Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y
#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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A side profile of a Puffin looking towards the camera showing its black body and head plumage, white cheeks and brightly coloured bill. Wording alongside reads: We're hiring! Senior Research Ecologist - Climate Change. BTO logo is top right of the image.
Job Alert 📢 Join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist! Apply now➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of BTO’s climate change work!
📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April.
📝 £44,637 per annum.
📍 Hybrid, HQ in Norfolk or one of our country offices. #Ornithology
ExE 2026
Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!
The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems.
Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk
A wonderful collective!
If you’re an undergrad or postgrad student in Animal Ecology, perhaps self-funded and without much monetary support, you can get a micro-grant through this scheme. Particularly aimed at students from ethnic minority and low income backgrounds :)
Mentorship schemes, too! 🐝🐦
Writing is thinking
"On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Two people wearing coloured coats, sitting on a cliff overlooking the sea. They are using binoculars to watch birds in the distance. [Photo: Danni Thompson]
Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼
📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online
Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
A great opportunity for anyone in a marine or conservation MSc!
Work with some wonderful birds, (and wonderful folks) I got to call colleagues this year 🐧
(The project timeline would fit wonderfully with a taught MSc)
@exetermarine.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk
We are recruiting PhD students! Join us in exploring the multiple dimensions of biological intelligence at our international and fully funded graduate program IMPRS-BI in the Munich area, Germany!
🔔 Application period: 1 October to 10 November
🧪 Apply here: imprs-bi.mpg.de
Some of the wonderful researchers I got the privilege of calling my colleagues this season! @rspbscience.bsky.social
🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114
A breeding pair of Gannets on the Bass Rock with their chick. One of the adults clearly has a black eye, an indicator of past exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza, while the other is normal/healthy.
Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣
Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
A recent #linocut of a cupcake #stormpetrel chick! #SuperSeabirdSunday
Summer 2025 - Storm Petrel Tagging and Tracking in Shetland and Scilly, with a short stint of Kittiwake and Gannet work at Bempton Cliffs - Mousa Aurora (!!!), Mousa Broch, Bempton Gannet Tagging Set-up, Sandy Scilly Stormie Chick
Autumn 2024 - Faroese Storm Petrel Project, Faroe Islands - Tagging, Tracking and Monitoring European Storm Petrels
Autumn 2023 - Calf of Man - Red-eyed Vireo!
2023 - Phenoweb Project (@phenoweb.bsky.social) - A very inspiring project, with a brilliant team 🐦 🍃
(All birds handled and tagged under license)
Autumn 2022 - Senegal - Pilot study for Swiss Ornithological Institute - White Helmet Shrike, Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Pied Flycatcher (target Spp.), Nightingale (target Spp.)
Autumn 2022 - Calf of Man - Nighttime Gull colour-ringing, Huuuuge storm, Manx Shearwater Chick, Female Reed Bunting
Summer 2022 - Handa Island - Fulmar hiding behind Sea Campion, A proud Razorbill
Summer 2022 - Handa Island - Home sweet home, Boat Survey, Sea Lemon Nudibranch, Guillemot Chick Jumping watch party
Summer 2022 - Handa Island - Cliff Views, The Lady of Avenel tall ship, The Great Stack, one of the many puffins
Summer 2022 - Handa Island - Flora & Fungi: Heath Spotted Orchid, Royal Fern, Milkwort, Lichen Agaric
Summer 2022 - Handa Island - Month 1 of calling Handa home.
Autumn 2021 - The Urban Ecology Group, SCENE
August 2021 - Graduation!
May 2021 - Red Deer Project, Isle of Rum
2020 - North Ronaldsay - Dog Otter! Came and sat by me whilst I was eating my lunch.
2020 - North Ronaldsay - Bluethroat, Curious Common Seal