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Postdoctoral researcher working on ecophysiology, developmental effects and phenotypic plasticity. blancajimeno.wixsite.com/physcoping

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A stylised colour logo of a house sparrow - the text reads "Oslo Sparrow Meeting 2026"

A stylised colour logo of a house sparrow - the text reads "Oslo Sparrow Meeting 2026"

Do you work on #Passer #sparrows ? We want to bring together all sparrow researchers in a diverse array of fields. If you're interested then please join us for the Oslo Sparrow meeting in May! See here: www.mn.uio.no/cees/english... - sign up deadline fast approaching. Please share!

17.02.2026 14:33 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)

Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

15.02.2026 17:07 👍 62 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 3
Black and white bird perched on a branch, singing, with foliage in foreground.

Black and white bird perched on a branch, singing, with foliage in foreground.

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Reproductive consequences of mate retention and divorce in a short-lived migratory passerine | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Daniel R. Rodríguez-Solís, Iraida Redondo, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Carlos Camacho, Jaime Potti, David Canal | #ornithology 🪶

11.02.2026 16:58 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

26.01.2026 15:53 👍 3640 🔁 928 💬 32 📌 22
Discover the LIFE Aquatic Warblers on the Move project (LIFE AWOM)
Discover the LIFE Aquatic Warblers on the Move project (LIFE AWOM) YouTube video by Wetlands International Europe

Aquatic Warblers on the Move (AWOM) is a multi-country LIFE project that aims to restore Aquatic Warbler staging and wintering areas, including Doñana.

From @ebdonana.bsky.social, researchers will assess its habitat use with highly innovative technology, among other studies.

www.awomconference.com

26.01.2026 12:38 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026 Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...

Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly.

www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

14.01.2026 12:31 👍 14 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧

We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.

Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

05.01.2026 13:37 👍 38 🔁 66 💬 1 📌 2
Poster advertising doctoral positions in 2026 at the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology.

Poster advertising doctoral positions in 2026 at the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology.

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!

Start date September 2026.

More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

10.12.2025 16:03 👍 14 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
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We are looking for a PhD student to join the Animal ECO Urban group (University of Granada).

26.11.2025 08:27 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds*

Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

17.11.2025 06:05 👍 11 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
Research Fellow in Behaviour and Ecology Role type: Full Time; Fixed Term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of Biosciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 (PhD Entry Level - $110,319) plus 17% super Colla...

Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:

unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

19.11.2025 13:13 👍 42 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 1
Collage de ilustraciones coloridas relacionadas con la ciencia y la educación. En el centro aparece el logotipo de “Artículos científicos para tod@s”, con un libro abierto del que surgen símbolos científicos (átomo, ADN, microscopio, ecuaciones, etc.). Alrededor se ven varias imágenes: una persona pensativa con frutas y verduras, un paisaje glaciar, monedas sonrientes luchando contra un virus, rocas y montañas, un equipo de científicos trabajando juntos, un paisaje desértico al atardecer, capas geológicas de la Tierra y un fondo espacial con asteroides. El conjunto transmite ciencia accesible, divulgación y aprendizaje.

Collage de ilustraciones coloridas relacionadas con la ciencia y la educación. En el centro aparece el logotipo de “Artículos científicos para tod@s”, con un libro abierto del que surgen símbolos científicos (átomo, ADN, microscopio, ecuaciones, etc.). Alrededor se ven varias imágenes: una persona pensativa con frutas y verduras, un paisaje glaciar, monedas sonrientes luchando contra un virus, rocas y montañas, un equipo de científicos trabajando juntos, un paisaje desértico al atardecer, capas geológicas de la Tierra y un fondo espacial con asteroides. El conjunto transmite ciencia accesible, divulgación y aprendizaje.

Nace articulosparatodos.unizar.es un #proyectoFECYT para ofrecer recursos científicos adaptados a docentes.
Dirigido por @orogenia.bsky.social del #IUCA y con la participación de investigadores como nuestra compañera @amorenocab.bsky.social
@articulosparatodos.bsky.social
@ipe-csic.bsky.social

30.10.2025 21:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
AviArch News – Archaeobiomics.com

Great opportunity to get involved in a beautiful project merging archaeology and avian ecology! For avian ecologist/modellers. Deadline 30th October!
archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...

28.10.2025 08:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Two weeks left to apply for our graduate school IMPRS-BI and join us as a PhD student! Find out more: imprs-bi.mpg.de

27.10.2025 11:03 👍 6 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Special thanks to @mtangili.bsky.social @markravinet.bsky.social , Jesús Martínez-Padilla, and other co-authors!

@ec.europa.eu #MSCA

@ipe-csic.bsky.social @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social @mncn-csic.bsky.social

23.10.2025 08:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Epigenetic Potential and Dispersal Propensity in a Free‐Living Songbird: A Spatial and Temporal Approach Natal dispersal is a key life history trait determining fitness and driving population dynamics, genetic structure, and species distributions. Despite existing evidence that not all phenotypes are eq...

Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

23.10.2025 08:12 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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How does the brain maintain dormant core abilities even when they're not used? A new study in female canaries shows that their neural circuit for song learning remains intact throughout life, even though the females usually never sing.

Read more: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...

21.10.2025 08:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members

Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members

The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!

The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

20.10.2025 19:43 👍 101 🔁 151 💬 5 📌 2
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Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

18.09.2025 12:29 👍 68 🔁 77 💬 0 📌 1
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Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

19.09.2025 07:44 👍 48 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 1
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We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

12.09.2025 19:32 👍 19 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 2
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

22.08.2025 13:32 👍 121 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 2
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Postnatal development in the cold render bird mitochondria more susceptible to heat stress | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Research on birds suggests that extreme weather events during development may have long-lasting consequences on form and function. The underlying cellular mechanisms mediating such phenotypic effects ...

New out @royalsocietypublishing.org PRSB: Birds developing in cold snap-like conditions downregulated mitochondrial heat tolerance. Alarmingly, this response was asymmetrical: growing up in a heatwave did not protect your mitos from overheating 😱 🐣🌡️@biologylu.bsky.social #OroborosI
shorturl.at/QN52A

01.07.2025 08:28 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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II Bioblitz #URJC 🐦🦇🦎🐸🦋🐞🌷🌳🍄
El 30 de abril se celebrará la 3ª edición del Maratón de Biodiversidad en el Campus de Móstoles. Se tratará de identificar el mayor número de especies posibles
¡Y con premios a los participantes!
A las 10h frente al Aulario II para dar comienzo a la jornada. ¡¡Apuntaos!!

22.04.2025 13:14 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 4
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Our next seminar @EvoZooDeb :

A Unified Model of Ageing
James Wordsworth, Newcastle University

The seminar will take place in the Life Sciences Building of the University of Debrecen, room F.201, 24 April 2025 at 12:00 CEST
Live on Youtube:
youtube.com/cha.../UCIeGGr…

22.04.2025 04:55 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Careers

🐦Post-doctoral position in Avian Behaviour.🐦

Examining the evolution of escape behaviour in threatened bird species as part of an ARC-funded project

Deakin Careers: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

Seek: www.seek.com.au/job/83533248

22.04.2025 03:17 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word!

Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#ecoevojob

20.02.2025 20:14 👍 38 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 1
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Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!

We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!

Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

11.12.2024 16:36 👍 73 🔁 120 💬 0 📌 7
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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

18.12.2024 02:07 👍 49 🔁 81 💬 2 📌 2