Join us for another season of Snapshot Europe! #cameratraps #wildlife #snapshoteurope

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Findings highlight how bait location and timing can improve vaccination success and provide practical guidance for designing wildlife disease control programmes wherever domestic animals threaten endangered carnivores Paper led by Beth Preston 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365... royalvetcollege.bsky.social

Can oral vaccination help save one of the world's rarest canids? With approximately 500 Ethiopian wolves remaining, rabies transmitted by domestic dogs is one of the greatest threats to their survival. @bethpreston.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

New paper out today! We found increased oral vaccine bait uptake by Ethiopian wolves soon after deployment of baits; in areas further from human settlement; and areas with lower domestic dog density. Read the full paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Designing effective oral rabies vaccination strategies for endangered carnivores: Lessons from bait uptake in Ethiopian wolves

Our methods and framework offer valuable insights for designing effective oral vaccination strategies in wild carnivores globally, especially where domestic animal interference threatens wildlife hea....

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And now for something completely different RATE MY BOWER! A 10 min survey about what you think looks nice. Link in post below Please repost!

PEC Exeter@pec-exeter.bsky.social · last mo.

Are bowers artwork? 🖼️ Do we (humans) like the same bower designs that the choosy females like? Please fill in this short survey asking you to "RATE MY BOWER" No expertise needed. We just want your aesthetic judgment🎨🖌️ exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Takes <10 mins

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

Stu West@stuwest.bsky.social · last mo.

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Join the Wildlife Health team at the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation/Ecology. We're looking for a new colleague to join our group with interests in wildlife, conservation, ecology, one health and related fields. Deadline: 29th May jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the RVC: Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation / Ecology

We invite applications for a Lecturer position in either Wildlife Conservation or Ecology in the Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences (PPS). This is an exciting position within the Depar...

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🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysical scanning 🌍 Field ecology & behaviour 📊 Big data & code with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Call for applications for a Collective Behaviour Field Course in the Kalahari organised by swarm member Vlad! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity 💪

Vlad Demartsev@animal-sounds.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions

Have a look at this great #PhD opportunity on Road Ecology at Aarhus University, Denmark 👇 Timely topic, and a great supervisor! 📅DL: 30.04 phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican... (📸: coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/p...)

Job Alert 🚨: We are looking for field assistants to join our research projects in South Africa studying chacma baboons. Expenses coved. Please get in touch if interested and share widely. See attached advert 👇 @tylerbonnell.bsky.social

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

📢#JobOpportunity #WeAreSeeking an International Biodiversity Officer - to work with UK Overseas Territory governments & administrations to deliver robust evidence & expert advice to underpin our international conservation work. bit.ly/JNCCjob2026009 Closing date: Sunday 19 April 2026 #Biodiversity

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Our call for symposia now open! We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026. For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇 www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh! Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️ More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison

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Hey #WildlifeDisease & #conservation folk, please check out our survey on attitudes to parasite conservation. Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n

The next seminar in our Wild Animal Lives series will be on January 29 at 3 pm GMT. Focusing on #urbanecology, it will feature Amanda Trask of @zslscience.bsky.social, Charlotte Burn of RVC, and Marion Chatelain of the University of Innsbruck. Register here: https://buff.ly/4gBx7VP

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Beth Preston@bethpreston.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in Health and Productivity of Cattle Used in Rewilding www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr... Deadline: 12th February 2025

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in Health and Productivity of Cattle Used in Rewilding www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr... Deadline: 12th February 2025