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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

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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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Julia Nowack @julianowack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Katie Crawford starting off day 2 of #sebconference #seb2026 talking about her data on how hedgehogs adapt to urban environments!

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drphilcox.bsky.social @drphilcox.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...

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Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Julia Nowack @julianowack.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Come join us at 11am for our session on „Adaptive responses of endotherms to short -term weather events and rapid environmental changes“ #sebconference #seb2026 sponsored by @thermal-biology.bsky.social, @staroddi.bsky.social,@sable systems

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org

What hurts, what helps: mental health in supervisor - ECR relations. Perceived impact of supervisor behavior on mental health and frequency of particular behaviors.

A) Overall perceived impact of supervisors’ behavior on respondents’ mental health. B) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a negative impact. C) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a positive impact. Respondents selected their top three behaviors each category (positive or negative).

Communication as a core element of supervision. Perceived value, quantity, and quality of supervisory meetings.

Bars show respondents’ ratings of A) the importance of regular meetings, B) their frequency, and C) the perceived usefulness of meetings.

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Ashleigh Griffin @asgriffin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

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Physiology, Ageing & Welfare Group UoG @physiologyuog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Final PAW seminar of the academic year yesterday🎉Very interesting talks from two of our PhD students: Ansley Li (Supervisors Prof @npevans.bsky.social + Dr Michelle Bellingham), and Bunnada Siriporn (Supervisors Dr Mark McLaughlin, Prof Catherine Stalin + Prof Rodrigo Qiuntana). @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Title of presentation reads: Intergenerational and sex-specific effects of gestational exposure to low-level chemical mixtures on skeletal muscle structure in offspring. PhD student: Ansley Li

Title of presentation reads: Understanding the association of SOD1 mutation and the potential modifier genes on disease penetrance. PhD student: Bunnada Siriporn

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Any ECRs interested in joining a journal editorial board? I’m leaving an associate editor position due to upcoming maternity leave and other commitments and am happy to offer suggestions to the journal for a relacement. Broad zoology remit, reasonable workload.

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Molly @mhuzzell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

People are talking about how to detect AI writing, so just reposting this excellent essay by @marcusolang.substack.com "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT. Chat GPT writes like me." -- absolutely essential reading. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 07/01/2026

Happy Birthday to us! 🎉 The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451! This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world. #UofG575

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Our new paper by Katie Crawford @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is out! OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: From Leaves to Litter: Use of Anthropogenic #Nesting Materials in #Hibernation Nests of the European #Hedgehog onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @julianowack.bsky.social @cebeardsworth.bsky.social

Examples of anthropogenic materials within hedgehog nests observed during the study: (a) the nest of individual #366 primarily comprising a plastic bag, (b) stray miscellaneous plastic within the nest of #366, (c) duct tape within the nest of #366 (behind plastic bag), (d) location of the nest of #385 underneath a metal sheet, surrounded by rope and plastic, (e) anthropogenic material pulled from the nest of #385 (comprising foil, plastic wrappers and expanded polystyrene).

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me. Application deadline 8 Jan 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍🌐🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🚨 Only three days left to apply for this PhD on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global change with @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social 🦇🧬🌍🌐

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... 📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New paper! Does associating with their mother in the early postnatal period buffer offspring from the consequences of prenatal stress (glucocorticoids) in a facultatively social lizard? No! Instead, maternal CORT altered offspring social phenotype: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Researcher's hand holding a small skink (Liopholis whitii)

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Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

#PhD opening for a project on wild & captive #animalwelfare, related to heat stress and climate change @bristoluni.bsky.social with Dr. Benjamin Lecorps! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Please help us classify all fish species by their social systems 🙏! Any and all observations or general knowledge are useful. Log them at shoalbase.org, the form takes about a minute to fill in 😀.

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Iapetus Diversifying Talent PhD Scholarship Scheme findaphd.com/phds/program... Applicants must be eligible for Home fees & from a UK Minoritized Ethnic group &/or a lower socio-economic background. PhD with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social: #hibernation #climate🦔 Deadline📅5th Jan

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FindAPhD : Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

Apply for a PhD: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

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Programmer in Ecological Modelling

Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Marchand: compared to those born to a bighorn ewe when she's young, lambs born when she's old have shorter lives, wean fewer lambs. At any age, ewes that live longer have lambs that live longer and have higher reproductive success. url:https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/36/4/araf046/8126721

Offspring longevity for bighorn sheep at Ram Mountain, Alberta, Canada (1971-2013). Solid lines represent model predictions for female
offspring under average female density conditions (results for male offspring are reported in Table 1). Shaded bands represent 95% confidence
intervals while gray lines are modeled trends for individual mothers. (A) Offspring longevity as a function of maternal age at birth. (B) Offspring
longevity as a function of maternal longevity, estimated by the age at last sighting

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

Image of the new Biology Building, completed, and opening from August 2025

Lunch with the field team to celebrate another successful season - May 2025

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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 10/06/2025

Calling all dog owners! We're currently conducting a research project at the University of Glasgow exploring how early social environments—such as staying with littermates or joining single- vs. multi-dog households—shape puppies' behaviour and stress resilience during their first year of life.

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UCD-CVERA @ucd-cvera.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

PhD opportunity in bTB modeling - "The transmission of bovine tuberculosis: deciphering biological mechanisms with statistical and mechanistic models" - see below for application process @ucdvetmed.bsky.social‬ & UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics #ResearchOpportunity #PhD #LoveIrishResearch

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

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Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology

Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war

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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 23/05/2025

🎓Congratulations to Dr Rachel Reid for passing her Viva this week! 🎉 📄 Viva title: ‘Assessing the Impacts of Urbanisation and Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on Avian Health using both meta-analysis and experimental methods.’💡🦜

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Exciting opportunity in animal welfare science with industrial experience and a lovely supervisory team! Closing date 28th March.

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It was an honour to present my work to The Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology @klivvvienna.bsky.social & members of the Konrad Lorenz Institute @vetmed.bsky.social last week. Thank you for the invitation & making me so welcome. I look forward to future collaboration! #WilhelminebergSeminarTalk

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Kathryn R Elmer @profkathrynelmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We are hiring a postdoc to work on a data-rich evolutionary genomics project about origins & maintenance of viviparity vs oviparity. Details in advert and evoldir. @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social please re-sky!

University of Glasgow view of tower and to the south across the city

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One more week to apply for @uofglasgow.bsky.social's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉 "From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X24... Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

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From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution

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FIWI Vienna @fiwivienna.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Last week we enjoyed a captivating and inspiring #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk by Tyler Stevenson @stevensonlab.bsky.social about the molecular mechanisms behind seasonal adaptations in Djungarian hamsters (and more!)🐹 @physiologyuog.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Our new paper led by @rachfinrob.bsky.social is out! Open access in Research Elements journal MethodsX: A systematic scanning method to locate cryptic terrestrial species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #dormouse #conservation #hibernation #crypsis @ptes-org.bsky.social

Graphical abstract to explain the technique to detect cryptic species.

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Davina Hill @davinahill.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Fully-funded NorthWestBio BBSRC PhD studentship on Johne's disease in cattle 🐄 based at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social . For further information or to apply: NWB (gla.ac.uk) 📅Deadline: 6th January 2025 🔁Please share widely

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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

An absolutely stunning Autumn morning here at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment aka SCENE, the @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social field centre on Loch Lomond.

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