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Will Schneider

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Postdoc at Bangor University

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited to share my second published PhD chapter out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social 🧵 below but tldr: birds are known to use the magnetic field to navigate. But is magnetism the whole story? We find that an amazing avian navigator doesn’t seem to rely on magnetic cues at all.
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Josep Mercadal @josepmercadal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As a modeller, it’s sometimes hard to convey the idea that adding complexity to our models (ostensibly making them more realistic) doesn’t necessarily give us more explanatory power. This paper makes that point clear by arguing why simpler models are often more illuminating. Congrats to the authors!
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Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme @rhythmsoflife.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Big news to share today: www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
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Bangor University awarded £5 million doctoral training grant from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the rhythms of life
Bangor University has been awarded a £5 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust to establish the Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme. Over the next three years the University will r...
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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!
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Leeban Yusuf @leebanhy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n
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Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature
Novel antagonistic interactions between species are expected to drive especially rapid coevolution. However, little is known about the genomic basis of such coevolution in nature because novel inter-s...
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Aaron Comeault @aaronc-research.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
👀 for postdoc? Come work with my colleague on an exciting project at the intersection of ecological genetics, invasion biology, and plant-insect interactions 🐛 🧬 ☘️ (not on clover, but plant emojis are limited)
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Benjamin Jarrett @bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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Job Details | Bangor University Jobs
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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Looking for a postdoc? Letter of Intent deadline for the Human Frontiers postdoc fellowship is in early May! www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp... My husband had one of these and they were a great funder to work with. Get in touch if you think I/my lab might be a good fit for your research ideas!
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Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
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Elza Zacmane @elzazacmane.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My first scientific paper (based on my Master's research) is out! 🎉 We show how combining δ²H and δ³⁴S stable isotopes and tracking data can reveal different moult strategies in the Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris). The study is published in Ibis and available here: doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
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Tom Green (they/he) @animalsexpert.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Multispecies analysis of social effects on same-sex sexual behavior challenges mistaken identity hypotheses in insects | PNAS
Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in insects has historically been considered a byproduct of sex recognition failure, or “mistaken identity,” and cons...
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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Any ECRs (must have PhD by deadline) want to chat about joining my group at Bangor? Get in touch! Maternal effects, stress, sociality, thermal ecology and intersection of all the above… we cover a broad behavioural/ecological/physiological remit and are interested in adding skills to this portfolio!
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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Birgen Haest @birgenhaest.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Come do some exciting migratory insect and bird research with us! - Two more weeks until application deadline. #entomology #radar #ornithology #phenology #ecology
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Steph Harris @stephharris.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas @sosbangor.bsky.social
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