Ornithologist @vogelwarte.bsky.social | Swiss Ringing Centre | somewhere between #Swiss mountains and the #Baltic sea.
bird migration | phenology | population dynamics | demography | ringing
Jan von Rönn
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New Job in software development available at @vogelwarte.bsky.social: please apply before March 22.
#python #django #typescript #javascript
West Nile virus is spreading rapidly, but predicting outbreaks remains difficult due to limited data on which wild birds can carry it. This study from #JRSocInterface uses AI to identify over 4900 potential bird hosts worldwide doi.org/10.1098/rsif... #Biomathematics #Ecosystem #EnvironmentalScience
We are looking for a full-time, permanent, animal caretaker in Wilhelmshaven.
Work with songbirds & quail in an international research team:
- Bird care & welfare
- Breeding programs
- Hand-rearing chicks
- Husbandry & hygiene
- Data records
More info: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/institute...
Jan von Rönn
Power is not the ‘probability of obtaining a statistically significant result.’ It is this probability only if the true effect is equal to the alternative hypothesis used for power calculation and if all model assumptions are correct.
Giving less power to statistical power
doi.org/10.1177/0023...
Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61...
#software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience
New paper: What is frailty in (wild) birds? Adapting frailty indices from human gerontology may help quantify age-related changes in health and performance, offering new insights into avian ageing and life-history strategies.
➡️ vist.ly/4zmje
#ornithology #birds #senescence
Some new work from us, led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social (see thread ⬇️). We ask what happens if instead of measuring on calendar dates, we measure bird responses to climate defined by the temperature at which annual events happen. It turns out they keep stable T˚!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mückenfledermäuse haben ein Problem mit Elektrosmog. Eine Studie zeigt jetzt, was das für Auswirkungen auf das Verhalten der Tiere hat.
New Paper alert 📄
Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks"
-> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Royal Society Publishing
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Mohring @bertillemohring.bsky.social et al. Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds
We are hiring! 🙂 We are looking for a research assistant to help analysing movement and demographic data of little owls! 🦉 @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology
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The Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach is a non-profit foundation for ornithology and bird conservation. It monitors native bird life, researches their habits, and campaigns for endangered bird...
Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between allocation of resources to reproduction or self-maintenance, yet how environmental variability shapes this trade-off remains poorly understood. We sho...
