Biologist (he/him, they/them) 🏳️🌈🇬🇷
Ph.D. Candidate @ Università degli Studi di Milano & Activist for Queers in Science
Studying the #movement_ecology of #Seabirds and #Waterbirds with https://movecolab.it and https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it
Ioannis Kalaitzakis
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Once again, many thanks to the BOU for awarding me the Conference Attendance Grant!
Had a blast presenting my work at two conferences!
Over the past month, I presented my 2nd PhD chapter on Mediterranean Gull migration at the 15th European Ornithologists' Congress (Wales) and the 22nd Italian Ornithological Conference (Puglia). Grateful to my 18 collaborators who made it possible!
Extremely happy that my Master's thesis is published!
Thank you @mariemrouyer.bsky.social and @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social for your guidance, as well as thanks to all the co-authors!
Have a look at my Blog Post regarding my experience at the 15th EOU Congress!
I got awarded two grants!
🟢 British Ecological Society – Training & Travel Grant
🟢 British Ornithologists’ Union – Member Conference Attendance Grant
These grants will support my oral presentation at the 15th European Ornithologists’ Union Congress in Bangor.
#BES #BOU #Ecology #EOU2025
Honoured to be invited to present my Master’s thesis remotely at the UNEP-WCMC Cambridge offices. In collaboration with BirdLife International and CEFE, my study focused on land-based threats to Atlantic seabirds, highlighting key conservation priorities.
#Seabirds #Conservation #UNEPWCMC #BirdLife
My second PhD chapter has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 15th EOU Congress in Bangor, Wales! I’ll be presenting my research on the Mediterranean Gull. Excited to discuss about this rather chaotic species! #EOU2025 #Ornithology #BirdMigration #MediterraneanGull #PhD #BirdResearch
We just published in Communications Earth & Environment (Nature Portfolio)!
My 1st-year Master's internship at Sorbonne University (CNRS) is now out. Read the early online version to learn how ocean acidification affects carbon burial in seagrass ecosystems:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
#BlueCarbon #MSc
🚨New paper - Time for seafood? Factors affecting land vs. sea foraging choice in breeding Mediterranean gulls 🪺🐦
My first PhD chapter is out in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology!
We investigated the foraging #ecology of breeding Mediterranean Gulls
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
#Ornithology #PhD
Ioannis Kalaitzakis
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - In most bird species, breeding individuals behave as central-place foragers during reproduction, commuting regularly between the breeding site and foraging...
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
