I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
New from our @ecobird.bsky.social lab!
New Paper alert 📄
Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks"
-> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@alixkristiansen.bsky.social !!
A flyer advertising an open PhD position titled "Evolutionary Ecology of Avian Energetics" at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. It is funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). The text outlines a project investigating avian energy metabolites using fieldwork, macroevolutionary analyses, metabolomics, and advanced statistics. It lists essential qualifications including an MSc degree, and offers a fully funded position with guaranteed income and student housing. Applications require a CV, a max 400-word motivation letter, and references, submitted via a provided link. Review begins March 16, 2026. The flyer features photos of field researchers, a bird being measured with a blood glucose meter, and a research team working together around a table.
Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺
Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids).
🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines)
🧪 Metabolomics
💻 Adv. stats in R
Apply by March 16! 👇
forms.gle/AFkpt4foeV5i...
#EcoEvo #PhD
📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
🚨JOB alert🚨
We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely
😊Come join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
JUST CHECK WITH SOMEONE COME ON
God this is bad. One of my favourite errors of theirs was a photo of a flock of bar tailed godwit labelled as 'a group of snipes'....
I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
UK wealth tax is inevitable says billionaires nemesis
The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined.
That level of inequality is totally unsustainable.
A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.
I completely disagree. I just don't think that would go down well with *anyone*, but ESPECIALLY locals.
He's already a member of the London Assembley - he's contributing to decisions there - he's London based. There are already several Green MPs in the country. It would be totally unnecessary.
I don't think that's true - don't you think it would be weird for him to have parachuted himself into the seat? Hannah has lived there her whole life and works there - she's already a council leader - it makes great sense and represents local people better. it doesn't need to be the Polanski show.
🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.
On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R
📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...
#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems.
Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk
🚨 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Ecology position at @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates who combine field-based ecology with analytical, evolutionary, or monitoring approaches are highly encouraged.
📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: Feb 15 2026
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
Wowowoowwww!
In recent weeks we've had big numbers on the river in central Gent, which I guess is because of the inclement weather in NL and in the Atlantic. But my ~40 on a 100m stretch of river doesn't come close to this - incredible!
Article is a bit pointless because it doesn't really say....well, anything at all actually.
But, I had the chance to work on this species 21 years ago, while i was doing my bachelors. Stunning species that we marked, along with other andean endemics. What a shame that nothing has improved.
I have two #PhD scholarships available on either the ecophysiology or movement ecology of the Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat at @murdoch.edu.au 🦇
Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola...
Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com
HE CAN'T EVEN WRITE AN EMAIL ON HIS OWN 🫠
🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
New paper out!
Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence
Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
Next steps?
Let's get accelerometers on as well the GPS units we used here, to look at defining nightjar behaviours better and thinking about energetic, and knock on effects of foraging behaviour on individual condition, and fitness.
We found that nightjar movement behaviour is primarily influenced by sex, and the lunar cycle as well as the habitat they are in, pointing to a combination of variables that influence foraging efficiency and prey accessibility.
New pre print out!
Last chapter of my PhD looking at nightjar movement with environmental conditions.
Super proud of this one, I love the interactions and thinking about what else we could do.
www.authorea.com/users/101810...
I'm not saying I buy it/ these things, but consumers do, generally. Obviously. It's hard for people to break said cycle when they don't have any money to make other choices.
but people often make the most affordable choices, and the corporations can drive use of particular products that make them money. If they can produce stuff cheaply, with plastic (whatever that might be), then they can make profit, because they know people will buy it, because it's cheap.
Likewise. I don't use it, but was slightly forced into a situation where i did (lack of time, lack of colleagues etc) and even with my very rudimentary experience/use of python/bash, I found more solutions than it did in the couple of hours I spent using it.
Not for me.
