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Lecturer in Welfare Physiology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @glasgow.ac.uk. Climate change▪️Thermal biology▪️Biomarkers▪️Life history▪️Sociality |🐁🐄🦇🦔
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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · Dec 19
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
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One more week to apply!
davinahill.bsky.social Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · Dec 19
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
January 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Last few weeks to apply!
davinahill.bsky.social Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · Dec 19
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
January 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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glasgow.ac.uk
Happy Birthday to us! 🎉 

The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451! 

This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world.

#UofG575
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
davinahill.bsky.social
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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@julianowack.bsky.social @cebeardsworth.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).
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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orlyrazgour.bsky.social
Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me.

Application deadline 8 Jan 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍🌐🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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orlyrazgour.bsky.social
🚨 Only three days left to apply for this PhD on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global change with @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social 🦇🧬🌍🌐
January 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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davinahill.bsky.social
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
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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kjmacleod.bsky.social
New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Researcher's hand holding a small skink (Liopholis whitii)
September 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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katieacronin.bsky.social
#PhD opening for a project on wild & captive #animalwelfare, related to heat stress and climate change @bristoluni.bsky.social with Dr. Benjamin Lecorps!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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ljnbrent.bsky.social
Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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shaunkillen.bsky.social
Please help us classify all fish species by their social systems 🙏! Any and all observations or general knowledge are useful. Log them at shoalbase.org, the form takes about a minute to fill in 😀.
shoalbase.bsky.social ShoalBase.org @shoalbase.bsky.social · Dec 10
Observation of the Week! In coastal Spain, adult Diplodus vulgaris were seen forming shoals over benthic habitat at ~20°C. Every record like this helps us map social systems across species. Contribute yours (with or without photo or video) at shoalbase.org! Observation by @cortesedaphne.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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hannahmrowland.bsky.social
Resharing & please pass it on!

ACCE+ PhD project on the molecular evolution of insectivorous mammals that eat toxic amphibians 🦔🐸. Jointly supervised with brilliant colleagues in @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social & open to UK & international students. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social
hannahmrowland.bsky.social Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · Nov 6
Join us! We’re recruiting a PhD researcher to uncover how hedgehogs & other insectivores survive prey toxins. Dive into molecular evolution & protein biochemistry @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social

🦔 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Hedgehog. Getty Images
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
davinahill.bsky.social
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
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
davinahill.bsky.social
Iapetus Diversifying Talent PhD Scholarship Scheme findaphd.com/phds/program...

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
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
findaphd.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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dremmabird.bsky.social
fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/...
#ResearchFunding opportunity in #HumanEvoultion at the Smithsonian

#AcademicSky #AcademicJobs
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)
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fellowships.si.edu
August 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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jsarmentocabral.bsky.social
Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
Programmer in Ecological Modelling
Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72
shorturl.at
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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marcofesta.bsky.social
Marchand: compared to those born to a bighorn ewe when she's young, lambs born when she's old have shorter lives, wean fewer lambs. At any age, ewes that live longer have lambs that live longer and have higher reproductive success. url:https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/36/4/araf046/8126721
Offspring longevity for bighorn sheep at Ram Mountain, Alberta, Canada (1971-2013). Solid lines represent model predictions for female offspring under average female density conditions (results for male offspring are reported in Table 1). Shaded bands represent 95% confidence intervals while gray lines are modeled trends for individual mothers. (A) Offspring longevity as a function of maternal age at birth. (B) Offspring longevity as a function of maternal longevity, estimated by the age at last sighting
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
Field team in Wytham Woods May 2025 Image of the new Biology Building, completed, and opening from August 2025 Lunch with the field team to celebrate another successful season - May 2025
June 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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ptes-org.bsky.social
How good is your garden for hedgehogs? 🦔 Take the challenge and find out how your garden rates! 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/garden-challenge

#HedgehogStreet is a joint campaign run by us and the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
The Hedgehog Garden Challenge - Hedgehog Street
How good is your garden for hedgehogs? Take the Garden Challenge and find out how your garden rates with top tips for making improvements!
www.hedgehogstreet.org
June 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Calling all dog owners!

We're currently conducting a research project at the University of Glasgow exploring how early social environments—such as staying with littermates or joining single- vs. multi-dog households—shape puppies' behaviour and stress resilience during their first year of life.
June 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ucd-cvera.bsky.social
PhD opportunity in bTB modeling - "The transmission of bovine tuberculosis: deciphering biological mechanisms with statistical and mechanistic models" - see below for application process @ucdvetmed.bsky.social‬ & UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics #ResearchOpportunity #PhD #LoveIrishResearch
June 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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cyanistesnord.bsky.social
There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife
cyanistesnord.bsky.social Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · May 22
I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇
shorturl.at/wijEq

Would appreciate a re-post!
Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology
Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war
lu.varbi.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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cyanistesnord.bsky.social
I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇
shorturl.at/wijEq

Would appreciate a re-post!
Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology
Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war
lu.varbi.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
🎓Congratulations to Dr Rachel Reid for passing her Viva this week! 🎉
📄 Viva title: ‘Assessing the Impacts of Urbanisation and Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on Avian Health using both meta-analysis and experimental methods.’💡🦜
May 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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stevensonlab.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest publication from the group, which outlined how the bird brain detects light and the links to seasonal control of reproduction.

@physiologyuog.bsky.social
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Extra-retinal photoreception is common across fish and avian species. In birds, the hypothalamus contains non-visual photoreceptors that detect light and regulate multiple endocrine systems. To date,....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM