Vladimir Pravosudov
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Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology Lab
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Science Magazine
11 days ago
An egg shuffle reveals how innate drivers and early environments affect European songbirdâs ranges. Learn more in Science:
https://scim.ag/4v8LCY0
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Innate factors and ontogeny determine nonbreeding areas of migrant songbirds
Migratory birds connect ecosystems worldwide and often show connectivity between breeding and nonbreeding areas, meaning that individuals have nonbreeding (âwinteringâ) locations close to others from ...
https://scim.ag/4v8LCY0
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Beniamino Tuliozi
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Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now:
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Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population
We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag086/8673150
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New paper - we show that in chickadees, males with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young and that when a female has an EPY, it is sired by a male with better spatial cognition compared to cognition of her social mate.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Male chickadees with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/110905
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Female chickadees look for cognitive skills in male partners
Three-year study suggests wild female chickadees seek out additional males with better cognitive abilities than their nestmate, to produce offspring with better survival skills.
https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/d2d3a949/female-chickadees-look-for-cognitive-skills-in-male-partners
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Ben Sheldon
about 1 month ago
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in
@biology.ox.ac.uk
here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding
www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctoral-research-fellowships
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gavin jones
about 1 month ago
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/75951
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about 1 month ago
Summary of Key Changes in OMBâs Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMBâs Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed
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Science Magazine
about 1 month ago
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion".
#standupforscience
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Science Magazine
about 1 month ago
A U.S. federal mandate to make scholarly papers free to read could triple the governmentâs bill for publishing fees to $937 million by 2030âan increase most research agencies arenât prepared for, says a report released by Congressâs spending-watchdog agency.
https://scim.ag/3Q3y29F
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U.S. agencies arenât ready for the rising cost of making research papers free, report warns
Science agencies could soon face nearly $1 billion publishing bill, Congressional analysts find
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-agencies-aren-t-ready-rising-cost-making-research-papers-free-report-warns?utm_campaign=Science%20Magazine&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=bluesky
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Emily H. DuVal
about 2 months ago
May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:
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New paper from the lab by Sofia Haley: chickadees with better spatial cognition sing more songs
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More smarts, more song: male chickadees with better spatial learning and memory abilities sing more throughout the day
Abstract. Cognitive abilities may allow flexible responses to variable environments, proving critical to individual survival in many species. When cognitiv
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2071/20260376/481772/More-smarts-more-song-male-chickadees-with-better?searchresult=1
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New preprint from the lab by
@jwelklin.bsky.social
: "Drought to deluge: Differential impacts of snow on mountain chickadee reproduction across the Sierra Nevada mountains" where we combine our long-term data with ebird data. Chickadees and snow - my favorite things!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.02.722414v1
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Joshua Weitz
2 months ago
New opportunity for PhD fellowships at interface of ecology & evolution from the Simons Foundation. Application deadline June 30, 2026. My interpretation is that this applies to prospective PhD students & those accepted/not yet matriculated. Full details:
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=be8124a656-LS_FELLOWSHIPS_ECOLOGY_EVOLUTION+_2026&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-96108f0df1-746482601
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JĂžrgen SĂžraker
2 months ago
New paper out in Biological Reviewsđđš When trying to explain why female birds engage in extra-pair copulations/paternity, we mostly focus on the benefits. But what about the costs? Should we not consider the downsides of the behavior we try to understand? đ§”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The costs of extraâpair behaviours in birds
Extra-pair behaviours â reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond â have long intrigued behavioural ecol...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70178
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David LĂłpez-IdiĂĄquez
2 months ago
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 2ÂșC increase in Spring temperature. w. E. Cole, C. Regan &
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Link ->
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Emily H. DuVal
3 months ago
The 2026 Lance-tailed Manakin webcam is live! Pro tip: click 'watch on you-tube' and scroll back in time to find the action, (today, see 8:23am). Or just enjoy the sounds of the tropical forest and see what's going on NOW in the world of the manakins.
www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-t...
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Lance-tailed Manakins
Watch the Lance-tailed Manakin cam
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-tailed-manakins/
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Dan Mennill
3 months ago
Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor:
efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
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Dan Mennill
3 months ago
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad:
efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions.
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
@uwindsor.bsky.social
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New paper from the lab by
@laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
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Fecal metabarcoding reveals differences in nestling diet across years with extreme variation in climate and arthropod availability in a montane songbird
Abstract. Animal diets are shaped both by the availability of resources and preferences for certain food items over others. Environmental conditions can af
https://academic.oup.com/auk/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ornithology/ukag012/8510742?redirectedFrom=fulltext
4 months ago
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Lars Chittka
4 months ago
A new documentary "Secrets of The Bees"Â will air on National Geographic on 31 March and land on Disney+ on 1 April and our bees are in it! See here for the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej2...
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Secrets of the Bees | Official Trailer | Narrated by Bertie Gregory | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej2usrRCl0
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Edward Grey Institute
5 months ago
New research just out in J Evol Biol: led by
@lbliard.bsky.social
with
@jsmartin.bsky.social
@dzchilds.bsky.social
@paniw.bsky.social
& Arpat Ozgul using the very cool Covariance Reaction Norm approach to test environmental dependence of trade-offs in great tits
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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Just a bit of snow during this and next week at our high elevation field site
5 months ago
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New paper from the lab by Ai Ana Richmond - stronger associations with the locations used in serial reversal learning improves performance.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Client Challenge
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-02024-2
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Lynda Delph
7 months ago
Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.
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Just some snow coming to our high elevation field site next week, just as we were preparing to test our chickadees. Now we have to take a short break before 'diving' into all that snow.
7 months ago
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Johanna Mappes
7 months ago
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
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Journal of Animal Ecology
7 months ago
đȘč In new research, Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offspringsâ body size traits in two woodland passerines. đ Read the full paper here âĄïž
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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8 months ago
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here:
chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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Journal of Avian Biology
7 months ago
NEW PAPER: how bird diets and gut microbiomes shape each other: synthesizing how diet drives microbiome shifts, how microbes may steer diet choices, and outlining key questions and methods for studying dietâmicrobiome links. âĄïž
vist.ly/4gjuw
#ornithology
#birds
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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW
8 months ago
New publication: Phenological Plasticity and Its
#Temperature-Related
Drivers in Common
#Songbirds
Across Europe.
#climatechange
#phenology
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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The American Genetic Association
8 months ago
Modular genetics drives behavioral diversity in this iconic species. Paper here:
doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author:
scholar.google.com/c...
#JHered
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EvolDir
8 months ago
The University of Miami seeks a Robert E. Maytag Chair of Ornithology, an Associate/Professor role for renowned avian researchers. Apply by Jan 10, 2026. More info:
https://www.biology.as.miami.edu
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Department of Biology | College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biology | College of Arts and Sciences
https://www.biology.as.miami.edu
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Andreas Nord
8 months ago
I am recruting a
#postdoc
for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in
@erc.europa.eu
project
#HotLife
. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and applyđ
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here:
chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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Ben Sheldon
9 months ago
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in
@biology.ox.ac.uk
in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Michael Reichert
9 months ago
Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word.
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Michael Reichert,
[email protected]
Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $85,000 - $8...
https://jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-biology-stillwater-oklahoma-united-states
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Devi Satarkar
9 months ago
New preprint! đȘ¶ We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent đŁ đđ„âïž With
@davididiaquez.bsky.social
@iremsepil.bsky.social
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Elli Leadbeater
9 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence
youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY
@royalsocietypublishing.org
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Sequences and animal intelligence
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY
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PLOS Biology
9 months ago
@sonjawild.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
&
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
show that young
#GreatTits
, which have limited
#ParentalCare
, learn to solve a foraging
#puzzle
socially, but rather than parents, siblings & non-parental adults are preferred role models
@plosbiology.org
đ§Ș
plos.io/46JZn6n
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Sonja Wild
9 months ago
Out today in
@plosbiology.org
(1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits đŠđ§© Link to study:
10.0.5.91/journal.pbio...
Co-authors:
@lucymaplin.bsky.social
@galarconnieto.bsky.social
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New paper from the lab by Angela Pitera (last chapter of her PhD dissertation!) showing that food-caching chickadees rely on their own spatial memory when learning a spatial task and not on social learning.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Social group membership does not facilitate spatial learning of fine-scale resource locations - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
While many animals use social information to discover novel food sources, the importance of social information availability in the process of learning and remembering specific, fine-scale resource locations remains unclear. Benefits of using social information may vary with an individualâs ability to learn and remember resource locations and environmental conditions. We experimentally tested whether animals use social information from group mates to find and learn resource locations using wild, food-caching mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli). We tested spatial learning and memory performance by tasking birds with learning the location of one rewarding feeder out of eight using two treatments: (1) birds in the same social group shared the same feeder and (2) social group members had to learn different feeders. We found no evidence that access to social information from close social associates facilitates spatial learning and memory as there were no differences in performance between treatments. Most chickadees used personal information to find their feeder, but there were low and similar rates of social information transmission for both treatments. Our results suggest that chickadees use social information from conspecifics regardless of group membership or familiarity but primarily rely on independent learning and personal information when foraging in a familiar area.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03655-8
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