Dylan Childs
@dzchilds.bsky.social
Professor of Population Biology & School Director of Education @ University of Sheffield
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ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw.
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
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Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw.
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw.
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉 accedtp.ac.uk
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🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
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I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
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Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
September 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Oxford Biology is growing 📢
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology
3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3
I did two different bits of science-ing today. Two different things. In one day. I feel 41 again.
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I did two different bits of science-ing today. Two different things. In one day. I feel 41 again.
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Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
EvoDemoS 2025
EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...
evodemo2025.weebly.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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If you like the look of lovely green #Sheffield and our wonderful Peak District on #springwatch #bbcspringwatch, why not come and study for an MSc #Biodiversity & #Conservation @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Happy to consider unconventional academic backgrounds www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Biodiversity and Conservation
Develop your knowledge about major conservation issues and their human and environmental drivers across a range of ecosystems. Gain the skills you’ll need to understand how we can balance human needs ...
www.sheffield.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you like the look of lovely green #Sheffield and our wonderful Peak District on #springwatch #bbcspringwatch, why not come and study for an MSc #Biodiversity & #Conservation @sheffielduni.bsky.social? Happy to consider unconventional academic backgrounds www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Great (free) opportunity coming up this Tuesday for researchers who are interested in finding out more about outreach with children…
May 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great (free) opportunity coming up this Tuesday for researchers who are interested in finding out more about outreach with children…
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is now open with a call deadline on 10 September 2025.
Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.
Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.
The next call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships scheme opens soon. Come work with me if you're interested in anything related to biodemography and population ecology. And if you're not, consider coming to work with one of my many fine colleagues instead.
May 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is now open with a call deadline on 10 September 2025.
Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.
Come to Sheffield. It's nice and (sometimes) sunny.
This is deranged. We’re dragging *heat pumps* into the culture wars now?
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True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.
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footnote:
True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.
‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast
Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is deranged. We’re dragging *heat pumps* into the culture wars now?
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footnote:
True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.
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footnote:
True to my centrist dad form, I am a heat pump owner.
This couldn’t be further from where UK HE is heading. Looks great, TBH.
On my way back from a thing, on a train, down a rabbit hole, so going to (insert equivalent of tweet but for bluesky here) what I'm finding
April 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This couldn’t be further from where UK HE is heading. Looks great, TBH.
While waiting for my coffee to brew, I asked chatGPT to write a postmodernist critique of IPMs. It's magnificent.
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
While waiting for my coffee to brew, I asked chatGPT to write a postmodernist critique of IPMs. It's magnificent.
The next call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships scheme opens soon. Come work with me if you're interested in anything related to biodemography and population ecology. And if you're not, consider coming to work with one of my many fine colleagues instead.
April 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The next call for the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships scheme opens soon. Come work with me if you're interested in anything related to biodemography and population ecology. And if you're not, consider coming to work with one of my many fine colleagues instead.
The problem with having had a short stint in finance many years ago, is that in moments like this, I revert to reading about things like “Treasury basis trades” to understand how my personal finances will ultimately get screwed over again, which if you think about it, is not a very good use of time.
April 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The problem with having had a short stint in finance many years ago, is that in moments like this, I revert to reading about things like “Treasury basis trades” to understand how my personal finances will ultimately get screwed over again, which if you think about it, is not a very good use of time.
I’m considering placing reciprocal tariffs on my inbox. £2 for each message from that guy who emails me once a month to see if I want to buy his reagents. £10 for every email from an MDPI journal.
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’m considering placing reciprocal tariffs on my inbox. £2 for each message from that guy who emails me once a month to see if I want to buy his reagents. £10 for every email from an MDPI journal.
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I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards
It’s important to take pleasure in the small things in life, which is why I like to check the Tesla share price once or twice a day at the moment.
March 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s important to take pleasure in the small things in life, which is why I like to check the Tesla share price once or twice a day at the moment.
Today’s vibes.
"I'd like you to set the severance device in my brain fully on 'innie' mode for the next four years. I'm willing to work nonstop if it allows me to avoid the panic attacks I get from hearing the news about teenage social media influencers becoming senior government advisors."
An Open Letter to Lumon Industries Requesting to Please Kindly Insert the Severance Device in My Brain and Keep It on “Innie” Mode for the Next Four Years
Dear Mr. Jame Egan, Chief Executive Officer at Lumon Industries, First, I congratulate you on implementing the severance procedure, which successfu...
buff.ly
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Today’s vibes.
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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
I'll give you my em dash when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'll give you my em dash when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.
January 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.