📢 Jobs: 3 postdocs in modelling bird migration & disease (2) / aeroecology (1), based at @WSL_research (wsl.ch/en/), Switzerland. apply.refline.ch/273855/1639/pu… apply.refline.ch/273855/1638/pu… Applicant evaluation commences in early June. Contact Silke Bauer

Check out this handsome devil (Jack Bamber ) on BBC Springwatch sharing his efforts in the fight to save the Capercaillie.

What a great few days hosted by Helsinki Urban Rat Proj @helsinkirats.bsky.social. Thank you for being so welcoming and letting me tag along with some of your fieldwork... The mosquitoes definitely loved me.

It was great to share some of my research with my fellow conservationists.

Currently making my way through Switzerland to attend the #spOccupancy workshop hosted by Jeff Doser and Co.... I'm super excited for tomorrow. #Switzerland #ecology #statistics

Just finished a great week in Switzerland at the #spOccupancy #spAbundance workshop... Jeff Doser has such an infectious passion for statistics and is a great teacher... Really enjoyed my time thank you.

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at Vogelwarte_Science last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: github.com/doserjef/Switz….

Just wrapped up today's work for students I met at Institut Pasteur de Madagascar. Enjoying the sunset in Antananarivo! and looking forward for tomorrow. Sandra Telfer School of Biological Sciences

Day two: another day at the institute working with the incredible students, and my partner in crime Lucy Henshall (she/her) helping out in the lab. School of Biological Sciences EastBio DTP Sandra Telfer

Day 3: finished predicting age from the weight of eyes lenses to help a student with a force of infection study and planning visits to field sites for Friday. PS. This a very big bamboo culm sheath

Day 4: getting ready to go to the field tomorrow... I'm excited because I get to wear shorts (IPM is a very formal French institution = no shorts).

Day five: we had the pleasure of visiting 12 villages taking part, me and Lucy Henshall (she/her) definitely entertained the kids with our mere presence and "amazing" drawing skills. It was nice to interact and understand the system better. School of Biological Sciences EastBio DTP Sandra Telfer

Day six: we finished off our visit, collecting in data sheets, handing out flea traps, and discussing other trials of control... We also were treated to a waterfall... Which was amazing. School of Biological Sciences EastBio DTP Sandra Telfer

Day 7: working from the guest house... Trying to get some of this PhD chapter finished before I submit in 2 months... Using track tile data to test the effectiveness of intensive control in the 12 villages of Madagascar as well as 12 villages in Tanzania.

Day 8: spent the morning working with one of the PhD students at IPM on rodent movement ecology and control interventions. Also had a lovely lunch with a fellow disease ecologist visiting and looking at malaria in Madagascar... The pizza was ok, 5 out of 10.

Day 9: The main job of today was helping a student to investigate how environmental conditions and individual characteristics of rodents may influence the development of their skeletal structure... Also here's a spider... Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini).

Day 10: We had the opportunity to present to the researchers and PhD students at IPM... Lucy Henshall (she/her) showing work from her PhD, postdoc and the last two weeks at the institute on special genetics of rats and fleas. School of Biological Sciences Sandra Telfer QUADRAT EastBio DTP

Day 11: THE END... for now. Wrapping up two rewarding weeks at the institute, where I had the pleasure of collaborating on diverse disease control projects. A special thanks to Dr. Narina and the team. (I’d name everyone, but Madagascan names are too long for Twitter!)

Just had a cool weekend, exploring the national park bang in the middle of some of my research sites. So many lemurs, reptiles and amphibians. School of Biological Sciences EastBio DTP

What a great trip to Puumala, the namesake of PUUV (Orthohantavirus) in Lakeland, Finland? The ideal surroundings for myself and the other two new postdocs of the Ecke lab to settle in. #OneHealth #DiseaseEcology