@roasty247
Post-doc at KLIVV - VetMedUni studying shorebird movement & population ecology. A global citizen - I'm for science, education, conservation and sustainability. Vienna / Maio https://ecologymjroast.wordpress.com/
✳️ #SpecialIssue call for papers ✳️
We are accepting submissions for a NEW special issue: Applications of mechanistic #modelling in biodiversity conservation 🖥️🌎
Edited by Sean Tomlinson & Brian Helmuth
Full info and submission instructions ➡️ academic.oup.com/conphys/page...
@sebiology.bsky.social
🚨A great PhD opportunity at University of Vienna working with caimans in French Guiana 🐊
🚨Deadline extension!🚨
💡 You now have until the 8th of March to apply to join us as an Associate Editor!
🔎Find out more and apply here
👉️https://buff.ly/cIwdUMx
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🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more!
Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
ID guide for these globetrotting rodents! 🌍🦫 (Coypu are invasive in Europe and North America)
I've seen so many coypu photos used in beaver articles recently. If you're a science communicator or a journalist, take a moment to familiarise yourself with the differences. - It may be handy!
#SciComm
Less than a month to apply to join the BES editorial board as an Associate editor!🌳🌍 📖
If you're interested in contributing to any of the BES journals, check out the link below 👇
buff.ly/6ymRGcB
I was just wondering the other day where all the salt on the roads goes after winter…
A project at Abberton Reservoir in Essex has begun colour-ringing and tracking Eurasian Wigeon in an effort to better understand how the species uses landscapes during the winter and beyond:
🚨 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
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
📢 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 🪶
BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.
We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.
⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!
Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq
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Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement? 🌎🌐🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For ID purposes videos can be great for familiarising yourself with seabird flight actions, structure, etc. but it’s a pain tracking down useful clips. I’ve collated video links for various N Atlantic species here #seabirds #seawatching #birding #birdID
chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/s...
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
Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!
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...
Maio Shorebird Conservation logo, with Kentish Plover and salt piles of Salinas do Porto Inglês
🧵5/5 Many thanks to co-authors @gcmcdon.bsky.social, Tamás Székely, András Kosztolányi and Ivan Maggini, in addition Fundaçao Maio Biodiversidade (FMB) for support during fieldwork!
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
A comparison of nest outcomes in tagged and untagged control groups of Kentish Plovers during the 2023 breeding season.
Resighting rates of tagged and untagged Kentish Plovers 4-5 months after the deployment period (indicative of apparent survival). There are no apparent differences when considering visual resighting rates only. Several additional tagged individuals were not seen, but survival was inferred by remote detection of the GPS tag with a hub device that downloaded movement data.
🧵4/5 Lastly, we found no differences in reproductive success or apparent survival between tagged and untagged control groups of Kentish Plovers through detailed reproductive monitoring and extensive visual surveys 4-5 months post-deployment.
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
Panel of graphs showing no significant differences in incubation behaviours or nest attendance between Kentish Plovers in tagged and untagged control groups
Example nest camera deployment with a camouflaged camera place around 40cm from the nest
🧵3/5 We also found no differences in incubation behaviours or nest attendance between Kentish Plovers in tagged and untagged control groups as monitored with nest cameras.
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
Kentish Plover foraging with a GPS tag on its back
🧵2/5 We found no detectable differences in Kentish Plover general behaviour assessed with time-budget assays of tagged individuals compared to untagged control individuals.
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
Kentish Plover with a solar-powered GPS tag just before release, Maio, Cape Verde
Kentish Plover with a solar-powered GPS tag just before release after a nocturnal capture, Maio, Cape Verde
🧵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....
A solitary Lapwing stands in the grass.
New PhD opportunity:
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
European robin. Photo: Finja Strehmann
Fig. 3 from the article: the predicted H/L values of the model on potentially incubating birds.
NEW PAPER: machine learning and bird physiology: general patterns of heterophil/lymphocyte ratio with respect to age, sex and breeding status across a forest bird community.
➡️ vist.ly/3n4gki7
#ornithology #birds #disease #conservation #hematology 🪶
Great talk, Edina! So proud to have you as part of our group! 🤩
@klivvvienna.bsky.social
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) - gratuitous flower picture for attention!
Did you see the “Same data, many analysts” study? There’s going to be a follow-up study! The team are looking for a new post-doc to work on the project! #meta #data #ecology #evolution #statistics
apply.interfolio.com/166608
Image of a Starling perched with bill open and wings outstretched. Wording alongside reads: Birds in Greenspaces Survey. Can you help? www.bto.org/greenspaces-pilot. BTO logo top right of image. Starling image credit: Edmund Fellowes/BTO.
New project alert! 📢 Can you help us count Birds in Greenspaces? 🐦🌳 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspa... #Ornithology #UKBirding
This pilot survey is for people who enjoy watching birds, whether experienced birders or new to nature! It’s flexible too so you can take part anywhere in the UK. 📝
