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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 7d

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 8d

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

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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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ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · Aug 5

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!

Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - Nature

Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

www.nature.com

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻

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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · Apr 29

📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity!

Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs!

Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · Apr 30

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...

To Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as Punishment

We show that greater honeyguides guide humans to nonbee destinations (snakes and a dead mammal); yet this is a rare occurrence, happening in only 3.7% of human-honeyguide interactions in 1 year and 0...

doi.org

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · Apr 25

PhD opportunity in #Ecoacoustics at MMU - come and work with us! 🌍🌎🦗🐦🌱🪶🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ecoacoustic monitoring of biodiversity in human-modified tropical forests at Manchester Metropolitan University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Ecoacoustic monitoring of biodiversity in human-modified tropical forests at Manchester Metropolitan University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Julie Duboscq @connectthedots.bsky.social · Apr 17

New Postdoc position!
🐵🐵🐵🐵
On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work
It has it all:
- the best science
- the best macaques
- the best beaches
- the best people
- the best office view #Eiffeltower

Join us!

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yes please thanks

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Apr 16

You can learn more about research at my lab here: drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch/

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership

This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Apr 3

The cover of our new book has been approved!

Due out this August through MIT Press and the online version will be open access.
#neuroskyence #ornithology 🪶🧠

A book cover for Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis. The images on the cover include a Turkey vulture in flight, a singing song sparrow, a drawing of a black browed albatross brain, and a foraging whimbrel.

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Der Führer hat immer recht! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · Mar 10

Pet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: Study out of University of Sussex, published by Science of the Total Environment

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #Pets #FleaTreatments #Ecology #toxicology #pesticides #conservation🌎 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Pet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: Study

High levels of harmful pesticides from pet flea treatments in birds’ nests lined with animal fur is leading to the increased mortality rate of chicks.

www.forbes.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 6

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

www.nature.com

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...

Awards | ZSL

ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions

www.zsl.org

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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · Feb 11

⭐New paper out on great tits' social behaviour⭐
We manipulated food access & stability of social interactions at feeders (small-scale) to investigate their effects on individual-level social network position & dyadic assoc.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(birds handled with required permits)

Great tit being held in hand after capture

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Feb 9

Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?

BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Feb 1

Same. S2E5.

Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Jan 30

Throwback to that time I talked to David Attenborough about animals and stuff. I thanked him for speaking up about the climate crisis. He said it was young scientists that he should be thanking because they were truly the ones poised to make a difference

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

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Are you interested in avian ecology and do you have a BSc or MSc diploma? Then we have an interesting vacancy for you! We are looking for a research assistant to help in the lab and the field with a microbiome study on house sparrows. @melissahrowe.bsky.social
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Research Assistant on avian ecology

We are looking for an enthusiastic research assistant for the EvolSWARM project funded by the European Research Council.

nioo.knaw.nl

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Jan 22

Please could you add me? I research animal cognition, behaviour, ecology and their gut microbiomes.

Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Jan 20

Would love to be added, thanks

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · Jan 20

Me please

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