I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

📢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

🚨 Now out: Award Issue, collecting all seven mini-reviews included in the 2025 Review Competition written by early career researchers. Highlighting emerging or less explored topics in avian biology ➡️ vist.ly/4pzxr Cover: pair of female Laysan albatrosses by Bertille Mohring #ornithology

📢 NOMINATE FOR BOU COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP ➡️ Awards Nominations Committee ➡️ Engagement Committee ➡️ IBIS Management Committee ➡️ Meetings Committee ➡️ Records Committee Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme Full details: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

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...

@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol! Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December. www.asab.org/conference-g... Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓

Very happy to share that our paper presenting a framework for optimal movement decisions in complex landscapes has just been published in TREE @stephharris.bsky.social @jacobnabe.bsky.social tinyurl.com/d45s36y5

Thrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding

Determining the diet of wide-ranging, pelagic seabirds is challenging. In this study, we investigated buccal swabbing and DNA metabarcoding to describe the diet of Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus....

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Great to be back @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social for my second field season. Lots of chicks hatching everyday now! 🐥😍

Moving as a group imposes constraints on the energetic efficiency of #movement #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #OpenAccess

Moving as a group imposes constraints on the energetic efficiency of movement | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Movement is a key part of life for many species. In solitary animals, the energetic costs of movement can be mitigated through energetically efficient strategies that produce faster, straighter moveme...

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

Excited to share a new publication, just off the press!! This time back to the terrestrial ecosystem, 📣 led by PhD student Charlie, @thecharlieroger.bsky.social , on using machine learning 🤖〽️ to identify wolf behaviours from accelerometer data #biologging, #movementecology. Congrats!! 👏

A supervised model to identify wolf behavior from tri-axial acceleration - Animal Biotelemetry

Background In wildlife studies, animal behavior serves as a key indicator of the impact of environmental changes and anthropogenic disturbances. However, wild animals are elusive and traditional GPS s...

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New publication by the @commonternproject.bsky.social. 'Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long-lived seabird'. In @animalecology.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Selective disappearance based on navigational efficiency in a long‐lived seabird

Changes in migratory performance with age are typically assumed to reflect within-individual learning processes. Here, we show that changes the navigational efficiency in a long-lived seabird instead....

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New research by a team inc @sosbangor.bsky.social @marineronan.bsky.social shows absence of sharks 🦈across the Western Indian Ocean, except Mozambique & Chagos Archipelago

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🚨Our paper now out and Open Access in Conservation Biology🚨 🦈Urgent conservation action needed for WIO’s large-bodied fish. Sharks, giant groupers & green humphead parrotfishes face alarming declines in the WIO due to overfishing & climate change. 🦈 @sosbangor.bsky.social t.co/wJiMuTmZih

Funded PhD! Interested in nightjars? Interested in radio tracking and GPS tracking? We are looking for a PhD student to study the movement and cognitive ecology of this enigmatic crepuscular species with me and @dmitrykishkinev.bsky.social Link below - message or email for info. 3 days to apply!

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas @sosbangor.bsky.social

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3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

My first PhD chapter just got published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social ! We proposed a new framework to estimate foraging energetics ⚡ of Adélie 🐧 using TDRs. Our framework provided results similar to accelerometers and could likely be applicable on other diving predators 🐋🦈 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

New paper alert! Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution! In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets. Link to paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator

Analysis of combined deployments of GPS loggers with cameras or temperature–depth recorders reveals that despite experiencing intraspecific competition for food, northern gannets engage in dynamic, c...

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How do wandering albatrosses deal with broad-scale climatic variation? Pretty well, it seems! Our new Ecology & Evolution paper uses 11 years of GPS tracking to show how plastic behaviour helps albatrosses to buffer environmental effects on their breeding success: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!