Over a quarter of a million seabirds on Rathlin Island are now safer! 💙 Rathlin Island has been declared ferret-free: a world-first conservation success helping Puffins, Guillemots and more raise their young safely again. Read the full story: www.rspb.org.uk/media-centre...

Exciting PhD on mouse lemur population genomics, based in Montpellier with Helena Teixeira 🧬🌴👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

Benoit Nabholz@benoitevol.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are currently recruiting a PhD student to conduct a doctoral thesis on mouse lemur population genomics. Main supervisor: Helena Teixeira ( at ISEM @isemevol.bsky.social ) Application deadline: 19 April 2026 More info euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

Need to assess the future impact of changed survival or productivity on your UK #seabird population? Want to do PVA but don't have the resources? We have run 100000 PVAs for you and built a library of those impacts! New paper by Eve Merrall, @cathorswill.bsky.social + more doi.org/10.1002/2688...

📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1 Please share widely, informal email enquiries welcome @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social

Postdoc: Do fish communicate within the vibroscape? my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Grant application and paper rejected on same day. Oof.

New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK) Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation. 👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114 #PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange @sosbangor.bsky.social

COFUND PhD position - Marine Ecology / Conservation

La Rochelle Université is recruiting a PhD candidate on a 3-year fixed-term contract. Title of the thesis project: Disentangling the influence of natural and man-made threats on prey-predator interact...

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Today I have mostly been trying to help with this, at a workshop hosted by @btobirds.bsky.social Great to interact with colleagues and collaborators old and new #seabirds

Banish forever your reference to GLS accuracy of 200km! Think instead about how most folks actually use geolocators on #seabirds

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

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Job! Looking for a University Teacher to join our Ecology and Marine Biology team @liverpooluni.bsky.social for six months FT from January 1st. Job would suit someone recently finished their #PhD or Postdoc. my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Albatrosses are majestic birds known for soaring thousands of miles over the ocean, but they’re in trouble. A new paper led by BAS scientists has found that the number of breeding pairs of albatrosses in South Georgia has decreased - one species by 66% in 40 years! 🧵 1/2

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position Gull Foraging Ecology in the North Sea - NO-REGRETS Project

Are you passionate about animal movement ecology? Interested in studying gull foraging ecology at sea? Apply for this unique PhD opportunity at the Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology ...

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Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop approaches for extraction of animal condition from the tracks of wild birds.

Vacancy — Postdoc Environmental Monitoring Through Bird Movement and Activity in Waakvogels Project

Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? Will you be the one to discover the signs of disease, stress or disturban...

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Fun times back out at Puffin Island today for first trip of the year. Setting up camera traps in the cormorant colony to monitor productivity. Thanks to @aliceedney.bsky.social and Daniel Johnston for advice.

#JobAlert 🚨 ❄️🦆🐟🦐 #Research #Scientist focused on #seabirds and #prey interactions, with #SEATRACK, #Norwegian #Polar Institute, and Norwegian Institute for #Nature Research. 3-year term based in #Tromso, #Norway. 🇳🇴 More information here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

TLDR: UK universities are f***ed. It's that simple. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial

Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed

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Coquet Island Seabird Assistant Warden - RSPB - www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104632-... Awesome job claxon! #RSPBEcology #seabirds #jobs

Coquet Island Seabird Assistant Warden

We are looking for a seasonal Assistant Warden to join the team on the island for 4 months in the peak of the breeding season. You will help in reserve monitoring and management. Accommodation will be...

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Join us using the QR code tomorrow for our first webinar of the year @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social

I'm also co-supervising on this one! Another great project.

Samantha Patrick@samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)

🔈 ANNOUNCING #BOU2026 Birds and people: challenges and opportunities of coexistence | University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky | 31 March - 2 April 2026 Nominate your picks for the Alfred Newton Lecture and for keynote talks bou.org.uk/event/bir... #ornithology 🪶

This year's resolution: spend more time on social media (I know). So I am trying that out over here. Strap in for occasional #seabird research self-promotion and some even less frequent rants about the state of UK Higher Education.