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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!
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.02.722414v1
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Joshua Weitz
18 days 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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Jørgen Søraker
18 days ago
New paper out in Biological Reviews📝🚨 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? 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds
Extra-pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecol...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70178
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David López-Idiáquez
24 days 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 2ºC 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
28 days 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
about 1 month 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
about 2 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
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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
2 months ago
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Lars Chittka
3 months ago
A new documentary "Secrets of The Bees" 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
3 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
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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
4 months ago
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Lynda Delph
5 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.
5 months ago
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Johanna Mappes
5 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
5 months ago
🪹 In new research, Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings’ body size traits in two woodland passerines. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️
buff.ly/bXGpbPC
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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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6 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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7 months ago
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Journal of Avian Biology
6 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 diet–microbiome links. ➡️
vist.ly/4gjuw
#ornithology
#birds
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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW
6 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
6 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
6 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
7 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 apply👇
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
7 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
7 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
7 months ago
New preprint! 🪶 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 🐣 🌍🔥❄️ With
@davididiaquez.bsky.social
@iremsepil.bsky.social
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Elli Leadbeater
7 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
7 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
🧪
plos.io/46JZn6n
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Sonja Wild
7 months ago
Out today in
@plosbiology.org
(1/5) Siblings and non-parental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits 🐦🧩 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.
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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 individual’s 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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My take on the amazing paper by Hanna Payne and Dmitriy Aronov on activation of hippocampal place codes by gaze in food-caching chickadees.
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-68156-001
8 months ago
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Gabrielle Davidson
8 months ago
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
. Informal enquiries welcome!
drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
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Elli Leadbeater
8 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel)
@zegnitriki.bsky.social
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...
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The fish challenge to vertebrate cognitive evolution
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?feature=shared
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Elli Leadbeater
8 months ago
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: next up in our highlighted talks from last year's Royal Society Discussion Meeting is Michael Sheehan (Cornell) talking about pop gen approaches to the evolution of cognition
youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ
@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
@royalsocietypublishing.org
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Mutational origins and selection dynamics of cognitive traits in animals
YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal minds
https://youtu.be/VIlSj5lwSMQ
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Elizabeth Hobson
8 months ago
Congratulations Dr. Sanjay Prasher (recent Hobson Lab PhD) on a new publication! We explored how memory, attention, and social preferences affected social plasticity, using an agent-based modeling approach.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
(or message me if you want a pdf!)
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Lauren Whitenack
9 months ago
Do you like baby birds? Fun photos and stories about chickadees in my latest guest post at Wing Beat, the blog of the
@amornith.bsky.social
. This post accompanies our recent paper on postnatal dispersal and recruitment in mountain chickadees 🪶
americanornithology.org/hatch-early-...
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Hatch early and eat well: Patterns of juvenile dispersal and recruitment in Mountain Chickadees from a long-term study - American Ornithological Society
Being a fledgling is difficult—and dangerous. The vast majority (~80 percent) of young birds do not survive this stage, succumbing to predation or starvation. What might give a vulnerable fledgling a ...
https://americanornithology.org/hatch-early-and-eat-well-patterns-of-juvenile-dispersal-and-recruitment-in-mountain-chickadees/
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EvolDir
9 months ago
The Smithsonian's NMNH is accepting applications for various fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. Projects using NMNH resources are encouraged. For details:
https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP
#postdoc
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Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)
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https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP
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Scott Taylor
9 months ago
🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Nice blog by
@laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
about her recent paper on phenological flexibility in mountain chickadees.
communities.springernature.com/posts/mounta...
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Mountain chickadees are flexible in their breeding timing - but early breeding is best
Animals living in highly variable or changing environments face a challenge: each year, conditions during the reproductive season may be different. Do animals such as mountain chickadees living in har...
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/mountain-chickadees-are-flexible-in-their-breeding-timing-but-early-breeding-is-best?utm_source=digest_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_digest
9 months ago
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José Cerca
9 months ago
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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New paper from the lab by
@laurenwhitenack.bsky.social
Breeding phenology and clutch size were repeatable within individuals, but no strong evidence for clear benefits of phenotypic plasticity in response to climatic variation.
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Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Phenological plasticity involves the ability of organisms to adjust the timing of life history events such as reproduction in response to different environmental conditions. Global climate change can ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03629-w
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Jennifer N. Phillips
9 months ago
WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist!
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
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Assistant Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...
https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Pullman-WA/Assistant-Professor_R-13692
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌
9 months ago
Using long-term data from individually marked songbirds, Vatka et al. discovered that breeding time trends are not attributed to an evolutionary change but phenotypic plasticity. Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Dissecting Factors Behind Temporal Trends in the Timing of Breeding in Two Songbird Species—Evolutionary Change or Phenotypic Plasticity? | The American Naturalist
Abstract Warming climate has led to significant phenological advances in many plant and animal populations. Whether these advances represent evolutionary responses or phenotypic plasticity remain typi...
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737024
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