Just got back from Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost town in the world, to catch and track Arctic terns for @seatrackscience.bsky.social in collaboration with @maartenloonen.bsky.social. I love coming to this place, and I love the terns. They probably did not like me so much though...

🔊🔊 What's important in a duet? In a new paper, we tested whether duet coordination in pairs has a function in their territoriality, using fine-scale and coarse measures of duet coordination in response to playback in chirruping wedgebills. See 👉 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... @marcnaguib.bsky.social

Broken families can have huge effects on children, even later in life. But is that the case in species other than humans? Read my latest article in the ‪@aunz.theconversation.com‬ on mate switching effects in offspring of the ‪@seychelleswarbler.bsky.social‬ 👇 theconversation.com/the-chicks-a...

Check out the latest paper on the dramas of Seychelles warbler family life here! 👇👇

Most Relatable Paper Title 2025? Stewart & Kelley find in chestnut-backed antbirds that acoustic features + duet coordination correlate w/body & territory size www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Interesting to compare w/quoted @friggspeelman.bsky.social study #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

Duetting do what now? @friggspeelman.bsky.social etc al. (incl. @marcnaguib.bsky.social) ask in chirruping wedgebills. Authors measure response to playbacks of duets, coordinated or un- Results do not support role for precise coordination ecoevorxiv.org/repository/o... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics

1/11 New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

A lovely feature in iflscience on the causes of divorce 💔 in Seychelles warblers! 👇👇👇 www.iflscience.com/why-these-li...

New paper: causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔. This papers highlights the shortcomings of studying divorce to date and provides methods to address them. Plus some new insights on divorcing in birds! See 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

🌧️💔🐦 Climate impacts on bird relationships A new @animalecology.bsky.social study shows high & low rainfall impacts divorce rates in monogamous Seychelles warblers. Could this signal broader ecological impacts due to #ClimateChange? besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #SciComm

Listen to Frigg Speelman speaking on ABC radio national drive about the love life of the Seychelles warblers: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Want to know how divorce in birds is associated with rainfall? 💔🌧️ Frigg Speelman wrote a piece (in non-scientific jargon!) theconversation.com/divorce-in-s... about our recent paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...