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Simon Butler @simon-butler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Exciting opportunity to join us as a Lecturer in Ecology. 3 year post @ 0.5FTE. Application deadline 18/09/26 - see below for details. @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/23...
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Lecturer in Ecology (ATS1374) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Ecology (ATS1374) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Lecturer in Ecology (0.5 FTE) Ref: ATS1374...
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Should we allow wildlife species to feed on our food discards and landfill food? @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social There are benefits and problems: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Health risk fears for storks in Europe over ‘junk food’ from landfill
Rubbish dumps can expose birds to contaminants, raising questions over whether landfill foraging helps or harms
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
2 entry-level fully-paid trainee conservation posts, 24,960 pa, essential criteria include passion for wildlife conservation & desire to work in conservation sector no degree required. London.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New paper examining if selection and/or learning drive the use of new anthropogenic resources by a long-lived lived species by @birdsmove.bsky.social team @inescatry.bsky.social @martaacacio.bsky.social #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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From inexperience to proficiency: age-related improvements shape the use of novel anthropogenic food subsidies in a long-lived bird
Abstract. Worldwide, humans have altered ecosystems not only by reducing and changing the distribution of resources but also by providing new foraging oppo
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Excellent day for a field trip with the @ueaenv.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social 1st year students to monitor plants, invertebrates and birds @NWT reserve Sweetbriar Marshes @ueaceec.bsky.social with Will Nash and @pauldolman.bsky.social
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
MSc student @lilyabbiss.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social surveying vertebrate species at a landfill site in Southern Portugal. The enclosure (Lily's cage :-) ) protects her from random encounters with feral dogs that visit the site.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Rewa MSc student @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social is studying the natural causes of mortality of white storks while at the nests. She deployed camera traps at the nests and will determine which chicks do not make it to fledgling. #Ornithology #birds
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Field work has many challenges, here with @anna-thompson.bsky.social we devised a solution for placing camera traps on nests of white storks aiming to determine the drivers of natural mortality of chicks while at the nest. @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
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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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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I decided to start a collection of #iconicstorknests here on Bluesky. First nest is on a sign post in the Algarve near Portimão. @ueaceec.bsky.social @birdsmove.bsky.social and @whitestorkproject.bsky.social this is a good challenge for you!
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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#NewPublication: We evaluated #biodiversity #co-benefits of #Gola #REDD+ initiative using a #quasi-experimental study. #Bioacoustics and DNA metabarcoding revealed that REDD+-financed #PAs were associated with additional biodiversity benefits compared to control areas. tinyurl.com/45pcasnv
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Natalia (Nat) Zielonka @natbzielonka.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Shamingly I’ve never considered the impacts of river crossings / infrastructure on ecosystems. This was a fascinating talk by @thiagobacouto.bsky.social about how nature and people can be reconciled through nature based solutions #conservation 🌎 🧪
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Katie Millar @katiemillar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Really enjoyed the opportunity to share some (in my opinion) cool stuff on Medflies and their microbiota… Thanks to the CEEC organisers for the opportunity. #Medflies #Tephritids #Microbes #Microbiota
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Oonagh Barker @obarker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Shared some findings from recent work at UEA CEEC today! Great to see what other researchers from BIO and ENV have been working on.
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Katie Millar @katiemillar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Nice wrap to the CEEC Rebellion today, was grateful to have received Runner up for Best Talk also. Brilliant couple of days, thank you to the organisers! #CEECRebellion2026
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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📅 The schedule for #CEECRebellion2026 is now live! Two days of ecology, evolution, and conservation research at UEA 🌿 Expect talks, posters, coffee ☕, pizza 🍕, and a pub quiz. 18–19 March | ZICER 2.02, UEA Full programme below 👇 @biouea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social
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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🎤 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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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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
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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Dream seasonal contract! Seasonal shorebird monitoring & public engagement; 27th April – 4th September. Needs driving licence. #ornithology
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UEA Biological Sciences @biouea.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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.
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
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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) 👉 bit.ly/44ir4RY Read the article here 👉 bit.ly/3LKDegk #ResearchMatters #Academia #WetWipes
A person's hand pulling a wet wipe from a blue packaging against a light green background.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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
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Vorläufige Ergebnisse des 8. Internationalen Weißstorchzensus 2024
Der 8. Internationale Weißstorchzensus fand 2024 wieder als ein gemeinsames Projekt von NABU (BirdLife Germany) und BirdLife International statt. Der NABU koordiniert die länderübergreifenden Zählunge...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 21/10/2025
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 🪶
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Rebound From Restoration: Assessing the Diversity of Bird Assemblages in Revegetated and Remnant Patches of Critically Endangered Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
We investigated the diversity and composition of bird assemblages in critically endangered lowland subtropical rainforest (LSR) in northern New South Wales, Australia. We used traditional bird survey...
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📢🚨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
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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚨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...
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.
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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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Lecturer in Conservation Ecology at University of East Anglia
Discover Lecturer in Conservation Ecology jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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
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Bibek Raj Shrestha @bibekrajshrestha.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
CEEC Rebellion has kicked off!! 1.5 days of exciting talks and plenary sessions!! @ueaceec.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @aldinafranco.bsky.social
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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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.
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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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...
Three pictures: a bumblebee on a lavender flower; a pine marten on a small log; a hen harrier flying
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Stephen Vickers @stephen8vickers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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North American avian species that migrate in flocks show greater long-term non-breeding range shift rates
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New paper looking at avian migration in flocks and how it influences their non-breeding range shifts. See thread. @ueaceec.bsky.social
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Ros Kennerley @drroskennerley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢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...
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In case you missed it: www.bbc.com/news/article... #SmartBirds #AnimalIntelligence #UniversityofCambridge @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social
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Wild birds 'remember' where and when they find food - BBC News
Blue and great tits are "opportunistic foragers" and exhibit "episodic-like memory", a study shows.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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...
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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...
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Call out to UK upland entomologists - please do get in contact
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4
A photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. Title reads: “Expert input needed for multi-taxa biodiversity research project across northern England’s uplands”. Subtitle reads: “Species, habitat or regional specialists please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”. Logos for the University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP in the top right corner.
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One month and one week left to apply to this exciting fully funded PhD project based at UEA, @ueaceec.bsky.social please share www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
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Should I stay or should I go: the individual determinants of variability in migratory behaviour | Aries
Dr Aldina Franco, Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia – contact me Dr Marius Somveille, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA Dr Tim Mackrill, UK White stork project and Roy Dennis…
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Ollie Padget @olliepadget.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!
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Natalia (Nat) Zielonka @natbzielonka.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
I'm very excited that another of my PhD chapters is published today #OpenAccess in @britishecolsoc.bsky.social People and Nature! We investigate the links between #Birdsongs, #vineyard #soundscapes and #Wellbeing 🐦🍇🎶 🔗https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10721 #ornithology
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Any Norwich based naturalists, see here for a range of September events at the new NWT Sweetbriar Marshes reserve www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/events
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Events
Find your local Wildlife Trust event and get stuck in to wild activities, talks, walks and much more.
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