Annika Peter

female blackcap with its characteristic brown cap

happy international women's day

(c) of the beautiful female blackcap @co-la.bsky.social

“Empowered women empower women.” 👭

As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked our fantastic senior female scientists to share a few words for the next generation of researchers; about curiosity, resilience, and lifting each other up along the way.

Illustrated by Charlotte Hintzmann.

Oral Presentation and Poster submission is now open!

Our upcoming annual meeting will take place from 16–20 September at the University of Mainz. The main topics are #LifeHistory, #BehaviouralEcology, #MovementEcology, and environmental endocrinology.

www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

A warm welcome to Alice who joined our research group as a new PhD-Student today. We are happy having you with us for the next 3 years as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Navisense".

New Paper alert 📄

Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks"
-> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DETAILS (ends 31 March) 🐾Full registration including conference dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £260 🐾**Student £310 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £360 🐾Non-student £400 🐾Basic registration excluding dinner and ceilidh 🐾*,**Student from developing country £200 🐾**Student £250 🐾*Non-student from developing country* £300 🐾Non-student £340 Basic registration includes: conference admission, wine reception, tea/coffee breaks, lunch (days 2 & 3). *A limited number of reduced price tickets are available for participants from developing countries. Please e-mail ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk to request a reduced price ticket. Tickets are issued on a first‑come, first‑served basis. **Please email ecbb2026@aru.ac.uk with confirmation of your student status to obtain a discount code for registration. 🦚ASAB To encourage attendance at conferences, @asab_org award Conference Attendance Grants of up to £750 to standard applicants, and up to £2,500 to ‘Developing Country Applicants’. The award provides a contribution towards the cost of registration, accommodation, as well as the cost of travel to and from the conference. 🦚Ethologische Gesellschaft Members of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. may apply for a contribution of up to €500 for active participation (poster or talk) at the conference.

We are delighted to announce #ECBB2026 registration and abstract submission are now open!

Conference Attendance Grant are also available, thanks to @asab.org and @ethoges.bsky.social support!

www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

My first scientific paper (based on my Master's research) is out! 🎉

We show how combining δ²H and δ³⁴S stable isotopes and tracking data can reveal different moult strategies in the Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

The study is published in Ibis and available here:
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

We are hiring! 🙂 We are looking for a research assistant to help analysing movement and demographic data of little owls! 🦉 @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology
tinyurl.com/9k6rj6rx

🚀 60% capacity reached!
EOU Fledglings 2026 is filling up FAST!

Registration stays open until we reach full capacity 👀

💸 Last chance TODAY for DO-G travel funding!
📅 Programme is now live!
More info: eounion.org/fledglings

@biologists.bsky.social #EOU26 #Ornithology

DOG Annual Meeting in Mainz 2026

Join us from 16–20 September at the University of Mainz for a deep dive into life history, behavioural ecology, movement ecology and environmental endocrinology. Excursions, a public evening lecture and a GNOR symposium await.
www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

four panel figure with a bee on a forget-me-not flower upper left, ants finding their way upper right, migratory bird on the lower right and the logo of the special intestest group on animal navigation of the royal institute of navigation on the lower left. in the middle it is written "royal institute of navigation (RIN) - animal navigation group with the RIN logo"

12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation - one of my favourites 🧭🦉🐟🦇🐝🐜 - this time we tried a new format, inviting topical sessions to make sure we represent the wonderfully broad range of research in #animal #orientation and #navigation and are super excited about the lineup s.gwdg.de/EBROf7

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

Celebrating the curiosity, courage and brilliance of women and girls in science today and everyday👩‍🔬✨️🙌

Magnetoreception in Cataglyphis hellenica ants - Journal of Comparative Physiology A Magnetoreception is the ability of animals to detect and use the geomagnetic field (GMF) for spatial orientation. Cataglyphis ants are experimental models for insect navigation and magnetoreception. A...

New study shows that Cataglyphis hellenica 🐜 learns a nest direction by using a magnetic compass 🧲🧭. Demonstrating that a magnetic compass is widespread in Cataglyphis ants. @chiaratenne.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're so happy to finally anounce that registration for #EOU26 is now OPEN!

Thank you all for your patience — we can’t wait to meet you in Gdańsk 🐦

👉 Registration & info: eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...

#Ornithology

Meet Matteo!

Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow

With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research

Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed

A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow

In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social

📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

We have a new group logo - honouring one of our key study species, the northern wheatear 😍

And of cause, this bird is also tagged with a transmitter - but the tracking devices we use for our studies are so tiny, that you can´t see them on the bird 😉

🚨 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

Congratulations, Cecilia 🎉 I am happy for you and excited to see your upcoming research!

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!

We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.

Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84

#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

The DOG is awarding travel grants of 400€ each to young scientists presenting a talk or a poster at the EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk in March 2026.
Here you can find their website: eounion.org/fledglings/
Applications for the travel grant are open until 20.02.2026.
Photo: H.-J. Fünfstück

Do you want to help make our EOU Fledglings website eounion.org/fledglings extra pretty? 💛
It’s very easy! We’re collecting photos of fledglings – any bird, anywhere in the world. Snapshots from your phone are totally fine!

📸 Reply here with your photo or email it to eoufledglingmeeting@gmail.com

It was awesome, I enjoyed it a lot!! Am very grateful for this experience 😊

🦉 Ecology of Animal Migration course in Lund 🐦‍⬛
I got the chance to join this inspiring PhD course at @biologylu.bsky.social. It was very well organized with fascinating lectures, a birdful excursion to Falsterbo and fantastic people doing fantastic research! #ecology #animalmigration

🎉 Abstract submission is open for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 in Gdańsk, Poland (27–29 March 2026)!

📝 Submit your oral/poster abstract:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📅 Deadline: 16 Jan 2026
More info: eounion.org/fledglings

#EOU26 #Ornithology

Studying bird migration with radar YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

Much enjoyed learning about how to study bird migration with radar whilst on the roof of Lund University. youtu.be/0sB5On1gLsg?...

[2/2] Also, I can highly recommend making a pubquiz on „Nature‘s GPS“. It was a lot of fun preparing and moderating the pubquiz with @chiaratenne.bsky.social. I learned so many fascinating animal navigation facts! 🧭🐥