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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 13d

New publication: Scope for #waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic. #climatechange #avianmigration
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Figure 1 in Linssen et al. (2025): "Spring migrations and tracking data of five Arctic-breeding waterfowl species."

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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 21d

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Marcel E. Visser @mevisser.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks Milos & Peter for organising this wonderful meeting!

10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · 22d

The 10th HNB Conference has finished! The atmosphere was fantastic, and we hope everyone enjoyed both the conference and the city of Olomouc. Congrats to the winners of the student competition: Beau Strijker (Best Poster) and Daisy Abraham (Best Talk)! We’re already looking forward to the next HNB!

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Marcel E. Visser @mevisser.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks Milos & Peter for organising this wonderful meeting!

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10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · 22d

The 10th HNB Conference has finished! The atmosphere was fantastic, and we hope everyone enjoyed both the conference and the city of Olomouc. Congrats to the winners of the student competition: Beau Strijker (Best Poster) and Daisy Abraham (Best Talk)! We’re already looking forward to the next HNB!

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Ryan Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social · 22d

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

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Marcel E. Visser @mevisser.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come and join the LTER-LIFE infrastructure

NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Aug 26

𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗬
As FAIRification steward you'll scout the nature data landscape and help researchers making their data FAIR. Do you bring quantitative/technical as well as interpersonal skills? Then this vacancy of the LTER-Life digital twin project is for you!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Aug 26

𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗬
As FAIRification steward you'll scout the nature data landscape and help researchers making their data FAIR. Do you bring quantitative/technical as well as interpersonal skills? Then this vacancy of the LTER-Life digital twin project is for you!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

careers.uoguelph.ca

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

nioo.knaw.nl

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Jul 28

NIOO is looking for a #postdoctoral researcher for #research in the context of international adaptive management of geese. Did you analyse animal movement patterns during your PhD? Do you want to work with goose transmitter data? Apply by 1 September: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... #vacancy #vacature

Postdoc Goose Impact

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher for research in the context of international adaptive management of geese. Did you analyse animal movement patterns during your PhD? Do you want to work wi...

nioo.knaw.nl

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · Feb 18

✨ New study ✨

📍 Southern Québec, Canada
👷 Carolyne Houle, Dany Garant, Fanie Pelletier, Marc Bélisle
🏦 Centre de Recherche en Écologie de l'Université de Sherbrooke
🐦 Tree swallow
🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/...
📑 metadata only – data will follow

Southern Québec

Metadata of the field study (SQB-1) at Southern Québec (SQB), Canada

nioo.knaw.nl

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Joe Woodman @joewoodman.bsky.social · Feb 19

New paper out! Read Ben’s great post on how/why we used a combined 702 yrs of data from >130k great tits spanning 3200km to assess spatial synchrony in age structure⬇️
Thanks to all the amazing co-authors and @spibirds.bsky.social for promoting broad-scale analyses like this! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

nioo.knaw.nl

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10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · Apr 1

Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology

[Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

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Cole Burton @coleburton.bsky.social · Jul 8

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈
Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada!
wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Jul 1

New publication: Intensity and colour of artificial light at night affect insect attraction in a taxon-dependent manner, by @mevisser.bsky.social and others. #biodiversity #lightpollution #ALAN #artificiallightatnight
doi.org/10.1111/icad...

Figure 1 in Charvalakis et al. (2025): "Experimental design; 2 × 12 light traps (fitted with four differently coloured LEDs with three intensities) were placed at each side of a forest road. The order of light colour and intensity was randomized within each roadside. Insect trapping was done during 11 non-consecutive nights (minimally one night in between) during July and September."

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Jun 20

New publication: Limited immediate effect of #artificiallight of realistic intensity on flight behaviour of commuting #pondbat, by @mevisser.bsky.social and others. #Myotisdasycneme #ALAN #behaviouralecology #lightpollution
doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Figure 2 in Hermans et al. (2025): "The setup at one of the sites (Makkum) with the four light spectra (A-B: Red Clearfield, C-D: Amber, E-F: White 2200 K and G-H: White 3000 K) at two light intensity levels (A,C,E,G: 5 lx and B,D,F,H: 20 lx). The experimental lamp post was placed at the centre of the bridge against the railing, projecting light on the water surface of the waterway on the side where bats were approaching when flying from their roost site to foraging areas in the evening. The microphone array was placed next to the lamp post facing towards the approaching bats. Photos by Laura Kijm."

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Marcel E. Visser @mevisser.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks @babimt.bsky.social for leading this paper!

Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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eLTER @elter-ri.eu · Jun 13

Meet the keynote speakers for the first eLTER Science Conference! A special booklet presenting the prominent researchers, also with links to their abstracts: 🔗 elter-ri.eu/storage/app/...
See you very soon in Tampere! #eLTERcommunity 🩷

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Jun 6

New publication: #Temperature amplifies the effect of anthropogenic light on foraging common pipistrelle #bats. By @mevisser.bsky.social and others. #lightpollution #lightspectrum
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Temperature amplifies the effect of anthropogenic light on foraging common pipistrelle bats | Biology Letters

Anthropogenic light affects the presence and behaviour of many species. Bats are generally repelled by light, but some fast-flying and agile species opportunistically forage on insects attracted to li...

doi.org

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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · May 18

3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Contribution of genetic background and gut microbiome on thermal physiology

A post-doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The post-doctoral res...

ats.talentadore.com

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10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · May 10

„Timekeeping in hole-nesting birds under extreme light conditions” is the title of the plenary by Barbara Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social.

A fitting topic for Olomouc, where the astronomical clock has kept time since medieval days. The avian clock, though, likely resembles the sundial more closely.

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Apr 30

New position open! 🚨 We have a PhD position on avian reproductive microbiome available at the department. Find more information in the post from @melissahrowe.bsky.social or here nioo.knaw.nl/nl/vacatures...
Deadline 29th of June.

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Apr 30

The breeding season in our nestbox sites is in full swing! The pied flycatchers arrived last couple of weeks and started their breeding season. Meanwhile in most boxes with blue tits, great tits and nuthatches they are already at the incubation or chick stage. #breedingseason25

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Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social · Apr 25

new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9055

Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.

We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪

work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social

Code review in practice: A checklist for computational reproducibility and collaborative research in ecology and evolution

ecoevorxiv.org

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10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · Apr 24

Take a look at a short overview of past HNB meetings and a group photo from the 5th conference, which celebrated the 50th season in Vlieland. Thanks to @mevisser.bsky.social for sharing this!
Join us in Olomouc to celebrate the 53rd season in Dlouhá Loučka and the 29th in Velký Kosíř!
#ornithology

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · Apr 23

✨ New study ✨

📍 Westeinderplassen, Netherlands
👷 Marcel Visser (@mevisser.bsky.social)
🏦 NIOO-KNAW (@niooknaw.bsky.social)
🐦 Eurasian coot
🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/...
📑 metadata only

nioo.knaw.nl

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Apr 15

Last year I posted too early and had to retract my post 🫣, but now that all @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social nest boxes on #Vlieland have been checked, we know for sure that it is - yet again - a very early start of the breeding season! @uniexecec.bsky.social @sevans.bsky.social

A plot the date of the first great tit egg on Vlieland against year showing 2025 is the third-earliest year since 1955.

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