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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 19d

New publication: Long-distance dispersal is asymmetrical with respect to age, sex and breeding latitude in a long-lived monogamous bird. #barnaclegoose #avianmigration #flywaypopulation #longdistancedispersal
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Figure 1 in de Vries et al. (2025): "Locations of the main study colonies for the three subpopulations (a), development of the barnacle goose Russia/Germany and Netherlands flyway population and North Sea and Baltic Sea subpopulations (b) based on population counts, and an overview of the density in ringing effort in the three subpopulations (c). The Barents Sea subpopulation is represented here in red, the Baltic Sea subpopulation in yellow, while the North Sea subpopulation is represented in blue. Data on population sizes were collected from van der Jeugd et al. (2009), Koffijberg et al. (2020), Isaksen (2020), Nagy et al. (2021) and Jensen et al. (2022). Since flyway and subpopulation counts are unavailable after 2006 and incomplete for the Baltic Sea after 2002, these have been supplemented with sizes estimated in an integrated population model, indicated by diamond-shaped dots (Baveco et al., 2020; Jensen et al., 2022)."

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

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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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Final day of #eou2025 one more AnE speaker. Watch lisenka de Vries give her talk on difference in dispersal between populations of barnacle geese. She will speak in session population ecology 2

animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 20

@hanslinssen.bsky.social will present his poster on fueling and migration choices in waterfowl birds under a changing climate. You can find his poster at spot 58. Jan Geisler will show his poster on long term study on pre migration fatting up in Brent geese. You can find him at spot 116 #EOU2025 2/2

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Another day at #EOU2025 another AnE line up!
Today we have @tjommem.bsky.social presenting his work on modeling virus outbreaks in the Netherlands through a common avian host. He will present in the symposium 6 session. In the second poster session (even numbers of the day we have two posters.( 1/2)

animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Finally we have @dd10mz.bsky.social presenting his work on the colonization of the gut microbiome in offspring during development. He will show the influence of the nest microbial environment on this process. #EOU2025 (3/3)

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 19

In oral session 2 we will have Joey Burant presenting on the adjustment of incubation behaviour in female hole nesting birds in response to local micro climate changes #EOU2025 (2/3)

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Today's contribution of AnE to #EOU2025 Find Morrison Pot in oral session 1. He will update you into his PhD on starling migration. He will show some results from his displacement study on juvenile starlings in their first autumn migration.( 1/3)

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 16

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share my recent paper on the evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird (the red-browed finch) in @jevbio.bsky.social with @danielmhooper.bsky.social and others. Check out their weird #sperm!

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder! There are just two weeks left to apply for this postdoc position. Send in your applications before the end of August.

animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jul 28

New postdoc position available 🚨
We are looking for a new post doc to work on adaptive management in geese. Are you experienced in working with animal movement patterns? And are you used to working with large files of transmitter date? Then apply before the 1st op september!

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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Aug 12

New #postdoc position open 🚨 deadline 12th of September. #microbiome #ecology #reproduction

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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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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jul 28

New postdoc position available 🚨
We are looking for a new post doc to work on adaptive management in geese. Are you experienced in working with animal movement patterns? And are you used to working with large files of transmitter date? Then apply before the 1st op september!

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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jul 24

New post doc position alert 🚨
Interested in avian reproductive microbiome? We have an exciting new post doc position available with @melissahrowe.bsky.social . Send in your applications now, deadline is the 12th of September.

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

animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are happy to announce our very own @disnatalie.bsky.social got a Veni grant awarded for her research on winter moths!🎉🎉 We are looking forward to welcoming her back to our department. Congratulations Nathalie!!

KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen @knaw-nl.bsky.social · Jul 17

Goed nieuws voor ecoloog Natalie van Dis (@niooknaw.bsky.social) en taalkundige Kristel Doreleijers (@meertens-knaw.bsky.social)! Zij zijn twee van de 200 gelukkigen die vandaag voor hun onderzoek een #Veni-beurs kregen van NWO. Zo kunnen zij zich verder ontwikkelen tot zelfstandig onderzoeker.

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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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jun 26

With most nests fledged and out in the world we are concluding our 71st breeding season as a department. Despite a low occupancy in some areas and a higher mortality in chicks in others we look back on an average breeding season. #breedingseason2025

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Jun 5

Waarom is kunstlicht zo slecht voor nachtdieren? NIOO-onderzoeker Kamiel Spoelstra legt dit uit tijdens een Klokhuis-aflevering over lichtvervuiling. Meer weten? Kijk hier de klokhuisaflevering terug (tussen 5:20 en 8:02): npo.nl/start/serie/...

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · May 12

Its peak caterpillar time! Which is good news for the nest box breeding birds who need the caterpillars to feed their chicks. Caterpillars are monitored in the spring using frassnets you see in the picture. Twice a week the frass (caterpillar poop) is collected and weighted. @mevisser.bsky.social

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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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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Apr 22

The 2024 Nestkast report is out! Every year the NESTKAST group gathers all the data on nestbox breeding birds and makes a nice overview. A nice summary of how the nestbox breeders are doing and always a wonderful collection of the odd finds all the nestbox enthusiasts have found.

Leo Ballering @drbal.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.naturetoday.com/nl/nl/nature...

Uitgelicht artikel uit ons landelijk #NESTKAST verslag over vorig jaar

@sovonvogels.bsky.social
@mevisser.bsky.social
@animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
#blijfjeverbazen

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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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