New study out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We studied Fire Salamander colouration using data gatehred by citizen scientists. Males have a higher proportion of yellow than females: is this due to mate chaoice or differential predation threat?

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👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

Watch until the end.

Similar optimism (tho that ofc was a croc-eyed optimist)

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon. DM me for me more info. #birdringing

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...

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

Wondering if your study design will hold up before collecting real data? 📈 This LMU OSC tutorial on data simulation will help test & strengthen your statistical plan by creating artificial datasets. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Data Simulation in R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

We studied lizards from 12 Croatian islands and found substantial variation in their chemical signal profiles. Ecological factors didn’t explain it. Instead, divergence was best explained by non-adaptive processes 🦎🏝️ @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#BiologyLetters Heatwaves are resulting in avian mortality events, but the role of humidity is poorly understood. Waxbills could serve as a model species to assess hyperthermia risks in hot and humid environments. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ecology #environmentalscience

Does anyone know of a nice guide for students (bachelor and master's level) on how to lead group paper discussions that they could share with me? What would be especially great are examples of the types of questions they should ask the group.

We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍 Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word! Link to position description and requirements: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Lab website: oriollapiedralab.com

I needed to go through some pictures from the fieldwork I did in Corsica, and in addition to the amazing landscapes

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Want to know everything about bird smell? I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group! Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳 Deadline: 7 Nov 2025 All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/... Please share it around!

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

📢Thrilled to share that our article “Host species and age-specific variation on #Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical #crocodiles” is now part of the Disease Ecology Special Issue @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social ! 🐊✨ doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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

With @romain-pigeault.bsky.social and Jérôme Moreau we offer a 6-months internship for a master student to test the effect of pesticides on passerine birds. Follow the link for more. @ecophycebc.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @univpoitiers.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...

🎉 New paper out!! 🎉 The typically short-winged meadow grasshopper develops a long-winged dispersive morph at high rearing densities. Read more here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Look at that! @genmig.bsky.social, @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social and I fledged this supercool chick at the @ifv-whv.bsky.social on Wednesday. Let us proudly present to you: Dr Anna Schnelle.

Pleased the announce new #science from the @highlanderlab.bsky.social at the @roslininstitute.bsky.social Turn your multi-million individual #pedigree into a #PCA plot in not time with our R package randPedPCA, available on CRAN!

Yesterday we had our symposium “Evolution in Small Populations” at #ESEB2025 🎉 It was a fantastic session, and we’re very grateful to our invited speakers, Hernán Morales ‪@hernmoral.bsky.social ‬ and Eva Ringler, for their amazing talks 👏

At #Behaviour2025 in this beautiful hall of Biswa Bangla Convention Center!

Last lecture of summer popgen:"Evolutionary QuantGen: why (almost) everything we learned is (kinda) wrong". how selection on traits affects alleles. Architecture, stabilizing selection, popgen on gene sets, corn example & a shiny app from @mgstetter.bsky.social mgstetter.shinyapps.io/quantgensimA...

Smelly birds at #EOU2025 🐦

Thanks for a great #EOU2025 . If you are already thinking about where to go next, why not consider the #NSO2026 to present your avian research? Keep an eye on the webpage for important dates and news about the event: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic... @nordicoikos.bsky.social

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!

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇 📸G. Casbas doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity): PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... Postdoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who might be interested!

Tiny #spiders, huge impact! Meet #MermessusTrilobatus – a North-American dwarf spider that has stormed across #Europe in <50 yrs. We follow every silk thread of its success story 🕸️✨ Swipe through this thread for the highlights! #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology

Wait...🤔 They're TERRIBLE at handling disturbance, get eaten more by native predators, yet somehow conquered 1,400km of Europe in 45 years? HOW?! 🤯 The answer in establishment might lie in their reproductive behaviour (work in progress - stay tuned!). But let's look at how they spread so fast! ⬇️

About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Ooooh, one of our beautiful terns made it to the cover of the issue of Ethology that contains Melina's study on individual behavioral responses to novel stimuli: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our neighbours at the Banter See are no fan of the terns. Luckily the terns don't give a shit. Oh, or maybe sometimes they do. :-)

And here it is - Justine's last thesis chapter got accepted too and can now be read as an open access paper in Environmental Research: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Belated but wonderful news: Kriszti Kupán has won a 3-year grant from the Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung for monitoring and developing an integrative #conservation management approach for threatened #ruffs and #dunlins at #Liminganlahti! 🥚🎉🐣

New publication by @commonternproject.bsky.social with @coralinebcht.bsky.social, @mmoiron.bsky.social, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social & @icbm-uol.bsky.social: 'Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird – parental effects and links with growth and survival'. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

@barbaraclass.bsky.social et al. assess how well different statistical models estimate indirect genetic effects and assortative mating when partner similarity is caused by multiple co-occurring processes @jsmartin.bsky.social @mmoiron.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

We asked if salamanders with more warning coloration are bolder and produce more toxin! Read about it in our @mmoiron.bsky.social preprint "The bright, the bold and the toxic: do coloration, personality, and toxicity represent an integrated phenotype in fire salamanders?" doi.org/10.32942/X24...

At the SIBECOL conference, besides meeting old and new colleagues and learning a lot, my friend @ylndmc.bsky.social and I won a best poster award for our study on trait distributions - thanks to the organisers for such a nice conference!! #SIBECOLAEET2025 @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

68 nests with chicks now. ❤️

Here’s a video of a fun pilot study on tern personality aspects, in which Melina tested how the birds respond to a novel object placed at their nest. Linea from nest 431 did not care much about an orange cone making an appearance. :-)

Yesterday, Justine Bertram, the lovely soul in the center of this picture, successfully defended her PhD thesis. As throughout her time with the terns and at the @ifv-whv.bsky.social, she did a brilliant job. I could not be more proud, or sad that she is fledging now.