🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Nominate now for a BOU #ornithology award 🪶

Deadline: Mon 15 Sept

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

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Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots.

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@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data.

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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE!

Announcing our 2027 spring conference

#BOU2027 | 6 - 8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky

Avian disease ecology: combining avian ecology and OneHealth to understand and mitigate disease

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#ornithology 🪶

Out this week: a short review co-authored with @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social on same-sex partnerships in birds! 🐦🌈 Borne out of a shared frustration: why are these partnerships often ignored or actively removed from our datasets? 1/n

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Our review paper about same sex partnerships in birds is out today🏳️‍🌈🐦:

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It has been so fun working with @tashgillies.bsky.social and I can't wait to do more projects together

Yay to the gay birds!!!

Illustration : @bertillemohring.bsky.social

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9055

Code used in research is key to the methods and scientific output and we should ensure it’s not just "available" but easy to verify and build on.

We present a practical tool to code review for scientists 🧪

work with @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social

Our volunteers recently found some retro rubbish during their beach cleans. It's a stark reminder that litter takes a long time to break down! Do you remember any of these?

If you're interested in getting involved with a beach clean, find one happening near you on our site: mcsuk.org/beachcleans

In the new Configurations, a deep dive into the the distribution, life history, and phylogeny of a new deep-sea “species,” Plasticus sacculi — a common ocean plastic bag

Read free in Configurations through 9 August

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Got some artistic skills? Enter our Seabird Pride t-shirt competition! 🕊️🏳️‍🌈🎽 Details below ⬇️ #SeabirdPride2025

Looking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

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🧵 (1/5) 👀So what is open science?? Open data science refers to the tools and practices enabling reproducible, transparent, and inclusive practices for data intensive science!

Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions!

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We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas

@sosbangor.bsky.social

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#eXit

📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN...

...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme

Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements

Application deadline: 31 March

Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

🪶 #ukbirds

Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research

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PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

"Gulls are intelligent, vital birds that deserve our protection, not scorn"
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3-year Postdoc Position

Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies
See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38

Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025.

🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist?
🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands?
🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions?

For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...

Calling all ethology enthusiasts! #Behaviour2025 #ethology #conference #ecology @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social @animalbehaviour.live @animalopps.bsky.social @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social @social-ethologist.bsky.social

the first starter pack is already full so here is pack no. 2 with even more wonderful ethologists! as before, let me know if you would like to be included and also feel free to nominate others! 🌍🧪😊 go.bsky.app/JS5YC4s

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!