Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Happy to see our paper on heavy metal pollution and the sexually-selected egg coloration hypothesis in flycatchers is now officially part of this cool special issue 💙 #MSCA

🧵THREAD: (1/7) Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is one of biology's most measured traits. We argue it isn't the constant baseline it's assumed to be. Our preprint discusses how sleep-wake cycles create a 'metabolic mosaic' that requires us to rethink how we interpret SMR. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies. 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social

2 new papers now out in #ES&T on the persistent and multi-generational impacts of flame retardants on behavior and brain biology Press release from ‪@ucdavis.bsky.social‬ ‪@ucdaviscaes.bsky.social‬ that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨 "Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change" Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n #ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

NEW PAPER: Human-driven changes can harm birds but may also elicit compensatory mechanisms. A call for lifelong, transgenerational, multidisciplinary research and suggestions for experimental designs to help advancement in the field ➡️ vist.ly/445yv #ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

We are happy to announce that the Faraday Discovery Fellowships are now open for applications. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more on now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

The extended chemical defensome: emphasizing mechanisms of defense as key research avenues to tackle priority questions in environmental toxicology Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social 👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

In a world where multiple stressors collide, we often focus on their negative impacts on animals 🐟🐸🐢. But what if, under certain conditions, one stressor protects against another? Read our latest paper: dx.doi.org/10.1093/conp... @conphysjournal.bsky.social from our @sebiology.bsky.social session!

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇 📸G. Casbas doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

Predictive framework for estimating the risks to raptors from ecologically relevant exposure to second generation anticoagulant rodenticides www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #RaptorResearch #Ornithology

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Updated deadline to October 15th for our Special Issue on ontogenetic variation in thermal biology! @thermal-biology.bsky.social

Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be? The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Tiny #spiders, huge impact! Meet #MermessusTrilobatus – a North-American dwarf spider that has stormed across #Europe in <50 yrs. We follow every silk thread of its success story 🕸️✨ Swipe through this thread for the highlights! #InvasiveSpecies #Ecology

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

New paper out! To Peck or Not To Peck: The influence of early-life social environment on response inhibition and impulsive aggression in Japanese quails royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Had an absolute blast at the @sebiology.bsky.social annual conference in Belgium this past week. Loved chairing our session on animal cognition, presenting results from my MSCA project, and spending quality time with many wonderful friends and colleagues #SEB2025 #SEBconference

We have a new paper out on the genetic vs. environmental drivers of cognition along an urban gradient: doi.org/10.1007/s100... @lauragervais.bsky.social @dhanyabharath.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social @denisreale.bsky.social #inhibitorycontrol #greattits #animalcognition

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

Meta-analytical evidence for the endocrine-disrupting properties of mercury exposure in wild birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

New paper in @pnas.org — and this is my favourite one out of my PhD thesis! Field transplants of wall brown butterflies show life history evolution during climate change-driven range expansion, BUT non-evolving winter tolerance still sets the range limit.🧵1/12. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A new paper from the lab led by Blake Dusang & @marquisehenry.bsky.social builds on past work & finds not all "neophobia" tests measure the same trait. Specifically, responses to novel objects & novel environments were not consistent within individuals: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We’re hiring a postdoc (2+ years) in macroecology and macroevolution in my new lab at CZU Prague: www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_...

A fun day at the Finnish conference for Environmental Sciences - happy to have presented results from my @ec.europa.eu #MSCA project & to have been part of a very exciting lineup of talks reuniting both fundamental and applied ecotoxicology (with a touch of pollution memes)

This is going to be a very neat project for a talented postdoc. Based in a great group and building on a large collaborative research effort under the www.waakvogels.nl project. Check out the vacancy below! #ornithology #movementecology

Our fieldwork on brood parasitism of common cuckoos started well, with so far 11 caught individuals! When catching these charismatic birds, there are usually also interesting bycatches :) @ivb-cas.bsky.social @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @lisandrinamari.bsky.social

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper @natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen @annahandreassen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🐟🦑

I am looking for a MS student to take on a project. We have samples already collected, and there is opportunity for more field work. California resident is preferred (fees for non-resident and international students are too high IMO). Repost please. #ecology #physiology #ornithology #grad

Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Faculty is happy to receive expressions of interest for this call. 5 years salary and funding and we seek to find space in our budget for employment beyond that. No firm commitment needed at this stage. Email or DM me if even slightly curious #NewAdventure?

Lab animals deserve enriching environments, but what if our efforts to help unintentionally cause harm? In our ES&T perspective, we explore how leaching plastics and plastic additives may impact fish health, and your experiments...

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

About 15-20 yrs ago, a bunch of reviews (inc. 1 by me) made predictions about the future of genomics in conservation. 1 yr ago at ICISB, Robin Waples assessed which of those predictions had been fulfilled. Sam May & Sam Rosenbaum now led the effort to turn this into a review: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

New from the RummerLab at @jcuofficial! Our latest @JEBiology paper explores how physiology 🧬🧪🔬👩🏻‍🔬 can drive smarter, climate-ready conservation. 🍃🌊Bridging lab science + real-world action! 🌏 🔗📄Read it here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... #conservation #climatecrisis #Ecophysiology

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Cognitive Science folks, do you have a few minutes to help us create a pool of words that describe aesthetic experiences in science? Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8... Please share for wider participation!

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/...