Job alert for theoreticians! 2yr NERC-funded postdoc to model coevolution of learning & social structure. With Bram Kuijper, @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall Deadline Dec 14. Apply: tinyurl.com/3ym39cuv

Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This NERC-funded full-time post is available f...

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The story of @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's L49 on the Rare Bird Alert website: www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/G...

GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern suspected shot dead in France

A GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern from Germany's last Central European breeding colony has been found dead in France, with preliminary evidence suggesting it was shot.

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Out now & open access in Avian Pathology - a collaborative paper showing how highly pathogenic avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b euBB) was introduced, and led to high mortality, in breeding colonies of black-headed gulls and common terns in Germany in 2023: doi.org/10.1080/0307...

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

Wageningen University (NL) Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models using GPS tracking data of African mammals Depending on experience, competitive gross salary of between € 3.546 and € 5.538 www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t...

Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models

Are you enthusiastic about the chance to combine research in Geographic Information Science (GISc) — particularly in movement analysis — with teaching and student supervision?

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Cool paper suggesting that naturally higher body T˚ in birds leads to flu viruses originating in birds being pre-adapted to resist mammalian fever as a defence mechanism... Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals

Host body temperature can define a virus’s replicative profile—influenza A viruses (IAVs) adapted to 40° to 42°C in birds are less temperature sensitive in vitro compared with human isolates adapted t...

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3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Doctoral Researcher: Gut microbiome metabolism and molecular mechanisms mediating gut microbiome-host interactions?

A 3-year Doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The Doctoral Resear...

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

NINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...

📣Job vacancy!📣 Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #ConservationScience 🌍

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Global Conservation

Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing...

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There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

🛑JOB OPPORTUNITY! Postdoctoral position in Bycatch Data Scientist to support the REDUCE project. Full job description➡️ euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/382336 Temporay contract: 12 months, renewable up to 31/12/2027. Closing date📅23:59 (Europe/Madrid), 6th November 2025 #Marine #Job #ETPBycatchReduction

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

📢 New publication led by Hannah Ravenswater The long-term study of European shags on the Isle of May shows that both current and early-life environmental conditions influence helminth parasite burdens, with adult males and females responding differently to these conditions. #parasites #seabirds

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Temporal Variation in Early-Life Conditions Impacts on Later-Life Levels of Infection in Sex Specific Ways | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Stu Bearhop@stubearhop.bsky.social · last yr.

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali... @predateursmarins.bsky.social @ecophycebc.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

6-monts internship proposal | Coraline Bichet

With my colleague Christophe GUINET we offer a 6-months internship position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals 🦭. Check the attached file (in French) for more detai...

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#PFASactionEU - We have just published on our website the updated proposal to restrict #PFAS under #EU_REACH. The update takes into account the more than 5 600 comments that authorities from 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇳🇴 and 🇸🇪 received during the 2023 consultation. 🔗 fcld.ly/pfasbg25l

@currentbiology.bsky.social has always been one of my favorite journals but I think they have now outdone themselves www.cell.com/current-biol.... And picked up by the @nytimes.com as well! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

Periodic excretion patterns of seabirds in flight

Uesaka and Sato report on the excretion patterns of seabirds in the open ocean determined using a rear-facing video logger.

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New #UKCEH dataset published on how breeding seabirds spend their time and energy. These data will help us to model the potential impacts of any changes in seabird behaviour in response to new offshore windfarms catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/07...

New paper Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates

Endogenous reserves accumulated during migration stopovers help most migratory birds cope with environmental uncertainties and fuel energy demands associated with migration and/or reproduction. Migra....

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New paper: Habitat availability is insufficient to explain regional variations in white stork breeding habitat preference. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social #ecology #birds #stork #statistics

🎤 I am thrilled to present at #OOSC in Nice today! 📅 I will share results on seawater organic pollution in open marine waters across three European Seas 🕒 Today 4th June, 16:40 📍 Session T3-7, Room 1 #UNDP #EuropeanCommission JRC #CNRS #CEBC #LRU #EnvironmentalInstitute #UkrSCES #MarinePollution

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper! Legacy and emerging #PFAS in eggs of yellow-legged gulls from Marseille, France. PFOS was the most abundant legacy compound. Emerging PFAS were detected in most eggs. Need to assess toxicity of emerging PFAS for wildlife! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a #phd position open at @univ-larochelle.fr and @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social. Do not hesitate to apply if interested😉

CEBC Predateurs Marins team @predateursmarins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thèse ouverte avec Timothée Bonnet au CEBC www.univ-larochelle.fr/wp-content/u... Stratégies de migration et d’utilisation des habitats chez une espèce sentinelle des écosystèmes littoraux atlantiques (cigogne blanche)

New paper out in Proc B by Julien Collet, with Pierre Pistorius' team in South Africa, on cape gannets. Discusses the implications for how individual specialization is generally studied in ecology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

First PhD paper out now, revealing co-circulation of high and low pathogenicity subtypes of avian influenza virus via antibody testing in a range of co-occuring seabird species. Huge thanks to all involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks

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