Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?

Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social

Reach out to chat more!

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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
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The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

🦅 Are you a leader, influential, want to have a transformational effect on the fundraising and communications sector - and want to save Wales' nature? 🐝

🦆 We're looking for a very special someone to become the new Head of Fundraising and Communications for RSPB Cymru!

Apply here! 👉 brnw.ch/21wX2x6

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
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1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social

📢 JOB VACANCY

Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government

Application deadline: 7 Nov

shorturl.at/tXeHn

#ornithology

Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru

Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?

Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent

Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📷Jake Stephen

Five weeks to Conference - and tickets are flying out! Grab yours quickly!

Pump wythnos tan ein Cynhadledd - ac mae tocynnau yn gwerthu yn gyflym! Bachwch un nawr!

birdsin.wales/2025-annual-...

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?

Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!

Check our new preprint:
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Check out our new paper led by Gaoyang Yu!

Territorial aggression in blue tits is repeatable in both sexes, but females were the fiercer defenders. How does this challenge long-held assumptions about sex roles in territorial behaviour?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Chattering in your territory: Eurasian magpies vary in their response to chatter calls at different durations and rates. How do magpies perceive this alarm and terrritorial defence signal from intruders in their territory? Out now📜 link.springer.com/10.1007/s100... #openAccess #Communication #Corvid

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/3n8p3mv

Guest editors: Julia Schroeder <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ofxg6jb7ymqf5ewqzk5gcli5" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p4irrwjzkzec5gan2bzra524" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">es, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p4irrwjzkzec5gan2bzra524" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@brittheidinger.bsky.soci<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttc3jfrlsq2pldwpmgup2a25" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">al <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ttc3jfrlsq2pldwpmgup2a25" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@jaime-muriel.bsky.soci<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tbb4mmmefftnsz5ztryr3dlo" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">al <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tbb4mmmefftnsz5ztryr3dlo" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@toblermichi.bsky.social

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the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

We are very happy to announce the Baerends and Dobberke lectures and keynote speakers for the NVG meeting 19-21 Nov!

Dobberke lecture: Rita Covas
Baerends lecture: Elodie Briefer

Keynotes: Nicky Staes, Suzanne van der Veldt, Jonathan Benichov

Details on the programme and registration will follow.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

NEW JOB in #ornithology to study how young #eagles learn how to fly efficiently through the Alps: buff.ly/eJ5qJM6

Field assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠

📣 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is hiring a research assistant for 1 year to work on the flycatcher project. Responsibilities include sample organization, data management, lab and field work + management. MSc + relevant experience required.

Apply by Apr 4 👇 #ecoevojob

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