Matthias Tschumi 🦉
Ecologist and researcher interested in #biodiversity #ecosystemfunctioning #conservation and #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
Recently mostly working on #bird #movement, #behaviour and #ecosystemfunctions in a changing world
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉To evaluate the impact of the influenza virus (HPAIV) in the Peregrine Falcon, Integrated Population Modelling was used. The analyses revealed drastic declines in adult survival, suggesting a shift in HPAIV dynamics compared to the previous epizootics. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Highly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social Apply now: apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Tracking the #phenology ⏰ of #riverine #insect 🦟 🐜 communities using #eDNA 🧬🌐🌍. Out now by Eva Cereghetti et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... a🧵/1/4
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Our latest paper on Golden Eagle research in Scotland, using DNA from moulted feathers to assess apparent survival in territorial adults. As ever, data collection from Scottish Raptor Study Group @scottishraptorsg.bsky.social was vital. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #RaptorResearch
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉NEW PAPER in #ornithology compares the responses of 200 vertebrate populations to climate change, and finds that increasing temperatures affect population growth via changes in phenology, but not morphology: buff.ly/IT66GOK
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Using passive acoustic monitoring, our team and our parners in Africa found that species richness and occurence probability is hihgher in grazing exclusion - a measure to restore degraded habitats - compared to control sites. Read more here doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🌱 #Biodiversität in der #Schweiz: Der Zustand bleibt ungenügend. Trotz verlangsamtem Rückgang besteht grosser Handlungsbedarf. Unser neuer datenbasierter #Report zeigt #Fakten, Entwicklungen und Lösungsansätze 👉 biodiversitaet2026.ch #Wissenschaft #Forschung
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🚨 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 Matthias Tschumi 🦉Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds
- I believe we can all learn a lot from this. It‘s not just size or strength that matters… ✊
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉House Martins are declining in Switzerland. To help them, our team conducted a study and recommend installing artificial nests withing 500m of occupied sites and using playback of conspecific vocalizations. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉NEW 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 Matthias Tschumi 🦉There are still a few more days left to apply for our #AnimalEcology and #MovementEcology #PhDposition! 🧪 #PhDOpening @utu.fi
- Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊
- How does chick-rearing affect fledging success in Yelkouan shearwaters? Proxies for diet varied between colonies, while fledglings grounded on first flight were more likely to have been poorly fed. Published in Marine Biology: doi.org/10.1007/s002... Funding by @dornitholges.bsky.social and EU LIFE
- See you in Torino! 😊👍
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Very happy and thankful for this unexpected outcome!! 🥳 Only possible thanks to a fantastic coauthor, @alice-risely.bsky.social
- 🎉 Congratulations to @pcapi.bsky.social and @alice-risely.bsky.social, the winners of the 2025 JAB review award for the best mini-review by early career researchers! 🏆 Winning article: vist.ly/4iq5m #ornithology #birds #award #review #microbiome #migration
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/job...
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🍒🪶Excited for our new article to come out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫 ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉 This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time. Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds
- Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Not too late to state interest and contribute! Of particular interest at this point: studies related to immunosenescence, senescence of flight performance and studies looking at links between metabolome/proteome and senescence. All details in link below. Questions? Just get in touch!
- 📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/4fn5i Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏
- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉Can high biodiversity and agricultural productivity be reconciled? A community model of the bird–arthropod food web in African cocoa agroforestry indicates that low-intensity farming practices favour certain bird species and enhance the abundance of potential pollinators. doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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- Reposted by Matthias Tschumi 🦉On the train back home, still buzzing from some great days at @vogelwarte.bsky.social where Hans Schmid wrote "Getrennte Wege" - a classic synthesis of Honey Buzzard migration. A quarter century later the species has revealed a few more, but still not all of its migratory "Geheimnisse". #ornithology
