NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
18.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 85 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 4
NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
18.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 85 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 4
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/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me,
@iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.
The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students to study vocal communication in tropical birds. The deadline to apply is less than a week away! #birds #birdsong #ornithology #animalbehavior #BirdsCanada #AcademicSky #SciComm
09.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 12 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Let's look at some numbers
2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate
2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate
2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate
2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).
We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦
Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season.
Details here 👉 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news
ASAB SPRING Conference 2025 Bristol 23rd 25th March. Drawing of gorilla with baby on back.
Registration for #ASABSpring2026 is now open!
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
Don't forget the travel grant AND abstract deadlines are Feb 1!
The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students.
tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
Join us tomorrow for two great neuro-eco-evo talks!
Sign up here: braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'.
Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions.
tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9
Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur...
Apply by Nov 12!
Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏
Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼
20.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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...
📣 Are you interested in applied animal ethology and perceptual abilities of animals? Do you want to help us disentangle how animal emotions are modulated by their sensory environment? Then, you might be the postdoc we are looking for🌠
More info: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
#appliedethology #postcoc
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
25.09.2025 10:10 — 👍 60 🔁 67 💬 1 📌 1
Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)
Drop me a line! I love people! :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Me with my poster on the greylag goose vocal repertoire and how data representation types influence the predictions of unsupervised methods
Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!
14.09.2025 05:24 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in @currentbiology.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/a/1llMH3QW8S...
#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.
11.09.2025 12:36 — 👍 26 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.
Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation
👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org
Please share!
Postdoc advertisement!
Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉
🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!
We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇
01.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 31 🔁 57 💬 0 📌 2
🔬📢 Oferta #FPI (2026–2029) en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social. Proyecto sobre vínculos de pareja en aves polígamas, éxito reproductivo y redes sociales.
@diegogil.bsky.social & Lorenzo Pérez Rodríguez (@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social)
Excelente entorno académico y personal 🐦🥰
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social
Finally, I presented a poster on “Vocal divergence and incipient speciation in the Reunion Grey White-eye” during the last poster session of the conference. It was my first time presenting this part of the project, and what a pleasure it was!
25.08.2025 07:20 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎤 I also had the chance to present part of my PhD work “The role of song in population divergence: Insights from the La Palma’s Canary Islands Chaffinch” 🐦
Great to share these results and get feedback!