Alex Brighten
PhD student interested in movement ecology, deserts, birds, tech. Runner, biker.
- Reposted by Alex Brighten🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenNEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8
- Reposted by Alex BrightenWe're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenExcited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
- Reposted by Alex BrightenECOCHANGE Research Associate #foodwebs #offshorewind #stableisotopes For more info see www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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- #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay! Thinking of all this year’s fledglings & the threats they’re going to face; mostly anthropogenic. Vultures just go about their lives keeping the natural world clean while humans set it on fire. Tough, but it’s important to hold on to hope & conservation successes.
- Reflecting on #BESMove2025, nice couple days chatting all things #MovementEcology and meeting friends old & new. Thank you @besmovesig.bsky.social and the meeting organisers for your hard work to deliver a stacked and smooth running schedule and fun socials. Looking forward to the next one!
- Reposted by Alex Brighten✨ New preprint! "Too few, too many, or just right?" 🌍🌎🌏 We explore how to evaluate study design in animal tracking studies by assessing sampling duration, interval, and, now, the number of individuals needed for reliable population-level estimates. #movementecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- It’s already been a week since #EOU2025! Fun week meeting and chatting cool bird science & geeking out at the cool tech! Presented another poster made from my tent in Bulgaria. 😅 Even got work done on the 14hr train journey, 🌱 but France took my Leatherman; rookie error not checking my field pack! 🥲
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenDo you use Earth Observation #data for #wildlife #ecology? Take this survey to share how you use remotesensing, climate and weather data. Part of SOS (www.dfg-sos.de), a project of @dlr-de.bsky.social, @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, @uni-wuerzburg.de survey.lamapoll.de/EarthObserva...
- Reposted by Alex BrightenApplication countdown for the #Animove Workshop 2025 in Costa Rica.....Deadline is 31st of May. Sign up now ! animove.org/next-animove... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @movebank.bsky.social #biologging #animalmovement #rstats
- Reposted by Alex BrightenPhD opportunity #AfricanOrnithology PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
- Reposted by Alex BrightenThe 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
- Happy #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! Alpine swift are back from sub-Saharan Africa & pre-breeding surveys in our Swiss study sites are complete. Looking forward to the last field season of my PhD with these epic birds! #WMBD 2025 theme: make space for urban spp; we must protect nesting sites for #swifts!
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- Did I mention I'm so stoked that this is published? :) Collect feather fragments🪶; chop 'em up✂️; set 'em on fire🔥; measure the gases👩🔬! Super excited to build on this research in coming months combining stable isotope analysis (made possible w huge help from @isotopesuk.bsky.social) & geolocators!
- Still totally buzzing from #BOU2025. Awesome few days. Meeting brilliant people, chatting cool science, surviving my first ever presentation as speaker (just!). Thanks @bou.org.uk for organising such a welcoming, inclusive, & real (so much honesty re: talk nerves) conference. Bring on the next one!
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- Reposted by Alex Brighten1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵 #ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
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- Reposted by Alex Brighten🧵1/7 What do massive insect crashes mean for insectivorous birds? And can aquatic habitats help? Today at #BOU2025 I'm exploring how aquatic habitats might help to buffer declining insectivore populations, using the Spotted Flycatcher as an example. #ornithology
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- Reposted by Alex Brighten🧵1/5 Freshwater ecosystems are among the most diverse and threatened, with 22% species 📉 , including the White-throated dipper. I'm presenting at #BOU2025 today looking at environmental factors influencing freshwater system's declines using dippers as model species. #ornithology #Conservation
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Alex Brighten1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology
- Reposted by Alex Brighten1/6 🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology
- Uncovering Alpine swift foraging behaviour using GPS tracking & DNA metabarcoding! For the first time we describe Alpine swift foraging movements and what factors impact foraging trips, short-term range area size, & the prey diversity fed to nestlings #BOU2025 #ornithology 1/7
- When studying demographic drivers, we need to understand how individuals respond to their environment. Insectivorous birds rely on resource patches that fluctuate in time and space. Reproductive success rests on foraging success, impacted by prey availability, weather, & environment. #BOU2025 2/7
- Great first half of BOU2025; 1.5 days of inspiring & brilliant #ornithology and chatting to cool people. You can follow the presentation threads on #BOU2025. Looking forward to tomorrow! …even a little excited to give my first ever conference talk (despite the crippling anxiety 🙃). Let’s gooo!
- 🧵1/8 Welcome to #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology, our annual conference. Over the next 3 days, we’ll be in-person in Nottingham, and here on Bluesky Follow the #BOU2025 for conference threads and to join in! #ornithology 🪶🧪
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenPhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
- Awesome thought-provoking guest seminar showing the power of citizen science and long-term flyway-scale collaborations for evidence based conservation from @jengill.bsky.social at UoA SBS today and a great time chatting ornithology & migration. Such an inspirational boost from daily PhD struggles.
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenVery excited for the @ibisjournal.bsky.social to be recruiting an Equality and Diversity support officer to help make #ornithology as inclusive and accessible as possible Got any questions? Please drop me a message ☺️ 🧪 #AcademicSky #ECR
- 📢 VACANCY Are you committed to promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility within #ornithology ? Perhaps you could be our next Equality and Diversity Support Officer Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶
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- Reposted by Alex BrightenLooking for #PhD in behavioural and applied ecology? Our project will determine the importance individual level variation in #seabird #foraging for assessing the impact of wind farms @jon-seabirds.bsky.social @jaycee161.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- Stoked this is published! Collect feathers > chop into tiny pieces > set them on fire > measure the gasses. Now just need to learn multi-isotope isoscapes. Thank you Tilly for the cute summary swift! Follow @tillysscott.bsky.social if you haven’t already for cool science & more super SciComm & art!
- Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Alex BrightenEARLY VIEW in IBIS Stable isotope evidence for suspended moult and age-related differences in moult location in the trans-Saharan migratory Alpine Swift | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Alexandra L. Brighten et al | #ornithology 🪶
