Ana Cristina Gomes
@anacrgomes.bsky.social
PostDoc researcher at Uppsala University
Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality
PhD (she/her)
Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality
PhD (she/her)
Pinned
Aging and environment affect female more than male color in a mutually ornamented bird
We found stronger senescence and environmental effects on female than male color in a mutually ornamented bird, the common waxbill. Results indicate plasti
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📢New paper alert!📢 We found stronger senescence and environmental effects on female colour than on males in a mutually ornamented bird, the common waxbill. with S Guerra, C Romero-Diaz, P Silva, S Trigo, and @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social at Behavioral Ecology (1/5)
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🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina.
One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social
The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st
Please share among potential students!
One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social
The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st
Please share among potential students!
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina.
One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social
The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st
Please share among potential students!
One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social
The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st
Please share among potential students!
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PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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🎉 The 22nd Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) took place 1 month ago at the University of Algarve. The congress highlighted recent research in animal behavior, cognition, and welfare.
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🎉 The 22nd Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) took place 1 month ago at the University of Algarve. The congress highlighted recent research in animal behavior, cognition, and welfare.
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
FishEthoGroup, @ccmar.bsky.social , SPE
#Ethology #AnimalBehaviour #SPEmembers #SPEetologia
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Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz
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📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
The University of Salford hiring Research Assistant in Bioacoustics in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:02:26 AM. Research Assistant in BioacousticsUniversity of Salford, School of Science, Engineering &…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
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We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!
Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
POSITIONS
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October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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#jobalert
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#jobalert
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception
Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
More information: www.applied-ethology.org/Postdoctoral...
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Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026
ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria!
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org
#ECMTB’26
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
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Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
Really happy to have presented my work in this cognition session at #SPEetol2025 😁
The second morning session of the last day of #SPEetol2025 conference, the "Cognition" session, included amazing talks regarding the cognition in fish variation and evolution! Thank you to all the speakers, it was great to know more about your research 😊
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Really happy to have presented my work in this cognition session at #SPEetol2025 😁
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📢 JOB VACANCY
Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government
Application deadline: 7 Nov
shorturl.at/tXeHn
#ornithology
Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government
Application deadline: 7 Nov
shorturl.at/tXeHn
#ornithology
Marine Ornithologist
Do you want to use your scientific and research expertise to play an important role in decisions made on the sustainable delivery of marine renewables and the marine environment?
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October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📢 JOB VACANCY
Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government
Application deadline: 7 Nov
shorturl.at/tXeHn
#ornithology
Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government
Application deadline: 7 Nov
shorturl.at/tXeHn
#ornithology
Ready for @spetologia.bsky.social conference #SPEetol2025 !
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ready for @spetologia.bsky.social conference #SPEetol2025 !
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🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...
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Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social.
Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors.
tinyurl.com/35mn84ty
Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors.
tinyurl.com/35mn84ty
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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June 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Part of the Phil Trans special issue "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds", edited with @ellileadbeater.bsky.social.
Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors.
tinyurl.com/35mn84ty
Thanks to co-authors Andoni Sergiou, @josharbon.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social & @shoalgroup.bsky.social and all the special issue contributors.
tinyurl.com/35mn84ty
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Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938
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September 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938
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We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
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September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
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I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds
Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Job Alert!
Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.
👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.
👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Job Alert!
Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.
👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.
👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
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3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate
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Another #SPEmebers paper as #ASABEditorsChoice
João Pacheco
Patrícia Beltrão
@trigosandra.bsky.social
@mostlywaxbills.bsky.social
Check out the work
👇👇👇👇👇
João Pacheco
Patrícia Beltrão
@trigosandra.bsky.social
@mostlywaxbills.bsky.social
Check out the work
👇👇👇👇👇
🐦Waxbills! 🥡Food competition! 🕵️Strangers! 🤬Social aggression!
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288
September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Another #SPEmebers paper as #ASABEditorsChoice
João Pacheco
Patrícia Beltrão
@trigosandra.bsky.social
@mostlywaxbills.bsky.social
Check out the work
👇👇👇👇👇
João Pacheco
Patrícia Beltrão
@trigosandra.bsky.social
@mostlywaxbills.bsky.social
Check out the work
👇👇👇👇👇
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The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)
No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!
(no jerks, plz)
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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
www.findaphd.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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...