Absolute best part of the year is getting a tick calendar from one of my dearest friends and colleagues who is probably more crazy about ticks than me 😂🙈❤️

Are you potentially looking for a job as a lab technician? Come work for us at the Institute of Avian Research 'Vogelwarte Helgoland' in Wilhelmshaven! 😁 We are currently looking for a new TA in a 50% position at the main campus of the IfV in Wilhelmshaven. More information here: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/home-ifv/va…

Do you like labwork an birds? We have a permanent position available for a part-time technical assistant! See ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/home-ifv/va… for more info.

Fellowship application is off! 🥳Now to just await my fate😅

Getting ready for my first big scientific presentation in German. I hope it will all be good 😅🙈

Boo-rrelia

It was a privilege to be able to give a talk for the 15th Zugvogeltage. Thank you so much for hosting me and allowing me to give an update on the work we have been doing!

Happy to share our new paper - Predicting the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus in Europe: a comparison of climate niche modelling approaches 🗺️ 🤖📰🪲 bugbitten Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences dlvr.it/SxxxYQ

Two kinds of academic feedback:

Very pleased to see this out! A throwback to that covid-ridden summer trying to prevent the laptop overheating. Worth a look if you’re keen on #migration and how it’s changing with climate 👀 well done again to Patrick Lewin on a great 1st first-author paper, was a pleasure ☺️

We are hiring! Looking for a motivated technician to join our vibrant team, IDGH dept. & Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine 🐕🐈🐴🐄🦅 on rodent and avian models of Lyme disease (mice, white-footed mice, quail, and American robins). The link to apply this job is as below! shorturl.at/bdkC5

My parents live full time on the road and were hit by a tornado this weekend. Everyone survived but they lost everything. We are organizing a fundraiser to help them get back on their feet. If you feel like you could, any help is appreciated ❤️ gofund.me/6a51d0ab

We are excited to announce our first PhD position 🧑‍🔬 at the Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart! Join our research using both museum and fresh specimens of a bird hybrid zone to uncover loci underlying reproductive isolation and hybrid zone dynamics 🔎🧬. Apply by Oct 15: tinyurl.com/BUNTINGzone 🔁🐦

✅️Today my very first bachelor student at the University of Oldenburg submitted her thesis 😊 Pamira had a closer look at the #arthropod abubdance and diversity in a forest here in lower saxony in collaboration with Robert E. Rollins and @GenMig in SFB 1372 🐛🪲🐜🦗🕷🪰

I am so happy to see this work finally out! By compiling existing data we were able to quantify bird/tick species interactions for migratory birds across the Western Palearctic flyways. Thank you so much to Lars Burnus Joe Wynn and @GenMig 😍🎉 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…