Excited to see our review out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social on the importance of mitochondrial DNA introgression for conservation! This is the first of my @formasforsk.bsky.social projects on mtDNA introgression in salmon! Big thanks to the great co-author team! Link: tinyurl.com/mtDNA-introg...

Proud to see this work led by PhD student @matteobeccardi.bsky.social now published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social ! The study investigates how sex and age influence mitochondrial function in wild Common terns 🪶 Check it out below ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/matt...

New paper: Does migration alter cellular ageing? Migratory blackbirds had longer telomeres (but similar mitochondrial density) than resident conspecifics at a North Sea stopover site, suggesting potential physiological adaptations linked to migration ➡️ vist.ly/559cq #ornithology #birds

I am delighted to share the first study of the Energetics Lab with my undergraduate, Korben Moelter, as first author published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B. A neat comparison of Mammalian Thermoregulation Clines Across North America Using Bergman’s Rule. Check: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Beccardi et al. Sex and age shape mitochondrial function in a long-lived seabird journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-... #ornithology #seabirds

Bugging is underway, and we are missing @matteobeccardi.bsky.social who spent two seasons supplementing the team to collect data on sex- and age-specific mitochondrial functioning in the terns. His paper on this just came out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Proud to see this work led by PhD student @matteobeccardi.bsky.social now published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social ! The study investigates how sex and age influence mitochondrial function in wild Common terns 🪶 Check it out below ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/matt...

In our recent @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we test how air temperature during development influences the ontogeny of heat and cold tolerance, using our trusted quail population 🐥🐦 We draw four main conclusions 🧵 shorturl.at/JZpSr

Excited to share our new paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Here, we investigated how sex and age shape mitochondrial function under natural conditions in a long-lived seabird, the Common tern. Read the paper here for more information👇 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

A special thank you to everyone who contributed to this project! @ifv-whv.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @cyanistesnord.bsky.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social @pablosalmon.bsky.social

Es delirante que David tenga que decir estas cosas. La administración tiene todos los datos. Alien-nación. www.rtpa.es/asturias:El-...

Our new review highlights growing challenges for owls, from road mortality to sensory pollution. Understanding these impacts is essential for their conservation in rapidly changing landscapes link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dornitholges.bsky.social @dmdominoni.bsky.social @pesumas.bsky.social

🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. A thread 🧵📄 (w/ @ornitho-pie.bsky.social) 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Look who arrived as well! 147 little field assistants made their way into one of our incubators. These laboratory-bred kissing bugs will help us collect blood samples from incubating terns. Stored in a fake egg for c. 20 minutes, they collect blood, which we then gratefully collect from them.

Happy to tell that the first paper of Luca Roner PhD work has been accepted in Ecological Indicators!! Here, we apply fine-scale vegetation-derived ecological indicator values to model habitat requirements of endangered Golden alpine salamanders. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Calling #WildlifeRescue centres across Europe! Do you have data on #swifts? We’re studying how heatwaves affect rescued chicks, and we’d love to collaborate. Quick survey, no data sharing yet. Info: giuliamasoero.github.io/project/resc... #Ornithology #ClimateChange @alecorr-castro.bsky.social

🚨New paper from our group! Led by Bruno H. Martins, we show that mastering foraging on anthropogenic resources takes time. #WhiteStorks start using landfills soon after fledging, but need time to learn how to do it properly and the first year is key! 📌 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ornithology 🧪 🌍

In our new paper, published yesterday, we use the long-term data set of Wytham Woods to show that great tits have maintained stable temperature at breeding despite the almost 2ºC increase in Spring temperature. w. E. Cole, C. Regan & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Link -> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper: What is frailty in (wild) birds? Adapting frailty indices from human gerontology may help quantify age-related changes in health and performance, offering new insights into avian ageing and life-history strategies. ➡️ vist.ly/4zmje #ornithology #birds #senescence

Too hot to handle! Our pre print reviewing temperature manipulation experiments is out!

Small migratory birds cross deserts and seas as part of their annual migration. But how? Our new study shows how thrush nightingales do it: by flying night after night and stopping during the day, when they remain innactive🐦➡️(1/3) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @royalsocietypublishing.org #BirdMigration

Super happy to see our new paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social today! We found that cocaine pollution affects salmon movement and space use in the wild! Big congrats to the team for this huge effort! @michaelgbertram.bsky.social Find the paper here: tinyurl.com/cocaine-fish

We are looking for a full-time, permanent, animal caretaker in Wilhelmshaven. Work with songbirds & quail in an international research team: - Bird care & welfare - Breeding programs - Hand-rearing chicks - Husbandry & hygiene - Data records More info: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/institute...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

📢Deadline approaching soon! Submit your abstracts by April 17! @nordicoikos.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social If interested in joining our symposium (with @davididiaquez.bsky.social), reach out asap!🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

Interesting work showing that mtDNA copy number is associated with flight performance! This got me thinking about the idea that mitochondrial bioenergetics and mtDNA variation may influence state–behaviour feedbacks - something we explored in our recent TREE paper (tinyurl.com/mtDNA-behaviour).

🧬 New study! How do mitochondria change across life? We tracked mtDNAcn within Zebra finches and found early-life decline and links of mtDNAcn to late-life flight performance #Ornithology #Physiology #Mitochondria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @ifv-whv.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

The museum we designed and built at the field site, to share both our view on, and growing knowledge of, the Banter See common terns now has a sign, and is open for business. Opening times can be found here: www.wattenmeer-besucherzentrum.de/flussseeschw...

🧬 New study! How do mitochondria change across life? We tracked mtDNAcn within Zebra finches and found early-life decline and links of mtDNAcn to late-life flight performance #Ornithology #Physiology #Mitochondria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @ifv-whv.bsky.social 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Great experience at the @eoufledglings.bsky.social meeting in Gdańsk #EOU26, presenting my research on seasonal changes in prolactin levels in magnificent frigatebirds and how mercury-induced disruption of this parental-care hormone may contribute to the emergence of disease outbreaks

A fascinating plenary at #EOU26 by Miriam Liedvogel (@genmig.bsky.social) Uncovering the mysteries of migration through work on blackcaps, and ending with an important reminder: the need for outreach and communication beyond academia, especially with children. Inspiring on many levels.

With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference. There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!

Next IGUE #UrbanEcology speaker online talk Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social ( @csic.es ) We will learn about the phenotypic variation in anthropogenic environments Save it to your 📆 drive.google.com/file/d/1DleV... @csicdivulga.bsky.social

Nice to see our review out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! Flight is costly - but so are infections. We argue that infections may be a substantial, yet mostly overlooked, source for oxidative stress in migrating birds. doi.org/10.1002/jav.... #Migration #Birds #OxidativeStress #Ornithology 🪶 🧵1/5

Massive thanks to @danielwanoble.bsky.social and @gwendeconninck.bsky.social for some awesome quality of life additions to metRscreen (a shiny app for paper screening in R). Now updated: github.com/EIvimeyCook/...

New publication alert! 🥳🍾 With Prof. Dr. Kraiczy's lab, we asked how natural genetic variation affects the function of immune modulatory Borrelia proteins and if this could influence how pathogenic the populations are to humans. Out now in Scientific Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🌊 read the story behind Dr Arostegui's paper, "cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize! 📝 buff.ly/gIM2qpc

Finally managed to push a new update on my website, the Phenology of rare birds of the Western Palearctic today! tony-rinaud.shinyapps.io/WP_rare_birds/ New items are rare birds sightings from rarity reports of Poland, Switzerland, Malta, Faroe Islands and Syria. Enjoy this interactive website!

Brilliant work by Devi!

Catch me on BBC Wales (March 11) - radio, news and website - covering our recent paper on pet-flea treatments, sheep-dip chemicals and some surprising revelations about how they reach streams and rivers www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy #EcoEvo #evolution

✨ Editorial: a summary and synopsis of the studies included in the special issue on migration physiology written by the editorial team @pablosalmon.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social #TiiaKärkkäinen ➡️ vist.ly/4ucex #ornithology #birds #migration #physiology

🔈Really happy to see this one ⬇️ out! 🎉 Great to see this compilation of studies finally published. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and the team @avianbiology.bsky.social who made this possible! Editorial: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Ornithology #Physiology #Migration

✨ New Special Issue Out! "New frontiers in avian physiology: what’s migration got to do with it?" This special issue highlights emerging frontiers across scales, from molecules to whole organisms, in relation to the physiological mechanisms behind birds’ migratory feats ➡️ vist.ly/4u94s 🪶

happy international women's day (c) of the beautiful female blackcap @co-la.bsky.social

“Empowered women empower women.” 👭 As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked our fantastic senior female scientists to share a few words for the next generation of researchers; about curiosity, resilience, and lifting each other up along the way. Illustrated by Charlotte Hintzmann.

Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids). 🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines) 🧪 Metabolomics 💻 Adv. stats in R Apply by March 16! 👇 forms.gle/AFkpt4foeV5i... #EcoEvo #PhD

A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...

🚡¿Un teleférico a 30 metros de la Red Natura 2000 en Cantabria? Hemos presentado alegaciones ante el proyecto del teleférico "Mirador del Pas" que afectaría a aves como el aguilucho pálido, el buitre leonado o el alimoche.  +info https://seo.org/abogamos-por-la-restauracion-del-tunel-de-la-engana.

Our research on Tawny Owls at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk was featured on this episode of BBC Radio Scotland - listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... We discuss how we track Tawnies' movements and the way they are adapting to noisy and light-polluted areas @dmdominoni.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social