Giulia Masoero

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

🚨 we're looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial board!
🐜 join some of the world's best animal ecologists and get the chance to handle exceptional submissions to our journal
📝 deadline is 8 March - more information can be found below:
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Do you know someone making an IMPACT for birds? Nominate them for our Early Professional Avian Conservation & Community Impact Award (back after a few years' hiatus) by March 31! #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/awards/early...

🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me

Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Staying on X is an Endorsement - and It's Unforgivable The UK government cannot claim to protect women and children while continuing to post on a platform that enables their abuse.

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further.

A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it.

Enough is enough.

We're hiring!

Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶

Deadline: 11th Jan 26

Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Nice work 😉

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) population in northwestern Italy over two decades | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Giulia Masoero, Alberto Tamietti | #ornithology 🪶

We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

Calling all early-career ornithologists! The abstract submission for EOU Fledglings 2026 is now open! #ornithology

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution?

Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social!

Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) population in northwestern Italy over two decades In recent decades, vertebrates, particularly birds, have exhibited notable morphological changes in response to climate change. In birds, these temporal trends usually entail a decrease in body mass ...

🎉 New article out: 🎉

Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin population in northwestern Italy over two decades 🐦

doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

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#ornithology #climatechange #OpenAccess

CALL FOR PAPERS: Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan

📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/4fn5i

Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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We’re so excited to launch the website for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 and to share that pre-registration is officially open! 🎉

👉 Scan the QR code or visit our website (eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr...) to pre-register now!

Photo: Tom Koerner / USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

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In case you missed it: We are accepting applications for our Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grants now through February 1! Please help us spread the word about this #ornithology opportunity. wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-b...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Nests are fundamental across animals. Some birds decorate them with fresh, often aromatic plant material (AKA Green Nest Material or GNM)

Why do they do this? Despite decades of study, we still don’t know the overall adaptive significance or generality of this behavior

📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2X...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7

Birds as Vectors of Plastics, Heavy Metals, and Pesticides in Scottish Wetlands at University of the Highlands and Islands on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Birds as Vectors of Plastics, Heavy Metals, and Pesticides in Scottish Wetlands at University of the Highlands and Islands, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD vacancy ‘Birds as Vectors of Plastics, Heavy Metals, and Pesticides in Scottish Wetlands’ with @drneiljames.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ornithology #birds #PhD #Caithness

Premio Matteo Griggio | Istituto Veneto Con i fondi messi a disposizione dai famigliari di Matteo Griggio e, attraverso una sottoscrizione promossa dalla Società Italiana di Etologia, da amici e colleghi, l'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lette...

Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico.
www.istitutoveneto.it/premio-matte...
Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026

Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.

Avocetta journal is now also on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/avoc...

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📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked #datasharing and #codesharing policies in 275 #ecology #evolution journals. Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting #reproducibility.
#OpenScience
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨 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!

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost