Could stress be lowered by listening to #birdsong? What is the role of #soundscapes in our interactions with nature?
I had the pleasure of talking about this and much more at @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social podcast
Listen here: tinyurl.com/5n7udy49
@dice-kent.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
Can I match and raise with >4 hrs in a car park waiting for the AA, made worse by the fact it is also my wife’s 50th today …😬
⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️
Funded PhD in my group:
🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?
🐾Find out by studying meerkats!
This PhD combines:
🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Ecological data
🌍African fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions
⏬APPLY⏬
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
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
Our latest research shows that people who perceive local nature as rich and varied reported better wellbeing and less psychological distress, regardless of how many trees were actually there. Blog summary and link to full paper: findingnature.org.uk/2025/10/24/g...
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...
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please RT!
🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨
Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes
Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...
Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler.
A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us
lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2
And we’re delighted to have you join us! Here’s to four years exploring sex ratios and synchrony @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @jengill.bsky.social @catmorrison.bsky.social @btorobrob.bsky.social
Excited to have officially started my PhD at UEA! I’ve put together a blog about my PhD application process. I hope it offers some insight for anyone about to start their own journey. Especially for mothers who are juggling it all ✨ Thanks to @stemuntapped
stemuntapped.org/rejection-do...
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
“If you've ever felt calmer after a walk in the park or a stroll through the woods, it's not your imagination - it's biology.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
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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
We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch
Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’
Latest government stats show a continued decline in many bird species across the UK 🪶🧪
www.gov.uk/government/s...
These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | www.science.org/doi/... | Science Advances | #ornithology 🪶
🎤Excited to be presenting at the britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting #BES2025! My talk: Birdsong as a Cultural Ecosystem Service: Understanding the pathways linking acoustic indices to human well-being 🐦🌿
#EnvironmentaPsychology @konraduebel.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social
Great to chat #shiftingsoundscapes with @bengarrod.bsky.social as part of his “Symphonies of the Wild” series for BBC Radio 3’s The Essay.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more
🌿🔊 New research find natural soundscapes—especially those rich in bird song—boost mental well-being.
But how? 🧠✨
We found that these soundscapes work first through perceptions of bird diversity, and then building (awe) & restoring (stress reduction, restorativeness) capacity pathways.
Nice story of a 'European' Roller - equipped with a satellite tag over winter in South Africa, tracked up the east coast of Africa and across the Gulfs of Adan and Oman, to breed in north-west China - where it was eventually found by local ornithologists www.birdlife.org/news/2025/08...
#AfricanOrnithology
This is a huge mistake. My experience on NERC panels is that resubmissions score higher and are more likely to be funded: the review process improves good proposals that should not be lost (along with the time spent on them).
