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Glasgow Tawny Owl Project @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social · 10d

Our new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social shows that noise reduces owl prey detectability and it generates adverse effects already at an early life stage, with potential carry-over effects on adulthood. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@dmdominoni.bsky.social
#owls #RaptorResearch #ecology #noise

Experimental Exposure to Noise Affects Hunting Behavior Already From a Young Age in a Nocturnal Acoustic Predator

This study experimentally investigates the effect of traffic noise on the hunting behavior of young and subadult Tawny Owls (Strix aluco). We show that noise lowers the rate of prey detection and inc....

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 29d

Fisheries can drive selection, but what about small-scale ornamental fisheries? Our new study shows Amazonian fishes interact w/ traps in species- & environment-specific ways, hinting at overlooked selective potential. Led by @marpineda.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · Aug 19

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/43vfp

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g27o3ttbhwno6sjns7wwl3yg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Flyer for special issue on passive acoustic monitoring

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FishSounds @fishsounds.bsky.social · Jun 9

🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲
Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!

Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Jun 9

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Sam Rogerson @naturefromsam.bsky.social · Jun 6

My first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here!

doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

#BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · May 11

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RESTOREID @restoreideu.bsky.social · May 8

🎧 What if tracking biodiversity was like mixing music?

In #RESTOREID, we use sound to study restored landscapes. Check out our latest blog by
@kirstyjpark.bsky.social (@stir.ac.uk) on #SoundscapeEcology 👉 bit.ly/4jGaAZz

#Nature #Biodiversity #Ecology

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · May 6

🚨 BREAKING: From September 1st peak rail fares will be scrapped for good in Scotland!

🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares.
🟡2024: SNP bring them back
🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision
🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision

Peak Rail Fare Scrapped For Good. Scottish Greens.

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · May 5

A healthy ash holding out from dieback in the middle of Glasgow.

Fascinating piece in The Scotsman.

👉 buff.ly/IwFI8d8

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Glasgow Tawny Owl Project @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social · Apr 18

It's spring again and Tawny Owls have started breeding in Glasgow! 🦉

The first adult owls of the season have been captured, ringed and tagged with biologgers, aiming to understand how they cope with roads, light & noise pollution in the urban environment.

#GlasgowTawnyOwlProject #tawnyowls

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Apr 8

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.

Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Dire wolves remain very extinct

Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

arutherford.substack.com

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 6

Adjusting her red cap, “I never thought Leopard Seals would eat my face,” says a sullen Petrel who voted for the Leopard Seal Face Eating Party.

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Sam Rogerson @naturefromsam.bsky.social · Apr 6

Stop. Admire the bee fly. Look at how it flies with absolutely no grace whatsoever.

Observe how it unites bee and fly lovers everywhere without effort.

Where is it going? What has it seen? With no honey to make, it has a lot of free time.

#Invert #Invertebrate #Bee? #Fly #Insects

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Jack Greenhalgh @wildaudiojack.bsky.social · Mar 14

Are you running a long-term passive acoustic study or thinking about establishing one?

If yes then have a quick look at our recent paper on mitigating long-term biases in acoustic studies.

Inc. a direct comparison of AudioMoth and Song Meter Micro 2 using BirdNET & more...

Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Feb 20

📰 NEW PAPER!

Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Mitigating bias in long‐term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies

The sources of bias and suggested mitigations described here will be of relevance to hardware manufacturers, ecological researchers and conservation practitioners. Researchers and conservation practi...

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Mar 13

Doing my MRes @sceneuog.bsky.social was a great experience - really motivated me to stay on in ecological research 🌳🐦🌲🐦‍⬛

dommccafferty.bsky.social @dommccafferty.bsky.social · Mar 7

Great opportunity to live and study at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment on Loch Lomond @sceneuog.bsky.social while undertaking the MRes Ecology and Environmental Biology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk. Closing date: 11 April 2025 See further details at www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Image showing SCENE fieldstation and students doing field and lab work.

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hi Grant, I'm a PhD researcher using acoustic monitoring to assess biodiversity in restored temperate forests/woodland - would love to be added! 🙂

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Mar 3

I've started an ecoacoustics starter pack! Very aware that there are many more people in the field than are currently on this list, so please reach out if you'd like to be added/have colleagues who should be! 🐦🐸🎙️

go.bsky.app/NekQiFj

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Mar 10

Mitigating bias in long-term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies🎶

Recommends
👉effective documentation of environmental & hardware-related variables📑
👉a long-term data storage strategy for reanalysis🌏
👉regular calibration tests to measure variation in the acoustic detection space🧪

🔗 buff.ly/Lu6rXz5

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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WrEN project @wrenproject.bsky.social · Mar 7

The WrEN project is now on bluesky! We are a collaboration of academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in ecological restoration. You can find out more at: www.wren-project.com. @kirstyjpark.bsky.social @watts-km.bsky.social

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Mar 6

A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy.
I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

www.theguardian.com

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Feb 18

Sample coverage affects diversity measures of bird communities along a natural recovery gradient of abandoned agriculture in tropical lowland forests 🐦

Stresses the importance of standardizing biodiversity measures and incorporating beta diversity 🌏 🧪

🔗 https://buff.ly/3Enrht6

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Mar 3

I've started an ecoacoustics starter pack! Very aware that there are many more people in the field than are currently on this list, so please reach out if you'd like to be added/have colleagues who should be! 🐦🐸🎙️

go.bsky.app/NekQiFj

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Feb 20

Co-authors: Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Kieran Gibb, Pauline Guinet, @wildaudiojack.bsky.social, @becky-heath.bsky.social, Alison Johnston, José Joaquín Lahoz Monfort, @alex-rogers.bsky.social, Stephen Willis & @ollie333.bsky.social

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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · Feb 20

Big shout out to all the co-authors, especially lead author David Jarrett, and @jfroidevaux.bsky.social for organising the EcoHack workshop this came out of!

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