Martin Beal

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social

britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089

#ornithology 🪶

WeTransfer says user content will not be used to train AI after backlash Firm revises new terms of service that had suggested uploaded files could be used to ‘improve machine learning models’

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🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN

Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶

🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award

Deadline: 15 September 2025

Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044
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A paper describing the history of AviList and how the new unified global bird checklist was created has now been published - free to download until 1 September: rdcu.be/euZjH

New paper out! 🌊🐢 OA 🙌🏻
We reviewed studies tracking male sea turtles, revealing key behaviors—some unique to males! We highlight knowledge gaps and set priorities to guide future research on this overlooked half of the population. #spatial ecology #biologging #seaturtles

doi.org/10.3354/esr0...

A fun review we did on the spatial ecology of male sea turtles. Male sea turtles don't come ashore to lay eggs, making them harder to track and therefore more 'elusive'. Check it out!

Something to send to your uncle who insists there's just no space for #renewables:

Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy doi.org/10.1088/2515...

Lovely bit of land-use perspective by @jannweinand.bsky.social et al

The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here:
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/

NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

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

Would appreciate a re-post!

#ConservationScience🌍

Don't break the chain!
Ground-breaking analysis demonstrating the complex needs of migrating Black-tailed Godwits.
Damaging one site can have far-reaching consequences.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology
Paper @amigodeaves.bsky.social

Vacancy — Postdoc Environmental Monitoring Through Bird Movement and Activity in Waakvogels Project Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? Will you be the one to discover the signs of disease, stress or disturban...

Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop approaches for extraction of animal condition from the tracks of wild birds.

Out now:
A new predictive method: Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals. With @jasonmatth.bsky.social, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social and others.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]

We are live!

Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.

Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

NIOZ - Postdoc position for 3 years: “Unravelling bottom-up and top-down affects between shellfish prey and red knot predators in the Dutch Wadden Sea” The department of Coastal Systems (COS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ-Texel) is looking for a highly motivated postdoc candidate with a background in (behavioral) ecology to

POSTDOC VACANCY: We have a 3 year position available studying variation in population size and habitat use of red knots in the #WaddenSea. We the aim to understand bottom-up and top-down processies. More info here: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po... #WATLAS #SIBES #ornithology #movementecology

Every year, fewer #WhiteStorks cross the Straits of Gibraltar on their annual migratory journey. In this paper, we unveil the mechanisms driving the recent and rapid loss of their migratory behaviour.
👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70035

Presentation title slide showing Alpine swift in the foreground (photo credit: Reto Burri) and the Swiss town of Solothurn in the background with weather imminent.

Uncovering Alpine swift foraging behaviour using GPS tracking & DNA metabarcoding! For the first time we describe Alpine swift foraging movements and what factors impact foraging trips, short-term range area size, & the prey diversity fed to nestlings #BOU2025 #ornithology 1/7

Logos of the Project Lead (BirdLife International), the Project team (BTO, RSPB, Conservation Evidence, Conservation International, KBA), Project partners (BiOM, BNHS India, BirdLife Malta, LIFE PanPuffinus!, Hellenic Ornithological Society, Life Artina, BirdLife South Africa), the Primary Funder (Cambridge Conservation Initiative), with support from (Arcadia, the A.G. Leventis Foundation)

Thank you all who made the Toolkit possible! Built on the work of many, we want to continue the collaborative journey with all working to conserve marine megafauna. Explore, tell us what works, suggest improvements, contribute. We can only achieve biodiversity conservation targets working together.

Infographic showing images of marine megafauna (whale, albatross, turtle) and symbols representing the scope of the toolkit (technical, conservation and policy & advocacy)

🌊 Excited to share the Marine Megafauna Conservation Toolkit! 🐧

It contains step-by-step methods with R code (including for tracking data) for identifying critical sites (e.g. Key Biodiversity Areas) & guidance for conservation practice, policy & advocacy.

➡️tinyurl.com/MMFCToolkit

📢 VACANCY

Could you be our next Social Media Support Officer?

We're looking for a social media whizz to support our output across multiple platforms

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

#ornithology 🪶

Are you an ornithologist based in Northern Ireland? Come and join our team @bto-ni.bsky.social! Find out more and apply: www.bto.org/jobs

So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

So cool to see this out! Also cool use of the Spilhaus projection here :)

image of the seabird tracking database homepage

The Seabird Tracking Database seabirdtracking.org provided an opportunity to identify the marine flyways

A MASSIVE THANK YOU 👏to all data contributors, collaborators & GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social who supported this work

More info, including a beautiful animation ➡️ tinyurl.com/yek8dwt4

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