Michiel Boom

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Special issue: Novel insights and future directions in avian ecological epigenetics More info: vist.ly/35u9p Guest editors: @BerniceSepers @rebeccas_chen @KvanOers @CarolineIsak Submission deadline: 1 October 2024 #ornithology #epigenetics

Wil jij meewerken in het interdisciplinair project NICHES om de waterkwaliteit in de stad nu en in de toekomst beter te begrijpen? Solliciteer dan nu: vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/203… #vacature #wageningen

3 wks left to apply for #PhDposition 'Social Soaring Scavengers' #biologging & collective behaviour research. Fully funded, 3.5 yrs, open to all, & well suited to graduate student in Biology, Physics or similar. Application open until March 15th stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9f7…

📢SPECIAL FEATURE: Active #RemoteSensing for #Ecology & #Ecosystem #Conservation Showcasing state-of-the-art advances in the implications of #LiDAR & #RADAR data & methods. The themes covered are diverse but united by their focus on ecosystem structure 🔗besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/active-rem…

Interested in effects of #lightpollution on #glowworms (#fireflies)? A few days left to apply for the #PhDposition and #postdoc position at @helsinkiuni @BioEnvHelsinki @OEB_Helsinki

Don't miss of our latest issue about extensive research on birds, trees and rainfall in the Sahel by Leo Zwarts et al. Authors of the price winning book 'Living on the Edge'. A milestone in #ornithology All papers are open access on @BioOneNews: bioone.org/journals/ardea…

Dat #grutto's "naar school gaan", dat ze niet worden geboren met een vastgelegde trekroute, en dus net als wij van alles moeten leren, kreeg vorige week aandacht in @parool. Inderdaad, grutto's en andere dieren zijn geen 'machines'! Voor het onderzoek zie: youtube.com/watch?v=eHNMnr…

Op 22 juni werden op Griend 15 jonge Lepelaars uitgerust met WATLAS zenders ontwikkeld door @AllertBijleveld @NIOZnieuws. Nu zien we hoe deze jonge WAAKVOGELS de wijde wereld ontdekken. Lepelaar 2621 vond het wad al snel te klein en ging voorbije 24 uur op ontdekking binnendijks.

Bird flu is hitting very hard along the Barents Sea coast at the moment. Hundreds of dead Kittiwakes in some locations. This is really devastating for a species already in steep decline: Bird flu outbreak hits Barents Sea coast thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2023…

🎉 Super exciting news! Our paper on the evolution of Wallace’s Line, led by the intrepid @AlexDSkeels is just out in @ScienceMagazine! Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Press release: eurekalert.org/news-releases/… 🐅🦧🐗 | 🐨🦘🦜

#jobalert (NB deadline: 20 July) Professor in "Animal husbandry in organic agriculture" Department of Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Germany More information: applied-ethology.org/Professor_Germ…

📣🌟PhD and Post-doc🌟📣 with @BustonLab, Mike Cant and I working on Kimbe Bay anemonefish. Official ads coming soon. Start Sept 23/Jan 24. Some details below. DM me if interested!

Exciting times are ahead in @CamZoology Department! We seek applications for the Miriam Rothschild Professorship in Conservation Biology - Cambridge University's premier position in Conservation Biology. Full details here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41785/ Deadline 11 Sept. Please retweet!

New NIOO publication: #Translocation of #shorebird siblings shows intraspecific variation in #migration routines to arise after #fledging. #godwit #learning #seasonalmigration #animalculture #navigation #orientation doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

This study was part of my PhD research @AnimalEcol_NIOO @niooknaw @IBED_UvA and would not have been possible without @thomaslameris, Kees Schreven, @NHBuitendijk, Sander Moonen, Peter de Vries, Elmira Zaynagutdinova, @BartNolet @HenkvanderJeugd and Götz Eichhorn.

Very excited to see our paper on year-round activity of migratory and resident barnacle geese published in #Oecologia @SpringerEcology! We show that the migrants are more active throughout the annual cycle, and extend activity into the night more often. doi.org/10.1007/s00442…

Rapid formation of new migration route and breeding area by Arctic geese cell.com/current-biolog…

⚠️PhD Opportunity with #seabirds! We are looking for a student interested in developing a PhD project focused on the #ecology of juvenile and immature Black-browed #albatrosses in the amazing Falkland Islands! Check details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Q3ZCUK…

Binnenkort verschijnt een vervolg op het eerdere radaronderzoek van @BaranesJudy ea naar effecten van 🎆 #vuurwerk op vogels. In de Volkskrant doen we al wat van de belangrijkste resultaten uit de doeken. Ook met een bijdrage van @IBED_UvA collega's @BartNolet en @hvangasteren.

Goed dat er vandaag nog eens een artikel in @Nieuwsblad_be staat over de gevolgen van vuurwerk naar vogels toe.