Bill Bateman

Job alert for theoreticians! 2yr NERC-funded postdoc to model coevolution of learning & social structure. With Bram Kuijper, @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall Deadline Dec 14. Apply: tinyurl.com/3ym39cuv

PhD at Swansea/Exeter investigating how urban living shapes reproductive decisions and success in herring gulls. Details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... How to apply: www.swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-... Please share. Supervisors listed below for more info.

Lest anyone in the Conservation Community actually thought they were good guys.. 🧬🦠🧪🌏👇😡

Always start the day with a healthy breakfast. Ideally stolen. #urbanecology

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Orchid conservationists help photographers snap great pictures with minimal impact on native flora www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Bathroom buddy

Living his best life in the veggie patch

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

Cortisol concentrations in hair are biomarkers of health status and seasonal change, but not urbanisation, in wolves vist.ly/5k2du #Wolves #HealthStatus #Cortisol

Brown honeyeater weaving spiderweb into its new nest #birds #WildOz

Caladenia macrostylis - the Leaping Spider Orchid With its berry-like cluster of deep purple calli in the centre of the labellum, this orchid is easy to identify. Endemic to southwest Western Australia and quite common in the Perth Hills. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿

Taught my undergrad ornithology class about #BirdBanding & moult this week. Many had never seen birds up close before. Makes the ethics & pedagogical merit process feel worth it 😅 All birds handled w permits and training. White-crowned (Gambel’s) & Chipping Sparrow 🪶🇨🇦 @usask.ca

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🌳 From beetles to bats – how can we create better habitat in urban woodlands? Will Dartnell (@barnescommon.bsky.social) shares on 23 Nov practical approaches to habitat creation for urban trees, including opportunities, challenges and lessons learned 🌎 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993871843...

How does a dolphin or seal even get bird flu? Most likely through contact with sick birds – or eating their carcasses

"We found that humans have a long history of ambivalence and contempt towards bandicoots because of their status as agricultural pests, public health risks and nuisances..." Monsters, how can one not love a bandicuuuuute! Just look at them! 😍 theconversation.com/our-new-rese...

Why is Amazonian wildlife turning up at a Bangkok market? “It’s changed a lot in the past two years,” WCS’s Scott Roberton tells @gloriadickie.bsky.social. “The volume is greater. The diversity of species is greater.” 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2026/09/why-...

How are fire regimes changing and how will animals adapt to these changes? @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and I use "fire regime velocity" to try and predict how animals might adapt to rapidly changing fire regimes. Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Collections manager position in the excellent Western Australian Museum in Perth. Deadline 15th September search.jobs.wa.gov.au/jobs/collect...

Residents of an ordinarily quiet Victorian town have been traumatised after the installation of a temporary fence. The structure is understood to block a thoroughfare used by a mob of kangaroos, causing them to repeatedly crash into it and die. au.yahoo.com/news/council...

I've not seen or heard our usual family of magpies for weeks. I hope they're ok 😢 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Eastern Spinebill on our Kunzea! #birds

Why do some sexually selected traits evolve faster than others? A new #ProcB study found that flashy male ornaments that are chosen by females generally evolve faster than weapons used in male–male combat: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Lol, the government just divided the ask by 10. They really are showing us who they are and what they stand for. Disgusted. Here's what we asked for, as a start! 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/200-mil...

My gardening companion #quenda #urbanecology

The Victorian government's response to bird flu has been terrible. A callous disregard for the suffering of wildlife, people and communities. Read this, demand better! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

🦭 EXPERT REACTION: H5 bird flu detected in Aussie mammal for first time Commentary from: @monashuniversity.bsky.social @utas.edu.au @curtinuniversity.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social @unimelb.edu.au www.scimex.org/newsfeed/exp... #science #H5N1 #H5 #BirdFlu

A long-nosed fur seal found in South Australia tests positive for bird flu.

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Quokka doing quokka things #Rottnest

🚨🦅 New paper out in Conservation Biology: we look at the emerging threat of H5N1 avian influenza to the world's vultures, and outline five action areas needed to address it. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Bird flu suspected after more than 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events in SA

New dashboard up for HPAI in Oceania and parts of SE Asia. 👉 avianfluwatch.org

Obligatory Rottnest quokka pics

Governments are also failing vets and wildlife carers www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

The Rottnest “are you going to eat that whole sausage roll?” trifecta

Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Pelicans, seagulls, black swans. We spoke to experts about some of the birds they are most concerned face serious risk from H5 bird flu. It includes some of Australia’s most common and loved species.

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/...

This is so, so sad. Summoning strength for when the seals start dying too 😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... @lisacox.bsky.social

Thelymitra antennifera - Lemon-scented Sun Orchid Flowering now in the Perth Hills, these orchids can often be found growing in shallow pockets of soil around granite outcrops #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

This is something I hadn't thought about explicitly before but now once you do, how could you ever willingly expose yourself to this risk?? "Using generative AI (for writing) inherently exposes to the risk of (potentially) career-ending accusations of plagiarism"