external speakers at #CEECRebellion2026
internal speakers at #CEECRebellion2026
🎤 We’re excited to welcome our internal & external speakers for #CEECRebellion2026 🌿
📅 18–19 March 2026
📍 ZICER 2.03, UEA
Join us, next week for two days of talks, posters, and discussion.
@louisemcrae.bsky.social @thiagobacouto.bsky.social @marius-somveille.bsky.social
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Next up for #CEECRebellion2026: Our Chairs! 🌿
We are thankful to Prof. Aldina Franco and Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for their advice and guidance to the organizing committee.
Stay tuned for more 🦋
@aldinafranco.bsky.social @drgdavidson.bsky.social
@ueaenv.bsky.social
@biouea.bsky.social
Meet CEEC Rebellion Student Team 2026 🌍 from BIO & ENV.
Different roles, same mission 🎯
Save the date 📅 for the CEEC rebellion happening on 18th and 19th March 2026, UEA
#CEECRebellion2026
@ueaenv.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
Dream seasonal contract! Seasonal shorebird monitoring & public engagement; 27th April – 4th September. Needs driving licence. #ornithology
Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful, Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An excellent afternoon of talks linked to islands and adaptation. See the attached flier for the schedule. Everyone is welcome…and it’s free …. but please sign up
Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An afternoon of excellent talks linked to islands and adaptation. See attached flier for the schedule and the link to sign up. Everyone is welcome.
Two funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question:
Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates?
We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
A person's hand pulling a wet wipe from a blue packaging against a light green background.
Daniel Jolly, a postgraduate from @ueaenv.bsky.social has been featured by the BBC for his research into how biodegradable wet wipes break down.
Watch the interview (from 2:16:37 onwards) 👉 https://bit.ly/44ir4RY
Read the article here 👉 https://bit.ly/3LKDegk
#ResearchMatters #Academia #WetWipes
New funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p...
#ornithology
@ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
Rebound From Restoration: Assessing the Diversity of Bird Assemblages in Revegetated and Remnant Patches of Critically Endangered Lowland Subtropical Rainforest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Spectacular migration for the UK white storks this year! This stork, born at Knepp this year, is offspring of flightless parents and migrated around the Alps following a Southeastern migration route @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
📢🚨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
A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾
Find out by studying meerkats!
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
New lectureship in conservation biology (fixed term), come and join our group of ecologists and conservation biologists at UEA @ueaenv.bsky.social and @ueaceec.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ517/l...
Had a great time at CEEC Rebellion 2025 😊 @ueaceec.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the organisers for an exceptional conference.
Photo credit: @drgdavidson.bsky.social
CEEC Rebellion has kicked off!!
1.5 days of exciting talks and plenary sessions!!
@ueaceec.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @aldinafranco.bsky.social
This is also a great chance to share your own research, and we are pleased to invite CEEC members to submit applications for oral and poster presentations. Please sign up here if interested: forms.office.com/e/ca5BYkzYHv
The deadline for submissions is 5:30 pm on Monday 3rd February.
The CEEC Rebellion Conference is coming soon!
Join us on the 19th & 20th March at ZICER 2.03 for an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest research in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at UEA.
Three pictures: a bumblebee on a lavender flower; a pine marten on a small log; a hen harrier flying
PhD alert! Come work with me, @deonroos.bsky.social and Lorraine Scott to develop & apply geoprofiling to identify breeding sites for mobile species of conservation importance, using citizen-science data & field surveys in a #trait based approach. Deadline 19 Feb!
🌍
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show North American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age.
We link this to social learning in novel migration route development.
rdcu.be/d57Mw
1/10
#ornithology
New paper looking at avian migration in flocks and how it influences their non-breeding range shifts. See thread. @ueaceec.bsky.social
📢PhD opportunity: Establishing past biodiversity baselines to guide UK wetland & freshwater nature recovery.
The research will reconstruct past wetland biodiversity baselines for the Somerset Levels to understand change through time for conservation planning.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
In case you missed it: www.bbc.com/news/article... #SmartBirds #AnimalIntelligence #UniversityofCambridge @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social
We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding!
This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A crisp morning & our final field data collection before Xmas break. We fit 330 great tits & blue tits with RFID tags + sighted 66 resident birds from last year. Ready to test the birds’ gut microbiomes and learning skills in the wild in Jan. Well done team! @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social
Our latest paper, where we showed how a lactobacillus gut microbe can benefit wild birds, was featured in @forbes.com. Thanks for the article @grrlscientist.bsky.social.
@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Call out to UK upland entomologists - please do get in contact
Amazing migration of one of the UK white storks. It migrated in December!! and crossed from Plymouth to France, taking app 1h40min. @ueaceec.bsky.social
