Our comparative analyses with @bksandercock.bsky.social and colleagues is now included in July issue of Oikos, and is making the cover, with a stunning picture of one of my great friend Verca. Read the paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Our cover for July! 🏖️🦢 A global review of more than 100 shorebird species reveals that annual survival has declined significantly, particularly among adults, highlighting growing conservation concerns and the need for long-term monitoring. vist.ly/59qeb 📷Veronika Švestková

Our cover for July! 🏖️🦢 A global review of more than 100 shorebird species reveals that annual survival has declined significantly, particularly among adults, highlighting growing conservation concerns and the need for long-term monitoring. vist.ly/59qeb 📷Veronika Švestková

10/10 no notes inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Read the story behind our study with @justinedelautre.bsky.social @ankitha-jayanth.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social #lapwings #shorebird #predation

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In this blog post @dillensegerg.bsky.social discuss how forest patches can negatively affect ground nests in grassland species, and how lapwings mitigate this effect by being more aggressive when nesting near trees🌳 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/LZFCvZl

Good to see some push-back www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you the less lucky of the co-first or co-last authors? @shougroup.bsky.social makes the case for changes to the way that equal contribution information is sent to indexing sites such as #PubMed. 🧪 #AcademicSky #publishing

We need to correct the wide-spread omission of equal contribution in article indexing

Equal contribution designations (co-first and co-last authorship) is on the rise, yet this information is routinely lost, creating inequity in recognition and crediting. This Perspective calls for…

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Are you a national of an African country? Looking to study birds of prey at one of three leading ornithological research university across the contient? This might be for you! raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...

New paper: do GPS tags affect small shorebirds? In Kentish plovers, solar-powered devices showed no detectable effects on behaviour, reproduction, or short-term survival. ➡️ vist.ly/4xcxr #ornithology #biologging #birds #survival #reproduction

New article in Oikos with a global review of annual survival for waders comparing estimation methods and phylogeny. Survival increases with body mass but decreases with migration distance and during past 40 years. Team led by @dillensegerg.bsky.social. #ornithology #waders doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Do you work with breeding shorebirds? Do you collect FID data? Do you have data already or collecting data this year? We are seeking data contributors for a new project investigating the diversity of nest defence strategies across breeding shorebirds. Get in touch if interested! #wader #shorebird

Valdebenito et al show that three constitutive immune system parameters remain stable across the non-breeding season in Hudsonian godwits ➡️ https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jav.03435

Do you work with breeding shorebirds? Do you collect FID data? Do you have data already or collecting data this year? We are seeking data contributors for a new project investigating the diversity of nest defence strategies across breeding shorebirds. Get in touch if interested! #wader #shorebird

Just over a week left to apply for this PhD project (unfortunately UK students only). If you're interested then please get in touch!

Matthew Silk@mattjsilk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me, @iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: The impact of global change on parental care systems Interested in Shorebirds? Global change? Parental care? Fieldwork? 🐣☀️ Come join us in Budapest! Interested candidates - get in touch! Deadline Feb 28 2026

Post-doc position open in 2026 at UVMB Budapest to study the effects of global change on parental care in shorebirds. PhD in life sciences required. Apply via email to Grant McDonald: grant.mcdonald@univet.hu. More info: https://univet.hu/en/about/staff/mcdonald-grant. #job

McDonald Grant C. - University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest

INTRODUCTION Grant C. McDonald is an evolutionary ecologists studying how the social organisation of animal societies governs male and female reproductive strategies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford where he studied how variation in social and sexual networks impact on patterns of sexual selection and sexual conflict. His current research explores the

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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: The impact of global change on parental care systems Interested in Shorebirds? Global change? Parental care? Fieldwork? 🐣☀️ Come join us in Budapest! Interested candidates - get in touch! Deadline Feb 28 2026

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🧵1/5 Our new paper is now published in @avianbiology.bsky.social! The first GPS tagging study of Kentish Plovers in Maio investigated the potential impact of tagging, finding no detectable impacts across multiple aspects of behaviour, reproduction & survival. doi.org/10.1002/jav....

📰 Wader News #waders #shorebirds Solar-powered GPS tags show no detectable harm to Kentish Plovers ⬇️ www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...

New post doc funding opportunity: Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards

As announced in Budget 2025 -

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Researchers share their findings about the effects of tracking devices on survival etc., so that others can learn how to study waders as safely as possible. 1/4 New paper suggests that Kentish Plovers are not affected by tracking devices. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... BUT ...

We assessed the effects of solar-powered GPS devices on behaviour, incubation, reproductive outcomes, and apparent survival, in an emerging avian model, Kentish Plovers. We found no effect of tagging on behaviour or life-history indicating tagging is unlikely to manifest in demographic consequences

New research in @avianbiology.bsky.social: "No detectable deployment impacts of solar-powered GPS devices for long-term use on a small shorebird" nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Shorebird #Wader #GPS #Reproduction @roasty247.bsky.social

No detectable deployment impacts of solar‐powered GPS devices for long‐term use on a small shorebird

Portable devices, or biologgers, attached to animals are designed to record data on unobservable aspects of animal behaviour, physiology and ecology. However, wearing such devices is expected to be c...

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MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

Now in Animal Behaviour @asab.org‬ "Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird" #OA #Shorebird #ParentalCare authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Now in Animal Behaviour @asab.org‬ "Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird" #OA #Shorebird #ParentalCare authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Our new study, published in Scientific Reports and led by Abril Alexander, suggests the possibility that monogamy may remove constraints on reproductive tissue investment imposed by intense sexual selection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

LOOKING BACK in IBIS The causes and implications of sex role diversity in shorebird breeding systems | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Tamás Székely et al | #ornithology 🪶

PhD opportunity in parental care and social ecology focusing on ground-nesting plovers in Cabo Verde, supervised by experts at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest. Apply by March 31, 2025: https://univet.hu/ #phd

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Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social 📷: Dani Edmunds