Peter Korsten

Eurasian magpie on a roof

Chattering in your territory: Eurasian magpies vary in their response to chatter calls at different durations and rates. How do magpies perceive this alarm and terrritorial defence signal from intruders in their territory? Out now📜 link.springer.com/10.1007/s100... #openAccess #Communication #Corvid

Great it's out now!

Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/3n8p3mv

Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

Please repost 🙏

Opportunities — ASAB

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

We are very happy to announce the Baerends and Dobberke lectures and keynote speakers for the NVG meeting 19-21 Nov!

Dobberke lecture: Rita Covas
Baerends lecture: Elodie Briefer

Keynotes: Nicky Staes, Suzanne van der Veldt, Jonathan Benichov

Details on the programme and registration will follow.

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Vacancy — PhD Position Gull Foraging Ecology in the North Sea - NO-REGRETS Project Are you passionate about animal movement ecology? Interested in studying gull foraging ecology at sea? Apply for this unique PhD opportunity at the Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology ...

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

NEW JOB in #ornithology to study how young #eagles learn how to fly efficiently through the Alps: buff.ly/eJ5qJM6

Field assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠

A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

📣 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is hiring a research assistant for 1 year to work on the flycatcher project. Responsibilities include sample organization, data management, lab and field work + management. MSc + relevant experience required.

Apply by Apr 4 👇 #ecoevojob

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Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology

[Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

The Birdman of Skomer With English captions.

Lovely film about Tim Birkhead's long-term study of Guillemots on Skomer. More than half a century of study of this population: this kind of continuity critical for understanding vitality of these important populations.

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Last week was the beginning of the 2025 field season on Corsican blue tits, 50 years after Jacques Blondel installed his first nestboxes! I feel so lucky to take part in this long-term research program: fantastic team at CEFE-CNRS, amazing bird populations, and stuning landscapes.

Begging blue tit nestlings

NEW PAPER OUT 📃: My first ever paper, which reports on my Master’s research, is now out in Animal Behaviour.

Can blue tit nestlings sense their relatedness to their nestmates through smell? 🧵

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#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preregistration #AcademicSky🧪

We're recruiting - funded PhD "Adaptive social flexibility – a powerful mechanism to cope with a rapidly changing world" @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social Deadline 20th April
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DEADLINE EXTENSION – EOU 2025: By popular request, you now have TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract for the August conference in Bangor. Send abstracts by 29 March here cutt.ly/krt8HHlk and check out the conference website here cutt.ly/Jrt8Jijz #EOU2025 #ornithology

YouTube video by Ben Porter Dusk and Dawn: celebrating the return of spring birdsong

Crank up the volume and lap up those joyous sounds of early spring. A little film from Pen Llŷn last week with some of my favourite sound recordings, including the pure dusk chorus of Blackbird and explosive dawn greeting of Song Thrush. Mwynhau, enjoy 🎧🎶
#PlantPotParabolic

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Wow, this 🧵 on plastic in bird nests is both fascinating and sad ...

Great thread from @jbakcoleman.bsky.social on my story about ecologists reaching different conclusions from the same data. Should we be worried? Maybe about analytical ability – but maybe not so much about science's ability to reach a clear answer. 🧪

Postdoc Position: Wildlife Ecology | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Wildlife Ecology at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy!

Job alert: postdoc position Wildlife Ecology (22 months)
Are you or is someone you know looking for a postdoc position in ecology? Then go to our website and apply by 20 April 2025! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#postdoc
#postdocjob
#academicjobs
#researchjobs
#vacancy
#ecology
#wildlifeecology

Funded PhD Available at the University of Exeter.

Loneliness is a global epidemic. We want to use field experiments in wild rabbits to understand why our social connections change with age.

Deadline: 11th Dec

More info & how to apply here: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

Visual representation of common garden procedure.

Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌

300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.

Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

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Thanks Hannah :-)

Hi Hannah, if still possible, can you please add me to too?

Poster for DLS' seminar on Monday 27th January (information in the main text)

Every Monday we host our weekly Departmental Seminar! 🧬🌱
⏰ Time: 4:10pm
📍 Location: Edward Llwyd 1.16 or DM us for a Teams link
Monday's speaker: Tom Williams (NRW) on The Wales metal mines programme
We extend our welcome to everyone!

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Are you interested in avian ecology and do you have a BSc or MSc diploma? Then we have an interesting vacancy for you! We are looking for a research assistant to help in the lab and the field with a microbiome study on house sparrows. @melissahrowe.bsky.social
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...