Stu Bearhop

Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom!

#EndlessFishMostBeautiful

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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...

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...

Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Polymorphism in nature

Polymorphism with individuals differing e.g. in colour is common. Here with Hanna Kokko discussing why this occurs, the consequences for conservation and that polymorphism could be hidden. youtu.be/rfVBmmaOwuE?...

Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies - Nature Communications Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. This study provides evidence of extensive, mosaic expansion of an integration brain center, ...

Both posts are part of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Developmental control of neural cell number and type’, which builds on our work on mushroom body expansion in #Heliconius butterflies (e.g. see www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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Could you ever tire of seeing these beautiful animals up close. @exetermarine.bsky.social team over on the Isles of Scilly tagging shags for foraging and habitat studies… the colour of that eye!! @marineorno.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @bou.org.uk @eounion.bsky.social

Very rarely get a chance to do any sight seeing on these work trips but today was an exception. Deffo bucket list tick!

The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk Spillback is potentially an important mechanism by which non-natives contribute to zoonotic disease emergence. We capitalise on quasi-experimental releases of non-native pheasants (Phasianus colchicu...

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Got to love autocorrect… IOS knows best..

We watched this wonderful little female otter for about half an hour on Islay this morning.. several ballan wrasse and swimming crabs brought ashore to eat on the rocks. Only a few of our Rewilding Field Course students were up but they were treated to some fantasist views and behaviour..

Faint aurora in North Donegal as we were setting nets this evening

Critically endangered white-headed vulture in Buffalo Springs NR, Kenya. This male was hanging around a lion kill. @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Actually did a bit of dredging and while snakes do feature in many of the diet studies, they do not seem important. Not sure where I got the gen on that from… apologies.::

Ok maybe specialist was a bit strong, and I know they scavenge but snakes are a big feature of their diets…

Bateleur in the evening light at Samburu. These snake specialists are masters of the air but tend only to fly/glide in the heat of the day. @ibisjournal.bsky.social @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

Fortunate to have the black and white casqued hornbill pose very nicely for us. Out on the edge of Kagamega Forest collecting mud. Presumably to help his partner seal herself into their nest hole. #ornithology #birding #kenya @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social 🦜🦅🪶🌍🇿🇦

Interested in seal diet, population size and haul out behaviour in Ireland? Funded PhD position at University College Cork. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
Application deadline 31st Jan.

Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social
@kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social

It's officially HUMPBACK season in Cornwall 🐋 which means countless hours scanning the horizon, battling the 🥶 & straining my eyes!! The whales are thought to stop here to ‘refuel’ on their way ⬇️ to ❄️ breeding grounds. So get out, keep your 👀 peeled, & you might just get lucky!!

Photo: Jason Prince

Lots of bleached by the wind sailors (Velella velella) on the beaches over the last few weeks.

Welcome to the last Super Seabird Sunday of the year where we ask you to share seabird photos, videos & artwork to brighten up timelines like these Gannets of the Bass rock. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Can you spot Nel the dog waiting hopefully for some Christmas dinner? @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social
Clue in the second picture

3 wise men? Wild Santa ride to Portreath this morning. Rest of the team made it for the Xmas banquet at Twelveheads (fantastic spread from the Buon Appetit!

Helloooooo @bsky.app finally deleted my twitter account! Looking forward to a much healthier level of engagement and feed on here…

European winter walkers keep 👀 out. A dead Kemp's Ridley turtle was reported on 13th December at Talacre, North Wales, UK. There will be more. Reporting guidelines here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a...
🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #seaturte #marineturtle
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper r...

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by
@trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring me @melissacmarquez.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & others

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Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)