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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · 13d

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds

Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 23d

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

www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 23d

🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)

Drop me a line! I love people! :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MSc project

MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...

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Lena Gies @lenagies.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!

Me with my poster on the greylag goose vocal repertoire and how data representation types influence the predictions of unsupervised methods

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 25d

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 27d

#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.

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Andre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · Aug 25

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

Please share!

Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution

The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...

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Chris Clark @selasphorus1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Postdoc advertisement!

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

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Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!

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Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

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Jaime Muriel @jaime-muriel.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔬📢 Oferta #FPI (2026–2029) en el ‪@mncn-csic.bsky.social. Proyecto sobre vínculos de pareja en aves polígamas, éxito reproductivo y redes sociales.

@diegogil.bsky.social & Lorenzo Pérez Rodríguez (@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social)

Excelente entorno académico y personal 🐦🥰
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social

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Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas.bsky.social · Aug 25

Finally, I presented a poster on “Vocal divergence and incipient speciation in the Reunion Grey White-eye” during the last poster session of the conference. It was my first time presenting this part of the project, and what a pleasure it was!

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Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎤 I also had the chance to present part of my PhD work “The role of song in population divergence: Insights from the La Palma’s Canary Islands Chaffinch” 🐦
Great to share these results and get feedback!

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Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas.bsky.social · Aug 20

It was a real pleasure to co-organize this symposium with Maëva Gabrielli and José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social 🙌

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Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yesterday we had our symposium “Evolution in Small Populations” at #ESEB2025 🎉
It was a fantastic session, and we’re very grateful to our invited speakers, Hernán Morales ‪@hernmoral.bsky.social ‬ and Eva Ringler, for their amazing talks 👏

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Lara S. Burchardt @lsburchardt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks @animal-prattle.bsky.social for reminding me to post about this project🐋🎵
Mia Davitt (+ col), musician from 🇺🇸, attempted to transcribe whale sounds in Western musical style. Turns out to work quite well, so we #preprint ed these interesting results: osf.io/preprints/os...
#OSF #bioacoustics

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Hernán E. Morales @hernmoral.bsky.social · Aug 17

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations
I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse
🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115

Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week!

@hologenomics.bsky.social

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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬
@drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬
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Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

Lithograph of Tooth-billed bowerbirds C1925 by Henrik Gronvold

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?

Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?

It turns out perfect tuning is not required...

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶

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Carlos Araújo @carlao.bsky.social · Aug 6

Acoustic monitoring is everywhere this days. But how far can we really detect a bird acoustic within a tropical forest? 🧐🎙️
To answer this questions we built sound attenuation models for two Neotropical birds and estimated they detection ranges.
#bioacoustics #ornithology

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Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · Jul 3

Would you like to escape the suffocating heat of the big cities while working on your research or artistic projects? 🌐🧪🌍

We still have a few places for residencies at INTP this summer! 🥳

❓More infos intp.science/en/content/r... or ✉️ [email protected]

🙋 Apply here forms.gle/Ht8J8mnJ2vsa...

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics?
Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MSc project

MSc thesis projects in animal communication Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), larger c...

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · May 6

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms.

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Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...

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