Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
When the GFC began unfolding in 2007, I was only a couple of years removed from my brief stint as a trader and was still following financial markets closely. I remember being struck by how little public alarm there seemed to be. Anyway, I’m not sure why that came back to me just now…
Food for animals.
This is what Sundays are all about.
Lovely sunny morning so I’m going into the office to feel the sunshine reflecting off the Arts Tower building.
I do enjoy my old college’s alumni emails:
Could you donate a) £500, b) £5000, or c) £50000?
My friend, I found 50p on the bedroom floor yesterday and that went straight into the cash-for-haircuts pot.
Starting to wonder if NERC's plan for the July 2025 PtF round is to keep their head down and just hope we all forget we submitted a proposal.
I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:
Oh, you know, a bit of this, a bit of that. But mostly the realtime breakdown of the geopolitical order that kept us Europeans safe and prosperous for eight decades.
This is all starting to look like a "we can't put the shit back in the donkey" situation.
Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Josephine is going to need to install a trophy cabinet at this rate.
(Well deserved, obvs)
Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Distributed systems are hard
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026
Please 🔁!
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity
Poster announcing the workshop.
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw.
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building
Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
I did two different bits of science-ing today. Two different things. In one day. I feel 41 again.
Current status.
Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
If you like the look of lovely green #Sheffield and our wonderful Peak District on #springwatch #bbcspringwatch, why not come and study for an MSc #Biodiversity & #Conservation @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Happy to consider unconventional academic backgrounds www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Great (free) opportunity coming up this Tuesday for researchers who are interested in finding out more about outreach with children…
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is now open with a call deadline on 10 September 2025.
Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.
This is deranged. We’re dragging *heat pumps* into the culture wars now?
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footnote:
True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.
This couldn’t be further from where UK HE is heading. Looks great, TBH.