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Bárbara Freitas

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PostDoc at IEE - @unibe.ch studying #acoustics in frogs barbarafreitas.netlify.app

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 21h
I am recruiting new parakeet postbacs to join my research team! If you are (or know of) someone who recently graduated undergrad & is looking to build research experience prior to applying to grad school or a career path (and you like animal sociality and cognition) apply here! tinyurl.com/59rf8jcy
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Recruiting parakeet research contractors
Recruiting parakeet research technicians!   The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting research contractors on our Monk Parakeet sociality and cognition project at our resear…
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"
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Ricardo J Pereira @biodiversitysmns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Island species 🏝️ frequently experience founder events and population bottlenecks 🧬 and are often subject to disturbances that further reduce population sizes. Despite these challenges, some island lineages persist for millennia 🕰️ —the paradox of persistence. Here’s what we learned about it:
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 23/09/2026
From individual thresholds to collective hysteresis: a mechanistic model of the dawn chorus: buff.ly/gtVWLSq #JRSocInterface #CompBio
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Ivan Gomez-Mestre @igmestre.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇
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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2027! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are very excited to be joined by four great invited speakers for #SPE2026! Swipe to see! If you want to join them in presenting your work, register and submit your abstract here 👇👇👇: etologia.pt/congress-2026/
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Vicente García-Navas @vgarcianavas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oferta de contrato predoctoral para realizar una Tesis Doctoral en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre Micro y Macroevolución en 🦗 combinando trabajo de 🧬 y bioacústica 🎧 dentro del proyecto "Severo Ochoa"
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔊Dear #pipit (Anthus) recordists! 🎶 We are looking for recordings and/or expertise on the non-European species' songs. If you have anything to share at all, do get in touch - as little as a single recording or a short e-mail exchange can be helpful.
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...
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Recruiting grad students for fall 2027
The Reichert Lab in the Department of Biology at Oklahoma State University is recruiting 1-2 graduate students (MS or PhD) for Fall 2027. Our lab does integrative research in animal communication a…
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🪶Want to band cool birds on an island in the western Pacific?IBP is hiring 2 banders to help re-establish & operate bird banding stations on the island of Rota, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. PROJECT DATES: Oct. 10 thru Dec. 20, 2026. More info here: birdpop.org/docs/jobs/Ro...
Photo of a bander's hands holding a Mariana Fruit Dove by Kristin Attinger. Text on graphic says: We're hiring experienced bird banders.
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Nilo @nilomr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A pleasure to have contributed some science and graphics to The Wonder of Birds at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk; inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s words and Jackie Morris’s art, curated by Antonia Harrison. Free admission, through 3 January 2027.
Exhibition gallery showing a large black panel titled “The Shape of Song: A Living Cultural Soundscape”, featuring colourful visualisations of bird song, alongside displays of bird illustrations and books. Text explains bird song as animal culture and maps recordings of great tits from Wytham Woods. A QR code links to an interactive version of the graphic.
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Emilie Ellis @e-ellis1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd
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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On the off chance you're relying on OSF to store your data; put copies of it somewhere safe ASAP. I like to think they've got the runway to keep storing things like they suggest, but it wouldn't be the first time something like this went dark on the internet. www.cos.io/osf-changes
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D
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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist
Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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International Bioacoustics Society IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Applications are open for the 2027 Bioacoustics Winter School! 📅 4–15 January 2027 | Saint-Étienne, France ⏳ Apply by 30 September Two weeks of hands-on training in bioacoustic research, from recording to signal analysis. A fantastic opportunity to learn & connect! www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
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Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Improving methods for identifying pair bonds in #animal social networks AnimBeh
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Improving methods for identifying pair bonds in #animal social networks
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 239 Author(s): Roger Fusté, Diego Gil, Sonia Wandosell, Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez, Damien R. Farine
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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)
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Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.
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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Frogs and toads have very diverse skin. 3D surface profilometry shows frog skin texture varies across body regions and microhabitats. Ventral “drink patches” tend to be rougher, but evolutionary rates similar across the body: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Urgiles et al. 2026 @mollycwomack.bsky.social
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Warts and all: evolutionary and ecological patterns in frog skin texture
Abstract. The external appearance of frog skin varies among species and across body regions. Although this variation has long been recognized, it remains a
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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🎶🐦El canto, más que el color, ayuda a evitar la hibridación entre aves. Más info: www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/... Estudio completo: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
German colleagues interested in applying to the FCT–DAAD PT-GER Mobility Programme, get in touch! It's a great opportunity to support research exchanges & short visits by PhD students and postdocs between Germany and our group in Coimbra 🔗 www.fct.pt/en/concursos... 🚩 @daadworldwide.bsky.social
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Cooperação Bilateral Portugal-Alemanha 2026: concurso conjunto - FCT
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miriamkuspiel.bsky.social @miriamkuspiel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I totally agree with this! It was an inspiring talk that sparked so many research ideas in my head, and then followed by these these very important messages that need to be heard!
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 17/07/2026
Dancers in fine feathers: the evolution of gestural display organization in lekking birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Ecology #Evolution
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I think I was too vague & nobody engaged, so let me ask more directly: any ecologists & evolutionary biologists out there who pilot their studies? If so, could you briefly share what kind of piloting you do? 🙏🙏🙏
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Jenny Stynoski @stynoski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Barbara Klump @barbaraklump.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
A carrion crow holding a walnut. Photo: @valentine-comin.bsky.social
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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Comparing reproductive isolation across species has been harder than it should be. The new Reproductive Isolation Ontology (RIO) provides a common framework to standardize RI estimates across the tree of life. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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A standardised framework for classifying estimates of reproductive isolation
Abstract. Understanding reproductive isolation (RI) between lineages is a central goal of speciation research. While the strength of RI has been estimated
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Check out this video highlighting our research and explaining how scientists use spectrograms to study animal communication! In collaboration with @galacticpolymath.com as part of our Balancing Act lessons for high school biology students www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLPL...
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Spectrogram Explained: Seeing the Sounds of a Swamp
YouTube video by Galactic Polymath Education Studio
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Gopal Murali @gopalmurali.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨New paper🚨 For decades, it was widely assumed tropical species would be hit hardest by #ClimateChange. Turns out climate-related local #extinctions are already more frequent among temperate species. Read our new study 🧵 @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiodiversityLoss #SciSky
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Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate Change
The authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...
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Tania Kim @taniakim.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Please repost: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects related to understanding the movement ecology of harmful and beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Applications close on: July 31, 2026 To apply and for more information, visit: lnkd.in/g8gFeB3u
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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-cand...
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PhD candidate in Acoustic ecology of diving seabirds
PhD candidate in Acoustic ecology of diving seabirds
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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩
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Mailing list — ASAB
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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...
Photo of a bird with large eyes sitting on a rock. The feathers are brown with white spots.
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Dave Armitage @darmitage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our group in Okinawa, Japan later this year/early next year. Area of research is wide open, and creative/unconventional projects are encouraged. Together, let's make ecology less of a mess! 📈📈📈 www.oist.jp/careers/okin... DM/email any questions!
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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Scholar, Integrative Community Ecology (Armitage) Unit
A postdoctoral position in ecology is available in David Armitage’s research group at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) in Okinawa, Japan, with a flexible start date, ideally in early...
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bioacoustics Winter School 2027 👇Applications are now open Do not hesitate to disseminate this info ☺️ #bioacoustics www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
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Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab
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Lena Gies @lenagies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My master’s thesis is a paper now ☺️
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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.
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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 May 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn
Lithograph of the Tooth-billed Bowerbird
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Giulia Masoero @giumasoero.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Calling #WildlifeRescue centres across Europe! Do you have data on #swifts? We’re studying how heatwaves affect rescued chicks, and we’d love to collaborate. Quick survey, no data sharing yet. Info: giuliamasoero.github.io/project/resc... #Ornithology #ClimateChange @alecorr-castro.bsky.social
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Saving swifts, understanding climate | Giulia Masoero
A collaborative project with wildlife rescue centres across Europe to understand how heatwaves and extreme weather affect swift nestlings and fledglings, using large-scale rescue and admission data.
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Jacob C. Dunn @jacobcdunn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Coming to @ecbb2026.bsky.social ? Then get your @asab.org travel grants submitted by June 1st! Fantastic opportunity for support from our brilliant society. See you @angliaruskin.bsky.social in Cambridge!
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Jingyi Yang @jyang19.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦‍⬛ 🎶 ⬇️ Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
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Song complexity in suboscine birds: evolutionary drivers and ecological constraints
Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Still time to apply for the Meta-Science summer school!
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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication
My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...
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Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk · 07/05/2026
Applications for our two assistant vacancies close this Sunday 10 May! We're looking for a part-time Engagement and Grants Assistant and a Membership Engagement Assistant to join our team! 📆 Applications for both roles close on 10 May Find out more: my.rsb.org.uk/services.php... #Vacancy
A person looking at a leaf through a magnifying glass. Text says: join our team! Engagement and Grants Assistant, apply by 10 May. Salary £26,382-£31,179 pa (FTE), Hours 17.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE), location home-based and LondonSea shells along a wet beach. Text says join our team! Membership Engagement Assistant, apply by 10 May, Salary £26,382-£31,179 pa, hours full-time (35 hours per week), location home-based and London
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am reposting this with a working link: www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...
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