Interested in joining SLAM or any of the other fab Biosciences teams from abroad as a Newton Fellow? Let us know. EOIs in by 14th Feb royalsociety.org/-/media/grants…

New paper out! Free-ranging dog (FRD) populations are increasing and are becoming a huge problem for wildlife conservation and people in several regions of the world, especially the Global South. FRDs are killing people and wildlife. In this perspective.. rdcu.be/dmQot

Made possible by the collaboration with the fantastic Sergio Lambertucci, his team & Mark Holton

Ping Martina Scacco

Two wks to apply for this PhD Swansea Research w Konstans Wells & I, plus wonderful int. collaborators

Thanks so much for putting this out there. It is so important that we talk about good supervision, and what that looks like, as well as the bad, which often gets more press

What a pleasure to explore data from red-billed choughs and visualize their behaviour as they are reintroduced to Dover by the team Wildwood Kent

Thank you to the fantastic Chris Bryant for an uplifting, warm & wide-ranging talk on strangers & neighbours Swansea University tonight. Thank you 🙏

AND your much deserved Marsh award David Sims!
Along with many other awards to incredible & inspiring scientists and conservationists. What an honour to be alongside them all. Thank you ZSL for a lovely evening

Fantastic PhD opportunity to work within a very supportive group

IMPORTANT news: 14 guillemots and 4 razorbills from the current mortality have all come back negative for #HPAIV from APHA

This supports the idea that this mortality is related to prey availability. Is this the extreme marine heatwave's effects?

#aukwreck #heatwave

I'm absolutely delighted Manos - this is richly deserved and they couldn't have awarded it to a nicer person. Huge congratulations! 🙌

The Isle of May kittiwakes currently being hammered by Avian Influenza. Mortality was low until the last fortnight creating a thoroughly depressing situation. We aren't yet seeing mass mortality at the nests, as also noted in 2022. 1/2

Back from monitoring seabirds on Isle of Canna. Thankfully no sign of birds currently being affected by bird flu, but following last summer's outbreak razorbill down 32%, guillemot down 58% and fulmar down 68%. Shag, kittiwake and puffin OK.

Whoop whoop! Fingers crossed all goes well. Can't wait to see your data

This is fabulous! (and reminds me of a talk I gave on soaring and morphology where I said auks weren't going to be soaring any time soon - just goes to show that if the air is rising fast enough...). Wonder if guillemots ever manage it

Some very positive bird news; Jess is involved in releasing red-billed choughs in England - some w our DD tags ptes.org/grants/interns… Kent Wildlife Trust Wildwood Kent People's Trust for Endangered Species

Want to discuss a fully-funded PhD studentship in my lab at the RVC?☕️🫖
VARIETY OF TOPICS (mostly about flight)
If you are interested in *any* of the fields below, please contact me directly to discuss possibilities.
[Sadly, fees+stipend restricted to UK applicants only - sorry]