How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
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Hey folks! There's a #postdoc position open @ University of Helsinki in #biodiversity #economics ! For #ecology , #environmental #economics, etc. PhDs.
Deadline 18 Feb so apply soon! I'm told that is a really nice research group too!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Thread: In our new paper in Biological Reviews, we argue that one of physiology’s most basic assumptions is wrong. There is no single, static “baseline” metabolic rate. Instead, sleep-wake cycles quietly subvert how BMR and SMR are usually interpreted. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/9)
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Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
20.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 9151 🔁 2373 💬 145 📌 203Kauniisti sanottu
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🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
25.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 50 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 4
*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems?
Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Glasgow university’s Zoology degree retains its top position in the Guardian university 2026 rankings, for the 4th year in a row!
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgmvls.bsky.social
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🧵THREAD: (1/7) Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is one of biology's most measured traits. We argue it isn't the constant baseline it's assumed to be. Our preprint discusses how sleep-wake cycles create a 'metabolic mosaic' that requires us to rethink how we interpret SMR. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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This summer, 10 of our Zoology & Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc Honours students packed their bags, grabbed their field kits, and headed out on unforgettable research adventures.
Learn more about what they've been up to 👉
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
#WorldChangingGlasgow
Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...
08.08.2025 06:32 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Herraskaisempi versio kuin ’kännissä ja läpällä’
06.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have a 12 month Marine and Freshwater teaching position in our School. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... Closing date 11th August.
Interest in teaching on our Tropical Marine Biology course, would be great, but not essential. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
Questions to @jlindstrom.bsky.social
Anatomy students stood together holding prize-winning certificates in an outdoor setting, on steps outside a UofG building, with academics Michelle Welsh (left) and Ourania Varsou (right) stood on either side.
Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience students sat and stood together holding prize-winning certificates in an indoor setting, with wooden floor and panels behind.
Marine & Freshwater Biology and Zoology students stood together holding prize-winning certificates in an outdoor setting, on grass with a tree above and behind the group.
Microbiology students stood together holding prize-winning certificates in an indoor setting, in the stairwell of the SGDB with large windows behind.
🎓 | Everyone at @uofglifesci.bsky.social sends our warmest congratulations to the Class of 2025 on their recent graduation!
Students across our portfolio graduated at ceremonies between Friday, 4 July and Tuesday, 8 July 2025, and enjoyed special receptions beforehand.
#UofGGrad2025
📣OPEN #RESEARCH #POSTDOC POSITIONS!📣
-Ecohydrology
-Agroecology and soil microbiology
-Land use and fish populations
-Diverse farming practices
-AI in primary production
-Bio-based products, sidestreams
-Policy design and ESG implementation
Here at @luke.fi, Finland 💙💚. You´ll love it!😊
More info 👇
This is brilliant from Rich Grenyer on the Dire Wolf hype: "It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"
15.04.2025 10:00 — 👍 271 🔁 102 💬 8 📌 1Jäämme odottamaan jatkoartikkelia, jossa metsäekologit kertovat keihäänheiton tilasta ja jakavat valmennusvinkkejä.
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Last week at #BOU2025, we were delighted to award the Godman Salvin Prize to Prof Robert Furness for his contributions to #ornithology 👏
Please read about Prof Furness' impressive career here, as summarised by Keith Hamer
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley....
#ornithology 🪶#seabirds
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Presentations
📍 Boyd Orr Building
10am: Starting Biology
Dr Mary McVey
10.45am: Animal Biology
Professor Neil Metcalfe
11.30am: Molecular Bioscience
Professor Kevin O'Dell
12.15pm: Human Biology
Dr Graeme Sills
1pm: Infection Biology
Professor Olwyn Byron
🏰 | The @uofglasgow.bsky.social Offer Holders' Open Day takes place tomorrow, Tuesday, 1 April, with @uofglifesci.bsky.social presentations and stands running across two locations.
Visit us to learn about our exciting degrees and studying at UofG!
✍️ www.gla.ac.uk/undergraduat...
Programme 👇
Born on March 29, 125 years ago:
One of the most influential ecologists of the 20th century and the father of animal ecology, who turned natural history into a science: Charles Sutherland Elton (1900-1991).
A birthday thread… 🧵[1/8]
Portugal🇵🇹 has become the first European country 🇪🇺 to introduce legislation banning deep-sea mining in its waters! ⛔⛏️✊
This comes at a crucial moment as the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meets in Jamaica 🇯🇲 to discuss a deep-sea mining code.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/history...
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
Musk ought to hand over the choiciest bits of Twitter to the hackers to end the bit-shed. And say "thank you" a lot.
11.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Plus make sure no one person can grab an unhealthy amount of power no matter what
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Education really is everything
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