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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/48ff2 Guest editors: Julia Schroeder, RoxanaTorres, Britt Heidinger, Jaime Muriel, Michi Tobler Please repost 🙏

📢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...

Three more weeks left to submit your paper to @thermal-biology.bsky.social for our special issue on Ontogenetic variation in thermal biology 🦉🦫☀️❄️

Si necesitáis una lectura amena y entretenida sobre coloración y aves, he escrito una pequeña pieza para el blog de la AEET. Pido disculpas de antemano por el autobombo :-) blogaeet.org/2025/09/22/l...

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

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...

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...

Another excellent paper by @matteobeccardi.bsky.social, with great help from Justine Bertam, @commonternproject.bsky.social, @pablosalmon.bsky.social, @icbm-uol.bsky.social

I'm happy to share with you our new paper out now in Environmental Pollution! Here, we experimentally studied the maternal offloading of mercury pollution via reproduction in an avian model species. Read the paper here for more details👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

🚨 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!

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

NEW PAPER: investigating hormonal mechanisms and energy conditions of birds at stopover in relation to weather conditions encountered over the Mediterranean Sea route during pre-breeding migration. ➡️ vist.ly/46jvx #ornithology #birds 🪶 @ericacalabretta.bsky.social @fusanilab.bsky.social

Come and join us on this journey www.enlightproject.rs/enlight-conf... #lightpollution #alan #darksky #arrificiallightatnight

🔬📢 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

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.

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨 "Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change" Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n #ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

Where is the next conference gonna be? So many countries are still missing from the map... All info to participate are here! Deadline 15th of October 2025 #EOU2027 #EOU2025 #ornithology

📌 I really enjoyed @pablosalmon.bsky.social’s talk at #EOU2025! 🐦 Exploring how #mitochondria may shape avian #migration — lessons from Eurasian #blackbirds with different strategies. Great insights into the energetic basis of life-history strategies!

Yesterday a game keeper asked me to safe a young kite that was stuck up a tree. It had one claw entangled in plastic. In eight years of ringing 1200 kites, I’ve seen every year chicks with ligaments entangled. Some 1-2 % already dies in the nest due to plastic. This one was ‘lucky’ to have fledged.

Anyone coming to EOU in Bangor later this month? I'll be here and helping out - my first conference in a while ☺️ Get in touch if you'd like to chat maternal effects, stress, social behaviour, winter warming... (in birds or other systems!)

Our new paper is finally out @conphysjournal.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social Here, we discuss eco-physiological singularities of wildlife coping with extreme conditions, present five study models and extract some ideas for conservation. academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

I created my own website! There you can find everything about my research: marc-gilles.github.io

📢Congratulations to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for the publication of her first PhD thesis chapter, "Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing"! 👏🥳🐥 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @fusanilab.bsky.social 📸: Wikipedia

📣 Our special issue is open. We invite you to help us determine how human-induced changes in circadian environmental signals affect animals, communities and ecosystems. Please share #lightpollutin #noisepollution #climatechange www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

🚨 new blog post has been published on "how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived" by David Lopez-Idiaquez! 📝 read it in English : buff.ly/jLVeqYS 📝 read it in Spanish: buff.ly/1CuEnjl

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...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/3n8p3mv Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

We have a new paper out on the genetic vs. environmental drivers of cognition along an urban gradient: doi.org/10.1007/s100... @lauragervais.bsky.social @dhanyabharath.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social @denisreale.bsky.social #inhibitorycontrol #greattits #animalcognition

New out @royalsocietypublishing.org PRSB: Birds developing in cold snap-like conditions downregulated mitochondrial heat tolerance. Alarmingly, this response was asymmetrical: growing up in a heatwave did not protect your mitos from overheating 😱 🐣🌡️@biologylu.bsky.social #OroborosI shorturl.at/QN52A

Avian Lifespan Network Reveals Shared Mechanisms and New Key Players in Animal Longevity - Martini - Aging Cell - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why does eating less extend lifespan? 🧬 Mutation accumulation underpins evolution of lifespan extension by dietary restriction We often think about saving energy or recycling waste - but we show how evolution acting on mutation load can generate longer life on low food 🧵 🔗 tinyurl.com/jn5ryhxv

Plenty of time to apply for this #postdoc in my group :) #genetics #microbiome #ecophysiology #evolution #avian #ECR

NEW PAPER: immune differences in Eurasian hoopoes are linked to migratory behaviour in two partially migratory populations - resident birds show more stable body features than migrants and a different adaptive immune response. ➡️ vist.ly/3n7c8h4 #ornithology #ecoimmunology #migration #birds

In my latest piece for @uk.theconversation.com, I explain our latest research with @eivimeycook.bsky.social and @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social on how eating less, rapamycin and metformin affect lifespan. Read it here: theconversation.com/anti-ageing-... #ageing #longevity #sciencecommunication

Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

We will look for a postdoc after the summer to start a new project on transmission of microbiota and antimicrobial resistance in lake flies. 🦠🧬🦟 It primarily involves experiments in the lab (transmission between predator-prey, vertical, species) and metagenomic sequencing to find AMR genes.

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/3n5pxi7 Guest editors: Julia Schroeder @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social Please repost 🙏

Now that the field season is coming to an end (first day off since late April, I decided to compile some stats of what I have done during the last month. To check the 208 (reduced a bit in mid-May), I have walked a total of 446km with an accumulated elevation gain of 9431m!

over the moon happy and grateful! on my way to @lundvision.bsky.social I followd the announcement of #ClustersOfExcellence by the @dfg.de on the floor of a crowded train. #NaviSense 🦋🧭🧬🧪🧠🐝🪲🔬 in all its beauty flew high! such a fantastic team, amazing spirit and wonderful vision - ready for take off!

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

Really worth a read if you are interested in life-history physiology or mitochondrial function 👇

In our latest work, we experimentally manipulated the reproductive status (gamete production) of Japanese quails to study the effects of reproduction on mitochondrial functions. See preprint for more information: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26 ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

🔥Thrilled to share our OA review "Life at new extremes: Integrating stress physiology and the bio‐exposome in the Anthropocene"✨ with D Costantini, M Sebastiano, & S Messina #ecophysiology #wildlife nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fiwivienna.bsky.social #VetmeduniVienna #Unitus

Birds shrink under climate change - an observation assumed to carry thermoregulatory benefit. Creating temperature-dependent 🐥🐣 morphotypes in the lab and measuring their heat- and cold-tolerance through development, we show shape-shifting carries at most minuscule benefit 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social

meanwhile in #Georgia - where and how long do #blackcaps breeding in this eastern #location migrate? @joewynnbirds.bsky.social @andalgalornis.bsky.social and @oscarvedder.bsky.social are on a mission & have already caught 9 returning #geolocator birds. stay tuned! @ifv-whv.bsky.social