Grateful for the opportunity to visit CABI in Delémont ✨ Shared my PhD work on species interaction recovery in tropical restoration, and had inspiring discussions on invasion ecology and applied solutions. Returning to my research with a fresh perspective!

Delighted to be shortlisted by the @britishecologicalsociety.org @jappliedecology.bsky.social for the Southwood Prize 2026! Here's a short article about some reflections from our study ✨ This study was a formative step in my training as an early-career ecologist. Thanks to all my co-authors!

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social explains how microclimatic niche shifts predict long-term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world🐦🌎 Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪 appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/30/a...

Attending the TreeDivNet meeting at @uni-freiburg.de 🇩🇪 It brings together various Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning experiments from around the world. I'm very fortunate to collaborate with several of them as part of my PhD research! 🍃✨ More on TreeDivNet: treedivnet.ugent.be

Looking back on the first field trip of the PhD — Sao Paulo, Brazil. Learning and implementing understorey plant sampling techniques in unpredictable weather was challenging at first. But with support from my friend Genilson, things eventually worked out well ✨

Having completed the two-week long #SPSAS workshop, I headed to the Mata Atlântica in south-eastern Brazil! Truly one of the most special places I've visited, although only 6% of the habitat remains today!

Just before the start of my PhD fieldwork in 2024, I participated in a 14-day residential workshop titled "Co-designing Biodiversity Assessments" in Sao Pedro, Brazil. Organized by @agenciafapesp.bsky.social and @unicampoficial.bsky.social, we had participants from over 21 countries!🇱🇰🇳🇵🇨🇳🇮🇳🇺🇲🇧🇼🇳🇦🇿🇲🇿🇼🇨🇦🇵🇹🇫🇷🇨🇭🇺🇾🇦🇷🇨🇴

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…

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How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share my Bachelor's thesis work now published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Using microclimate loggers and a 11-year mark-recapture dataset, we examine how selective logging differentially affects the survival and body conditions of eastern Himalayan birds. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Microclimatic niche shifts predict long‐term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world

Using a long-term mark-recapture methodology in the eastern Himalaya, we find that bird species that experience the greatest shifts in microclimatic niches after selective logging undergo the steepes....

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Some of the #Bengaluru representation at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona! @shikharabhat.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @vrindarvkm.bsky.social @gauravathreya.bsky.social @utharasrini.bsky.social

The mysterious Jerdon's Courser has been rediscovered outside its known range for the first time in more than a century:

Birders record Jerdon's Courser 16 years after last sighting

The Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been rediscovered in Andhra Pradesh, India, outside its known range for the first time in 125 years. Thought to survive only in a tiny patch of the Lankamalla hills, the elusive bird was detected through acoustic recordings by a team of birders in August 2025. The find provides fresh hope for the species, ranked among the world’s top ten 'lost birds', and highlights the urgent need to safeguard India's remaining scrubland habitats.

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Glad to have contributed to this session at Behavior 2025!! Thanks to @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social for their support to our work in the eastern Himalayas!

Wild Animal Initiative@wildanimals.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thank you to everyone who attended our workshop on a #GlobalSouth perspective on #wildanimalwelfare and #animalbehaviour today—and a big thank you to our speakers! #Behaviour2025 @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social @tanyapayne.bsky.social @janirecas.bsky.social @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Early-career researchers: apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Integrative Ecology in the Global South' organised by Anand Krishnan, Sanjay Sane & Anusha Shankar. Find out more and apply: biologists.com/workshops/gl... Deadline: 6 June 2025 #GlobalSouth #Biology #Workshop

Hi everyone! It's been a while, so here's a #reintroduction thread🧵 I am Akshay, an #earlycareer #ecologist from #India. My research primarily focuses on the ecological impacts of #anthropogenic interventions, ranging from #SelectiveLogging to #Restoration.