Michał Jezierski
@jezierskimt.bsky.social
Biogeographer 🌏 mostly working on evolution of island organisms 🏝️(and mostly birds 🦉).
@leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow at @unibirmingham.bsky.social.
@leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow at @unibirmingham.bsky.social.
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Third and final Uist trip finished! That's 481 individual Rock Doves ringed/recaptured/resighted during 2025, providing great data to help us understand this population. It's been nice to also get the opportunity to update the community on our project progress. @jezierskimt.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Third and final Uist trip finished! That's 481 individual Rock Doves ringed/recaptured/resighted during 2025, providing great data to help us understand this population. It's been nice to also get the opportunity to update the community on our project progress. @jezierskimt.bsky.social
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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
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New research from #ProcB: A wide range of abiotic and biotic variables leaves most variation in bird nest architecture unexplained buff.ly/eRawojZ | #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Evolution
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New research from #ProcB: A wide range of abiotic and biotic variables leaves most variation in bird nest architecture unexplained buff.ly/eRawojZ | #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Evolution
New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍
A wide range of abiotic and biotic variables leaves most variation in bird nest architecture unexplained | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Nests are the locations or containers for offspring, and mediate interactions between
offspring and the environment. However, understanding how environmental factors shape
the evolution of nest archit...
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍
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Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team!
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
*Please share this!*
2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team!
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
*Please share this!*
We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
*Please share this!*
Beginner's luck is a thing, and with a balmy autumn night I was quite excited for my 9th ever moth-trapping night. But Clifden Nonpareil was not on the bingo card! Also, Least Carpet, Pink-barred Sallow and Rosy Rustic. #TeamMoth #leptember #Moths @willjsmith.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Beginner's luck is a thing, and with a balmy autumn night I was quite excited for my 9th ever moth-trapping night. But Clifden Nonpareil was not on the bingo card! Also, Least Carpet, Pink-barred Sallow and Rosy Rustic. #TeamMoth #leptember #Moths @willjsmith.bsky.social
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A very kind interpretation of a baby pigeon! Here are some wild Rock Dove chicks, who may not be winning beauty contests... 🫠
(nests visited for ongoing @uniofnottingham.bsky.social research in the Outer Hebrides, and for @btobirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme)
(nests visited for ongoing @uniofnottingham.bsky.social research in the Outer Hebrides, and for @btobirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme)
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A very kind interpretation of a baby pigeon! Here are some wild Rock Dove chicks, who may not be winning beauty contests... 🫠
(nests visited for ongoing @uniofnottingham.bsky.social research in the Outer Hebrides, and for @btobirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme)
(nests visited for ongoing @uniofnottingham.bsky.social research in the Outer Hebrides, and for @btobirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme)
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A little write up @leverhulme.ac.uk summarising my research plans @uniofnottingham.bsky.social for the next few years: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith. 🧬🐦🤓
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A little write up @leverhulme.ac.uk summarising my research plans @uniofnottingham.bsky.social for the next few years: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith. 🧬🐦🤓
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Comparing the feral city pigeon with its wild form, Early Career Fellow @willjsmith.bsky.social endeavors to reveal whether feral species are experiencing reverse-domestication or proceeding down a new evolutionary trajectory.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Comparing the feral city pigeon with its wild form, Early Career Fellow @willjsmith.bsky.social endeavors to reveal whether feral species are experiencing reverse-domestication or proceeding down a new evolutionary trajectory.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Reed Warbler range expansion paper just out, led by the amazing Nora Bergman 🧬🪶 with @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @fishcongen.bsky.social @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @frodefossoy.bsky.social and others
doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077
doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reed Warbler range expansion paper just out, led by the amazing Nora Bergman 🧬🪶 with @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @fishcongen.bsky.social @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @frodefossoy.bsky.social and others
doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077
doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077
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Shovelers are a relatively familiar sight in many parts of the UK, but they rarely visit #StKilda. This female found by @n-t-s.bsky.social Ranger Sue yesterday is only the 5th island record and first since 2011. Great find, Sue!
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Shovelers are a relatively familiar sight in many parts of the UK, but they rarely visit #StKilda. This female found by @n-t-s.bsky.social Ranger Sue yesterday is only the 5th island record and first since 2011. Great find, Sue!
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
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Delighted for wren researcher Michał @jezierskimt.bsky.social yesterday finding St Kilda's 9th Rustic Bunting, and first in 25 years!
Amazing to see this eastern vagrant hopping about in the Village sunshine.
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
Amazing to see this eastern vagrant hopping about in the Village sunshine.
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Delighted for wren researcher Michał @jezierskimt.bsky.social yesterday finding St Kilda's 9th Rustic Bunting, and first in 25 years!
Amazing to see this eastern vagrant hopping about in the Village sunshine.
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
Amazing to see this eastern vagrant hopping about in the Village sunshine.
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
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We've just had a brief visit to Uist to check in on the Rock Dove study population. A few (cute?) squabs ringed, and a nice selection of adults re-encountered through colour ring sightings. They seem to be having a good breeding season this spring 🐦🧬 @jezierskimt.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We've just had a brief visit to Uist to check in on the Rock Dove study population. A few (cute?) squabs ringed, and a nice selection of adults re-encountered through colour ring sightings. They seem to be having a good breeding season this spring 🐦🧬 @jezierskimt.bsky.social
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This March, we've ringed the 1000th Rock Dove since @jezierskimt.bsky.social and I began monitoring them in Uist in July 2019. We also re-captured a (now a bit elderly, but thriving) dove first ringed during that trip. Lots of great data collected on overwinter survival and individual condition. 🕊️🪶
March 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This March, we've ringed the 1000th Rock Dove since @jezierskimt.bsky.social and I began monitoring them in Uist in July 2019. We also re-captured a (now a bit elderly, but thriving) dove first ringed during that trip. Lots of great data collected on overwinter survival and individual condition. 🕊️🪶
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Sometimes a pigeon isn't actually a pigeon:
Studies of domestic pigeons have taught us lots about cognition, navigation, and genetics. If you’d like to learn why their wild cousins are also worthy of scientific attention, I’ve written a Rock Dove @currentbiology.bsky.social ‘quick guide’: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.065
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sometimes a pigeon isn't actually a pigeon:
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Studies of domestic pigeons have taught us lots about cognition, navigation, and genetics. If you’d like to learn why their wild cousins are also worthy of scientific attention, I’ve written a Rock Dove @currentbiology.bsky.social ‘quick guide’: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.065
March 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Studies of domestic pigeons have taught us lots about cognition, navigation, and genetics. If you’d like to learn why their wild cousins are also worthy of scientific attention, I’ve written a Rock Dove @currentbiology.bsky.social ‘quick guide’: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.065
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It's #DarwinDay! What better way to celebrate than announcing our latest 📣Call for Papers📣 focused on Island Evolution! Read this thread to find out more (1/4) 👇🧪🌍
Deadline: 5th December 2025
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#Evolution #CallForPapers #Islands
Deadline: 5th December 2025
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#Evolution #CallForPapers #Islands
Evolution on Islands: from genomes to communities
Call for papers
“…it is not too much to say that when we have mastered the difficulties presented by the peculiarities of island life we shall find it comparat
academic.oup.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's #DarwinDay! What better way to celebrate than announcing our latest 📣Call for Papers📣 focused on Island Evolution! Read this thread to find out more (1/4) 👇🧪🌍
Deadline: 5th December 2025
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#Evolution #CallForPapers #Islands
Deadline: 5th December 2025
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#Evolution #CallForPapers #Islands
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Registration is OPEN for #BESMacro2025, the best conference in town. This year we're in York: 10-11 July main conference, 9 July pre-conference scicomm workshop. If you do macroecology or macroevolution, please join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
BES Macro 2025
A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career stage.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Registration is OPEN for #BESMacro2025, the best conference in town. This year we're in York: 10-11 July main conference, 9 July pre-conference scicomm workshop. If you do macroecology or macroevolution, please join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
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Register for our next Student Research Grant Seminar on 2/3/25 at Noon ET, with Michał Jezierski, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Birmingham: "Investigating the island syndrome in the St. Kilda Wren"
Details & Registration: americanornithology.org/professional...
#AOS_SRGS
Details & Registration: americanornithology.org/professional...
#AOS_SRGS
January 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Register for our next Student Research Grant Seminar on 2/3/25 at Noon ET, with Michał Jezierski, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Birmingham: "Investigating the island syndrome in the St. Kilda Wren"
Details & Registration: americanornithology.org/professional...
#AOS_SRGS
Details & Registration: americanornithology.org/professional...
#AOS_SRGS
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The new @ibisjournal.bsky.social British List update formalises the fact that UK Golden Pheasants are extinct as a self-sustaining wild entity (doi.org/10.1111/ibi....). This follows our recent study, and lots of time spent in the woods with these beautiful birds: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The new @ibisjournal.bsky.social British List update formalises the fact that UK Golden Pheasants are extinct as a self-sustaining wild entity (doi.org/10.1111/ibi....). This follows our recent study, and lots of time spent in the woods with these beautiful birds: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint!
Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures.
Very proud to be involved!
🧪🪶
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures.
Very proud to be involved!
🧪🪶
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
November 25, 2024 at 11:12 AM
The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint!
Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures.
Very proud to be involved!
🧪🪶
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures.
Very proud to be involved!
🧪🪶
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
pendingpublications
Pending Publication
doi.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
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Much of our knowledge about bird movements comes from studies of domestic pigeons. With funding from @britishbirds.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social, we carried out a small pilot study, GPS tracking their wild Rock Dove cousins. #ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni...
December 10, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Much of our knowledge about bird movements comes from studies of domestic pigeons. With funding from @britishbirds.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social, we carried out a small pilot study, GPS tracking their wild Rock Dove cousins. #ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni...
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Hi, I’m Will and I'm a biologist mainly working with Rock Doves (the wild form of the domestic/feral pigeon) in the Outer Hebrides 🏴. I’m currently a post-doc in Helsinki, where I study Reed Warbler genomics 🧬 and Cuckoo brood parasitism. I am also very interested in the UK’s non-native birds.
November 27, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Hi, I’m Will and I'm a biologist mainly working with Rock Doves (the wild form of the domestic/feral pigeon) in the Outer Hebrides 🏴. I’m currently a post-doc in Helsinki, where I study Reed Warbler genomics 🧬 and Cuckoo brood parasitism. I am also very interested in the UK’s non-native birds.