🚨New paper alert!🚨
We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵
📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
#ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

💪Our members will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with colleagues at risk of compulsory redundancy.

🚩We will be back on the picketline tomorrow, Fri 9th May.

📣Uni management must change course now. #SaveUEA

Honeyguides lead you to 🍯, but if you don't reward the bird, next time it will guide you to a lion 🦁! So goes the story, but do honeyguides actually guide to dangerous animals, and is it punishment? New research suggests they do, but it's more "oops" than "revenge!" doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA.
Follow us...
#UEAScience
go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz

Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health

A call to arms for eBirders and iNaturalists. 🚨

We want your bird photos! If you photograph feeding birds with flowers, fruit, seeds or prey, upload the image with locality details. We are data-harvesting species, size and type of food/prey to study foodwebs and species interactions. Thanks! 🧪🌐🪶

A new study highlights the urgent need to integrate chimpanzee cultural preservation with conservation.

It documents the loss of a socially-learned behavior — a mating signal — among a group of chimps following the poaching of all of the male members.

Once lost, behaviors take years to reemerge.

🚨NEW paper🚨 out today in @royalsociety.org experimentally testing the combined effects of elevated #predation risk & anthropogenic #noise on dwarf mongoose #vigilance behaviour.

First paper for 🌟Lucy Westover🌟 from her #Masters.
#OpenAccess #cover @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

New observations of cleaning interactions between crows and sika deer: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

"Correlation does not equal causation" has had a chilling effect on what we've learnt from observational data in ecology & evolution (meanwhile obs data are widely used in medical analyses!). This paper lays out how ecologists can draw causal inferences from obs data doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Important ideas for improving the quality and efficiency of research in ecology and evolution.

I'm excited to share our review on the #Evolution of kin discrimination, out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social! We aim to showcase the breadth of #KinRecognition mechanisms across diverse taxa, and explore life-history and ecological processes that promote #KinDiscrimination. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Here is a link to the open-access paper. Our team of 26 co-authors (including 21 from 9 African countries) extensively surveyed Indigenous views on this fascinating (possible) case of animal interspecies cooperation!
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Journal of Zoology produced a beautiful SciComm video explaining the paper. Here is a snippet, the full 2-min video can be watched here: jzoblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/w...

Delighted to share that the '2023 Journal of Zoology Paper of the Year' was awarded to our collaborative publication "Do honey badgers and greater honeyguide birds cooperate to access bees’ nests? Ecological evidence and honey-hunter accounts."

Richer birdsong soundscapes provide humans with greater enjoyment and connection to nature.
Nice study design, based on visitors in vineyards.
🧪 #academicsky 🐦

theconversation.com/the-hidden-b...

Job vacancy! 📢 Join BTO as Farmland Research Manager➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs

This role sits in the Terrestrial #Ecology Team and manages farmland-focused field survey, review and analytical projects.

📝Closing date: 5 January 2025.

#ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!

We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.

3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

First post here.
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...