Dr Danni Hinchcliffe
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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe
@dannihinchy.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Conservation Biology & Ecology. BOU & BES Associate Editor. SFHEA. Proud IVF Mum, Birder, & Metalhead. Parkrun & Steam locos 🖤 She/Her. Views are mine 🤘
Fantastic penultimate day of work before maternity leave - teaching our @ljmuofficial.bsky.social foundation #wildlife #conservation students at @chesterzoo.bsky.social 🙌
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Superb inaugural lecture from friend & past @salforduni.bsky.social colleague Prof Arijit Mukhopadhyay: Rear-View Mirror on My Successful Failures. I especially liked the advice "you can nurture self esteem but the seed needs external stimulation" aka let your friends be your research cheerleaders 🙌
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yesterday was national #reptile day so the pet #snakes enjoyed some 🎃 enrichment! @zachinch92.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Who doesn't love a baby Black Five?
Stanier Mogul 13268 pays its first visit to the East Lancs Railway. Photo at Ewood Bridge this AM. #trains #trainphotography #steamtrain #heritagerailway 🚂
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I love how our 2yr old doesn't just point at birds and say "birds". He's getting good ID'ing local stuff. He enjoyed wigeon & gadwall (video) on the canal last night. He also (a bit too keenly!) corrected a lady who said "look at the pretty moorhen" - it was a coot 😅 @zachinch92.bsky.social #birding
October 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
When there's a storm and the toddler is asleep.... BIRD! 3 Leach's petrel in the bag, RNLI station - Hoylake. @zachinch92.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #birding
October 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
RIP Dame Jane Goodall DBE. One of the absolute greats in Zoology, who taught us so much & inspired beyond words. I feel privileged to have met you & thank you for all you have done for conservation, understanding and protecting our wildlife. #janegoodall
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A great weekend at the NYMR autumn steam gala. Here is 45428 leaving Grosmont 🚂 #trains #trainphotography #steamtrain #heritagerailway
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When @ljmuofficial.bsky.social's official photographer snaps you in action at the @britsciassoc.bsky.social British Science Festival! It was great to see Europe's longest standing science festival hosted in Liverpool & be given a platform to bring #ornithology to the public. @ljmuimpact.bsky.social🌍
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Another year, another #freshers week & getting to know a new bunch of great @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Wildlife Conservation students! Our "draw your lecturer" activity has become a big highlight... my colleague Rob doesn't have an official staff photo but now he has many options! 😅 #ljmu #university
September 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Furness Railway No20 approaches Brooksbottom Tunnel during the ELR's Rail 200 weekend 14/09/2025 #trains #trainphotography #steamtrain #heritagerailway #steamrailway #eastlancsrailway
September 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When the toddler falls asleep during #parkrun #PenningtonFlash so you have the rare opportunity to do some birding post-run! Great views of a couple of black terns. Nice chance to recover... #31weeks #pregnancy 🏃‍♀️
September 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Great to be part of the British Science Festival today that has taken over Liverpool city centre this week - talking all things #ornithology & showing the public many ways we can monitor #birds for #conservation & research at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social (also a chance to big up @bou.org.uk)
September 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Great to have a 2nd @routledgebooks.bsky.social book chapter under my belt (prev freshwater birds, now wetland birds, yet I study passerines 😅) & absolute privilege to write with Dr Ann Hodgson. Definitely feel like I have a place in #ornithology after this year! @ljmuofficial.bsky.social #impact 🌍
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's time to join the #Motus wildlife tracking network! @woodcreeper.bsky.social gives an impressive overview of the advancement of Motus tracking & its potential for #ornithology #conservation - we need more stations, want to get involved? @eounion.bsky.social #ecology #migration #EOU2025 motus.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Excellent keynote from @btobirds.bsky.social Science Director James Pearce-Higgins exploring key mechanisms driving golden plover populations & the need for long-term monitoring if we are to make #conservation decisions in an ever-changing 🌍 @eounion.bsky.social #EOU2025 #ornithology #climatechange
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's the final day of the @eounion.bsky.social conference at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & Dr Rose Thorogood @helsinkiupress.bsky.social gives great examples of how personal/social cues + signals help us understand and predict bird decision making. Tits, hihis & warblers, all before 10am! #EOU2025
August 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Fantastic excursion to @rspb.bsky.social South Stack to break up the week-long @eounion.bsky.social conference at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. Diving gannets, good numbers of kittiwakes, chorus of chough & raven, peregrines soaring & stonechat for company along the trails. Sunny weather, a bonus!
August 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What a great bunch of birdy folk! @bou.org.uk #BOUatEOU #ornithology #EOU2025
August 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Poster 52 @eounion.bsky.social conference: long-term insights into climate change effects on bird phenology at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social. Controversially we find birds are arriving later in warmer seasons, not earlier! Why could that be? Let's chat! Poster session 5-7pm today. #EOU2025 #ornithology
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Excellent talk from @carladreon.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social in the life history & development #ornithology plenary @eounion.bsky.social evidencing lay date plasticity in alpine swifts with warming temperatures - a heritable adaptation that boosts individual reproductive success. #EOU2025
August 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Good morning from the annual @eounion.bsky.social #ornithology conference - day 2 kicks off with @mylenemariette.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social - a fascinating plenary on how zebrafinch "speak" to their eggs to help embryos develop & adapt to challenging environmental conditions #EOU2025
August 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
August 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Afternoon symposium @eounion.bsky.social conference: life histories & development #ornithology Dr Alex Sutton @bangoruniversity.bsky.social makes a strong case to use relative timing (rather than absolute) of reproduction in birds when looking at fitness consequences of adjusting lay date #EOU2025
August 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM