Long weekend in Norway
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Long weekend in Norway
Oslo! Very atmospheric today.
Reporting the death of Prof Alan M. Wilson FRS in a light plane crash in Namibia, while doing wildlife research. He was 62. He built and flew his own planes but I do not know if he either built or flew this one. He even flew from London to Cromer to meet me for lunch (he brought cake). Devastated.
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/...
📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change
Apply before 31 Mar 👇
werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten...
#Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm
1977. A small colony of Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis) are introduced to a pocket of brownfield in Eltham, SE3. 2026, 49yrs later, the population is still present, and self-sustaining.
Today, I was given access to the site, and thankfully the lizards got the memo!
#London
I believe it was the plane they built, but it was being flown by a professional pilot at the time, with Alan as the passenger.
This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social on the role of time in avian trade-offs. All welcome in person in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk 3.30pm on 6 March. Also live-streamed: details available ⬇️
A North Atlantic Right Whale swims in calm blue water, a gathering of smaller animals, possibly fish, around its mouth.
Only about 70 reproductively active female North Atlantic right whales remain.
But the Trump administration just announced plans to revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect these critically endangered whales from deadly ship strikes.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4cqNyFA
✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social
Does anyone have an email address for Bob Furness they could possibly share with me? His Glasgow address seems to no longer be in operation.....
2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social
March sees the return of bumblebee queens as they emerge from hibernation – here are some of the common species you can spot this month 👀
Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?
🔎 Brush up on your bumblebee identification skills: https://ow.ly/af3U50Yi2iq
A Robin in the garden singing away at 1am last night.
A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
PhD position: Evolutionary Physiology of Avian Energetics
Review of the applications begins on March 16, 2026, and continues until the position is filled.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/413707
Goshawk shot in Derbyshire - police appeal for information.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/26/g...
Fascinating watching this Jay from my office window. Buries acorn - looks around for something to cover it with, and then looks for another object to go on top (perhaps to help relocate?), regurgitates next one ready, and flies off.
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Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway
New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...
🚨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
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Mystery solved as to why the food ends up everywhere. They do have substrate for bathing. Spreads the food out I guess….
Blue manakins in Brazil use “disruptive camouflage” to protect their eggs, a new study finds. https://scim.ag/45EcHZ6
Fig. 1 from the article: Illustration of the two main wing muscles – pectoralis and supracoracoideus – of a migratory passerine.
Fig. 4 from the article: Representation of the diverse ways in which myokines can influence the function of different organs throughout the body.
Fig. 5 from the article: (A) Conceptualization of a behavioral control system, as outlined by Fuxjager et al. (2023). Behavioral control systems are shown through the lens of spring (B) and autumn (C) migrations, with skeletal muscle (dark red) playing a role in the regulation of physiological systems that all promote one singular behavioral node (migration, dark orange) at the expense of others (dimmed behavioral nodes).
New paper: a review of how skeletal muscles support long-distance bird migration, highlighting their plasticity, coordination via endocrine signals, and interactions with other organ systems.
➡️ vist.ly/4sdqf
#ornithology #birds #migration #physiology #signals #adaptation #evolution
Why does the tree have an eye? or is that a camera?
Moth perched on a streetlamp. Our work suggests that light suppresses activity in moths, so once attracted to a light they are prevented from escape.
Eye-opening findings on how light suppresses moth activity. Light attracts moths, but what if we've been missing a much more pervasive effect where even sky-glow light levels make them freeze?
Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@uniexecec.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social
A Manx shearwater chick being weighed in a plastic bowl on weighing scales.
⚠️ There's just one week left to apply for both our Research Grants and Training Grants ⚠️
Deadline for both is 28th February!
More details can be found on our website here: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
Been a fun week. Chatting pigeons to Biosoc, lab group round for dinner, and coming up with a random project idea on Gerbils!
