🚨 2nd master’s project! Interested in bird migration & genomics? 🧬🐦 Use whole-genome data to trace the recent colonization of Ouessant Island by Blue Tits and explore how irruptive migratory events can shape colonization dynamics. Please share! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Very very happy to see my PhD work out! Congrats to the whole team 🎉🎉🎉

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦 a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #ornithology paper out in Journal of Biogeography: Phylogenomics Supports Island Contribution to Metapopulation Dynamics in a Predominantly Continental Bird Species doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... Using the world´s smallest rail as study species 😍 Many thanks to Daisuke Aoki and all collaborators!

For those attending the #EOU2025 in Bangor, this starter pack might help stay on top of the conversation ;) Ping me to be included go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

In the LATEST ISSUE of IBIS Using age-ratios to investigate the status of two Siberian Phylloscopus species in Europe | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Paul Dufour et al | #ornithology 🪶

The Australian bogong moth uses the Milky Way as compass during annual 100-mile journey to cool caves. This is shown by a groundbreaking study also revealing that the Earth's magnetic field plays an important role in the navigation of this mysterious moth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great progress on the sib genoscape project with freshly collected reference samples of Little Buntings (and Red-flanked Bluetails) from the western part of their range. A very nice and successful fieldwork with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social ! #ornithology

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Very glad to see the second chapter of my PhD published in JEB and feel honored that it has been picked as this month's issue "Editor's choice" and cover image! It's been a long and important team effort leading up to these results!

Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

Two hybrid Coenonympha species inherited most of their genome from one parent species but prefer mating with the other! By analyzing chemical profiles, we show that non-random trait sorting likely drives reproductive isolation, fueling hybrid speciation @pdvsky.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Very excited to announce the publication of our new article on evolutionary biology, cognitive sciences and beauty, with @tamramendelson.bsky.social Dave Shuker and @gilrosenthal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨If you fancy evolutionary genomics, theory, my lab now offers *two* fully-funded #PhD #genomics #popgen #evolution ℹ️One on sex-asex transitions with Christoph Haag bit.ly/4hp1q1A ℹ️One on allele-specific expression with Sylvain Glémin bit.ly/4iuKLuQ Part of #ERC RegEvol In #CEFE lab, Montpellier

Working on avian vagrancy? @pauldufour80.bsky.social and myself are organising a symposium at the EOU Conference 2025 at Bangor University, Wales (UK) from 18-22 August 2025 #Ornithology please submit abstracts to: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st... 🪶🌍

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

‼️These #PSMC #peaks are #artifacts‼️ Seen #PSMC results like this🤔? They are caused by ill-set parameters, #very #common, and #easy #to #solve! For details see 🧵& OA paper @currentbiology.bsky.social 🙂🐢🧬🎉! cell.com/current-biol...

For more information : ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org Sign in to stay updated : listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib... See you soon!

We have just returned from La Janda, S Spain, where we sampled some of the wintering Siberian buntings (1 Rustic, 5 Little Buntings) to uncover their birth/breeding origins. Huge thanks to the Cigüeña Negra ringing group for the warm welcome! @pdvsky.bsky.social #ornithology

Here’s what happens to regression 📈 when sample sizes are low… even with a strong underlying correlation, sampling error will erode everything! 🧪 ‼️ #rstats simulation viz via the switchboard package for R

A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species. Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU

EOU2025 conference abstract submission is open! Submit your abstract at the following link: cutt.ly/Ke9YyeWB and check the conference website for updates: cutt.ly/Te9Yo2G4 We look forward to seeing you in Bangor, Wales 18-22 August 2025 #ornithology #EOU2025

Rapid radiation and some hybridisation lead to a phylogeny full of poorly supported nodes. Very interesting study of the phylogenomic of Coenonympha butterflies by Greenwood et al : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

I'm packing up for Christmas, I've been thinking about bird vision, so it is the perfect time for a festive story about Robins & #birds incredible ability to see magnetic fields. This is a cool story of quantum physics & biology, discovered from work on the UK's favourite seasonal bird! 🌿🌏🧪🧵 1/

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

PLEASE SHARE From Julien Renoult (not -yet- on Bluesky): Postdoc Opportunity in Montpellier France. 18 months starting May 2025: Generative AI for Studying the Influence of Habitats on the Diversification of Bird Color Patterns. Applications and information here: tinyurl.com/2368teak

Good to see that Finland came to such a decision. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/finland...

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

Great start for a new side project focussing on Alpine accentor altitudinal migration! The project is based on multi-sensor logger deployement (6 birds tagged today out of 8 planned for this year) and is made possible by a small field research grant. @pauldufour80.bsky.social

For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵

Animal vagrancy and the spread of pathogens www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

A bit of taxonomy on a charismatic but overlooked species, the Siberian Chiffchaff, and proof (if needed) that taxonomic recommendations should be made when convincing evidence of the need for taxonomic changes is presented. More to come soon on these amazing dull birds! doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

A milestone for the ERC Gaia project and a great work from Eliette's PhD thesis! The complete genome sequences of 148 out of 162 species of Leptocircini with phylogenetic study: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨PhD ALERT! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomic approaches 🧬 to unravel the mysteries of migration using yellow-browed warblers. Think this is you or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 02/12 and check out the ad below!