All action ruff display, the first silent opera singer.

Biases in neurotechnologies can lead to misdiagnosis and marginalization in research. We are excited to welcome neuroscientist Jasmine Kwasa at out Institute to hear her ideas for making the field more inclusive! The talk is open to everyone, on campus or via zoom 🧪⚖️: www.bi.mpg.de/events/41704...

🧬 Another exciting opportunity at SMNS—this time in our Zoology Department! 🦎🔬 Looking for a Postdoc in molecular biogeography, conservation genetics, or evolutionary morphology. 🤝 Interdepartmental collaboration encouraged! 🔗 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/zoology

Uppsala University seeks a PhD student for climate-change adaptation and speciation research on flycatchers. Applicants must hold a Master's degree in biology. More info: https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/animal-ecology/qvarnstrom-lab. Apply by March 18, 2025. #phd

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

This weekend, our scientist @michaelahau.bsky.social participated in an innovative #scicomm event at a Bavarian "Wirtshaus" with TV reporter Willi Weitzel from the show "Willi wills wissen." She shared insights from her long-term research on great tits. It was a fun event for the whole family!

#Capuchins are abducting baby howlers. But why? Zoë Goldsborough, Brendan Barrett, and Meg Crofoot @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social discuss what’s behind this novel animal tradition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooQ... @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social

Los geht's mit dem „AHA Wirtshaus-Wissen“ am 18. Mai um 16 Uhr im Hofbräukeller mit dem Thema #Wald 🌳🌲als Lebensraum, Erholungsort, Baustofflieferant und Klimaschützer. Willi Weitzel („Willi wills wissen“) nimmt Kinder, Eltern und Interessierte mit auf eine Wissensreise: eveeno.com/wirtshaus_wi...

The winners of this year’s “Dance Your PhD” contest from @science.org @aaas.org are extremely fun: www.science.org/content/arti...

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SBN meeting is July 13-16. Deadline to submit an abstract is May 31. Still plenty of time.

Female zebra finches don't learn to sing. However, a new study shows that their supposedly rudimentary song system is more active than thought when it comes to producing innate calls but is driven by different neurons than in males. 🧪Scientific publication: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Big thanks to Kristina Nienhaus for a great interview about our recent #MetaAnalysis on egg hormones and fitness. Interview ➡️ shorturl.at/HZHJb 📰 Article ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 💻Data & Code ➡️ github.com/ASanchez-Toj... ®️ Pre-registration ➡️ doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

Our paper investigating reproducibility potential in ecological journals without a code-sharing policy is now @peercomjournal.bsky.social 📰 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... 💻 github.com/ASanchez-Toj... We've shared our results already (bsky.app/profile/asan...), so we won't bother you again. Instead...👇

Any meta-analysis peers attending Behaviour 2025 (25th – 30th August 2025 in Kolkata, India)? We are searching for support with a symposium on meta-analysis... (DM)

📄 New Paper! Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... @globalchangebio.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

🌸🔬 Spring mood – analyzed with unprecedented accuracy: This year, we are not only showing you photos of the beautiful cherry blossoms at our Institute, we have even put them under the microscope. Enjoy the images! Thanks to the head of our Imaging Facility, Claudio Polisseni.

New publication in @animalecology.bsky.social by @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @matteobeccardi.bsky.social 'Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird' doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Over the moon to finally share our new study in @science.org led by the amazing @jack-brand.bsky.social! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Online now: Elevating local perspectives for equity in ecological research

Though we didn't find clear evidence for a relationship between egg hormones and fitness proxies, this does NOT mean hormones are unimportant The high heterogeneity found suggests context dependency (meta-analyses are rarely conclusive!) 📢 We need more research! 👇 📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Our preregistered #systematicreview & #metaanalysis, now out in Ecology Letters, synthesises 438 effects from 57 studies on 19 wild bird 🐦species to test if & how egg hormones relate to fitness 📰 doi.org/10.1111/ele.... Data & Code github.com/ASanchez-Toj... Registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

@michaelahau.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @ornitho-pie.bsky.social @nadreani.bsky.social

🌍🔥🐦 Is global warming shrinking birds?! A new study reveals that shearwaters raised in warmer temperatures develop smaller bodies and beaks, linked to cellular stress, reduced metabolic energy and lower growth factors: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social #mitochondria #proteome

A popular account by @cogniivan.bsky.social of our study on sexual selection and intelligence in fish that is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The journal link is in the article. theconversation.com/smart-is-sex...

Very proud of this masterpiece!!! Prof Lu Mentesana absolutely brilliant first author and Prof Fredy rules as last!!!

A single gene underlies male mating morphs in ruff sandpipers, a new Science study finds. The results show how evolutionary changes in a single gene's structure, sequence, and regulation can drive significant diversity within a single species. Learn more in our new issue: https://scim.ag/4arzNmU

I wrote a piece on how cool this new ruff paper is. Total endocrine game-changer! Congrats to the authors on a rad discovery. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Hats off! (or rather PhD hat on?). James Tolliver overcame a lot of personal challenges to successfully defend his PhD today. Like the title of his thesis: "Ruff persistence...". Very proud that he has fledged!