Brilliant work by Devi!
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Brilliant work by Devi!
🔈Really happy to see this one ⬇️ out! 🎉
Great to see this compilation of studies finally published. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and the team @avianbiology.bsky.social who made this possible!
Editorial: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Ornithology #Physiology #Migration
Cover credit and caption: Migratory birds face the complex challenges of migration with an array of physiological adaptations, exemplified clockwise: thermoregulatory, endocrine, microbial, energy metabolism (fuel use), immune and mitochondrial. Water colour painting of a bar-tailed godwit by Abby McBride.
✨ New Special Issue Out!
"New frontiers in avian physiology: what’s migration got to do with it?"
This special issue highlights emerging frontiers across scales, from molecules to whole organisms, in relation to the physiological mechanisms behind birds’ migratory feats
➡️ vist.ly/4u94s
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Have you considered whether animals differ in their perception of density?
We explored how differences in our senses, interpretation and past experiences shapes density perception, causing behavioral differences and affecting fitness outcomes. 🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Can genome size predict adaptation to environmental change? We find that genome size explains <2% of phenotypic change. Phenotypic variance may better signal adaptability:
Gorné et al.
@ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social @brockuniversity.bsky.social @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
New paper out in @jevbio.bsky.social
Using 58 years of data, we look at the effect of environmental variation on reproductive trade-offs in great tits.
With @jsmartin.bsky.social, @dzchilds.bsky.social, Ella Cole, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @paniw.bsky.social & Arpat Ozgul
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Differential investment in growth and reproduction optimises a life-history trade-off in a species characterised by alternative reproductive tactics
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Cornwell & Neff
We are happy to announce 36 great thematic sessions for our #NSO2026 #GfOe2026 joint NSO-GfÖ conference – bringing together diverse perspectives across the field of ecology. We look forward to be inspired!
Explore the full line-up: vist.ly/4txjq
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change
Apply before 31 Mar 👇
werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten...
#Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm
Dentro de una semana, el jueves 12 de marzo, celebraremos los 25 años de la Unidad de Cultura Científica @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @uodivulga.bsky.social con un espectáculo de monólogos científicos en el Teatro Filarmónica de Oviedo.
Toca hablar de Darwin, evolución y Chernóbil.
Os esperamos!!
Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.
📑📊We have just uploaded a new pre-print where we decompose spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal variation in natural selection on reproductive traits for great tits and blue tits.
With Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @ellafcole.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.
I’m so over-the-moon happy to share that our lovely @mjgarciabianco.bsky.social, so far with us as a fellow funded by @sfb1372.bsky.social, will be able to continue her work in the common tern team as a PhD student, co-funded by ANID and the @daadworldwide.bsky.social.
✨ Starting a new postdoc ✨
I will study decision-making in great tits with @mothprof.bsky.social at the University of Amsterdam, conducting fieldwork with @jmappes.bsky.social in Finland. Very excited about this new adventure! 🤩
A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
New paper out in Ecology Letters with Katja Tielbörger, Amaël Daval, and Charles Mullon 🥳!
Using eco-evolutionary models of annual plants, we show that adaptive plasticity in seed germination promotes genetic diversification and ecological speciation.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) sitting on pavement with forearms strethced out.
Are individuals with more flashy aposematic coloration bolder? We asked this question using fire salamanders! Check out our new study in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology:
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Episode 145 "Evolution at the speed of life" is out now!
In this episode, David Reznick, talks about studying adaptation in the wild, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and placental evolution in live-bearing fish.
Enjoyed reading this Perspective from Tautz and colleagues which calls for a re-engagement on the part of classical genetics with the realities of complex phenotypes as revealed by quantitative genetics
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
We’ve been working behind the scenes to ensure a range of cost-free activities for all tastes!
🔬 From crisis to partial recovery: Demographic changes in female Alpine ibex following a pneumonia outbreak
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/ZSsqASj
Left: Adult and nestling White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus; adult on top, chick below). Right: Microscopy images showing microplastics from nestling faecal samples. Birds were handled under license.
🔈New study!
Microplastics found in 62% of White-throated Dipper broods in Scotland & Basque Country. No body condition effects detected.
Led by @cmartin3.bsky.social
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
@aranzadiornito.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Ornithology🐦 #Microplastics #Freshwater💧
One nice result in the new great tit analysis by @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. is a lovely illustration of Simpson's paradox: within cohorts of great tits, mass increases as birds get older, but across cohorts the population trend is in the other direction
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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...
wonderful female scientists I have the pleasure to work with
girl power for the win! amazing, appreciative, brave, clever, curious, creative, funky, funny, inspirational, persistent, supportive, stubborn (if needed), wonderful, visionary – and simply the best #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenInScience thank you!
Really grateful to be able to interact and work with some of these #WomenInScience, they are wonderful colleagues. Our research has benefited immensely from their unique perspectives.
This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the amazing women and girls I currently have the pleasure of sharing my #ternscience journey with. Onwards and upwards we go! ❤️
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
This is great! And I love the suggestion of using replication studies as a training opportunity for graduate students.