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Manon Clairbaux

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Spatial ecologist studying mostly how anthropogenic activities impact seabird movements and behaviours 🐧🐦🌊 Postdoc at University College Cork 🇮🇪☘️

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We need your help - four of our satellite-tracked quail have gone missing in France! Any information would be interesting, e.g. if the signal comes from near a fox den, buzzard nest or hunting area 🦊🦅🔫 If you can recover the tag, we can re-use it - and you can name this quail 😉 Pls share widely 🇫🇷
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brilliant #postdoc opportunity on the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience #HOTGUT project at Lund University (Dept. of Biology)! Supervisor is the awesome @kruthsatz.bsky.social , Andreas Nord as co-supervisor. Please repost Apply here: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Postdoktor inom ekoevolutionär mikrobiomforskning och termobiologi
Ämnesbeskrivning Tjänsten är en del av forskningsprojektet “From Guts to Growth: Unravelling the Gut Microbiome’s Role in Ontogenetic Trajectories toward Climate Stress Resilience” (HOTGUT).
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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current
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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 21/09/2026
NEW on #theBOUblog from Darren Wilkinson Can seabirds forage in the dark? bou.org.uk/blog-wilk... Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... #ornithology 🪶
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Manon Clairbaux @mclbx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey all, Danielle Orrell & her colleagues from the BTW project are looking for a research assistant to help filling knowledge gaps about shark, skate and ray ecology in Irish waters. More info on UCC job vacancies portal (job ID: 099333) and here: shorturl.at/4lVLL Deadline=02/10/2026 Cheers!
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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 17/05/2026
Doctoral student in Biology, with a specialisation in bird migration Lund University - Lund, Sweden Read the full job description and apply⤵️ jobrxiv.org/job/doctoral... #ScienceJobs
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Jude Lane @heyjooode.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies. We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from. #biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887
Adult gannet (left) with colour ring on it's leg left inscribed with a unique code, and it's fully grown chick (right)
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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Postdoc available in herbivores and vegetation mapping, focusing on reindeer and muskoxen. Collab between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Cambridge Uni, and the Scott Polar Research Institute. More details, naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/... 🧪 🌍 #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology to calculate how much power #birds need to fly, and how power varies among species and speeds: buff.ly/oS56wm1
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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...
Pictures of blue tits, adults and nestlings, with some views of the field sites of the research project on Corsican blue tits.
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
An interesting legal development, and an example of why nature protection legislation matters.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This video, and 2 copies of the matching book, have been sent to **every primary school in Ireland**. It's possibly THE most outrageous industry propaganda I've ever seen. The descriptions of Sitka deadzones are so totally false, it's hard to know where to even start. share.google/0vebeGw2dwTd...
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Sitka Spruce the Amazing Timber Tree
This is "Sitka Spruce the Amazing Timber Tree" by iPLANiT Productions on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exciting #PhD project opportunity with @domcram.bsky.social mapping the architecture of meerkat burrows and it's consequences. Join us at UEA @ueaceec.bsky.social deadline for applying 30th April. #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #mammals
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
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🌊 Cork Coast, Ireland @corkcoast.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#Fossil walk #ucc Sat 4th #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #cork #geology #coral
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We would be grateful if you could take part in our 2026 Diversity and Inclusion survey 💙 Within The Seabird Group, we're tracking our progress and working to build a more diverse, inclusive community 👥 It takes just 5-10 minutes to complete ⏲️ Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wageningen University (NL) Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models using GPS tracking data of African mammals Depending on experience, competitive gross salary of between € 3.546 and € 5.538 www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t...
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Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models
Are you enthusiastic about the chance to combine research in Geographic Information Science (GISc) — particularly in movement analysis — with teaching and student supervision?
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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Looking for a postdoc on bird migration and have computer science or remote sensing skill? 🌍 🧪 🦑 #Ornithology
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧
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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Exciting PhD on mouse lemur population genomics, based in Montpellier with Helena Teixeira 🧬🌴👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224
Black and white photo of a mouse lemur and some DNA alongside text: "PhD Position | mouse lemur population genomics | Sept 2026 | ISEM IRD University of Montpellier France"
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Sammy Ball @sammyhareball.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🦇We're Hiring! 🦢 Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds March 26th deadline! www.atu.ie/connect/jobs... @atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social
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Matt Wood @woodmj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1 Please share widely, informal email enquiries welcome @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
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Emily Hague 🐳 @emily-hague.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
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Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD)
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 03/03/2026
Only about 70 reproductively active female North Atlantic right whales remain. But the Trump administration just announced plans to revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect these critically endangered whales from deadly ship strikes. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4cqNyFA
A North Atlantic Right Whale swims in calm blue water, a gathering of smaller animals, possibly fish, around its mouth.
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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟 ⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026 🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybird Come join our fantastic team! Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...
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BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International
Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.
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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
PhD opportunity at the University of the Sunshine Coast: Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics of Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in Southeast Queensland 💰 stipend of $15,000/yr for 3.5 yrs (+ RTP scholarship) Dr Bonnie Holmes: www.unisc.edu.au/staff/dr-bon... Dr Matt McMillan (DPI, Queensland)
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
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Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 08/02/2026
Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast. Is your area affected? Get in touch to start a local campaign ✊️ my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We're looking for volunteers to join us on Mousa, Shetland this July! 🌊⛺🔊 Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more. And perhaps worth looking into @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social's 2026 Training Grants if you need financial support: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants 🔗
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Grants - Seabird Group
The Seabird Group was founded to promote and co-ordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. We organise conferences and publish the journal SEABIRD.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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BirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We are receiving increased reports of dead auks, including Puffins, particularly in North East Scotland. It's quick and easy to report any dead or sick birds you find through the 'Deceased bird' function on the home page of the BirdTrack app Photo: Puffin by Richard Selman / BTO #ukbirding
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology
A Curlew, a wading bird with a long downcurved bill, stands on an estuary shoreline with water in the background. Wording below reads: PhD opportunity with BTO and Liverpool John Moores University. BTO logo is top right of the image.
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Alex Fraik @akfraik.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Job alert: NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to kim.parsons@noaa.gov or rpkelly@uw.edu directly. #eDNA #ConsGen
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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨 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
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Darren Croft @darrencroft.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Apologies for (another) sad photo. If you live between #Wollongong & #Ulladulla, can you please send us a DM - #birds are washing up on beaches in this area. We need help recording where, how many & which species #CitizenScience #seabirds #shearwaters #AdriftLab #BeachedBirds
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
University College Cork offers a PhD position to study genetic diversity in Atlantic salmon. Candidates need relevant qualifications and skills. Applications due by Feb 2, 2026. More info: www.ucc.ie/en/fisheye #phd
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Fish Eye | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
61 undeclared boxes of haddock and the fine was only 750 Euro? That is stupidly low. #IUU #illegalfishing #fisheries
screen grab of story in quoted skeet saying that the inspector found hidden boxes of fish behind empty boxes and for that the fishing master was fined 750 euro
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Oriol Giralt @oriolgp4.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Happy to see this one out and honoured to have participated in this study lead by @gannetguy.bsky.social . We used aerial surveys to infer spatial distribution of seabird biomass removal and assess its overlap with fishing activities in Irish waters. Available here: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirds
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Report beached birds, beach-washed birds, seabird mass mortalities
Report beached birds, seabirds, and mutton birds. Help us gather data on seabird mass mortality events as a citizen scientist.
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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)
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Jonathan A. Green @jon-seabirds.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
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