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Paolo Becciu
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Scientist 📈 • Postdoc @ Swiss Ornithological Institute • Launching global bird natal dispersal project 🌍 • Movement ecology (barn owls, seabirds & soaring migrants) • he/his 🌐 paolobecciu.com
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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 5d
🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · 23d
Happy to be included in the ‘Understanding Migration’ virtual issue at Functional Ecology — alongside many influential papers 🐦🎉 #birdmigration #movementecology #ornithology
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Understanding migration: Functional Ecology
<em>Functional Ecology</em> journal publishes high-impact research providing a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to ecosystem scale.
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Animal-Environment Interactions Lab @safilab.bsky.social · Aug 29
A behind the scene story that exemplifies what can happen if brilliant and motivated people work together to turn cheap ideas into precious outcome. methodsblog.com/2025/08/28/c...
Citizen scientist coders for wildlife conservation – a MoveApps story
Post provided by Andrea Kölzsch. I am a movement ecologist and have until recently worked as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Radolfzell, Germany. My research focusses, o…
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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 4
A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ
Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 26
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Jun 19
📢 Abstract submissions for Animal Behaviour Live Annual Conference are now OPEN!

🗓 Deadline: 7 Sept 2025

🎤 Choose from:
🔹 15-min live or recorded talk
🔹 5-min pre-recorded video poster (our classic format!)
📄 Submit here: ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

#ABL2025
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Valentin Graf @valgra.bsky.social · Jul 17
Our latest nutcracker paper is out!

In a collaborative effort between @sgn.one and @vogelwarte.bsky.social we show how bird age can affect seed dispersal 🐥🌱

#ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org Avian seed dispersal function is age dependent
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 11
Special thanks to @salvonferre.bsky.social l for diving into the history and research that Letizia @campioni-leti.bsky.social and I (in a small part) are carrying forward on the Bermuda Petrel. Don’t miss this captivating story www.fanpage.it/kodami/il-ri... @fanpage.it
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 11
Un grazie speciale a @salvonferre.bsky.social per essersi appassionato alla storia e alle ricerche che Letizia @campioni-leti.bsky.social ed io(in minima parte)stiamo portando avanti sul Petrello delle Bermuda. Non fatevi sfuggire questo racconto avvicente www.fanpage.it/kodami/il-ri... @fanpage.it
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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · Jul 9
New paper out in the lab on collective gaze following in pigeons in iScience!

Coolest experimental design ever🤭
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The Tawaki Project @tawaki-project.org · Jul 8
After three years of hard work, @myrene_ventures has published her first scientific paper! 🎉 It suggests Tawaki might handle our changing world better than many other penguins.

It’s Open Access - go have a read! doi.org/10.7717/peer...
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 7
📄 Find our article open access:
"Fine‐Scale Movement Data Reveal Primarily Surface Foraging and Nocturnal Flight Activity in the Endangered Bermuda Petrel"
Ecology & Evolution
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Pterodroma #ornithology #seabirds #ecology #biologging #movementecology
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 7
🌘 Flight activity peaked at night (possibly aligning with prey vertical migration)

💤 Water activity (rest & light movement) increased during the day

🏊We revealed intense surface activity which may reflect prey grabbing/scavenging & flying-intensive events that might show aerial-dipping foraging
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 7
We classified 6 behaviors from accelerometry data using a machine learning model.
At sea, petrels spent:
✈️ >75% in flight (mostly dynamic soaring)
🌊 The rest on water: resting, low-level activity, or bursts of surface action

2 additional behaviors were recorded at their burrow nest (not in figure)
Behavioural time budget at sea for each individual Bermuda petrel tagged with accelerometer and depth recorder
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 7
We tracked Bermuda petrels (cahows) during incubation using lightweight biologgers:
📍 Trips spanned ~1200 km
📆 Duration: ~10 days

🤿 99.99% of depth readings were <10 cm.
Only 5 shallow dives were recorded, none deeper than 1.57 m.

Despite specializing on deep-sea prey, cahows forage at the surface
Extension of foraging trips from Bermuda (red dot). Lines are individual trips, shaded areas are 25, 50, 75 and 95% utilisation distribution of the foraging area Bermuda petrel population. Proportion of petrels depth recorded during foraging. The majority is around 0 m (= on the surface)
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · Jul 7
🚨New paper out🚨
We used fine-scale GPS, depth & accelerometry data to reveal foraging activity of the endangered Bermuda petrel.

Thanks: @campioni-leti.bsky.social & collab. effort of Bermuda Conserv. Dept, Canad. Wildlife Service & ISPA Portugal

A thread 🧵

#seabirds #biologging #movementecology
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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jul 3
Fine-Scale Movement Data Reveal Primarily Surface Foraging and Nocturnal Flight Activity in the Endangered Bermuda Petrel | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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beatezein.bsky.social @beatezein.bsky.social · Jun 14
💡 We are writing a systematic review article about physical properties of light and attractiveness to seabirds in the Norwegian Arctic and are in need for some benchmark literature to evaluate our systematic search! Can anyone help? Please share 💡
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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · May 16
🐦Master Thesis Opportunity at Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Explore the drivers of natal dispersal timing in birds through a meta-analysis. Ideal for students skilled in R and interested in avian ecology.

www.vogelwarte.ch/en/about-us/...
Ecological research - Swiss Ornithological Institute
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · May 1
A milestone: #kakapo mating calls have been heard on the North Island of NZ for the first time in over a century. At least 2 of the 3 #kakapo males at the fenced sanctuary of Maungatautari have "boomed" this summer. #conservation www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Video: www.scienceagency.co.nz
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Apr 24
🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology
2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · Apr 2
🌿Apply now! 🌿🌴🦜

We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva
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Population Matters @popnmatters.bsky.social · Mar 30
@worldwildlife.org's Living Planet Report warns that, over the past 50 years, the average size of monitored wildlife populations has shrunk by 73%.

Freshwater populations have suffered the heaviest decline, falling by 85%, followed by land mammals (69%), and marine life (56%).
#environment
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marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · Mar 20
📣new paper! led by Ana Machado-Gaye 👏. Female Adélie penguins 🐧increase daily energy expenditure by 40% in low food conditions 🦐. No changes in breeding success or trophic niche! #movementecology #energetics @sosbangor.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social

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Energy expenditure of Adélie penguins during the breeding season: females pay the cost in years of low food availability
Changes in prey availability can lead to mismatches between consumers and resources, decreasing the fitness of consumers, especially during periods of…
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Teresa Catry @teresacatry.bsky.social · Mar 10
📣PhD opportunity!
We are looking for a candidate to develop a project on the spatial ecology of #waterbirds using rice fields. Check for the complete details below, and get in touch until the 21st of March!
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#ornithology #movement #tracking #connectivity
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