📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
A collage of 1) a meerkat in the Kalahari desert, wearing a tracking collar while stood beside the entrance to its burrow, 2) a 3D scan of a subterranean burrow, 3) a map showing burrow locations and their usage patterns.
🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity
🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾
💡 Big ecological Qs
📡 Geophysical scanning
🌍 Field ecology & behaviour
📊 Big data & code
with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social
APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A quick photo of a Great Tit nest in Wytham Woods, taken during standard nest-monitoring protocol. A female Great Tit lying to one side on the nest, with three eggs and two just hatched nestlings visible in a nest constructed of moss and animal hair
First sight of a new generation... The first Great Tit eggs have hatched in Wytham Woods this morning.
Usually we put seminars on hold during the field season, but very pleased to have Alexandra Cones here giving a seminar as well as teaching a STAN workshop over the next couple of days; seminar details below - please share and feel free to join
Very pleased to welcome Dr Alexandra Cones (LMU Munich) for an EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 4pm this Friday 17 April. Alexandra will speak on "Embracing Complexity: Untangling sources of phenotypic variation across scales using birds" - also live-streamed: joining details below: ⬇️
📢Deadline approaching soon! Submit your abstracts by April 17! @nordicoikos.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social If interested in joining our symposium (with @davididiaquez.bsky.social), reach out asap!🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉
for my followers who hold EU citizenship (and a conscience) to consider signing. "Democratic" isn't really the first adjective that comes to mind when I think of the EU, but this is one of the few democratic levers that we can pull to effect change. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
New seminar @igue-aeet.bsky.social tomorrow, with Pablo Capillas-Lasheras @ebdonana.bsky.social talking about phenotypic variation in urban areas.
16:30 (Madrid time, CET)
Link in the image QR
Si pajareas por España, anímate a realizar esta encuesta de Ana Rivas para su proyecto de investigación sobre los perfiles, experiencias y dinámicas en la observación de aves, con especial atención a la participación y visibilidad de las mujeres en la comunidad pajarera: forms.gle/o9mU6cgUfVRh...
I’m excited to share the final chapter of my PhD published in #ProceedingsB @royalsocietypublishing.org !
🌳🏙️🪺 We compared Great tit laying date responses to spring temperature between urban and forest habitats across five study systems :
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Fieldworker kneeling on the ground helping to install the Soprano device as it snows.
Two Soprano devices stood next to each other in the field. They consist of a solar panel, battery, circuit board, audio moth and antenna all mounted onto a tripod.
Ahead of this year’s field season, we’ve been busy installing SOPRANO devices at several of our sites. These devices automatically monitor biodiversity and climate, continuously recording birds and bats and sending real-time species identifications back to Edinburgh!🔈🐦⬛🦇
... Hearing actual birds is more soothing.
Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :)
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨
It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋
🎥🎞️The last EGI seminar of the term (but don’t worry, we will have one extra seminar in April), given by Jennifer Morinay on what determines helping behavior in long-tailed tits is now uploaded to our YouTube-page!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wb2...
I was just thinking on connecting to the Tour of Flanders, just to discover that is next week! Saturday ruined :-(
Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…
If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉
With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference.
There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!
New preprint from the fantastic @sarah-dobson.bsky.social !!
Worried about assuming causality when estimating selection? Confused about knowing whether selection is hard or soft? We have the solution for you!
Next IGUE #UrbanEcology speaker online talk
Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social ( @csic.es )
We will learn about the phenotypic variation in anthropogenic environments
Save it to your 📆 drive.google.com/file/d/1DleV...
@csicdivulga.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social
With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference.
There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!
1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026
sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/
Join us for 3 days of cutting edge evolutionary ecology research in beautiful Cornwall this summer 🐬🏖️🏄♀️
🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING! 🚨
Only 1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026!
Submissions close April 1. All the details are at evoxeco.uk and below 👇
Worth giving this a look www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-v...
The last of what’s been an outstanding term’s @egioxford.bsky.social seminars this Friday. All planned and organised by DPhil students & postdocs. Many available on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@EGIOxford
This week's EGI seminar (last this term 😢) will be given by Dr Jennifer Morinay from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on the factors affecting helping decisions in the Long-tailed Tit - the UK's only cooperatively breeding bird. Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk LT1 on Fri 27 Mar at 3.30. All welcome details ⬇️
Such a good EGI seminar from Innes Cuthill today on the ‘survivability onion’ - wide-ranging talk on defensive camouflage in birds, insects and more. One of those seminars that appeals across the department