Gulls may facilitate landscape connectivity via nutrient and pathogen transport and deposition. Using GPS tracking, this #RSOS study analysed the foraging movement networks of breeding American #herring and great black-backed #gulls from two colonies: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.
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I wish more people knew this. Power analysis should be based on the smallest effect size of interest. Not on a guess, or a hope. You also need to specify that effect to make your claim falsifiable, and to know when the effect is statistically significant, but practically irrelevant.
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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Help us improve Movebank: During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system to build scalability and sustainability. What does Movebank mean for you? How could it better support your work? Your feedback will be highly appreciated! Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...
Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!
Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...
Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26
By tracking anglers during real-world ice fishing competitions in Finland, a new study in Science shows that human foragers—previously thought to be solitary decision makers—rely heavily on social information in shaping decisions.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qcViOH
Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
Is there a recording of this one could watch? 👀
René with some good suggestions during his workshop on peer review and scientific criticism on when and how to ignore suggestions by reviewers or editors, such as when they ask to drop non-significant results, or add hypotheses.
Coming up! iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) is hosting 3 free virtual train-the-trainer workshops:
2/4: Intro to Reproducibility
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2/18: Preregistration
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3/4: Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Research
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a couple of individually marked godwits. Photo by J. Seenstra
Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️
Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
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Welfare and biologging - this one is going straight to the top of my reading list
Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
A mostly green tinted picture of a histological brain section. The upper left part shows a faint egg-shaped structure, close to which a red stripe starts, going towards the right side. A small scale bar at the top gives the size range (500 microns).
It's #FlourescenceFriday ! This is the optic tectum of a ring-billed gull brain. The red areas are made up of very young neurons, while the green are mature. The egg-shaped structure in the top left part is the nucleus pretectalis principalis, which plays a role in processing visual information.
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If some right-wing pundit says that "men are not biologically made to care for children" or similar BS, show them this paper by Colt et al 2025: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Stone with fossil of a large snail, some algae and tiny live snails around it.
It's #FossilFriday again! 🙂 Another fossil from Akpatok Island, Northern Québec (Inuit Land).
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Picture of limestone with large snail-like prehistoric ocean creatures.
Happy #FossilFriday ! I found these a few days ago on Akpatok Island, Northern Québec. This island, which is Inuit land, is crawling with all kinds of fossilized creatures. 🥰
A map of the world, with purple dots showing the coordinates of each R-Ladies Chapter.
Today is International Women’s Day! It’s an important day for us (although the R-Ladies mission is not limited to women). 💜Who are we? R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
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This is one reason why I encourage all my trainees to do at least one meta-analysis. It changes the way you report your results because you'll never forget tearing your hair out trying to calculate effect sizes and variances from papers that don't report their results in sufficient detail
Happy #FluorescenceFriday from an ecologist dabbling in neuroscience 😉 On this image you see a ring-billed gull hippocampus (posterior end; DAPI stained). We are investigating the relationship between fine-scale foraging movement and hippocampal measures - results coming soon!
#birdbrains
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