Entering the 2026 ringing data with a special joy this year, due to typing the initials for a certain next generation ringer ❤️ (but after about 14 these years following me around in her free time, I knew she would do well 😉)
Dr Adele Mennerat 🇺🇦 ✋
@amennerat.bsky.social
Evo-ecologist studying parasite evolution, host & parasite behaviours, and avian ecology. 🇪🇺 citizen, 🇳🇴 citizen, from Jura & Bourgogne 🧀🍷
We need your help - four of our satellite-tracked quail have gone missing in France! Any information would be interesting, e.g. if the signal comes from near a fox den, buzzard nest or hunting area 🦊🦅🔫 If you can recover the tag, we can re-use it - and you can name this quail 😉 Pls share widely 🇫🇷
⚠️ Deadline for abstract submission in *3* days ⚠️ No less than 11 sessions planned for the #OikosNorway2027 @nordicoikos.bsky.social conference 🤩 nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/oikos-.... Don't forget to send your submission by October 15th and see you in Bergen in February!
Sessions ⇽ Oikos Norway 2027 in Bergen | Nordic Society Oikos
nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com
"but she was also stealing because she liked some of the stuff - like a magpie." Mentioned 3 times. No, BBC & Det Con Stather, not like a Magpie at all. Magpies don't 'steal' shiny things, it's a total myth. Trivial, but that's how wildlife gets demonised & persecuted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The 'magpie-like' London con artist who posed in Warwickshire as a house sitter
Arianna Rose's thefts included war medals and jewellery in her fraud across four counties, police say.
bbc.co.uk
🐦 Thrilled to share our latest research, a milestone: the first first-author paper from @shreyadimri.bsky.social, published in @royalsocietypublishing.org Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
And as if there wasn't enough reasons to celebrate with our two freshly hatched MSc, on June 24th we'll also witness the moulting of another scientist into the final PhD stage 🥳 www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr...
Lakselus som individer - nye innblikk fra mikrochip-merking
Alexius Werner Thomas Folk disputerer 24.6.2026 for ph.d.-graden ved Universitetet i Bergen med avhandlingen "Measuring the effects of host density on individual parasites within populations".
uib.no
Congratulations to André Kristensen Sæterhaugen and Tonje Nummedal-Rolland on obtaining their MSc degrees yesterday! Well done both, I'm super proud 👏
Coal tits open the show as usual (even though later than previous years) - the 10th (🎉) breeding season for our Bergen nestboxes has officially started under a splendid sun 😎
Litt forsinket, men gratulerer til Jan Mangerud (hovedpris på 10.000 Kr) og Jacqueline K. Knutson (studentpris, 5000 Kr) som vinnere av årets Færgripris, tildelt av det populærvitenskapelige tidsskritet Naturen! Hilsen jurymedlem 🎉 www.uib.no/nt/180965/ja...
Jan Mangerud er vinner av årets fægripris
Professor emeritus Jan Mangerud ved Institutt for geovitenskap (UiB) er vinneren av årets fægripris. Prisens formål er å hedre god, populærvitenskapelig formidling i tidsskriftet Naturen.
uib.no
In #ParAnthropE with @illgottencranes.bsky.social we tagged and monitored female salmon lice at contrasting host densities to test how intensive aquaculture affects their life histories. The paper is finally out 🎉 Check it out 👇 #parasites #lakselus royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Parasites perform poorly at high host densities: an experimental test in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis
Abstract. The link between host density and parasite population size is well-established. However, while high host density facilitates parasite transmissio
royalsocietypublishing.org
On y parle aussi de mésanges bleues et de lavande 😉https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/10/06/voyage-extraordinaire-chez-les-animaux-medecins_6644843_1650684.html
Voyage extraordinaire chez les animaux médecins
Comportement inné ou apprentissage social ? Du chimpanzé à la fourmi, en passant par les abeilles, de nombreuses espèces ont développé une aptitude au soin. Une automédication qui leur permet de trait...
lemonde.fr
As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science: 1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves 2. Inspiring generations of women scientists 3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
nature.com
Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳
From saving iconic species to publishing the Ukraine Breeding Bird Atlas during wartime, USPB has spent 30 years protecting Ukraine’s nature. We’re proud to have them in the @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Partnership and support their work for people & the planet 💛💙 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...
30 years of conservation: Celebrating our Ukrainian Partner’s legacy
In 2025, our Ukrainian Partner, the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Birds (USPB), marks its 30th anniversary.
birdlife.org
Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!
The Bergen data for 2025 are finally entered and checked 👍 69 clutches 🪺 monitored (36 forest, 33 urban), 111 adults 🐦 (re)captured, 448 nestlings 🐥 ringed. Plus, nest-dwelling ectoparasite data for most of those! Small team, great effort @freyacoursey.bsky.social 💪
#valg2025 - selv om valgkampen har handlet om alt mulig annet har dette valget enorme konsekvenser for #klima og #natur. Her er min appell, formidlet av @naturvernforbundet.no @naturvernhordaland.bsky.social #jegståropp
How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
"Scientists estimate that millions of bats die every year after slamming into the giant blades, making turbines one of the top killers of the animals worldwide." www.science.org/content/arti...
Bats may mistake wind turbines for open sky, causing deadly collisions
Study may help explain why giant blades kill millions of the animals every year
science.org
🌍🍄🟫🌱🌾🌳🌼🌺🌹🪷🧪 About our disconnect from nature - with a note of hope at the end! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
theguardian.com
These Norwegian scientists will be leading authors in the upcoming IPCC report (Including: @vvandvik.bsky.social 🙌): www.energiogklima.no/nyhet/fns-kl...
FNs klimapanel: Disse norske forskerne blir hovedforfattere
12 forskere fra norske institusjoner er valgt til hovedforfattere på neste store rapport fra FNs klimapanel. Trump vil trekke USA ut, men allianse av universiteter sørger for fortsatt amerikansk delta...
energiogklima.no
Plenary by Antica Culina @anticac.bsky.social : Collaborative & robust bird research - why & how. Registration, open data, open code #eou2025 #OpenScience #OpenData
Great last plenary by @suviruuskanen.bsky.social about the microbiome of birds! What a fascinating microscopic world! #ornithology #EOU2025
Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job
Where is the next conference gonna be? So many countries are still missing from the map... All info to participate are here! Deadline 15th of October 2025 #EOU2027 #EOU2025 #ornithology
Superb weather in Wales for a splendid excursion in costal heather landscape yesterday, at RSPB's South Stack reserve 🤩 #EOU2025 #ornithology
Dr Danni Hinchcliffe@dannihinchy.bsky.social · last yr.Fantastic excursion to @rspb.bsky.social South Stack to break up the week-long @eounion.bsky.social conference at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Diving gannets, good numbers of kittiwakes, chorus of chough & raven, peregrines soaring & stonechat for company along the trails. Sunny weather, a bonus!
@freyacoursey.bsky.social's poster, showing the first preliminary data from her first PhD season, got quite a number of visitors at #EOU2025. Well done, and thanks to data & sample contributors and of course, to @spibirds.bsky.social for facilitating such large-scale studies 🙂 #ornithology
Last captures and last chicks ringed today, 9th monitoring season and @freyacoursey.bsky.social's 1st PhD season successfully completed ✅ Finally a good year for our breeding tits! despite the pine marten taking some late broods... my fingertips will now recover from those fighter females 😉