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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe
@dannihinchy.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Conservation Biology & Ecology. BOU & BES Associate Editor. SFHEA. Proud IVF Mum, Birder, & Metalhead. Parkrun & Steam locos 🖤 She/Her. Views are mine 🤘
Our baby's first @rspb.bsky.social reserve visit today at Burton Mere & the toddler finally grasped how to use binoculars! Egrets, kingfisher, cettis warbler & pink footed geese highlights. @zachinch92.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Great-tailed grackle just now on Estuary Blvd, west of Speke Hall. Good to know I can still spot birds without my glasses 😅 Wife points gained! @birdguides.bsky.social @zachinch92.bsky.social #birds #birdwatching
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It's a special day when you pass on your first pair of binoculars to your son & take him #birdwatching for the first time. I got them at University so he has definitely got a headstart on me!
@opticron.bsky.social @zachinch92.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social #ornithology #birds 🐦
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England!

4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.

Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
January 9, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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🚨 job klaxon 🚨

Avian Ecologist, Edinburgh. Joining the long-term study of seabird populations on the Isle of May

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA317/a...
Avian Ecologist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
An academic position as a Avian Ecologist is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
It's becoming a Xmas tradition for @zachinch92.bsky.social & I to sneak off to Bury Bolton St on Xmas Eve day @eastlancsrailway.bsky.social for a #steamtrain fix & tasty 🍺 at the Trackside. Gotta make the most of nursery fees! Ivatt 46441 & 80097 were the festive locos this year 🚂 #trainphotography
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I mean, he's on 97 but at least he will have the right attire for #100 next month! Whereas I'm on 105 so will give my Xmas pressie a whirl tomorrow 🎉 Big thanks to #parkrun for another great year #running & I've enjoyed #volunteering the last 9 months at wonderful #widnes 🏃‍♀️ @zachinch92.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...

The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Gutted I cannot attend this in person but hoping to receive the materials & be able to contribute remotely to this really important topic. If you're at #BES2025 & work with long-term population monitoring data, I'd consider this workshop 👍
If you are attending #BES2025 and are interested in #biodiversity monitoring in the UK, come to our lunchtime workshop on creating a UK Biodiversity Observation Network.
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"Let's replace our carbon footprints with the tracks of animals" powerful final slide from Joe Roman - conservation biologist, marine ecologist 🐋 & award winning book writer (+ fellow 💩 researcher!). A great choice for the day 2 BES Lecture of the @britishecologicalsociety.org conference! #BES2025
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Workshop currently underway! It is centred on the paper below, as we discuss potential barriers and solutions to help address them ➡️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great morning (virtually) attending the @britishecologicalsociety.org conference #BES2025 with internationally recognised functional diversity ecologist Prof Sandra Díaz presenting the Georgina Mace lecture. Big fan of giving plants the spotlight 🙌 #ecology #botany 🌿🌼🌱 #biodiversity #climatechange 🌍
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Less than 2-weeks post partum & about to attempt attending the @britishecologicalsociety.org conference virtually... wish me luck 😅 #BES #BES2025 #maternityleave
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fantastic penultimate day of work before maternity leave - teaching our @ljmuofficial.bsky.social foundation #wildlife #conservation students at @chesterzoo.bsky.social 🙌
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Superb inaugural lecture from friend & past @salforduni.bsky.social colleague Prof Arijit Mukhopadhyay: Rear-View Mirror on My Successful Failures. I especially liked the advice "you can nurture self esteem but the seed needs external stimulation" aka let your friends be your research cheerleaders 🙌
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Deadline is tomorrow 5PM.

Full funding, great bird study system with flexibility for you to pursue the elements you enjoy gets (whether that be #genetics #physiology #ecology or a preference for #fieldwork #labwork).

Fab supervisory team & great training/teaching opportunities! #ornithology #phd
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Yesterday was national #reptile day so the pet #snakes enjoyed some 🎃 enrichment! @zachinch92.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Did I mention this is fully funded for 3 years starting in 2026? The deadline to apply is 31st October 5pm. Excellent multidisciplinary supervisory team, great balance of fieldwork, lab work & conservation technology - and opportunity to build up bird ringing/monitoring experience #ornithology.
Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM