📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting:

⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐

Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!

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Multi-species predation and scavenging at a Marburg-virus bat reservoir

"Multi-species foraging on a Marburg Virus Bat Reservoir" spkl.io/63323A4ylH

Alexander Braczkowski & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social

Our new paper on shieldtail conservation is out in @animalconserv.bsky.social

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/acv....

E&E Seminar Series: Exploring the ecological drivers of intergroup tolerance in birds Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.

Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 30 April 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Ettore Camerlenghi, Assoc Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University.
Details: rb.gy/4tr6qx

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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I honestly think this is covered by our salary as PhD students (if there's one)/academics. For tenure positions it's often required in the contract.
It's also an investment and part of our education. We all become better authors by reviewing papers (and save time for future writing/applications).

Absolutely! In our group we also often share between PhD students (one more senior and one junior).

Reviewing is part of the job for academics. As long as we submit papers and require reviews for our own papers. It also helps in building CVs

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Or at least involve PhD students (who are perfectly suited to review papers)! I do 5/10-ish a year myself some of which come from supervisors.

PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬

Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?

Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline 22nd of May!

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

Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research Recent advances in the field of wild avian microbiome research have significantly deepened our understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bird–microbe interactions. Consequently, the field is ...

New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out!

Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research

🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/🧵My first preprint!🐛🌡️

We examine how environmental effects experienced during one life-history stage persist and modulate environmental responses in later life-history stages.

With Lea Beaupere, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @rona-learmonth.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

HomoTherm: An Open‐Source Approach to Modelling Heat Exchange in Humans and Other Hominins in Diverse Environments We present ‘HomoTherm’, a human heat budget model for simulating humans and related species with diverse traits in diverse environments. It is part of the NicheMapR package for biophysical modelling ...

You can now model human heat exchange in R (and via a Shiny app). I started work on this with Shane Maloney (Uni of WA) way back in 2014, with Duncan Mitchell (Uni of the Witwatersrand) joining us along the way onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... @globalchangebio.bsky.social @unimelb.edu.au

Many small climate change impacts presage rapid population extinction in a common iconic bird - Nature Communications Widespread declines in common species raise concerns, but links to extinction risk and climate change remain unclear. Here, the authors show that many small climate change effects can accumulate to dr...

Even common birds are feeling the impacts of climate change. Read the latest from the #SFW_ANU project here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birds #ecology #climatechange #superbfairywren #ornithology

For research that "has transformed our understanding of bird migration" Andrea Flack is awarded the British Ornithologists’ Union Early Professional Award @anflack.bsky.social

As Andrea's students will attest, "she is an excellent supervisor" too.

Congrats @anflack.bsky.social and the Flack Flock

I do not use AI for writing. I like writing. Why would I farm out my favorite part of my job to a gdamn robot who takes no joy from it?

I only use AI for my wow-I'm-a-professional-scientist-and-I-still-don't-know-how-a-science-thing questions like "What are magnets and how do they work?"

AI and the PhD student: friend or foe? Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.

Totally agree! As I said in my interview to Nature, I spent years trying to become a PhD student and it's my dream job. Why would I leave it to AI? To save an hour and then go look at AI pictures on social media?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just a little over two weeks to apply!

Check out this incredibly talented magpie. For about ten minutes, it channelled a seagull, a ruru🦉, a dog, an electronic car key, a car alarm, a human voice, the Android alert tone😂📱and more – most of which you can hear in this clip.

Quardle, ardle, oodle, wardle and furthermore, doodle. Amazing!🤩

Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

Super cool to see two superb lyrebirds at Minnamurra Rainforest Centre on Sunday. Feel very lucky to see a male display - mimicking a bowerbird according to @sramellini.bsky.social ! Not the best view but only had my phone.

Not sure if anyone really still uses starter packs, but just in case: Animal Behaviour Researchers is officially full!

This is a selection of colleagues, speakers I've seen at conferences, and generally awesome scientists working to understand the animal world 🐒🐺🦁🦓🐘🐓🦅🐬🦎🐍🐙🐜

go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

We're hiring a post doc!

Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and
@jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things

please share widely!

Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...

Out today in @science.org our paper on how evolutionary adaptation to warming will reduce fisheries yields. Please let me know if you need me to send you a copy. Summary of the paper coming soon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...