead seabirds in the aftermath of recent storms. Please keep an eye out for any dead colour ringed Shags and send details to shags@ceh.ac.uk
#seabirds #ornithology #winterstorm
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
Deadline extended! 🎉
You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense).
Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿
Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus
Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv
Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now!
#postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
"Destined for a Nobel prize"???
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?
Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!
Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
We're hiring! We have funding for a 1-year (to start with, but hopefully longer) postdoc working on climate change impacts on health broadly, and helping us launch gbcc.study. Strong skills in epi methods or attribution science needed. Can potentially be remote. Please share!
Can anyone teach you to write and publish a paper, from scratch, in 2 hours? Of course not.
Can David help you a whole lot with writing and publishing, in 2 hours? Absolutely!
A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.
Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.
I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
Bilde av en bil tatt av flom - mobilisering til aksjonen "Stå opp" 30. august. Tekst: Hva står du opp for? Bli med å vekke politikerne 30. august.
Mobiliseringplakat for aksjonen "Stå opp". Bli med på markering 30. august - og stem på et parti som tar klima og natur på alvor.
Lørdag 30. august står vi opp for klima og natur. Bli med på en av markeringene!
Oslo
Trondheim
Bergen
Tromsø
Stavanger
Kristiansand
Hamar
Tønsberg
Skien
Molde
Nordreisa
Porsanger
Sogndal
Førde
...og flere?
staa-opp.no
Associate Professor position in animal physiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(to replace me basically). An amazing permanent position at a great university!
Please spread widely 🙏
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Our new paper in npj Climate Action explores the range of ways scientists can contribute to the climate and nature movement
First, since we lack a solid evidence base on the effectiveness of our strategies, tactics, messaging etc, scientists can reorient their research to help provide it
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The Kristineberg Underwater Observatory is now live!! 🐟🧪🦑
Similar to the @coralcitycamera.bsky.social.
Watch the eel grass meadow full of life live from your desk! Gobies, crabs, pipefish, several species of wrasses including some massive Ballan wrasse. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/live/goB60IJ...
Congratulations, person I think I started following like 7 years ago because you rated foxes! (PS your work is awesome)
📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜
Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities.
🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations.
🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT
📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...
‼️ Open letter calling for increased #EU #biodiversity funding:
If you're a scientist and care about #nature, please consider signing, and please share! 🪲🌳🍄🦢🦑🦎🌱🐝🌼🦇🌲🐚
Scientists are defending their work, and its value to the country, by speaking directly to Americans through a 100-hour livestream full of presentations on everything from air quality and extreme heat to weather stations. www.fastcompany.com/91341967/how...
Posting for a postdoc position in @enourani.bsky.social new group in Lausanne on Evolution of learning strategies for behavioral development career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
Starter packs are super useful to find people! Here's a behavioral ecology one gathered by @hannah-scharf.bsky.social :
go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x
Exactly one week to go until the NSO Grant applications close! DL 1 May. The grants can be used to organise events & activities for researchers in ecology and evolution. Application form + guidelines here: vist.ly/3m2ngg4
Contact info@nordicsocietyoikos.org for questions!
Photo of a freshwater lake
Looking for a PhD? There is an opening for a PhD-student in evolutionary ecology on phenotypic plasticity in aquatic organisms at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway – with two super-good supervisors (Sigurd Einum and Tim Burton) - highly recommended! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Did you hear? We have just launched our eco/evo mini grant! Where are our ecologist/evolutionists?!
