❗️New PhD position in our lab ❗️
Nest defence in passerines: parental quality, investment and fitness 🐦
➡️ 4 years, fully funded position
🗓️ Start: July 2026
⏳ Application deadline: May 10, 2026
✉️ veselp03@jcu.cz, krausl07@jcu.cz
#PhD #PhDjobs #ornithology #ethology #cognition
Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD
Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us
❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world
👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity
📆19th April deadline
tinyurl.com/343acaev
#maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia
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📢 New preprint from my PhD project (while in @mncn-csic.bsky.social & CRBE-Toulouse) available: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Can song differences split populations? We tested this in the Canary Islands Chaffinch from La Palma Island, using playback experiments.
"1st Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab International Meeting!"😂
Group members + BirdBond collaborators together to share ideas 💡, results📊, future plans 🚀... and new family picture!
You surprised? Kind of a Goodhart effect translated to individuals.
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Visuel montrant 4 illustrations de coccinelles qui ont l'air d'avoir été peintes à l'aquarelle. Le texte dit : "Elles sont jolies, ces illustrations, non ? Elles sont jolies, oui... Mais c'est du grand n'importe quoi généré par IA."
Visuel montrant les 4 mêmes illustrations de coccinelles, avec un texte disant :"Quand on y regarde de plus près, il n'y a rien qui va : Face blanche inexistante chez cette espèce, la coccinelle à 7 points, un individu représenté avec 7 pattes, un autre avec 6 ou 12 points, d'autres avec un nombre de tarses faux, etc. Le texte précise "je n'ai même pas assez de place pour indiquer tous les problèmes".
"Si on tient un peu à la réalité, Si on tient un peu à la rigueur scientifique, Si on tient un peu aux personnes qui exercent le métier d’illustrateur·rice (au passage : être illustrateur·rice scientifique, ce n’est pas juste “savoir dessiner”, c’est aussi avoir une *connaissance* de ses sujets), ... Alors svp, arrêtons de promouvoir et d’utiliser l’IA générative."
Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐
Regardez-moi ces "dessins".
Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.
#IA
correct email is: diego.gil@csic.es
Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!
@mncn-csic.bsky.social,
@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social
To learn more about our group, you can visit our website www.behavecol.es, or our account on X: @behavecol_lab. If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your CV and a motivation letter at this email: diego.gil@csic.es
PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Gracias a todas las personas y organizaciones que han hecho posible este encuentro.
Ahora empieza el verdadero trabajo: proteger los humedales a lo largo de la ruta migratoria del carricerín cejudo. 💪
#LIFE_AWOM #Biodiversidad #Natura2000
europe.wetlands.org/awom/
🌍🐦 This week we’re gathering in #Madrid to launch the LIFE AWoM project. An alliance between Europe and Africa to protect the Aquatic Warbler and the #wetlands it depends during its migration to survive.
#LIFE_AWOM
Learn more about the project: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/...
Q: What happens when a #PublishOrPerish" research culture meets #AI readable biomedical databases? A: "An explosion of formulaic research articles, including inappropriate study designs and false discoveries." New in @plosbiology.org... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Se espera al menos una publicación científica. Si te apasiona la intersección entre tecnología y ecología evolutiva, escríbeme a diego.gil@csic.es
📩 #Convocatoria abierta hasta el 9 de mayo en:
convocatorias.csic.es/convoca/
📩 #Beca #Oportunidad #Bioacústica #Estorninos
El trabajo combina:
🔹 Procesamiento de audio y machine learning
🔹 Validación de datos biológicos
🔹 Trabajo de campo: revisión de cajas nido, grabaciones y observación de conducta
🔬🪺🤖
El objetivo: entrenar y optimizar una red neuronal con 4 años de grabaciones de campo para detectar y clasificar cantos y llamadas de estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor).
Queremos entender cómo y por qué varían sus vocalizaciones a lo largo del día y la temporada.
📈📊
🧠🎶 ¿Te interesa la inteligencia artificial y el comportamiento animal? ¡Tenemos una beca para ti, del programa JAE-INTRO del CSIC)!
Buscamos estudiante para un proyecto sobre comunicación vocal en estorninos usando redes neuronales (BIRDNET).
🕊️🎙️ #IA #Bioacústica
Keep up the good work!
New funding programme: From now on, students and PhD candidates can easily apply for up to €1,000 funding immediately after joining the German Ornithological Society. Find out more: www.do-g.de/forschungsfo.... Next application deadline: 1st of June!
New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Muy bien, presionando a esos piratas!
Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity (centre column 'Metrics' and 'Trends') can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left column 'Drivers of Change'). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right column 'Indicators of Change').
*New paper* Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention.
-With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames!
#CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
