Ally Phillimore

🚨🚨🚨 Field Assistant positions - four of them!! - working with the long-term Wytham project this coming spring. Details below. Previous year's field team - come and join us! Details below ⬇️

If you're at the @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 in Edinburgh and interested in #phenology, come and find me for a chat about how resource abundance modulates the impacts of the trophic #mismatch.

My poster is A17.21 in the Cromdale Hall, and I'll be there from 6pm this evening!

🌳 -> 🐛 -> 🐦

Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology

📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳
🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange
📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social

ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2...
❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025

Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team!

We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋

centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

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The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford, listed on FindAPhD.com

I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

Integrative analysis of fine-scale local adaptation of winter moths to variable oak phenology For herbivorous insects whose fitness depends on tight phenological synchrony with host plants, spatial variation in plant phenology can impose strong selective pressures and promote local adaptation ...

New preprint! 🌳🐛

We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.

With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A group of young people standing outside in a semi-circle listening to a member of the team talk. Wording reads: BTO Youth. Become a BTO Youth Rep! Scan the QR code to find out more and apply. A QR Code is in the bottom right of the image.

We're looking for Youth Reps for our BTO Youth team! ➡️ bit.ly/YouthRep25

If you love nature and would like to join our amazing team of volunteers (expenses paid) aged 16-24 then apply to become a BTO Youth Rep today!🐦

📝 Closing date: Sunday 9th November 2025.

A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

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We are looking for Erasmus interns to help with our bird projects at Lammi Biological Station:
www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...

Apply here and specify that you are interested in the great tit project:
www.lyyti.in/Application_...

Keeping up with climate change: have Arctic arthropods reached their phenological limits? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Many arthropods show earlier seasonal activity with warming, but these responses cannot continue indefinitely. Identifying such phenological thresholds is crucial for understanding limits to climate tracking and species persistence, but few studies test ...

As #climatechange becomes more extreme, organisms may no longer keep track in their phenology or seasonal activity e.g flowering, swarming or egg laying. @soerinegerlich.bsky.social led our study showing this is real for highly sensitive #arctic #arthropods royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

many thanks to @soerinegerlich.bsky.social for leading this study into phenological limits in Arctic communities. For me this collaboration was a real eye-opener into the potential for species to reach limits to their ability to respond plastically. Who knows what the consequences will be.

This is a huge mistake. My experience on NERC panels is that resubmissions score higher and are more likely to be funded: the review process improves good proposals that should not be lost (along with the time spent on them).

Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology - Natural Resources Institute Finland Open job: Principal Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

Researchers! 📢 We (@luke.fi) are hiring: Principal Scientist in Wildlife Ecology

Permanent position ✅️
Finland, you'll love it ✅️
Flexible hours, proper holidays ✅️
Great colleagues and atmosphere ✅️
Relocation services ✅️
Value to objective research ✅️

#Canada #USA, you have boreal wildlife too 😉

Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇
shorturl.at/wijEq

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An aerial view of a Danish woodland

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨

Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate.

Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid...

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One of our Field Assistants, Charlotte, checking on the progress of a blue tit nest inside of a woodcrete nest box that is attached to a tree. Photo: Megan Thompson

A clutch of 7 blue tit eggs in a nest in a woodcrete nest box. Photo: Ally Phillimore

Happy Easter weekend to all who celebrate!

While you're out hunting for chocolate eggs, our team is busy monitoring the breeding progress of our blue tits. 🪺

As of today, we have eggs in 73 nests, with several females already incubating. In contrast, on this day last year, only 2 nests had eggs!

This year’s John C Marsden Medal winner is Dr Jamie C Weir! Jamie’s work considers a fundamental question: how resilient are organisms to a warming climate? Focusing on woodland food-webs, his research suggested an array of buffering mechanisms. @jamiecweir.bsky.social
www.linnean.org/the-...

Ecosystem effects of shipping under present and future climate and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways at University of Strathclyde on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Ecosystem effects of shipping under present and future climate and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways at University of Strathclyde, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 #fullyfundedPhD

❓ #Ecosystem effects of shipping under present and future #climate and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

📍Uni of Strathclyde
👨‍🔬Dr Jack Laverick
🗓️Oct 25 start
💷UK/Home fees, stipend
⏳Mon 5 May

#PhD #Glasgow #Scotland #Marine #Ecology #MathematicalModelling #Coding

👋

Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?

#evolution #genetics

Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

It's an incredible honour to be awarded the John C. Marsden medal from the @linneansociety.bsky.social for my PhD research on phenology, moths... and some very hungry caterpillars 🌳🐛

Thanks to all my friends and mentors at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, but especially @allyphillimore.bsky.social!

First male Pied Flycatcher singing this morning at East Dartmoor. Second earliest arrival recorded on the reserve. #phenology

Macroecology Group Committee Chair - British Ecological Society Applications are open for the next Chair of the Macroecology Group

The @besmacro.bsky.social group is one of the most active, dynamic and necessary networks in the @britishecologicalsociety.org. They're recruiting a new committee chair: could it be you?

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Picture of the paper title, author and abstract. All information can be found in the link: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70000

I am delighted to share my first PhD paper! We found that Key Biodiversity Areas cover the distributions of the world’s terrestrial birds excellently, representing 99.7%. #KBAs are incredibly useful for conservation planning and policy. 🧪🦤🦉🌍🌐
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Many thanks for reposting. We've filled the research assistant posts now.