Part 1: Common cuckoo fieldwork in the Czech Republic is always rewording. All the species were sampled for their gut microbiome for @suviruuskanen.bsky.social With @rytikerttunen.bsky.social , @lisandrinamari.bsky.social and @ivb-cas.bsky.social

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #efp2026

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Great bird science starts with great methods 🐦🔬 We are pleased to announce the launch of a new article type: Methods and Tools Read more here: vist.ly/58ckm To help launch our new article type, we have put together a Virtual Issue: vist.ly/58cki #ornithology #methods #tools

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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

We are hiring a curator for the ornithology section at the @leibnizlib.bsky.social in Hamburg. Please apply or share: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/careers/j...

1/6) What if aging begins, in part, as a bargain made in youth? In turquoise killifish, editing vgll3—a gene linked to puberty-timing in humans and salmon—revealed one of the first causal single-gene examples of antagonistic pleiotropy in vertebrate aging 🧵

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

In our recent @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we test how air temperature during development influences the ontogeny of heat and cold tolerance, using our trusted quail population 🐥🐦 We draw four main conclusions 🧵 shorturl.at/JZpSr

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Excited to see our review out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social on the importance of mitochondrial DNA introgression for conservation! This is the first of my @formasforsk.bsky.social projects on mtDNA introgression in salmon! Big thanks to the great co-author team! Link: tinyurl.com/mtDNA-introg...

New paper accepted in Proc B! 🎉 We disentangled how heatwaves affect maternal egg care in earwigs. We found that mothers adjust care depending on both their own heat stress and the stress of their eggs, but these effects act independently rather than interactively. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Where do Finnish reed warblers come from? 🪺🌾 Find out more about Nora Bergman's work on our latest blog post! www.informedbirds.com/blog/Blog%20...

📣 #PhDOpportunity in Geelong, Australia Ever wondered how urbanisation affects sleep in birds? 🐦 Interested in #behaviouralecology and #biologging? Come and work with me and Kate Buchanan at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social! Applications close 31 May Details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

We have an Optics Loan Scheme! Open to members & non-members, the scheme offers the chance to borrow optical & acoustic monitoring kit from HQ: www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/gettin.... Why not try out binoculars, telescopes, a tripod or even an AudioMoth for your next birding trip? #opticsloanscheme

We're hiring! 🔬🏔️ Looking for curious, open-minded, and multidisciplinary #PhD candidates to research at the intersection of #mitochondria, #metabolism, #imaging & #physiology, with the #Alps as a backdrop. Sounds like you or someone you know? Link below! @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

Calling #WildlifeRescue centres across Europe! Do you have data on #swifts? We’re studying how heatwaves affect rescued chicks, and we’d love to collaborate. Quick survey, no data sharing yet. Info: giuliamasoero.github.io/project/resc... #Ornithology #ClimateChange @alecorr-castro.bsky.social

#fieldwork time! This season, led by @mariaagc.bsky.social we study effects of gut #microbiota and its #metabolites, #SCFAs on earlylife #energetics & development of #thermoregulation. W @charlisdavies.bsky.social @antoinestier.bsky.social @lisandrinamari.bsky.social Stijn Kouwenberg, Mia Valome

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me. South African Citizen or have a valid work visa. science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/... #Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology

I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our new study shows that CONSPECIFIC BROOD PARASITISM is extremely rare in BARN SWALLOWS. We revealed mixed maternity in only six of almost 2000 broods. This strikingly contradicts previous studies that demonstrated parasitism based on unusual egg-laying patterns. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This #PhilTransB theme issue, organised by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, explores how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Living in #Yorkshire? Looking for opportunities to help local #wildlife and community-based #conservation? We're seeking #volunteers to help with our new #COEXIST project to monitor human-wildlife conflict in the UK. See advert below ⬇️🌳🦡🦌🦊🦜🦫

Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :) nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

cat's out of the bag (for a couple months now) - very happy to return to research on thermal stress/tolerance/plasticity, this time with birds!

(2) Maria Correia studied the effects of #microbiota produced #metabolites, particularly short-chained fatty acids (butyrate) on #mitochondria, whole animal #metabolism and cold tolerance, via experimental supplement. Massive amount of data collected, super well done!

Meanwhile, lots of great things happened. During the winter we ran 3 major experiments focusing on understanding the role of #microbiota on #thermal #physiology in birds. Stijn Kouwenberg studied consequences of locally adapted microbiota on cold tolerance via reciprocal microbiome #transplants (1)

New paper on common cuckoo behaviour is out! When cuckoo females parasitize a nest, they always take an egg out. And we found that they strongly prefer red over green experimental eggs. Check what we think about it: doi.org/10.1016/j.be... @lisandrinamari.bsky.social

Have any of your biologging devices ever failed? ⁉️ If so, we’d like to hear from you! 👂 Researchers at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, are investigating biologger device failure rates to help improve research practices. 🎓 The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete: forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVB...

A new issue of #PhilTransB celebrates variability in animal #physiology research. Read #OA: buff.ly/mAzN7wF

My lab’s first publication is out now! MSc student Tia Attfield reviewed the current captive rearing literature in salmonids and provides perspectives on how epigenomics can help. Huge thanks to all our co-authors for their expert insights! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔈Really happy to see this one ⬇️ out! 🎉 Great to see this compilation of studies finally published. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and the team @avianbiology.bsky.social who made this possible! Editorial: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Ornithology #Physiology #Migration

In a reply to Guevara-Fiore, L.A. Rueda, F. Vargas & I wrote a commentary (doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arag008) claiming, based on our own experience 🐸, that studies on nat. hist. & behaviour can be conducted in forested areas within university campuses or woodlands by relatives' homes, and on ⬇️💰(4/5)

In a follow-up essay (also in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf125), P. Guevara-Fiore wrote about what it means to turn to Natural history in practice, particularly for scientists working in countries with limited research capacity and Early Career Researchers. (2/5)

Few days left! PhD available at Wageningen University&Research for an exciting project on Cognitive Fish Welfare 🐟 How environmental enrichment shapes behaviour, cognition & physiology in farmed fish. Supervisor Prof. A. Kotrschal; co-supervisor Dr. L. Pettinau. Please repost! #Fishsci

NEW in Journal of Vertebrate Biology: We video recorded 284 common cuckoo parasitism events and showed that cuckoo females do not use their "bubbling" call as a counter-defence strategy in two warbler hosts in Europe and Asia doi.org/10.25225/jvb... @czechacademy.bsky.social @ivb-cas.bsky.social

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

🚨New paper out now! Excited to see this commentary, led by @shaunkillen.bsky.social, showing that social context is key in comparative physiology and must be integrated! Read more here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #ComparativePhysiology #Behaviour #Ecophysiology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @jexpbiol.bsky.social

Hot off the press 🐣 Do birds have any idea of what their eggs look like? Contrary to our expectations, we show that barn swallows don't, nor do they learn it over time. Yet that doesn't stop them from successfully ejecting foreign eggs! 🔗 Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #OpenAccess

Hot off the press 🐣 Do birds have any idea of what their eggs look like? Contrary to our expectations, we show that barn swallows don't, nor do they learn it over time. Yet that doesn't stop them from successfully ejecting foreign eggs! 🔗 Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #OpenAccess

Using gen AI means sacrificing accuracy for convenience. Its purpose is to cut corners. If that’s how you roll, science has no need for you.

New paper out!! In this review, we discuss what really is SMR when we take into account the sleep state dependent partitioning of the processes that make up this baseline value, and how do we move forward with the assumption SMR isn't a static value..... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...