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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 4d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 24d

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇

www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

www.eneslab.com

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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel @geomarkiel.bsky.social · 25d

#GEOMARJobs | We are hiring!

🌊 Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Marine Data Science in the project "Applying inverse reinforcement learning to understand what motivates individual fish movement"

🔗https://www.geomar.de/en/karriere/open-positions

Blick aufs Meer und Text mit Stellenanzeige

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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 24d

Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · Aug 5

Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences.

jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Job Details | Bangor University Jobs

jobs.bangor.ac.uk

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Jacqui Glencross @jacquiglencross.bsky.social · Aug 26

Please share!
We are still looking for more mentors for @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Guillemates!

Are you a mid-career seabirder (or beyond) wanting to help support ECRs and can run 4 sessions throughout the year🐧🐥👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Sign up here: forms.gle/MuQLcdaZHtxU...

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Lauren Evans @laurenevans217.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!

We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧

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

Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding

Determining the diet of wide-ranging, pelagic seabirds is challenging. In this study, we investigated buccal swabbing and DNA metabarcoding to describe the diet of Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Apr 28

Please share. We are hiring domestic/international #PhD students to work on citizen science, insect migration/conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, please email me. You can find more about our research interests here. shawanchowdhury.com.

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 25

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#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Jun 25

Please share.
We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social

#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

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Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 19

🧪🌊🦑 #jobs #postdoc Last call for applications, deadline is this Sunday for a 42-months #Research Fellow post in Plymouth (Salary £39,355-£45,413). All things #plankton, #predators, remote #sensing & #autonomy
APPLY NOW 👇

Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social · Jun 4

🦑🌊🧪 Please share among your networks, a Research Fellow post in #Ocean Dynamics and Floating Offshore #Wind Consequences on Key Ecosystem Drivers in the Celtic Sea working with me, @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social & @peterimiller.bsky.social tinyurl.com/44x66b5z #PlanktonImaging #RemoteSensing #AUVs

Advert for Research Fellow post including remote and AUV-based sensing of ocean dynamics to understand impacts of floating offshore wind on fronts and other key ecosystem drivers. It shows an AUV and underwater plankton imaging and other sensors.

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Dr Amelia Bridges @ameliabridges.bsky.social · Jun 23

🔍Mapping the Gaps: New global study reveals huge biases in benthic & pelagic biodiversity data – but what does this mean for science & conservation, & how can we address it? Read “Prioritisation of Ocean Biodiversity Data Collection to Deliver a Sustainable Ocean” to find out! shorturl.at/dypTc – 🧵:

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 19

🧪 Great to see our students being supported in their research
that aims to have a positive impact on the local community

👏 funded by Bangor City Council

🎉 Congrats to you all!

@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
@bangorcosepgr.bsky.social
@bangoruniscience.bsky.social
@sosbangor.bsky.social

Joseph Roy @josephroy01.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm incredibly grateful to have been awarded the Bangor City Council Bursary and the M-Sparc Match Fund in support of my research on soundscapes and human well-being (primarily the use of directed listening).

Read more below-

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · Jun 18

We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Join our Operations team at our waterfront location in #Plymouth, where you'll be central to supporting us as a destination for #MarineBiology research & discovery.

🐟 Aquarium & Research Facilities Technician
🌊 Site Services Coordinator

More info: mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 18

Beautiful images and videos of the marine wildlife on and around #Anglesey, in Welsh #YnysMon by @tomjwebb.bsky.social

Lucky to live and work there. The lab at the doorstep #rockyintertidal #marinelife #seabirds

@beps-bangor.bsky.social
@sosbangor.bsky.social
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · Jun 13

Back on Anglesey with another cohort of @sheffielduni.bsky.social ecology students - so brace yourselves for a week of rocky shore pics

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 17

Artificial light, together with urban heat, may be lengthening the growing season in urban environments by as much as three weeks compared to rural areas, according to an analysis published in Nature Cities. go.nature.com/4e7pQwO #urbanag 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the ALAN and UHI effects on vegetation phenology.

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 17

I thought the paper is OA and hence no problem anyways...

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 17

Strange the link worked for me on my mobile. Thanks for sharing it!

Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 17

Small world! he is not on bluesky right?

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · Jun 16

‘A small but mighty program’: little-known US light pollution 💡agency threatened by Trump 🍊 funding cuts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @theguardian.com 🌐🧪

‘A small but mighty program’: little-known US light pollution agency threatened by Trump funding cuts

The Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division strives to provide ‘full sensory experience’ in country’s national parks

www.theguardian.com

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 13

@michaeltburrows.bsky.social (many not here)

Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do you want to know about past, present, future of rocky shores? ➡️ shorturl.at/WSeZb

We revisited 25-year predictions made in 2002 by Thompson et al, assessed where we are now & forecast the next 25 years 🧪🌐🌊🐙

Huge team effort 🙌 ⬇️... @louisefirth.bsky.social y.social @benthicecol.bsky.social

rocky intertidal - mussels, snails, barnacles

rocky intertidal - landscape view south west of England, Hannahfore Point

rocky intertidal - starfish on mussels and barnacles

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳

We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪

A schematical graphic shows an umbrella shading darkness from a street lamp. On the umbrella there are nocturnal animals for whom regulations to protect the dark exist (e.g. bats, marine turtles, insects) while under the umbrella many other animals are also protected from artificial light at night (ALAN).

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · Jun 6

“It compresses your useable #habitat; we wanted to draw the parallel between #deforestation on land & the loss of habitable area in the sea." PML’s Prof Tim Smyth explains #OceanDarkening paper co-led by Dr Tom Davies on @theguardian.com's podcast: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Into the photic zone: does a darkening ocean threaten marine life? – podcast

Vast areas of the ocean are getting darker, according to research. Ian Sample talks to Prof Tim Smyth about why this is happening and how marine life could be affected

www.theguardian.com

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · Jun 5

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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