Malavika Madhavan

PhD student @JihoceskaUni 🔍, ecology, bioacoustics 🦉🎵🎶 Individual identity signals in owls. Current focus:Little owl (Athene noctua) @malavika-m.bsky.social

[Borja Milá @borjamila]

📣📣📣PhD position available in my lab at @mncn_csic in Madrid to study speciation mechanisms in oceanic island birds, using phenotypic and genomic data.
- 💰4-year contract
- 🎓Biol, Genetics, Master's, English.
- 📅Apply by October 15
-👉CV & letter to [email protected]

[Guillaume DILLENSEGER @dillenseger_g]

[Please RT]
Our collaborative project exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in the tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds

[Adriana Luna @adrilunamartz]

Field research assistant wanted!

We are looking for someone to help collecting data on curiosity and cognitive development in wild orangutans. 🦧🌿

[Chiti @ChitiArvind]

After a successful primer bioacoustics workshop last year, we are planning to conduct an advanced acoustics workshop! 😄
If this is of interest, please take a moment to fill out this pre-survey form (https://t.co/8itCdBzZHP).

Please share with those who might be interested!

[Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar]

Super excited to see my first DPhil paper and my first first-author paper in print! 🪶🪺 Many thanks to my awesome supervisors, @iremsepil and Ben Sheldon ✨ and my favourite artist, @PariSatarkar for the endless supply of great tit illustrations 🐣

[Ondrej Fiser @LaniusOndrej]

🥳 My second PhD chapter is out in @SpringerANCO 🥳

🦅⚔️ What happens if a feared predator loses its dangerous weapons or swaps them for harmless? 🤯 This study on predator recognition will both amuse and surprise you 🤩 #Ornithology @asab_org @EthoGes

https://t.co/Q1GJ0CvltG

[Malavika Madhavan @_malavika_m]

It's so good to see this after only ever reading bad news about GIB!

[Sumit Dookia @sumitdookia]

Earlier this morning I received very good news from DCF Desert National Park, Jaisalmer. He and his staff of @ForestRajasthan documented 12 #GIB in a single frame. Habitat conservation is key to revive this spp. Kudos to entire team of #DNP @orijeet @and_ecology @IUCNRedList

[Field Inclusive @FieldInclusive]

Thanks to our sponsor Tracy Aviary (@TracyAviary), FI is proud to offer a $2000 Travel Award to help a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field for Summer 2025.

Learn More & Apply: https://t.co/M5BXKpixUn

Applications due April 1st, 11:59 ET.

[Bioacoustics Group - Charles University @Bioacoustics_CU]

🎉 Huge congratulations to Tereza Kubíková from our Bioacoustics Research Group for winning the Best Poster Award at the 51st @CSEtS_ conference in České Budějovice! 🏆

We’re so proud of her achievement and thrilled to have her on our team! 🐦✨

#CSETS2024

[ManyBirds Project @TheManyBirds]

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 "Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade" is now available in pre-print: https://t.co/MrGhV9JjOb and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

[Malavika Madhavan @_malavika_m]

Do you want to read more about Hungary's Owl Paradise? Then check out our new paper in JRR @research_raptor
In Owl’s Paradise: Little Owl Population Densities in Traditional Human Settlements Represent One of the Highest Densities Reported Among Owls🦉⬆️
https://t.co/lTRNIb2FnP

[S Sangeeth Sailas @sangeethspeaks]

With @_malavika_m, @IDsignaling and others not on X, we document Little Owl densities in Hungarian villages reached a whopping 176 calling males over 6.6 https://t.co/ktkdbp8Wcc!🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 This is higher than the entire Czech population 💔 & the highest of any European owl sp.!

[V. V. Robin @vvrobin]

Anyone interested to ask questions on the evolution of Shola Sky Island birds, we have quite a few genomes --and many fantastic stories to get you started 😀
Please DM to discuss
Look up https://t.co/kdO7FoIWIw for info on the lab

[Guillaume DILLENSEGER @dillenseger_g]

My review on defences against brood parasites and cuckoo speciation is now available in the latest issue of @AvianBiology along with 4 other outstanding reviews. I hope it will inspire other researchers in the field #PhDlife #broodparasitism #ornithology #cuckoo

[Bárbara Freitas @brbbfreitas]

📌Just published: "Meta-analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signalling across terrestrial vertebrates"

More details 👇
https://t.co/k1bwbNVMgz

[Czech Centre of Cognitive Ethology @Cke_CZ]

🦉🦉 are better than 🦉? It seems so, at least in terms of the amount of hoot calls that Little Owls make! Another #owl #bioacoustic paper from our team @IDsignaling 🥳 Share and read 🙂 @DOrnitholGes @Bioacoustics_CU @AviEcoMig @animal_prattle @xenocanto

[State of India's Birds @SoIB_India]

It was a Yellow-throated Sparrow, that led Dr. Sálim Ali to pursue ornithology!

For his birth anniversary, we made his portrait in pixel art style, similar to our species distribution maps. The next image is the distribution map of the species

https://t.co/9X4JrgRsgt

[Czech Centre of Cognitive Ethology @Cke_CZ]

🦉🤔 How to interpret Tinbergen's questions and the vocal individuality of #Owls ? That's what our @_malavika_m and @IDsignaling are trying to decipher. 🤓 Read and share! #Bioacoustics @IBIS_journal @asab_org @AviEcoMig @Bioacoustics_CU

[@katietschida.bsky.social @katietschida1]

The Tschida Lab is keen to recruit a new PhD student in this upcoming cycle. We are on the hunt for students interested in the neural circuits that regulate vocal communication and other social behaviors. Happy to chat more with interested students! Please RT!

[Malavika Madhavan @_malavika_m]

5/🧵As always I'm grateful to @IDsignaling for the guidance, discussions, and support. 😊 @JihoceskaUni

[Malavika Madhavan @_malavika_m]

I'm excited to share our new review (and also my first, first-author paper🤯) on Vocal individuality in owls, from the perspective of Tinbergen's four questions, now out in the Journal of Ornithology @DOrnitholGes
Read it here https://t.co/V7fMBNE9k2 1/🧵
https://t.co/9fowg2s6C7

[Malavika Madhavan @_malavika_m]

4/🧵We also found large taxonomic gaps, and suggest that future studies consider more call types, more species, and also account for age and sex-specific functions of vocal identity 📢