Jen Gill
@jengill.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Ecology @ University of East Anglia. Bird migration, ecology, conservation, waders. Born @ 323ppm. http://wadertales.wordpress.com
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⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️
Funded PhD in my group:
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?
🐾Find out by studying meerkats!
This PhD combines:
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Ecological data
🌍African fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
⏬APPLY⏬
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Funded PhD in my group:
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?
🐾Find out by studying meerkats!
This PhD combines:
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Ecological data
🌍African fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
⏬APPLY⏬
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️
Funded PhD in my group:
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?
🐾Find out by studying meerkats!
This PhD combines:
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Ecological data
🌍African fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
⏬APPLY⏬
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Funded PhD in my group:
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?
🐾Find out by studying meerkats!
This PhD combines:
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Ecological data
🌍African fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
⏬APPLY⏬
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Agreed. Reith lecture well worth a listen.
Censored or not the first Reith lecture is pretty bracing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Agreed. Reith lecture well worth a listen.
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New paper 🪶
Proximity to woodlands may be reducing the effectiveness of conservation interventions for farmland waders
Read on for a summary
Or find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@kirstyjpark.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@stir.ac.uk
📷Ben Andrew
Proximity to woodlands may be reducing the effectiveness of conservation interventions for farmland waders
Read on for a summary
Or find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@kirstyjpark.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@stir.ac.uk
📷Ben Andrew
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New paper 🪶
Proximity to woodlands may be reducing the effectiveness of conservation interventions for farmland waders
Read on for a summary
Or find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@kirstyjpark.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@stir.ac.uk
📷Ben Andrew
Proximity to woodlands may be reducing the effectiveness of conservation interventions for farmland waders
Read on for a summary
Or find the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@kirstyjpark.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@stir.ac.uk
📷Ben Andrew
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Great thread collating the take home messages of each of today’s presentations/speakers at the National Emergency Briefling.
Hard hitting words from Chris Packham to politicians and leaders at the National Emergency Briefing on climate and nature:
"You MUST listen to the science. We didn't just elect you. We've given you our trust. You are about to hear from leading scientists. I beseach you to hear their truth"
"You MUST listen to the science. We didn't just elect you. We've given you our trust. You are about to hear from leading scientists. I beseach you to hear their truth"
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Great thread collating the take home messages of each of today’s presentations/speakers at the National Emergency Briefling.
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Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart
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Hopefully around the turn of the decade Wallasea will be included as part of the new East Coast Flyway World Heritage Site covering English East Coast Wetlands from the Humber to the Thames.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hopefully around the turn of the decade Wallasea will be included as part of the new East Coast Flyway World Heritage Site covering English East Coast Wetlands from the Humber to the Thames.
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1.5 million pairs of wader return to #Iceland each spring.
Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
1.5 million pairs of wader return to #Iceland each spring.
Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i...
#ConservationScience🌍
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Two funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
www.uea.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Two funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Human prehistory keeps delivering surprises, here in the shape of wolves. A very fun project to work on 👇
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Human prehistory keeps delivering surprises, here in the shape of wolves. A very fun project to work on 👇
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The world is upside down.
The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk!
Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...
The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk!
Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The world is upside down.
The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk!
Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...
The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk!
Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...
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Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
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Love Tom's Purple Sandpipers! 👇
Species was 'red-listed' in 2022 - one of 13 waders on the UK Red List.
Blog "Into the red"
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u...
#ornithology
Species was 'red-listed' in 2022 - one of 13 waders on the UK Red List.
Blog "Into the red"
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u...
#ornithology
Purple Sandpipers on the Northumberland coast. #nebirding @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Love Tom's Purple Sandpipers! 👇
Species was 'red-listed' in 2022 - one of 13 waders on the UK Red List.
Blog "Into the red"
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u...
#ornithology
Species was 'red-listed' in 2022 - one of 13 waders on the UK Red List.
Blog "Into the red"
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u...
#ornithology
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Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP. #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP. #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP. #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP. #NEB2025
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Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...
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@wadertales.bsky.social has reminded me of his super blog which provides an overview of the migration pathways for our #waders ▶️ wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w...
Which wader, when and why?
This is a quick summary of wader migration, for British and Irish birdwatchers. The maps are taken from the migration book Time to Fly by Jim Flegg, published by the British Trust for Ornithology, …
wadertales.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@wadertales.bsky.social has reminded me of his super blog which provides an overview of the migration pathways for our #waders ▶️ wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w...
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Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
The two extraordinary young activists making me feel optimistic at Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The two extraordinary young activists making me feel optimistic at Cop30
In today’s newsletter: Despite valid criticisms, the summits are filled with smart, passionate people dedicating their lives to fighting the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The two extraordinary young activists making me feel optimistic at Cop30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Global Conservation
Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
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Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Consider joining us at the BOU, you could:
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#BOUasm25 #ornithology
Consider joining us at the BOU, you could:
📗 Publish in IBIS
⌨️ Write for #theBOUblog
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That’s a wrap for #BOUasm25, but don’t go just yet! 👋
You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5
You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
That’s a wrap for #BOUasm25, but don’t go just yet! 👋
You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5
You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5