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Akshay Bharadwaj

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Applied ecology • #rstats | 🧑🏽‍🎓 Doctoral student @UniNeuchatel • BS-MS @iiscbangalore | 🧑🏾‍🔬 @unibern • @cefemontpellier • ‪@edinburgh_university

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hi everyone! It's been a while, so here's a #reintroduction thread🧵

I am Akshay, an #earlycareer #ecologist from #India. My research primarily focuses on the ecological impacts of #anthropogenic interventions, ranging from #SelectiveLogging to #Restoration.

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Dhanya Bharath @dhanyabharath.bsky.social · Aug 25

Some of the #Bengaluru representation at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona!

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · Sep 10

The mysterious Jerdon's Courser has been rediscovered outside its known range for the first time in more than a century:

Birders record Jerdon's Courser 16 years after last sighting

The Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been rediscovered in Andhra Pradesh, India, outside its known range for the first time in 125 years. Thought to survive only in a tiny patch of the Lankamalla hills, the elusive bird was detected through acoustic recordings by a team of birders in August 2025. The find provides fresh hope for the species, ranked among the world’s top ten 'lost birds', and highlights the urgent need to safeguard India's remaining scrubland habitats.

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Glad to have contributed to this session at Behavior 2025!! Thanks to @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social for their support to our work in the eastern Himalayas!

Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you to everyone who attended our workshop on a #GlobalSouth perspective on #wildanimalwelfare and #animalbehaviour today—and a big thank you to our speakers!

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · May 7

Early-career researchers: apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Integrative Ecology in the Global South' organised by Anand Krishnan, Sanjay Sane & Anusha Shankar.

Find out more and apply:

biologists.com/workshops/gl...

Deadline: 6 June 2025

#GlobalSouth #Biology #Workshop

Workshop

Integrative Ecology in the Global South

Organisers: Anand Krishnan, Sanjay Sane and Anusha Shankar

Early-career researchers apply for funded places

8-11 March 2026

Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

You can find these resources here:
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Resources for students

SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH I was fortunate to receive multiple scholarships during the course of my under-graduation, which facilitated my personal and professional development. Below, I have highlighted...

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

To share my experiences and #learnings with my peers (especially from the #GlobalSouth), I've compiled several #SciComm/#tutorial/#howto videos to assist them in securing #scholarships and #workingabroad as an #undergraduate/#master's student.

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

And to the #scholarships and #funding agencies that made all this possible!

@IndiaDST @Cargill @swissnex @franceinindia.bsky.social @bou.org.uk @snsf-ch.bsky.social @SQuID_group @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social @ethzurich.bsky.social

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Special shoutout to all my incredible mentors: Suhel Quader (@ncfindia), @kavitaisvaran & Umesh Srinivasan (@iiscbangalore), @MadhavPT1984 (@unibern), Olivier Duriez (@cefemontpellier), @ClaraZemp & @GabrielMarcacci (@UniNeuchatel)

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

For my PhD research with @ClaraZemp at @UniNeuchatel, I am examining dynamics of invasion in the context of restoration, and how tree diversity in restoration projects influences community recovery!

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Since 2022, I have been involved in a @cefemontpellier project that uses GPS-#accelerometer tags to quantify the reliance of #EurasianGriffons on supplementary feeding stations across three #French mountain ranges. Here's one of our tagged vultures embarking on a #foraging trip:

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Using the @SQuID_Group fellowship, I worked at @EdinburghUni to #integrate my bachelor's and master's research into a single analytical framework to understand relationships between #selectivelogging, multi-species #socialnetworks and #survival over time.

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

For my master's research @iiscbangalore, I used a mark-resight #methodology to construct inter-individual #socialnetworks for mixed-species bird flocks. Funded by the Wild Animal Initiative, our ongoing project has described two novel #mechanisms of #mixedspeciesflock formation.

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

Using temperature-humidity loggers and long-term #markrecapture data in the #EasternHimalaya, my Bachelor's thesis research shows that species with larger shifts in their #microclimatic niches due to #selectivelogging face the steepest #survival declines in the logged forest.

Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

I primarily work on #avian and #plant systems, to understand the effect of anthropogenic change in community or species-specific #demography, #movement and #behaviour. You can find out more on my website: akshaybirdwatch.weebly.com

Here are a few projects I work(ed) on — with pretty #visuals:

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Akshay Bharadwaj @akshaybirdwatch.bsky.social · Apr 4

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