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Mostly an ecologist that dabbles in physiology, theory, evolution, chemistry, demography, or anything else that catches my fancy.
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If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships. The next deadline is 6 June Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb Please repost

Over one billion (with a B) birds die from collisions with sheet glass each year in the U.S. alone, sometimes immediately but often from their injuries. An ecologist shares some simple steps you can take to reduce collisions: buff.ly/d1Oe7fL #Ornithology 🐦

I keep seeing continuous time data made discrete for analysis, when it could just be analyzed in continuous time (as collected). But I think there is a lack of software and instructional support in biology/anthropology? So bump bump

An old one, but it still hits in my field: 🧪

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Wildlife poisoning can be so cruel: Massive poisoning event, which killed white-backed, cape, and lappet-faced vultures, all imperilled species. 4vultures.org/blog/a-devas...

👋 Join us for a hands-on session 🛠️ exploring how good Git practices can transform your workflow—whether you’re coding or writing with R. Bring your questions, share your tips, and let’s level up our version control together! @maellesalmon.bsky.social @rladiesrome.bsky.social

New on global conservation: National political ideologies shape biodiversity outcomes. Democracy boosts protected areas while nationalism & socialism correlate with more threatened species. Conservation must engage across ideologies. Jones et al. in Conservation Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Small 🦈 grants by @saveourseas.bsky.social Thanks for amplifying @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @megmarigold.bsky.social

Upcoming joint IMPRS lecture: Our director Maude Baldwin will speak on the functional evolution of the taste and digestive system in birds. The talk is free for everyone, on campus or via zoom. More infos: imprs-bi.mpg.de/68666/Joint_... @mpibiochem.bsky.social @imprs-ml.bsky.social

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

this super power is called R 😅

New paper alert! Our study on consistent individual variation in Sumatran orangutan maternal behaviour is out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! Using ~6000h of observation, we show that mothers are not all the same when it comes to parenting. (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Join us in person or online today!

Glover's silk moth (Hyalophora gloveri), Pryor Mountains, Montana. This is a male, told by the large, feathery antennae. These moths don't feed as adults, and only live about a week, just long enough to reproduce. Phone pic from last weekend. 🐙🌿

Is there a core response to heat stress in #abalone? You bet there is. Check out this fantastic new meta-analysis of heat stress studies across abalone led by Roy Barkan. @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social 🧬🧬 rdcu.be/elVL2

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Another forthcoming SORTEE Webinar: DisMAP - a visualization, analysis, data-sharing and discovery tool to evaluate marine species distribution changes through time Wed, 14 May, 9pm - 10pm CEST Free registration at: events.humanitix.com/dismap-a-vis...

Applications are open for the African Raptor Leadership Grant: raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-awards/ This grant is ideal for raptorphiles keen to do the FitzPatrick's Conservation Biology MSc programme: science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/... Application deadline: 30 June #AfricanOrnithology

Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

Looking forward to our ROTO Lecture today! 🤓 You can still register to participate via zoom: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...

In my home state of WA

A fully funded 3-year PhD position on carabid beetles' role in pest regulation is available at Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, France. Application deadline: June 16, 2025. More info: https://www.institut-agro.fr/rennes-angers #phd

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Paleontology. Duties include research, curation, teaching, … https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1307&ProjectId=163917&DepartmentId=18971&MediaId=5&IsAdPreviewRequest=true&AdvertisementId=118011 #job

The University of Cambridge seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to study chromosomal instability in marine transmissible cancers. Ideal candidates have a PhD and computational skills. More info: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51236/ #postdoc

Join Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University as a postdoctoral research associate focusing on ecological genomics of oysters. Ideal candidates have relevant experience and a strong publication record. Apply: https://sites.google.com/site/katielotterhos/home #postdoc

PhD’s Log: Skills you will lose if you leave academia: ✅ Answering questions with “That is beyond the scope of this project.” ✅ Deleting “Dear eminent scholar” emails from your inbox ✅ Coming up with new ways to call the final final version of the paper

Physicist Sau Lan Wu was born #OTD in 1940. She co-discovered three jet events in the TASSO experiment at DESY (supporting the existence of gluons), was on the team that discovered the J/Ψ particle, and works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: UW-Madison

It’s simple. Many of us share #science. Please join up. go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added! #scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw

The illusion of stability in long-lived species: Poor early-life survival threatens the persistence of Giant Aldabra tortoise populations. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.07.652633v1

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Two very exciting senior researcher positions in community ecology & biodiversity in a changing world @niooknaw.bsky.social I can also tell you that you'll have a great head of department 😊 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...

Happy 99th birthday Sir David Attenborough! Last year we were proud to unveil a new portrait of Sir David by renowned artist Jonathan Yeo, to mark 40 years of his Fellowship. "He's very much what we've seen of him, and what I imagined him to be was very much who he is." said Yeo.

Postdoc position in Metagenomics at Earlham Institute, UK, focusing on soil health and climate resilience. Ideal candidates hold a PhD with programming skills. Apply by 8 June 2025: http://jobs.earlham.ac.uk/ #postdoc

Friends, I need your ideas for my fmr student in #wartime #Sudan. She has a PhD+hopes for a TWAS-DFG cooperation visits fellowship -not only to help her #wildlifeecology work, but also the survival+wellbeing of her family in Sudan. Who are antelope ecologists in Germany? @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social

Plastic news is not usually good news, but a 40%!!! reduction of single-use plastics on EU coastlines is my news to me good news for May 8. #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

If you are looking to apply for the #MSCA fellowship. Get in touch with me and we can talk about possible projects! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op...

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ

Please repost! The Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution is looking for a new Director and host university: www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-be...

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

We are Cascadia and the Salish Sea. Love thy neighbor 🐋🦭🦀🐬🦋🌋

We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833

🎙️Don’t miss out our upcoming episode where we talk with Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Martin Wagner. 🎨: Keating Shahmehri #science #biology #scicomm #sciencecommunication #microplastics

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Join the MacaqueNet family! We’re looking for a postdoc to study the link between social structure and lifespan across species, using MacaqueNet data and a new life-history database. Feel free to reach out—I'm happy to chat about MacaqueNet, CRAB, or living in Exeter. shorturl.at/xyNsL

People sometimes think of Antarctica as being barren and devoid of life, but the ocean surrounding the continent is incredibly rich with wildlife and biodiversity. Photos of new discoveries and insights from our wonderful Australian colleagues… 🧪🥼❄️🌊🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big milestone reached: just landed my first research grant to support Chapter 4 of my PhD thesis from @lancasteruni.bsky.social Data Science Institute! 🐠 Thank you to DSI for supporting early-career researchers like myself. Data meets nature. Let’s go! 🌊🔉 #PhD #Acoustics #Eels #Ecology #Lancaster

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June Please repost