New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Beyond excited to announce that as of today I officially started a Ramón y Cajal 5-year senior fellowship (tenure-track) at University of Alcalá in Madrid, if you are interested in birds & vertebrate macroevolution & you like sun & good food, hit me up to explore postdoc or PhD opportunities!

Bowerbirds are Australo-Papuan birds engaging in some of the most flamboyant displays among vertebrates, and they might have been in New Zealand - Aotearoa in the Miocene too! Amazing descriptive research with a tinge of quantitative flair lead by @lizzysteell.bsky.social Check it out! 👇

This research mahi on the St Bathans bowerbird was led by the amazing @lizzysteell.bsky.social of the @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social lab. She is one of the up and coming palaeontologists working on passerines (songbirds) and definitely one to watch.

Welcome to the world Aevipertidus gracilis - the gracile one from a lost age. 14-19 Mya ancient #NewZealand appears to have had a bowerbird. Check out this amazing research mahi led by Elizabeth Steell (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....). Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC-BY-SA. 1/9 🧵

Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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

Exciting news at Cambridge! We are launching the Darwin-Hamied Centre to promote research at the intersection of biodiversity and economics christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-.... We are advertising two 5-year Senior Research Fellowships—application deadline 22nd June! christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...

Excited to share an invited commentary about the fantastic and ambitious work by @nicmalexandre.bsky.social and colleagues in @globalchangebio.bsky.social on Anna's Hummingbird beaks. It was a joy to write about, congratulations on a super cool study! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

Congratulations everyone involved, super beautiful specimen!

Congratulations, Lizzy!

Congratulations to @lizzysteell.bsky.social for the publication of her PhD magnum opus🥳🥳🥳New index to evaluate homoplasy in morph. datasets & tons of fun read about the effects of levels of homoplasy in macroevolutionary patterns! #homoplasyisnotdusty #superproud #doseefig6

Macroevolutionary integration underlies limb modularity in the origin of avian flight royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/TNYK5...

A complete and dynamic tree of birds - out today in PNAS! Teamwork with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and others at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social and Open Tree of Life to put together current relationships across all birds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you want to know what's going in the field of Mesozoic ornithology we published today a review in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org focused on four anatomical systems! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...