Julia Nowack

Logo for symposium A13 "Adaptice responses of endotherms to short-term weather events and rapid environmental changes" to be held at the SEB annual conference in Florence, Italy, 2026. The image shows vertical colour bars of which the top half represents the global annual temperature increase (from light blue to dark red) and the bottom half shows the biodiversity index decline (from dark green to gray). Superimposed are four animal silhouettes, from top-left to bottom-right: a bat, songbird, a deer, and a rodent.

Join me, @julianowack.bsky.social and Matt Noakes at the @sebiology.bsky.social in Florence in July! We will discuss how mammals and birds cope physiologically with rapid and extreme environmental changes. Sponsored by @thermal-biology.bsky.social, @staroddi.bsky.social and @sablesys.bsky.social

Examples of anthropogenic materials within hedgehog nests observed during the study: (a) the nest of individual #366 primarily comprising a plastic bag, (b) stray miscellaneous plastic within the nest of #366, (c) duct tape within the nest of #366 (behind plastic bag), (d) location of the nest of #385 underneath a metal sheet, surrounded by rope and plastic, (e) anthropogenic material pulled from the nest of #385 (comprising foil, plastic wrappers and expanded polystyrene).

Our new paper by Katie Crawford @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is out! OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: From Leaves to Litter: Use of Anthropogenic #Nesting Materials in #Hibernation Nests of the European #Hedgehog

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Consider joining us at the #SEB2026 in Florence. Abstract deadline: 6th March. With Monica Trondrud and Matt Noakes.

FindAPhD : Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University Apply for a PhD: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

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Applicants must be eligible for Home fees & from a UK Minoritized Ethnic group &/or a lower socio-economic background.

PhD with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social: #hibernation #climate🦔

Deadline📅5th Jan

Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:

Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026

I’m excited to contribute to this session & share some of the research from the Middleton Island kittiwake heart rate project at my 1st @sebiology.bsky.social conference in Antwerp! Come & hear what my fantastic students @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social are doing to study seabird energetics!

Super excited to be part of this workshop and talk about my work from the Svalbard reindeer project! I will show examples from both multi-logging heart rate, temperature and activity, as well as insights from long-term biologging! See you in Antwerp at @sebiology.bsky.social

If you’re an ECR at #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp and interested in writing for Conservation Physiology in Action, or getting involved in reviewing, come chat to our editorial team tomorrow @conphysjournal.bsky.social

Some frogs are fighting a fungal disease - by breeding! This is a study that I’ve been working on for about 10 years - very exciting to see this in print - and to see my dogs officially thanked for their hard work!

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graphic stating the abstract deadline for ASAB Spring 2025 is tomorrow

📢LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS📢

Tomorrow is the deadline to submit an abstract to our #ASABSpring2025 conference 😱 don't miss out on this opportunity to present your research!

🔗 Follow our registration guide here: tinyurl.com/y8vjzyzt

Fully funded PhD position on Paternities and spatial kinship structure in a population of South African bush Karoo rats. Field work in South Africa. Analysis of existing long-term data at LEEC / Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord. Please RT!
www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/documents/LE...

One more week to apply for @uofglasgow.bsky.social's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics:

Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Deadline to show interest is 19th April - there will be a team of vols to help & it's a great way to showcase your research AND sci comm skills! @cebeardsworth.bsky.social @dannihinchy.bsky.social @sarahedalrymple.bsky.social @marianilab.bsky.social @julianowack.bsky.social @nicolakoyama.bsky.social

Cartoon of a scientist peering through a microscope saying "Whoaah!!!". Title says "The best part of Science is knowing, for a moment, something that nobody else in the world knows."

This feeling doesn't come along very often in one's career - but when it does... it's awesome! #sciart #scicomm

Important so please help spread the word...

Interested in postgrad research? Maybe do a PhD?

Oxford runs a summer internship scheme for UK students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds

Stipend, free accommodation, mentoring...

Deadline 21 Feb

www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it. Two globes with the US in view. One is stable polar vortex and shows a circular strong jet stream containing cold Arctic air. The other is wavy polar vortex and shows waves in the jet stream, allowing the arctic air to move further south.

Nice graphic I'm seeing at the other place. Can't find an attribution.

A foam block with a row of a dozen chameleons lying on their backs. They each have a little cutout into the foam to keep them in position. All their little legs are sticking up in the air, and their tails are hanging off the edge of the block, most of them coiled. Each chameleon has a little face-bag attached to a splitter off of clear medical tubing, providing anesthetic gas and oxygen. The whole block of lizards is set up to be analyzed via CT imaging.

🧪 🦎

I just read a very serious paper about reproductive system
imaging in chameleons, and I need you to know that this was Figure 1.

Image shows a cartoon of Batman slapping robin as Robin says my workload is unmanageable and Batman says here’s a wellbeing seminar

Evergreen

Buckets, duct tape, and zip ties: the holy trinity of field biology.

This is a really interesting trial that could make research funding more diverse 👏🏻

Photographs of the 14 young women who were killed in the Montreal Massacre: Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

34 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget #WomenInSTEM 🧪🌹

Integrating thermal imaging, bird behaviour and Habitat to Population (HTP) models to predict densit... PhD Project - Integrating thermal imaging, bird behaviour and Habitat to Population (HTP) models to predict density dependence of welfare and population dynamics in wild animals at Liverpool John Moor...

Fully-funded PhD position available at LJMU! Details below. shorturl.at/hAKOQ

Remembering the role of luck and privilege in academic achievement This week I woke up to the announcement by my alma mater — The University of Auckland — of its 2023 cohort of ’40 under 40’ that listed me…

A few things that I've needed to get off my chest for some time now. 🧪 🌋

More ‘Bloop’ (platypus content) is what we all need right now www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

Megan Herbert takes out the inaugural Climate Cartoon Of The Year by Climate Council at the 39th Annual Stanley Awards
@climatecouncil

This is spot on

Research Professor in Large Carnivore Ecology Vacancy

Our institute is hiring a research professor in large carnivore ecology🐻🐺👀

Based in Finland 🇫🇮

Apply by 11-30

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Are you aged 16-25? Want to take action to protect nature, learn about conservation & meet like-minded people? Be part of The Deneway's Wild Future in Brighton! 1 Nov 10-3pm. Free but booking essential.

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My favorite UK bird fact is that in the 15th century they gave people names to a bunch of birds (Tom Tit, Jenny Wren), but some of them became permanent. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie, and Robert Redbreast turned into Robin Redbreast, then just Robin. 🪶🗃️

For every time the invitation e-mail refers to me as Ms and the male panelist as Dr, my speaking fee doubles