Joseph Wayman

Very happy to help out with this new @animalecology paper led by @JoeyWayman which uses long-term BTO data to examine the (very complex) processes of biotic homogenization and heterogenization in UK bird species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

#IDEALFire fieldwork kicking off today. Tara leading a team collecting biodiversity and soil data in heathland ecosystems to understand the effects of different management practices. NB I am safely locked in my office as I am a liability in the field.

Very pleased to get this @JBiogeography article out with @dhaelewa @txm676 @JoeyWayman et al. - its been in the pipeline for ages! Danny's thread sums up the main points well, but, in brief summary:

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 @nkettridge, @KevinJGaston and I are hiring a Field Ecology technician to help us understand how wildfire, and wildfire management impacts biodiversity. 🔥🌱🐦🦎🦇🪲🔥 Deadline is 24th September - please DM/email me with questions. jobs.ac.uk/job/DCH971/eco…

Dear colleagues, we seek an early career researcher for synthesis and modelling with carbon dynamics within the BIFoR-FACE framework. Please, rt! 3 to 5 years position!

New paper out in Scientific Reports. If you're interested in birds, fireworks, or radar (or all three!) link ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4159…

Interested in a PhD in #Wildfire? We have fully funded PhDs starting this Autumn aligned to @metoffice research strategy. See: birmingham.ac.uk/research/moap/… Note area -"Hazard to Decision Making": Using interdisciplinary approach to increase understanding of the impacts of hazards

The Blackbird colour-ringing project is in full swing, with more than 50 birds ringed! The most valuable data though, comes from sightings, so if you manage to spot one and see the colour ring please email or message me the location and two letter colour-ring code 📨🐦‍⬛

🚨 Final call for all students in #macroecology & #macroevolution 🚨 The deadline to apply for the student plenary at #2023BESMacroBrum is today! 👉 Don't miss out - send a title & abstract to us at macro@britishecologicalsociety.org ⏰⚡️

🔊 Tomorrow 🔊

Me, watching from the balcony as everyone runs from the pool due to sudden rain

@tommartin2013 Still counts! I was about to say you also don't need to see any other bird from the family Balaenicipitidae, but then I saw its the only extant one anyway haha

Today I saw a Shoebill*. Today was a good day. *It was in a zoo but it was still exciting.

Our new paper on anthropocene island bird diversity-area relationships, led by @txm676, was just published in @Ecology_Letters. Very pleased to help with this one, which shows changing patterns in 51 archipelagos as species go extinct, or are introduced: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨 This just in! 🚨 We are very excited to announce that the #BESMacro Annual Meeting will be held 12-13th July 2023 at @UniBirmingham 🙌 Save the date and stay tuned to hear how you can get involved, either in person or online 🌍 We can't wait to see you there ✨ #BESMacro2023

@Wood_n_Water @AlicePackham @nanwu1112 @nkettridge @samdeolai @stefankrauseh2o @ianbkr Congrats @Wood_n_Water ! 🎉

I submitted my thesis on Friday! The journey so far has been super fun and I’m so grateful to the wonderful people who I’ve shared it with. My thesis may be submitted but @AlicePackham made me a cake to remind me that doesn’t mean I am Dr Howard quite yet!

@TomPughLab @NAcil_research @TreeMort_ERC @Wild_inBrum @sussesu @corneliussenf @BIFoRUoB Congrats @NAcil_research! 🎉

Congratulations to @NAcil_research who submitted her PhD thesis on Friday after 4 years of really dedicated work!! A really impressive assessment of how forest disturbance rates and patterns vary across the globe @TreeMort_ERC @Wild_inBrum @sussesu @corneliussenf @BIFoRUoB

Matthews et al. find large body mass, flightlessness, marine habitat affinity and higher dispersal ability are among the #traits driving #extinction risk of #island endemic #birds. Threatened endemics represent unique functional space @JBiogeography doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

The analysis illustrated here combines trait data of extant birds (AVONET) with measurements of extinct species. It shows we already lost many unusual island bird lineages and, unless conservation efforts are successful, we risk losing many more

A synthesis of the hundreds of extinct and threatened island endemic birds: what they look like, where they are found, and what their loss means for island ecosystems 🐦🏝 doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14… #Extinction #Islands #Birds #Conservation