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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · May 6

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

research-groups.usask.ca

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations @alixkristiansen.bsky.social on your first paper from your PhD - it's out!

@ecobird.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Home range and activity budget in the Falkland Steamer Duck (Tachyeres brachypterus)

The Falkland Islands support globally important populations of seabirds and coastal birds, underscoring their value for international conservation efforts. However, substantial knowledge gaps impede t...

journals.plos.org

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Really nice info on one of the coolest migration stories going.

This is what #motuswts can do now- these teeny tiny @celltracktech.bsky.social blu series tags can follow the smallest of creatures.

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 13d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 18d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

You're in the wrong country...things are pretty different in the UK, especially after the collapse of the Conservatives.

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 5d

Our launderette owner once asked my husband, whilst folding our clothes, what grade his children were in, because he didn't know I had children.

They were my clothes he was folding.

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 7d

@ecobird.bsky.social

ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 8d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 10d

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 20d

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 20d

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19d

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

@ecobird.bsky.social

BOU @bou.org.uk · 17d

Numerical cognition in birds | www.nature.com/artic... | Nature Reviews Psychology | #ornithology 🪶

Numerical cognition in birds

Nature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and...

www.nature.com

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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · Aug 27

Celebrating a symposium of @behaviour2025.bsky.social, call for article submission for a special issue "Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition" in Acta Ethologica.

Submissions are open to everyone!
Information at link.springer.com/collections/...

#Behaviour2025 #actaethologica

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 28

🔊 Fellowship opportunity

Interested in a post-doc in Turkey?

Check out this CoCirculation postdoctoral fellowship program

Full details & key dates: cocirculation3.tubitak.gov.tr/program-home

Kiraz Erciyas @erciyaskiraz.bsky.social at Ondokuz Mayıs University is looking to host

#ornithology

Program | Cocirculation

cocirculation3.tubitak.gov.tr

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · Aug 26

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 26

🙌 Indeed!

Even if they managed to get it published, the wider audience reading it will know it's AI-based and doesn't meet the rigour required for publishing. So, it's published, but they'll likely not get much credit. I can take some comfort in that I suppose!

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 26

Depressing. And from what I thought was a quality journal. I try really hard to produce good work and some people are just churning out nonsense :(

Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Megan Thompson @meganjthompson.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sharing on behalf of my colleague Marcel Eens:

Post-doc position on #UrbanBirds at University of Antwerp:
6-10 month position with intention of submitting fellowship application (extends postdoc by 3 years if successful).

Deadline Aug 28. www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Post-doc position Behavioural ecology in a changing and urbanizing world | University of Antwerp

YUFE vacancies

www.uantwerpen.be

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Alan Knox @alanknox.bsky.social · Aug 25

The first 3 #Motus stations from @scottishbirding.bsky.social have been put up in Scotland on the Fife coast. Tagging Rock Pipits will start this yr to look at differences between petrosus & wintering littoralis. In meantime, listening for passing traffic!
@btoscotland.bsky.social #scottishbirding

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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe @dannihinchy.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's time to join the #Motus wildlife tracking network! @woodcreeper.bsky.social gives an impressive overview of the advancement of Motus tracking & its potential for #ornithology #conservation - we need more stations, want to get involved? @eounion.bsky.social #ecology #migration #EOU2025 motus.org

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 22

We had 4 talks, and two posters so great representation of @ecobird.bsky.social from Ghent University.

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Successful @ecobird.bsky.social #EOU2025 trip. Great presentations by @cesarepacioni.bsky.social, Jolien Van Malderen, Caoimhe Abdul-Wahab, Mélibée Morel and me! Well done team 👏 Loads of fun, and surprisingly good Welsh weather 😇

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Cesare Pacioni @cesarepacioni.bsky.social · Aug 18

@ecobird.bsky.social at #EOU2025 🐦 Looking forward to sharing our work and connecting with the European ornithology community
Caoimhe Abdul-Wahab | Poster S1
@lucyjmitchell.bsky.social | Symp 11
Mélibée Morel | Oral 17
@cesarepacioni.bsky.social | Oral 8
Jolien Van Malderen | Symp 2 & Poster S1

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 16

* hosting a receiver/ doing some research etc.

Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 16

Alice can you raise the idea of Motus with someone that might be interested in hosting a receiver there?? thanks ;-)

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Dr Lucy Mitchell @lucyjmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 7

Not just finch-ish... a finch. Linaria in Carduelinae... a member of the finch family.

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