Isla Botting
@islabotting.bsky.social
phd student studying red knot movement | video maker | artist | i bake too | did I miss something? | LJMU - NIOZ - BTO | (she/her)
Meet Crinkle, an excellently named monkey and the first Barbary macaque to have their whole genome sequenced. We hope this is a big step forward in the conservation of the species: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @shump.bsky.social @plasticprimates.bsky.social
Stoke-on-Trent monkey in 'world first' gene research project
Mapping the DNA of Crinkle, a Barbary macaque at Trentham Monkey Forest, will fight wildlife crime.
bbc.co.uk
A CELEBRITY has been spotted in the Life Sciences Building 😲🤩 Let’s see how many selfies with Dave we can get on here, use the hashtag #ASABSpring2026 ! Model 💃🏻: @islabotting.bsky.social
EARLY VIEW in IBIS Storm events will simultaneously reduce foraging opportunities and affect movements of Red Knots (Calidris canutus) in the intertidal Wadden Sea | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Timo Keuning, Evy Gobbens, Ran Nathan, Allert I. Bijleveld | #ornithology 🪶
Are you a UK researcher who wants to carry out a small-scale fieldwork project at our Antarctic research stations or on board our polar research ship? 📅 Deadline for applications is 4pm, 31 March 2026 Find out more on our website: https://ow.ly/aE5Q50Y3P5O 📸 Chris Walton & Nina Kinney
We want to bring your attention to Spurn Bird Observatory and ask you to consider supporting the Beacon Ponds Little Tern Project. This is a one-off ask to safeguard an incredible conservation success. Please donate if you can and share to spread the word. buff.ly/9ZOUKbz
Come join the team! 🦆
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology@btobirds.bsky.social · 7mo ago📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology
🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
We're excited to share some seabird training grant opportunities with The Seabird Group for Black, Asian and minority ethnic background students!
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project. Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour. drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch
📢 APPLY NOW... ...for the 2026 BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements 🪶 Application deadline: 30 January 2026 Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...
Bijdragen aan onderzoek in de #Waddenzee? Morgen sluit de #vacature. Help mee vogelzenders te ontwikkelen, optimaliseren en het systeem operationeel houden. Zie de vacature: workingat.nioz.nl/o/elektronic... en de #WATLAS website waar je ook live kunt meekijken waar de vogels zijn www.nioz.nl/watlas
Ask the Government stops allowing energy companies to charge the same price as gas for much cheaper to produce renewable electricity. Please sign and share! This will reduce bills overnight. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Ban cheap renewable energy from being charged at the price of expensive gas
Mandate energy providers to stop charging the same price as expensive gas for much cheaper renewable energy. We think they should pass any savings on to consumers, rather than keeping them as profit.
petition.parliament.uk
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
findaphd.com
Just a few days left to apply to this postdoc position on Red Knots in the #WaddenSea within the fantastic project www.waakvogels.nl Please share :)
Allert Bijleveld@allertbijleveld.bsky.social · last yr.POSTDOC VACANCY: We have a 3 year position available studying variation in population size and habitat use of red knots in the #WaddenSea. We the aim to understand bottom-up and top-down processies. More info here: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po... #WATLAS #SIBES #ornithology #movementecology
Had the absolute pleasure of talking about getting science to screen at ASAB2025. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together, and let us loose to speak.
ASAB 2025@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social · last yr.Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥 We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖
Fascinating talk from Christopher Barnard Medal winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social contrasting chimpanzee and bonobo cooperation and conflict #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB
The news is finally out 😎 It was not only an amazing opportunity to be part of the group which caught the UK's oldest oystercatcher, but it was even more incredible when a month later we caught a new individual which was EVEN OLDER! 🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Norfolk bird surveyors find Britain’s oldest known oystercatchers
Birds in their 40s wintering on mudflats and coastal wetlands of the Wash received leg rings in early 1980s
theguardian.com
Our #ASABSpring2025 programme is out now! Want to find out when you're presenting, how to get to LJMU, or what to do in Liverpool? Well its all in here 😉 Go check out the up to date versions on our ASAB conference website 🔗 asabspring2025.github.io
🚨 DEADLINE APPROACHING🚨 The deadline to submit an abstract for the #ASABSpring2025 conference is in only four days. Don't miss out on this opportunity to present your work 🔬 🔗 Follow our registration guide here: tinyurl.com/y8vjzyzt
