Oscar Vedder
Researcher at the Institute of Avian Research
Behavioural Ecology | Evolutionary Ecology | Ornithology
- Reposted by Oscar VedderA richly rewarding two days reviewing @ifv-whv.bsky.social: thriving under the brilliant leadership of Sandra Bouwhuis & Miriam Liedvogel. An exciting programme of research into avian migration & life histories with many future stars. Outstanding @commonternproject.bsky.social museum by frozen sea!
- Reposted by Oscar VedderHow does pre- and post-natal environmental stress affect the seminal foam proteome of Japanese quail? Find out here, Chloe Mason’s second PhD thesis paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social
- Reposted by Oscar Vedder🚨 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 Oscar VedderPlease 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 Oscar VedderThere’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
- Reposted by Oscar VedderThis week's EGI seminar is being given by Dr Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social of the University of Bielefeld at 3.30pm on Friday 21 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk. See below for online joining details - all welcome!
- Reposted by Oscar VedderAre you interested in PFAS and OCPs contamination in birds? In our latest publication, we studied the levels of these contaminants in Great tit eggs from areas with different anthropogenic pressures. Read the paper here for more details👇 doi.org/10.1007/s113...
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- Reposted by Oscar Vedder*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems? Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪 Please repost!
- Reposted by Oscar VedderThere’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 Oscar VedderThe date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
- Reposted by Oscar VedderI 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 Oscar Vedder📢 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 Oscar VedderOut @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Reposted by Oscar VedderWith @romain-pigeault.bsky.social and Jérôme Moreau we offer a 6-months internship for a master student to test the effect of pesticides on passerine birds. Follow the link for more. @ecophycebc.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @univpoitiers.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...
- Reposted by Oscar VedderWhen we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
- Another excellent paper by @matteobeccardi.bsky.social, with great help from Justine Bertam, @commonternproject.bsky.social, @pablosalmon.bsky.social, @icbm-uol.bsky.social
- I'm happy to share with you our new paper out now in Environmental Pollution! Here, we experimentally studied the maternal offloading of mercury pollution via reproduction in an avian model species. Read the paper here for more details👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
- Reposted by Oscar Vedder🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!
- Reposted by Oscar VedderHow can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
- Reposted by Oscar VedderOur neighbours at the Banter See are no fan of the terns. Luckily the terns don't give a shit. Oh, or maybe sometimes they do. :-)
- Reposted by Oscar VedderHatching is hard work. ❤️
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- Reposted by Oscar VedderI 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!
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- Really worth a read if you are interested in life-history physiology or mitochondrial function 👇
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- Reposted by Oscar VedderHappy to share our new publication on the effect of inbreeding on male fertility and sperm senescence, out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Many thanks to @oscarvedder.bsky.social, @btschirren.bsky.social and @ifv-whv.bsky.social. Take a look below if you want to know more about this work👇😉
- Reposted by Oscar VedderNew publication by @matteobeccardi.bsky.social and @oscarvedder.bsky.social (with @btschirren.bsky.social) in @royalsocietypublishing.org: 'Male inbreeding reduces fertility, but does not accelerate in vivo sperm senescence: an experimental approach in a polyandrous bird' doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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- Reposted by Oscar VedderField assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠
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- Reposted by Oscar VedderThese are 5 autumn migration routes travelled by the same common tern. He’s not the only one showing such flexibility, and it pays, because in our new paper, published by @royalsocietypublishing.org, we show that route flexibility is associated with minimized headwind exposure: tinyurl.com/4dawhwzj
- Reposted by Oscar VedderNew publication by @commonternproject.bsky.social: 'Parental blood mercury levels are correlated, and predictive of those in eggs in a long-lived seabird' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Oscar VedderWe are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Oscar VedderExcited to share my first paper with the Liedvogel lab @genmig.bsky.social at @ifv-whv.bsky.social: Together with @jpartecke.bsky.social from the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and many others, we looked at the genetics of partial migration in blackbirds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Oscar VedderWelcome to the new blue sky account of the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Here we will post updates on science, news and outreach of our Institute: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/home
- Reposted by Oscar VedderJust launched: seabirds.faralloninstitute.org, a beautiful hub for seabird time series data & insights into ocean health. We're grateful for the Banter See terns to be included.
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