There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

Welcome to this week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk when Prof Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social from @monashbiol.bsky.social will talk on The Evolution of Metabolic Rate and Life History: 3.30pm Fri 14 Nov in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Life & Mind Building. Also live-streamed: instructions ⬇️

We're all looking forward to this week's seminar, being given by Kristen Ruegg from Colorado State University on the power of avian landscape genomics in the Genoscape Project. Seminar at 3.30pm on Friday 7 Nov in Lecture Theatre 1 in LaMB. Welcome in person or to join online - details ⬇️

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

Had such a great time working with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social on her first PhD chapter - our preprint is out now with lots of exciting results! Next up: fieldwork in Norway 🇳🇴, where we’ll (hopefully!) be catching plenty of winter moths for new experiments and genomics work.

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

New preprint! 🪶 We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️ With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

🔬📢 Oferta #FPI (2026–2029) en el ‪@mncn-csic.bsky.social. Proyecto sobre vínculos de pareja en aves polígamas, éxito reproductivo y redes sociales. @diegogil.bsky.social & Lorenzo Pérez Rodríguez (@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social) Excelente entorno académico y personal 🐦🥰 @behavecol-lab.bsky.social

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

Next, we had Dr. Andrea Estandia talking about 'Spatial scales of genomic adaptation to climate and phenology in the winter moth' 🦋 #ESEB2025

Looking forward to presenting our winter moth work next week in the S23 symposium (Monday morning room 114) and catching up with everyone in Barcelona! 🦋🧬

New preprint: Using pedigree data + genomics from 2,684 great tits in Wytham Woods, we explore spatial genetic structure and the role of dispersal, population turnover and immigration 🐦 With @sheldonbirds.bsky.social @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m recruiting graduate students to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in January or September 2026! If you're at #Evol2025 and curious about my research, come to my talk on Saturday at 11:30 AM in Macroevolution & Diversification II. Contact me if interested. claramuntlab.org

Excited to share our new paper in Molecular Ecology! Using whole-genome and morphological data from silvereyes, we explore their evolutionary history and find that water barriers are more effective than continental distances in driving population divergence 🐤🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

After the usual Field Season hiatus, we will be having a few seminars this term, beginning with Dale Clayton from University of Utah talking about Ecology, Evolution and Endocrinology of Grooming in Birds. 4 pm today in the Board Room in Mansfield Road at @biology.ox.ac.uk

A year and a half after passing our DPhil vivas, we finally made it to graduation. Lovely to have my family, partner, and academic parents there, and to catch up with old friends at college. Thank you, Oxford, for four unforgettable years as students and the ones we’re lucky to spend here now.

Celebrating DPhil graduation of @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social today with Sonya Clegg. Great to have had them both as DPhil students here in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk and even more fortunate they both stayed for postdocs!

As the Wytham tit (and drone, tree and winter moth) field season winds down (the end, like the start, gets earlier each year!) we posed for the traditional field team photo followed by an excellent lunch. A great team again. Some quantitative updates to follow next week... #suspense

Manuscript accepted! 🎉 Couldn’t ask for a better way to finish a looong week. Stay tuned for some exciting silvereye updates! 🐤👀

Huge congrats, Dr. Jones! I’ve been so lucky to spend the past 4 years with you. Nothing better than seeing one of your closest friends pass their viva!

I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!

Proud mum to 936 hungry winter moth caterpillars 🐛 with 500 more on the way! Wish me luck

Siempre es un placer volver a las aulas de Oviedo (aunque remotamente!) y hablar sobre evolución con los estudiantes del Grado en Biología. Gracias @gorizaola.bsky.social por la invitación!

How does birdsong *evolve*? Folks recording a ton of Great Tit song have some ideas This was great as a pre-print, even better published in @currentbiology.bsky.social: from @nilomr.bsky.social @andreaestandia.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social #prattle #bioacoustics 💬 V good explainer 🧵👇

Closing by acknowledging a herculean effort by @nilomr.bsky.social to collect & analyse these data, fabulous help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social at all stages, from Loanne & Antoine in the field and Sara Keen for inspiration

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to be hosting Prof Andy Dobson @andy2dobson.bsky.social for an EGI Seminar next week (Fri 14 March) on "The Eye of the Finch: Ecology and Evolution of an Emerging Avian Pathogen" All welcome at 3.30pm, Seminar Room in @biology.ox.ac.uk Mansfield Road

🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋 Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰ doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005 🧵👇

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted to see our new paper out, led by PhD student Asia Hoile. We explored new genes that emerged during the early evolution of Lepidoptera 🦋 Many cool insights which we think open up new questions to explore. Get in touch if you have thoughts/want to discuss more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/48rx72es

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob

New paper from @joewoodman.bsky.social DPhil thesis now published. Here, Joe (& 30 friends) use @spibirds.bsky.social to collate data on age structure for 32 Great Tit populations spanning 67 years & involving 130 000 individual birds. Why did we do this? 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

Congratulations to Matt Osmond on publication of the final version of "Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies" elifesciences.org/articles/72177

Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

Last week of winter moth trapping along the Phenoweb transect between Edinburgh and Inverness. We aim to study the spatial scale of local adaptation to oak phenology 🦋🌳🧬 with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)

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!

📣PhD position open in our group!📣 Come work on a super fascinating system: partial #migration in European shags. #Fieldwork, theoretical #modelling and #QuantitativeGenetics are all possible depending on interests. Please spread to good candidates of any nationality! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A reminder of today's EGI Christmas seminar today at 3.30 pm in the seminar room of @oxfordbiology.bsky.social - all welcome

Winter moth sampling has started in Wytham Woods and we’ll be deploying more traps across Scotland and several European populations within the next few weeks 🦋 the samples will be used for genomic analysis and lots of experiments - very exciting!

The first EGI seminar of this academic year will be given by Dr Conor Philson from @uniofexeter.bsky.social on multi-level selection and social behaviour. Seminar at 3.30 Friday 25 Oct in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social seminar room: all welcome!

Interested in a PhD in Ornithology? Four full scholarships available here in Oxford from Oct 2025 in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social - more details available at the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2zymo...

🔖#ASABEditorsChoice #AnimalBehaviourJournal ft:   🐦Great tits! 🌲Wytham woods! 🎵The LARGEST publicly available birdsong collection from ONE pop!   New acoustic data set by N. M. Recalde, @andreaestandia.bsky.social, L. Pichot, A. Vansse, E. F. Cole & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social More below👇🧵 1/5

Delighted that this paper by Nilo Merino Recalde et al. is now published as the first Dataset paper in Anim Behav. It describes a fully annotated open dataset of 1.1M acoustic units from 110 000 songs sung by >400 individual Great Tits www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...