🎉 And the winner of the #IBISbestECRpaper 2023 is...

Eamon C. Corbett's The mechanistic, genetic and evolutionary causes of bird eye colour variation
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…

Huge congrats Eamon!
bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best…

Thanks to Leica Nature & Birding for the prize!

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Meet the team #4: Tom Morrison's 'CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE' 🌍. You'll engage with real-world challenges in biodiversity conservation: management, protected area design, policy, human-wildlife conflict, all viewed through scientific, ethical, socio-economic, and political lenses.

Meet the teaching team #3:🌿 Grant Hopcraft's 'PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION ECOLOGY' course focuses on essential ecological principles for managing protected areas. Learn GPS data analysis and wildlife demography to craft effective conservation strategies. Ready for global impact?

Meet the teaching team #2:
Lead by Barbara Mable🔬, KEY RESEARCH SKILLS is more than just a course, it's your gateway to scientific inquiry, by offering training into scientific writing, advanced statistical analysis in R, experimental design, and critical evaluation of research

Meet the teaching team #1: Simon Babayan 📊
Leading 'Fundamentals of Programming and Data Generating Processes,' Simon Babayan equips students with critical programming skills for data analysis, emphasizing GLMs, machine learning, and spatial modelling.

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For your favourite Early Career Researcher paper published in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 in 2023

Seven of the 54 ECR papers considered have been nominated for the public vote
bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best…

Deadline: 18 March

Supported by Leica Camera UK Leica Nature & Birding | #ornithology

HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation Jana Jeglinski Jason Matthiopoulos Steve Votier Jude Lane Maggie Sheddan Keith Hamer Ruedi Nager Dominic McCafferty
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Pasionate about #Conservation ?
Launching our new Applied Conservation Science MSc University of Glasgow UofG_SBOHVM. Embark into a transformative journey where advanced quantitative methods meet practical ecological skills!
Info here: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/t…
(Photo: Jana Jeglinski)

Finally out! HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation. Read here: nature.com/articles/s4159…
with Jason Matthiopoulos Steve Votier Jude Lane Maggie Sheddan Keith Hamer Ruedi Nager Dominic McCafferty Sarah Wanless & Bob Furness
short story 🧵below..

Three days left to apply for a funded PhD on biomarkers of disease. Deadline Friday 9th Feb!

Fully-funded BBSRCNorthWestBio Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research PhD studentship on the genetics of pigmentation to build resilience to climate change in🐄 at Lancaster University in collaboration with University of Glasgow

For further information or to apply: gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

📅Deadline 9 Feb 2024
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NEW in seabird 35 🎈: Inter-colony variation in the foraging behaviour and resource selection of breeding Herring Gulls Larus argentatus :

O'Hanlon, Nina_OHanlon Nager Ruedi Nager

seabirdgroup.org.uk/journals/seabi…
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Congratulations to Norah Alhowiti for successfully defending her thesis on Mysteries of Eggshell Maculation, co-supervised by Davide M Dominoni. Many thanks to Neil Metcalfe & Jim Reynolds acting as excellent examiners
UofG_SBOHVM

Interested in emerging #conservation conflicts in a changing landscape. Using habitat and population modelling & stakeholder participation in herring #gulls with Nils Bunnefeld Jason Matthiopoulos Lucy Quinn Nina_OHanlon IAPETUS DTP

iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…

Deadline: 5 January

Congratulations to all of our UofG_SBOHVM graduates! Great to see so many of our master's cohort from 2022, along with PhD students.

Interested in #conservation ? This great ornithology PhD opportunity aims to understand conservation conflicts using habitat and population modelling and stakeholder participation working with Ruedi Nager University of Stirling University of Glasgow. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…

Great #ornithology PhD opportunity on understanding #conservation conflicts using habitat & population modelling and stakeholder participation - with a fantastic supervisory team!
Find out more at iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…
Any questions? Get in touch!
#seabirds IAPETUS DTP

PhD opportunity: habitat and population modelling combined with stakeholder participatory research to understand #conservationconflict with Ruedi Nager Jason Matthiopoulos Lucy Quinn Nina_OHanlon IAPETUS DTP iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…

The first paper from my PhD is now published in Marine Ornithology & can be read #OpenAccess here (!!):

'Best practices for using drones in seabird monitoring and research'➡️marineornithology.org/article?rn=1544

#ornithology #seabirds 1/n

Excited to have had our paper on 'Best practices for using drones in seabird monitoring & research' accepted in Marine Ornithology! We conducted a systematic literature review & looked at how to fly safely, effectively & within the law at #seabird colonies. More details once published!