Davide Baldan

🪶 New Research reveals that hormonal plasticity to food restriction is heritable in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus

📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/BoWB3Dt

A decade after the influential turn-taking model of parental cooperation, we present a new model based on behavioral reaction norms, showing that repeated negotiation over care can sustain efficient cooperation or, alternatively, drive its breakdown into sex-biased or uniparental care.

The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation - Communications Biology Parents often negotiate during offspring care. A simple evolutionary model incorporates explicit negotiation rules to explain why the behavioural patterns of parental care are highly diverse in nature...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com
🐦🪺🐦 The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation
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Valentina Alaasam | What is the “hidden cost” of abandonment to rock sparrow offspring? In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, we’re getting real about parenthood! From their recently published paper: “Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and p…

👀Behind the Paper!👀

🪺Author Valentina Alaasam discusses single parenting in the avian world, enjoying all the outdoors has to offer, and the importance of not fearing failure🐦

Read it here👇
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Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and physiology in a songbird with multiple parental strategies Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social: Parental conflict over care is bad for offspring growth! 🐤🐣
Check out our article: Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and physiology in a songbird with multiple parental strategies.
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I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
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Would appreciate a re-post!

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Premio Matteo Griggio | Istituto Veneto Con i fondi messi a disposizione dai famigliari di Matteo Griggio e, attraverso una sottoscrizione promossa dalla Società Italiana di Etologia, da amici e colleghi, l'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lette...

Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico.
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Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026

Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.

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Experimental Evidence That Blood Parasite Infection Affects Incubation Patterns in a Cavity‐Nesting Songbird Chronic blood parasite infections in wild birds can affect their incubation behavior. In pied flycatchers, females with reduced parasite infections incubated for longer than control females. Despite ....

New paper out!
Experimental Evidence That Blood Parasite Infection Affects Incubation Patterns in a Cavity‐Nesting Songbird - García‐del Río - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...