Exciting science news on plumage colouration and genetic variation from our colleagues!

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

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions! Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @heredityjournal.bsky.social

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Choosing between Cerrado and Chaco: Which corridor connected the Andean and Atlantic forest populations of the Buff-browed Foliage Gleaner? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/c... #ornithology

Coming soon! A mid-summer special BOW Discovery Webinar on AVILIST - the world's first unified global checklist of birds. Does this sound good? Would you like to join us? Stay tuned for more info. Target is late July. We'll do our best to make this during a globally friendly timeslot.

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857 With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Dave Lutgen at U Bern for a damn fine dissertation defense today! Keep an eye out for some quality wheatear genomics in the near future, avec Reto Burri and Katie Peichel et al.