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Updates from the @ifv-whv.bsky.social's long-term individual-based study on common terns breeding at the Banter See in Wilhelmshaven; provided by me - Sandra. With a side of gull-billed terns from @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's conservation project.
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avianbiology.bsky.social
📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/4fn5i

Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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eoufledglings.bsky.social
We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉

👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!

Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
commonternproject.bsky.social
There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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egioxford.bsky.social
This week's EGI seminar is being given by Dr Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social of the University of Bielefeld at 3.30pm on Friday 21 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk. See below for online joining details - all welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
commonternproject.bsky.social
There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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cms.int
AEWA's new report is the most comprehensive assessment on threats African-Eurasian migratory waterbirds face: unsustainable hunting, infrastructure development & agricultural expansion. View in EN or FR>

Full report: www.unep-aewa.org/en/publicati...
Summary: www.unep-aewa.org/en/publicati...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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eoufledglings.bsky.social
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
commonternproject.bsky.social
Attending #ISWSS16, themed “The Wadden Sea in Transition: Cumulative Pressures and Conservation” this week was really inspiring. I met so many wonderful people speaking up for an ecosystem they love and that needs protection, and came back with many new project ideas.
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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waddenacademie.bsky.social
De Waddenzee in transitie: wetenschappers bespreken cumulatieve druk en uitdagingen op het gebied van natuurwaarden www.waddenacademie.nl/nieuws/nieuw...
De Waddenzee in transitie: wetenschappers bespreken cumulatieve druk en uitdagingen op het gebied van natuurwaarden
Van dinsdag 28 tot en met donderdag 30 oktober 2025 kwamen meer dan 200 wetenschappers uit Denemarken, Duitsland en Nederland bijeen in Groningen voor het 16e International Scientific Wadden Sea Sympo...
www.waddenacademie.nl
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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waddenacademie.bsky.social
Today the 16th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium (#ISWSS16) started in Groningen! Read more about the programme and follow the online streams:
iswss.rvo-evenementen.nl/page/1832053
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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migecol.bsky.social
We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social

uol.de/job788en

#ornithology
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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alicecarravieri.bsky.social
📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns

📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

#seabirds #ecotoxicology

@univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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gfalbery.bsky.social
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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kokkonut.bsky.social
🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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animalecology.bsky.social
🪶 New Research - Estimating epidemiological parameters of highly pathogenic avian influenza in common terns using exact Bayesian inference ➡️ buff.ly/dYGDjhN
October 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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commsearth.nature.com
🪶Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1963 to 2020.

👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Ecosystems mediate climate impacts on northern hemisphere seabirds - Communications Earth & Environment
Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1993 to 2019, based on 138 time series of breeding success and linear mixed effects models.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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daveewing.bsky.social
A nice thread highlighting key findings from our new paper estimating parameters of #HPAI in subsequent outbreaks in common terns. We developed a Bayesian inference approach to infer parameters from just carcass counts. #seabirds #statisticalecology #diseaseecology

doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
commonternproject.bsky.social
Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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dfg.de
#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben: 14 October Tuesday 1:30 - 15p.m. CET in English
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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dornitholges.bsky.social
We are happy to introduce you to another member of our society, María Jesús García Bianco!
October 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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hannahdugdale.bsky.social
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
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
commonternproject.bsky.social
When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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joewynnbirds.bsky.social
🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
As autumn begins & seabird season ends for another year, we've been reminiscing about the summer! We'd love to share images of #seabird fieldwork throughout September to celebrate our diverse seabird species ✨🪶

If you have one you'd like to share pls include a description & use #SeabirdSeptember! 🐦
A Common tern chick sits on a scale as its weight is being recorded. Image: Debs Allbrook. Posted in celebration of #SeabirdSeptember.
September 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
commonternproject.bsky.social
And to add some more beauty to the internet: here's a close-up of Dr Schnelle, with her gorgeous hat crafted skillfully by various members of the @ifv-whv.bsky.social, fired on by @robertrollins1892.bsky.social. 🥰
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM