🪺 🐣 Where do birds end up building their nests? A new study by the Küpper group & colleagues at the University of Oulu shows that in ruffs, this is driven by both social and environmental factors: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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How do female ruffs choose their nest location? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @koivulakari.bsky.social #ornithology
What a fantastic Etho 2025 conference in Tutzing this week! 🤩 So much fun as both a speaker (behavioural genetics symposium represent! 🧬) and part of the organising team. It was fantastic connecting with so many brilliant scientists. Already looking forward to the next one!
A new story about our recent paper came out today in the Science section of Forbes! Check it out! www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
A super enzyme encoded by a supergene. Is there anything not "super" about these birds? 🤩
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Independent (left) and satellite (right) males make similar amounts of testosterone in their testes—but have vastly different amounts of the hormone in their blood. Credit: Axel Griesch/MPI for Biological Intelligence
Studying these male ruffs led to "findings [that] change what we know about how hormone levels can be controlled." That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
A big thank you to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for the fantastic perspective article on our latest findings! 🔥 The power grid metaphor really captures the essence of our research 🧬
Check out the article here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Thrilled to share that our research on androgen variation underlying the three ruff mating morphs has been published in Science! 🎉 Huge thanks to @science.org for the stunning cover highlighting our work 💫
Check out the publication here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
