Olivia Hicks
Ecologist interested in combining behaviour, physiology & energetics | Post doc @sos_bangor_uni & @LivUni🦐🐠🐧 | she/her 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks!📃New paper📃! My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social ! Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #move
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🚨 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
- Reposted by Olivia HicksRegular reminder that keynote nominations are open for our conference on avian disease ecology. Pls repost or forward to anyone researching avian disease! We are keen to get nominations from underrepresented groups or regions - if you know someone like that please nominate them! #ornithology
- Keynote nominations are now open for the BOU 2027 Spring Conference on Avian Disease Ecology! Submit via the conference webpage: bou.org.uk/event/avian-... Also thrilled to announce that Prof. Dana Hawley (@danahawley.bsky.social) will deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture. Please share!
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNew Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksPlease repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
- Reposted by Olivia HicksWe are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project. Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour. drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksActually really looking forward to debuting this talk in Liverpool. 3pm Whittaker 211 if you happen to be around. bsky.app/profile/tomj...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNew #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology
- Reposted by Olivia HicksAn 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
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksInterested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksFully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds* Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🐞🧬🦅 join us for a PhD position researching how birds evolve resistance to prey toxins. If you’re excited about wild chemical arms races, we’d love to hear from you. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksThere’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🔍 Postdoc opportunity! We’re looking for one (or two) postdoctoral researchers to join our Arctic Ecology team to work on: 🛰️ Muskox movement ecology 🌍 Ecosystem & carbon modelling 📄 Details in the attached flyer. #Postdoc #ArcticEcology #MovementEcology #CarbonModelling #WildlifeResearch
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨 Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss? Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴 📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNew PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNINA-Tromsø has an open job search for four research scientist positions working in arctic ecosystems, including freshwater, marine, and vegetation ecology. Application deadline 8 Dec 2025. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/83-nina...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksWe’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
- Reposted by Olivia HicksI am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks📣 New publication in the journal Animal Behaviour from our Adam Butler led by @edinburghnapier.bsky.social in collaboration with @ukceh.bsky.social. 📰 Read the summary here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... 📕 Read the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksWant your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
- Reposted by Olivia HicksHow are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... #ornithology
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7
- Reposted by Olivia HicksLooking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z
- Reposted by Olivia HicksIt’s me! 🧬 www.mba.ac.uk/pioneering-s...
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks📢 JOB VACANCY Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government Application deadline: 7 Nov shorturl.at/tXeHn #ornithology
- Reposted by Olivia HicksI'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🚨 PhD opportunity (@ICMCSIC, Barcelona)! Join the ALLIES project to study urban wildlife as indicators of ecosystem health. Apply by Oct 27, 2025 with CV, motivation letter & transcript. 🔗 http://imares.scienc... 📩 joan@icm.csic.es & victormartin@icm.csi... #PhD
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks📢 PHD OPPORTUNITY Drivers of variation in population performance of a migratory bird Fully funded 3-year studentship with @dannihinchy.bsky.social at Liverpool John Moores University Deadline: 31 October Details: tinyurl.com/heay3yd3 #ornithology 🪶
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK) Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation. 👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114 #PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange @sosbangor.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivia HicksJob vacancy 🧪 Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales? Deadline: 3rd Nov Location: Flexible within Wales Duration: Permanent Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Jake Stephen
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🦞 Come and join the fisheries team as a 'Research Project Support Officer in Fisheries Science' @sosbangor.bsky.social. The post is based in the Isle of Man at the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA). 🦐 jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
- Reposted by Olivia HicksNew job alert: Would you like to help analyse our Big Garden Birdwatch dataset? 🪶🧪 Our monitoring science team are hiring for a new 2yr position to develop the ecological analysis and visualisation of BGBW data Interested? Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksJob! Looking for a University Teacher to join our Ecology and Marine Biology team @liverpooluni.bsky.social for six months FT from January 1st. Job would suit someone recently finished their #PhD or Postdoc. my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksCome join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksThe post breeding season fieldwork has begun with shag ring resighting on the go. Please send any colour ringed shag sightings from the UK east coast to shags@ceh.ac.uk
- Reposted by Olivia HicksAnimal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
- Reposted by Olivia HicksFull-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
- Reposted by Olivia HicksTwo (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by Olivia HicksThis new study "fills a much-needed gap and connects the body temperature response to infection with the framework of reproductive investment and trade-offs between current reproduction and self-maintenance."🐣
- Reposted by Olivia HicksThrilled to say the first chapter of my PhD is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We used buccal swabbing & DNA metabarcoding to explore the diet of Fulmars & Manx shearwaters 🧬🐧 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
- Reposted by Olivia HicksI am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!
- Reposted by Olivia Hicks🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!
- Reposted by Olivia HicksReminder we are advertising a postdoc to explore the role of animals in savanna ecosystem productivity & nutrient cycling! Link to job: tinyurl.com/53dy4584 #savanna #termites #largemammals
