🚨New paper & dataset - Assessment of land-based threats to #Atlantic pelagic #seabirds 🌊 🪶 , led by @ioannis-kalaitz.bsky.social Highlights the most impactful threats & regions. Supports the #conservation of 49 #migratory species & implementation of mitigation measures doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

Assessment of land‐based threats to Atlantic pelagic seabirds

Highly mobile pelagic seabirds face numerous land-based threats during their breeding seasons, including invasive alien species, climate change, and diseases, which drive population declines. Using f...

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We are excited to be recruiting a number of new postdoctoral researchers working across a range of topics from biodiversity modelling and creative future visioning to cultural understandings of biodiversity and game design. Find out more and apply by 28 April: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

The SCB Africa Region is excited to announce the Call for Proposals for Symposia, Workshops, Training Courses, and Round Table Discussions for the 2026 Africa Congress for Conservation Biology, scheduled for August 31- September 4 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria. Get your submissions in by March 31st! 🌍🪸🦑🐘

Please disseminate these opportunities for #EarlyCareerResearchers. #Conservation #restoration #jobs #acoustics #monitoring 🌐🌍🌊

Stelios Katsanevakis@skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Open MSc-level researcher / scientific diver position for the LIFE #PINNACARE project. Focus: conservation and recovery of #Pinna nobilis in Greece through field monitoring, transplantations, larval collectors, repopulation, and more. Deadline: 12 March 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/node/413319

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre@leedsleaf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland! yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

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📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

Lost bird rediscovered! 🙌 After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been documented again by a team of Indian birdwatchers. 🎉 Find out more about the ‘Search for Lost Birds’ here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

Glimmer of hope: Sought-after lost bird rediscovered in India

After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon’s Courser has been documented again.

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Humans have been interacting with whales for a long time. This paper describes tools made from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago in the Bay of Biscay - including from gray and right whales, two species since extirpated from European shores. 🧪🌎 #History #envhist www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications

Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

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New paper led by @cetaceanyouri.bsky.social sheds new light into the gray whale's mysterious early demise from European shores: likely the result of medieval whaling all along its migratory route, gone by the mid-14th Century. Death by a thousand cuts. 🧪🌎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dating the first historic extirpation of a whale species: The demise of the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in the eastern North Atlantic

The grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus), once present in both the eastern and western North Atlantic, is the only whale species to have been extirpated…

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Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles. Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists. 🦑🌍🌐🧪🌊🐟 #PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6 🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Come work with us in beautiful Basel & in the mountains around the world! Great working environment & fab collaborators on top ☺️🌐 Happy to answer non-project-related questions via DM!

Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf@ecologybasel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

*Job alert* We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us! Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5 Please share!

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

First post on Bluesky! 🌿 Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity. Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France! 🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Migratory birds aren’t equally efficient at all speeds. A new Lund University study shows thrush nightingales fly most efficiently at 7–8 m/s – the speed they actually use on migration. @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social & Prof. Anders Hedenström, Animal Flight Lab. www.biology.lu.se/article/not-...

Some validation for my recent efforts in uploading some old images of unidentified species to @inaturalist.bsky.social – turns out I photographed an undescribed poison-dart frog in the Western Amazon 18 years ago 🌎 🧪🐸🪶 #ornithology #herpetology 🧵1/21

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths. Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025 gfoe.org/en/specialis... If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

Nature (trail) cameras 'can greatly inflate nest predation rates' especially with canny curious corvids in open landscapes wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #wildlife #conservation #ornithology 🧪

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School

Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

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Let's talk about *how we can know* that crows understand geometry. 🧪 The study from Univ. of Tübingen faculty on two male carrion crows (Corvus corone) trained to select "outliers" from a set of shapes in exchange for a food reward. The set member that doesn't "belong" is called the "intruder".

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12mo ago

roses are red gold is the key