There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Congrats! Andrea Alù, Distinguished Prof. & director of the ASRC Photonics Initiative, his team, & an international group of colleagues were awarded European Research Council (ERC)'s highly competitive Synergy Grant. They aim to revolutionize how data travels through the air. https://bit.ly/43xH9TH

These orb-weaver spiders build FAKE SPIDER DECOYS in their webs, potentially to deter predators 🤯 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper on disturbance foraging and eye size evolution is published! academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

@fieldornith.bsky.social new position search!

www.cell.com/cell-reports... new paper in cell reports sustainability with @asrc-gc.bsky.social colleagues

An interdisciplinary team of CUNY ASRC scientists unveil a groundbreaking conceptual model & integrative monitoring framework designed to reveal how climate change stresses life across the planet. This study could transform how detect, understand, & respond to climate threats. https://bit.ly/4p06rBU

Fast females, slow males: accelerated ageing and reproductive senescence in Drosophila melanogaster females across diverse social environments url: academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

Awesome paper. Poor woodpeckers, bashing their heads against trees *and* hyperventilating....

Prof. @pinar-ayata.bsky.social, CUNY ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, and colleagues identified a previously unrecognized protective state of microglia (the brain’s primary immune cells) that may open new avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease. Check out their paper in Nature! go.nature.com/3JMJovx

ethz.ch/en/news-and-... new ERC funding for Andrea Alu @asrc-gc.bsky.social

Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... now with pagination!

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... instant classic!! @nickantonson.bsky.social

Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

My first paper in J Heredity, is now coauthored and published! Thank you team! academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

#Evolution of complex adaptations can involve changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. @benitoexplains.bsky.social &co show that leaf masquerade in #katydids evolved via concurrent modification in wing colour & shape, driven by evolutionary synergy @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oUE741

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Great Auk drawing: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

NEW PAPER: Female wild turkeys produce fewer male offspring where hunting increases male mortality, suggesting adaptive adjustment of brood sex ratios to enhance reproductive success under harvest pressure. ➡️ vist.ly/4cff4 #ornithology #birds #adaptive #sexratio 🪶

From last year! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Chants are relaxing to produce and to perceive.

New study funded in part by our Rosemary Grant Advanced Award - congratulations @yukihaba.bsky.social !!

A\Prof. Qiushi Guo of @asrc-gc.bsky.social giving his Feliks Gross/Henry Wasser award lecture @cunyacademygc.bsky.social

New paper on the role of hormones in American robin egg rejection behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@asrc-gc.bsky.social Halloween social!

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement. Check out the details! 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

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...

Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686

Ana Leitão & Raquel Ponti, from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, will investigate bird evolution in insular environments. Their SIBECOL-funded project explores how reduced predation & stable climates shape sexual dimorphism in endemic species. @anavleitao.bsky.social @raquelponti.bsky.social #evolution #birdresearch

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...