„Näher am Kipppunkt“: Atlantikströmung AMOC schwächt sich stärker ab als gedacht – mit verheerenden Folgen Die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC verliert deutlich mehr an Kraft als bisher angenommen. Wissenschaftler warnen vor dramatischen Folgen.

Ein "wissenschaftliches Alarmsignal": die neue Studie der französischen Kollegen zur Atlantikströmung #AMOC. 🌊
Hört es jemand? 😨
www.fr.de/wissen/atlan...

Extremely proud to see @wadertales.bsky.social be awarded the @bou.org.uk Janet Kear medal,for his excellent and tireless work on behalf of our Union and community #BOU2026

Hugely well-deserved @bou.org.uk Early Professional Award goes to @anflack.bsky.social for her excellent research and community contribution. Congratulations Andrea!

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

Welcome to #BOU2026 “Birds and people: challenges and opportunities of coexistence” the BOU’s 2026 annual conference.

For the next 3 days we’ll be in-person at the University of Nottingham, online on Zoom, and posting here on Bluesky.
Follow the #BOU2026 feed to stay updated.
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Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk

We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

two seagulls are walking in the grass in front of a house ALT: two seagulls are walking in the grass in front of a house

While an amazing Annual meeting of the Ehtological Society has just passed, we are hoping to see many of you in beautiful Konstanz next year! Save the date: 24.–26. Februar 2027

Enjoyed reading this Perspective from Tautz and colleagues which calls for a re-engagement on the part of classical genetics with the realities of complex phenotypes as revealed by quantitative genetics
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

Take-away aus der #Epstein -Chose:
Wählt (demokratische) Frauen, wählt Parteien mit Frauenquote, fördert u befördert Frauen, verbündet Euch mit Frauen.
Nur wenn es an allen Schalthebeln der Macht mehr Frauen gibt, haben wir die Chance, diese patriarchale Shit-Show zu überwinden.

Common Tern Museum at the Bantersee

Common Tern Museum at the Bantersee

View of the ice-bound Waddensee

Profs Miriam Liedvogel & Prof Sandra Bouwhuis - brilliant leaders of the Institute of Avian Research (with some old German ornithological leaders in the background)

A richly rewarding two days reviewing @ifv-whv.bsky.social: thriving under the brilliant leadership of Sandra Bouwhuis & Miriam Liedvogel. An exciting programme of research into avian migration & life histories with many future stars. Outstanding @commonternproject.bsky.social museum by frozen sea!

✨New paper✨
How do juvenile ravens find social groups?

We describe how juvenile common ravens, who have left their natal territories seeking to join non-breeder flocks, use space with respect to other birds, and discuss what this means for social integration.

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.

Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

33% der Menschen in Sachsen-Anhalt wollen eine Revolution, 22% wollen die Bundesrepublik abschaffen, über ein Viertel würde den Einsatz von Gewalt befürworten.
Ein Interview mit dem Leiter des Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitors, Gert Pickel.
(Geschenklink)

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitor: "Autoritär verhält sich die AfD ja nur gegenüber anderen" Ein Drittel der Sachsen-Anhalter will laut einer Umfrage eine Revolution. Ein Gespräch mit dem Forschungsleiter über fragile Demokraten und rechte Umsturzfantasien.

Jetzt gerade @zeit.de: Ein interview von @christianbangel.bsky.social, dessen Inhalt unser aller Aufmerksamkeit bräuchte (geschenkt): www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

interested in a collaborative project at #unifreiburg linking tick ecology and vector-pathogen interactions
check out a PhD position in my lab here
uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

Hester and myself with her PhD hat.

Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

Jolie, an adult female chimpanzee of the Ngogo community in Kibale National Park, Uganda, with sleeping infant son, Zawinul. CREDIT: Kevin Langergraber

After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY

Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧

Hester Brønnvik | Ontogeny of stock migration YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

How do storks learn to migrate efficiently? IMPRS-QBEE student @hbronnv.bsky.social, working with @anflack.bsky.social use GPS ani accelerometer tags to study how white storks balance the costs and benefits of migratory decisions

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/A-kNB...

Out today in @plosbiology.org (1/5)

Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩

Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...

Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

I found this in the forest next to my house today… any idea what on earth this could possibly be??? I am a biologist - but come on… this is sick!! I am sure these are 👾 that have arrived here without anyone noticing!!? 🤯

From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments | PNAS Under an accelerating biodiversity crisis, increased urbanization, habitat fragmentation, and climate change require new approaches to assess conse...

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽

New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team

@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social

@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Transforming conservation with real-time data of individual animals A study co-led by ESPM postdoctoral researcher Diego Ellis Soto highlights how developing technologies for tracking wildlife can advance and democratize conservation efforts.

You can read more on wildlife.berkeley.edu/news/2025/07...

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.

👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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Genau wie viele Menschen zeigen Tiere Anzeichen von Stress, wenn sie versuchen, für eine Gruppe von Artgenossen die Führung zu übernehmen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social BiologInnen: t1p.de/zud05