British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk Advancing Ornithology | Home of #theBOUblog | Upcoming events #BOUasm26 #BOU2027
https://bou.org.uk
Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net I am an ornithologist interested in the social behaviour of birds. BTO RIN Chair.
📚 Research - https://www.j-dunning.net/
Tom Finch @tfinch.bsky.social Birds, science, climate, hills. Dad. RSPB Conservation Scientist. Views here are my own. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social News and updates from the Wilson Ornithological Society, an international scientific society for professional and amateur bird nerds. 🐦
https://wilsonsociety.org/
The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Promoting the study & conservation of seabirds via conferences, grant provision, newsletters & our open access, free-to-publish journal 🐧🕊️🌊
Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social Researches marine predator movement & energetics with a focus on feathery, flying taxa
🌐 ruthedunn.com
📍 CNRS, Montpellier
📝 Associate Editor @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social
🐧 𝘴𝘩𝘦/𝘩𝘦𝘳
Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social Miriam Rothschild Chair of Conservation Biology, University of Cambridge
(formerly a professor at Univ. Florida)
Working on ecology, conservation, and ornithology. Love telling a good story. Fond of maths. Husband and Dad.
https://www.fletcherlab.com/
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social Academic at the University of Exeter. Animal ecologist 📊
Researching: animal migration 🦅, foraging behaviour🦆
Will likely post about: research🔬, teaching🎓, wildlife🦋, birds🐦⬛, ornithology 🪶, landscapes🏔️, coast🏝️, kayaking🚣, cycling🚲
Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social Chief Scientist at BirdLife International, the world’s largest partnership of nature conservation organisations. Views are my own.
Nina O'Hanlon @ninaohanlon.bsky.social Birder | Research Ecologist | #ornithology | #CaithnessBirds | she/her
Ken Norris @drunkennorris.bsky.social Loves science, birds, books, and records. Regular reader in my gin library. Huge fan of pubs! Brummie - more Jasper Carrot than Peaky Blinders.
Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.
[🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳]
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social Birds, biodiversity science, natural history, politics. Professor Man Met Uni, Associate Cornell Lab of #Ornithology, Chair BOURC, Trustee @bou.org.uk SC @ras-network.bsky.social. Usually found in the #PeakDistrict or #Amazonia, he/him. Views own.
Adam C Smith @adam-birdstats.bsky.social Birds, conservation, monitoring biodiversity, data science, graphs, maps, corgis...
Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Wageningen University | Evolutionary Biology, Genomics and Ornithology | Blogging at Avian Hybrids
Natalia (Nat) Zielonka @natbzielonka.bsky.social Research Fellow at @dice-kent.bsky.social | biodiversity 🕊️🪲 + agriculture 🍇 + soundscapes 🎶 + human well-being 🫶 | PhD at @ueaceec.bsky.social | Support Officer and Chair of Engagement Committee at @bou.org.uk
Charlie Russell @crussell.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UEA funded by @aries-dtp.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social | Movement Ecology & Conservation of Migratory Birds | Greater Spotted Eagles | #theBOUblog Editor and Engagement Committee with @ibisjournal.bsky.social
Annette Fayet @annettefayet.bsky.social Researcher in seabird behavioural ecology, based at NINA in Norway. Puffin enthusiast. She/her
https://annettefayet.com
Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social Scientist, conservationist, naturalist, birder. Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel & ornithologist for hire. Loves all of that plus dogs, music, leftwing politics, football, Northumberland, family. He/him.
Jen Gill @jengill.bsky.social Professor of Applied Ecology @ University of East Anglia. Bird migration, ecology, conservation, waders. Born @ 323ppm. http://wadertales.wordpress.com
Dr Callum Macgregor @callumjmacgregor.bsky.social Senior Research Ecologist, BTO Cymru | wildlife and pet photographer @pawsomepictures.co.uk | dw i’n dysgu Cymraeg | he/him | own views
Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social Evidence synthesis researcher, meta-analyst, and occasional ecologist. Working on AI in reviews, open science, and better research methods for conservation. NINA, Trondheim. Still rather fond of pheasants.
Miguel McMinn @mmcminn.bsky.social Biologist living in Mallorca 🪶✈️
miguel.mcminn@gmail.com
Martin Stervander 🏳️🌈🇸🇪🏴🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com Singing evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, insulaphile. PhD. Senior Curator of #Birds @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social, Scientific Assoc @nhm-london.bsky.social, ME+AE Ornis Svecica, ~Sequencer+RAGer AviList. [Views obvs my own; ex-X-@nesospiza]
Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social Bird-watcher & conservationist in and from Wales. Roles include Associate Researcher at Cardiff Uni, co-Director of Eco-explore CIC, Trustee of Wild Cymru / Cymru Wyllt, & Craig y Rhondda. Views are my own, but you are welcome to share them!
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social Birder #WestrayBirding | Orkney Bird Recorder | #birdingScotland #ornithology 🪶 | #TeamMoth | #wildlife #art | 🎶 Punk, Post-punk | PUFC | MUFC | Pro-EU | ✊🏾🏳️🌈 ally
Feeds - Birding Gear, Orkney Birding, UK Patch Birding and BirdWeather PUC.
Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social Ecologist, ornithologist & nature lover.
Professor of ecology & conservation at the University of York.
Author of 101 Curious Tales of East African Birds.
Chair of A Rocha UK.
American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is a global network of professionals working together to advance the scientific study and conservation of birds.
COMMENTING POLICY: https://americanornithology.org/about/governance/social-media-policy/#commenting
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social Open access outlet for innovative, hypothesis-driven research on the biology of birds, with a particular emphasis on ecological, evolutionary and behavioural studies. Nordic Society Oikos journal advocating fair, openly accessible and reproducible research
Dr Aonghais Cook @aonghaisc.bsky.social
Cat Morrison @catmorrison.bsky.social Statistician/modeller in ecology & environmental science @bioss.bsky.social. Fascinated by migratory birds & their demography. Big fan of cake motivated exercise. Chair of the @bou.org.uk meetings committee.
ASAB @asab.org We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. For meeting coverage, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social Seabird Ecologist interested in movement, foraging ecology, navigation and anthropogenic impacts. Based in Cornwall, UK. Spend an unreasonable amount of time sat on a cliff waiting for birds to fly past. He/Him.
Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social Immigrant. Field site manager for the Wytham tit project. Bird ringer. Sports fan. Sometimes gets annoyed by politicians. He/Him
Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social Collaborative biodiversity conservation. Professor of Conservation Ecology at UEA (personal account). Father, optimist. Pronouns: he/him
Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist 🐦 | birder 🦆| advocate for community science 🔭 | she/her | taylorbrown.org
Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social Birds, acoustics, nightjars, movement
Quantitative Ecologist at Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute & Boreal Avian Modelling Project
Parent of 3 (+ doggo), fibre lover, cyclist
She/her
Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social PhD student at ANU (Ecology and Evolution) studying social behaviour of superb fairy-wrens
MSc in Biogeosciences, BSc in Natural Sciences @LaStatale, Milano
#birds #animalbehaviour #sociality
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jgsCs8kAAAAJ&hl=it
Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social Senior scientist • Terrestrial and migratory bird research and monitoring in the Arctic. Based in Nuuk, Greenland.
Avian biology • Arctic ecology • Influence of light cycles
https://ArcticAvianBiology.com
Personal account. Opinions & posts my own
Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social Conservation*Movement Ecology.
Postdoc, Max Planck Inst. of Animal Behavior.
Soaring, running, swimming, if it moves and can carry a GPS tag, I'm in.
Gustavo Alarcón-Nieto @galarconnieto.bsky.social Doctoral candidate at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior IMPRS/UniKonstanz. Animal behavior, movement, tropical ecology, birds.
Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social Investigates biogeography, animal movement and effects of global environmental change. Professor of Ecology and Environmental Change at University of East Anglia, UK
Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Ana Cristina Gomes @anacrgomes.bsky.social PostDoc researcher at Uppsala University
Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality
PhD (she/her)
Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social Research Ecologist. Improper Ideologist, Birder. Grasslands and tropical forests. Montana resident.
Emma Inzani @crazygulllady.bsky.social PhD in studying the behaviour of urban herring gulls at University of Exeter, Cornwall | S permit bird ringer BTO 🕊️
animal behaviour | conservation | ecology
All views are my own (she/her)
Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social Biology Professor, Canada Research Chair, & Associate Dean at University of Windsor. I use bioacoustics to study ecology, evolution, & conservation. Husband & father. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦. I post about our team's research adventures. www.uwindsor.ca/dmennill
Ondrej Fiser @laniusondrej.bsky.social 🦅 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow 🦅
Ornithologist 🐦 Ethologist 🦉 Ph.D. in Cognitive Ethology 🦅 Avian Cognition 🐦⬛ Predator-Prey Interactions 🦤 Predator Recognition🦜
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ondrej-Fiser-2?ev=hdr_xprf
Samuel Jones @seijones.bsky.social Ornithologist with a penchant for tropical forests, mountains, avian life-histories and most things in-between. NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @GeorgiaTech.
Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social CZ MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow | Ecology of Seasonal Bird Migration | #birdmigration #ecology #conservation | @uofguelph.bsky.social & @sciencecharles.bsky.social & @czechacademy.bsky.social
📩 www.ivb.cz/en/person/vojtech-brlik/ | vojtech.brlik[at]gmail.com
Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social Conservation ecologist. Assistant Professor of Ecology at ICBiBE- University of València @uv.es (Spain). Head of the Virtual Beach Ecology Lab 😝 #shorebirds #plovers #seabirds #InvasiveSpecies and any other topic linked to conservation biology.
Hannah Coburn @hannahecoburn.bsky.social PhD student studying mallard productivity, survival & movement at Essex Uni Life Sciences ARIES DTP | birder | C-permit ringer for 🦆 | she/her 🏴
Federico De Pascalis @fdepa1.bsky.social Researching animal movements🐦Mediterranean and tropical seabirds🌊Ocean lover.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Federico-De-Pascalis
www.movecolab.it
Tessa Rhinehart @tessarhinehart.bsky.social I eavesdrop on birds (& spy on moths)
Studying biodiversity loss on landscape scales using bioacoustics & machine learning. PhD student in the Kitzes Lab - @kitzeslab.bsky.social
Jeroen Reneerkens @jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social Shorebird ecologist | #Sanderling | Avian migration | Greenland | Arctic | climate change | #ornithology |#shorebirds | #BirdMigration
Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social
Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social Postdoc at Senckenberg @sgn.one | research associate at Smithsonian NZCBI | conservation and museum genomics, seabirds, conservation biology | managing editor @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social
she/her
Jordan Giese @birdnbiologist.bsky.social Wildlife Biologist 🐻🐸🐦🐍🐝 |
Assistant Professor of Research at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Cat Eden @cateden91.bsky.social PhD student studying spotted flycatcher ecology. Wish I was a modeller. Severe resting bitch face, actually don't hate everyone. 😇
Valentijn S. van Bergen @vsvanbergen.bsky.social Studying the largest insectivore🐝 animal of Europe, the Honey buzzard🦅🪶. Phenology, food availability and food use for reproduction 🪺🐥.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentijn-S-Van-Bergen
Lisha Berzins @lishaberzins.bsky.social Early Career Researcher -> research focuses on determining the drivers of migratory bird declines and identifying conservation actions. Enjoys birding, gardening, running | Opinion’s my own | She/her
Jacopo G. Cecere @jgcecere.bsky.social Researcher with a strong interest in movement ecology of colonial birds #seabirds #lesserKestrel, amongst other things
www.movecolab.it
BTO England @btoengland.bsky.social The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is the UK’s leading bird research organisation. Discover research updates, project news and events from across England right here. https://www.bto.org/
BTO Scotland @btoscotland.bsky.social The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is the UK's leading bird research organisation. Follow us to discover project updates and bird news from across Scotland. https://www.bto.org/about-bto/national-offices/bto-scotland
BTO Cymru @btocymru.bsky.social The British Trust from Ornithology (BTO) is the UK's leading bird research organisation. BTO Cymru seeks to give a Welsh voice and perspective on the important issues for birds in Wales. www.bto.org/about-bto/national-offices/bto-cymru-english
BTO Northern Ireland @bto-ni.bsky.social The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is the UK’s leading bird research organisation. Discover BTO projects, news and events from across Northern Ireland right here. https://www.bto.org/about-bto/national-offices/bto-northern-ireland
BTO Garden BirdWatch @bto-gbw.bsky.social A network of 20,000+ garden birdwatchers and citizen scientists contributing weekly to the Garden BirdWatch survey, which is organised by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/gbw
Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social The UK Breeding Bird Survey & Waterways Breeding Bird Survey; monitoring bird species with skilled volunteers. A @btobirds.bsky.social, @jncc.bsky.social and @rspb.bsky.social partnership. https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/breeding-bird-survey
BirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social Free online and in-field tool for your bird sightings, run by @btobirds.bsky.social Make your records work for birders and conservation science: join the community! #BirdTrack
www.birdtrack.net
UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social UK Seabird Monitoring Programme SMP funded by @btobirds.bsky.social & @jncc.bsky.social, in association with @rspb.bsky.social. Fieldwork conducted by volunteer & professional surveyors.
Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) and Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) are volunteer-based UK monitoring schemes for non-breeding waterbirds. https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/wetland-bird-survey
Czech Centre of Cognitive Ethology @ckecz.bsky.social 🐦 Team from the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic 🐦⬛ Investigating cognition and behavioral ecology of birds🦉Predator-Prey Interactions 🦅 Brood Parasitism 🪺 Bioacoustics ♪ Foraging 🌰 Competition ⚔️
https://cke.cz/en_GB/
Judy Shamoun-Baranes @judyshamounb.bsky.social Animal movement ecology, #ornithology, Radar aeroecology, based @ University of Amsterdam, FNWI. Subject editor @avianbiology.bsky.social. I love watching life in the sky!
Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com Visualisation and graphics @posit.co
Classic Generative Art Weirdo using 🖤 and R: http://thomaslinpedersen.art and http://deca.art/thomasp85
he/him
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social open-source 🥑 dev advocate @quansight.com 💻 on @stdlib.io fmr: @rstudio, 🏀 hoop head, data-viz lover, gnashgab, blatherskite, doggos, horses
Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social Solopreneur @ IndieVisual
Data geek who loves problem solving
Rambles about fitness & random stuff too
https://indievisual.tech
Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com 🧙♂️✨📊
Independent Data Visualization Designer, Consultant & Educator
Check out our interactive #ggplot2 and #dataviz online learning experience: https://ggplot2-uncharted.com
All things data & design.
Co-Founder of the #30DayChartChallenge
Julia Silge @juliasilge.com Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
Posit @posit.co We make free, open-source software for data scientists like the RStudio IDE.
We're formerly known as RStudio. You can always download our open-source IDE here. https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
Kara Woo @karawoo.com software engineer | #rstats | PDX | she/her
Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Running, Breadmaking ... https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/
Tom Mock @themockup.blog Product Manager @posit.co👨💻
I ❤️ 🌮, dogs, and data science IDEs
Productive with open source #RStats and #PyData
@thomas_mock@fosstodon.org + @thomas_mock
He/Him | San Antonio, TX
TheMockup.blog
Roger D. Peng @rdpeng.org Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences UT Austin | Prev JHUBiostat | R Programming for Data Science | Simply Stats Blog | Not So Standard Deviations | The Effort Report
Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social Software engineer @posit.co, humane #rstats
@kearneymw @kearney.bsky.social Current: Principal Data Scientist (retail). Former: Data Science & AI Manager, Responsible AI Architect, ML Engineer, Data Scientist, Professor.
Noam Ross @noamross.net Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-director and founder @grantwitness.org. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, democracy, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit, technical lead for quarto.org
Touching grass by learning Brazilian music. feet in Minneapolis, heart in some random Brazil beach town I don't even know yet
On hiatus because 2026. DMs open but do please try to be normal out there
Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social Human geneticist 🧬, bioinformagician 🧙🏻♂️, choral musician 🎼, and unrepentant city slicker 🏙️. Amplifying interesting signals (like #ScienceWin)! [he/him]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-1846
Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz r + python + data + web things. team shiny at posit (rstudio). open source all the things
https://garrickadenbuie.com
https://github.com/gadenbuie
Mike Mahoney @mikemahoney218.com Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science.
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data.
Opinions my own. RTs imply causation.
https://mm218.dev
github.com/mikemahoney218
Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com 🗣️#RStats #DataScience #Dogs
@dslc.io Executive Director
#TidyTuesday poster
🔗http://linkedin.com/in/jonthegeek
🔗http://github.com/jonthegeek
Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us FIeld guide. Quartermaster. Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science. Views my own.
Web: https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/stephen-turner
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
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