Sarah Collins

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Opportunities — ASAB

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job

More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

PLEASE share widely.

Some beautiful moths from the Phil’s moth trap in Harrowbarrow, Cornwall, this morning. Definitely worth getting up early for.

Wonderful day yesterday doing a recce on Drakes Island off the coast of Plymouth, to see how easy it would be for a Bioblitz exercise for our students. Fabulous cormorant nesting site and lots of lovely inverts busy on the plants.

Some photos of the cool beasts we saw on the 1st year BSc Zoology field trip to Zahara de Los Atunes in Spain. Beautiful place and the trip was great, but the power cut was quite a wake up call.

YouTube video by Turismo Torino e Provincia Torino the place To be - short 1'

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon!
#ISBE26

Well when I played your video this happened in response! He’s half Bassett hound, and enjoys a good howl every now and then.

Beautiful mining bee out and about at Plymbridge Woods, Plymouth, with a LOT of pollen on its legs!

I am not sure Basil realised quite how big he is!

I really hate @amazontv.bsky.social now. The ads at coming every few minutes, 5 times in a 20 min programme! It feels like they are trying to force you to pay by making the viewing experience awful. When I’ve watched the last of the series I started I will never use it again.

Timeline cleanse. Here is a happy Basil #Springbatt having a lovely walk down the beautiful Kingsbridge-Salcome estuary.

NEW JOB in #ornithology to study the diet of #seabirds in Norway: buff.ly/vOjoAfc . Application deadline 7 April 2025.

Dartford Warbler perched on Gorse bush with prey in bill by Philip Croft/BTO.

📢 We need your help to record Dartford Warbler for the Heathland Birds Survey. Find a priority survey site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #UKBirding #BirdingWales

Very cool noises

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez):
www.cell.com/current-biol...

She discusses the fact you could mix up the yellow-throated longclaw and Easter meadowlark. Unless you pay attention to the importance of knowing what species to expect in your habitat. Awesome! What I tell all my students. #2

Loving The Residence TV show. Perhaps because the main detective is a birder and the birds she discusses are real! #1

South West Marine Ecosystems Conference 2025 Reporting on the state of SW seas and strengthening connections between those engaged in understanding and managing them effectively.

Join us next month at @plymouthmarine.bsky.social to explore the state of the South-West seas! 🌊 The #SWME Annual Conference unites marine experts to share research, discuss #ecosystem management, & enhance collaborations for healthier #marine environments.

🎫 bit.ly/4iAduOY

@bd-stew.bsky.social

This is what some university leaders think of all these careers, lives and hopes getting trashed: all this means it's 'time to reflect' and use more AI. Oh yeah, I'll reflect all right. 🤯🙄 (2/2)

Woodlark on ground alongside wording: Heathland Birds Survey. www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey. Image credit reads Liz Cutting/BTO. BTO lop sits top right of the image.

Request for volunteers! 📢 Can you help us survey priority squares for Woodlark for the Heathland Birds Survey? Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... 📝 We’re especially looking for volunteers in Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire. #Ornithology #UKBirding

Are you liking Bluesky, but thinking “gee, I wish there was more shark science and conservation on my feed?”

I have the solution to your problem right here!

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Is This Working? Charlie Colenutt
“mountains of paperwork are being generated by organisations’ fears of failure….As a consequence, workers are doing less of their actual work, instead spending their time inputting data, writing reports and ticking boxes. Morale is sapped and staff turnover rises”

It messes it up terribly!! Was one of my favourite Christie books but this adaptation is very very bad

I really hated it! Poor characterization and the plot is so much worse than the novel. I loved the subtlety of the book characters, these are all just awful and yet boring! Seems to be a show that’s all about look at the scenery but never mind the rest

Group photo at the event.

Head of School Prof Richard Preziosi during speech.

​Our team, including Prof Richard Preziosi, Dr Jenny Rowntree, Dr Mark Whiteside, and Dr Katherine Herbourne, attended Bright Tide's Sustain.AI prize-giving at the House of Lords.
Learn more about our work at CRISPS:​ www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/sus...
#Agriculture #SustainableAgriculture #AI 🧪​

Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Volunteer Manager and Administrator You are passionate about conserving, restoring, and, where possible, rewilding the watery inland habitats of East Anglia. Committed to the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) to river management, you are ...

Important job as Volunteer Manager and Administrator
River Lark Catchment Partnership in Suffolk working to protect a chalk river.
www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104746-...

Good idea :)