Beccardi et al. Sex and age shape mitochondrial function in a long-lived seabird journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-... #ornithology #seabirds

On #endangeredspeciesday we’re highlighting two birds with declining populations that feature in our Wonder of Birds exhibition - inspired by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane's latest book The Book of Birds. Text from the @rspb.bsky.social and researcher @davididiaquez.bsky.social

Tit poker!

Something different to brighten my day

🇮🇹 GIRO D'ITALIA (8/5-31/5) | #Giro 📷 All stage profiles in 1 pic - v3.0 (final version)

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

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/...

Cool place, cool people, cool questions, cool system... what are you waiting for? Apply!

Birds don’t follow human calendars 🐦🗓️ New research led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social shows that Great tits in Wytham Woods are buffering the impact of a warming climate, maintaining a stable temperature at breeding despite the almost 2ºC increase in Spring temperature. Read more ▶️ bit.ly/4tzaxDM

Some new work from us, led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social (see thread ⬇️). We ask what happens if instead of measuring on calendar dates, we measure bird responses to climate defined by the temperature at which annual events happen. It turns out they keep stable T˚! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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/...

New paper on how an invasive parasite alters community structure - out now ahead of print in @animalecology.bsky.social! Co-led with Ryan Mohammed, with huge thanks to the very many interns who helped gather data over the years! A very brief thread on what happened and what we found out 🧪🧵:

One thing the review makes clear is just how much methods vary across studies: heating/cooling devices, box setups, temperature measurements, and reporting practices all differ, making comparisons difficult and leaving researchers with a confusing range of options when designing experiments 🤷‍♀️

Too hot to handle! Our pre print reviewing temperature manipulation experiments is out!

Planning a nestbox temperature manipulation experiment in birds? We’ve just published a preprint that may be useful! 🪺🪶 We review 46 studies and also share our own blue tit pilot experiment from Wytham Woods, highlighting some very real practical challenges doi.org/10.32942/X25387

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

🚨 Please share: PhD opportunity 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysical scanning 🌍 Field ecology & behaviour 📊 Big data & code with me & @geophysics-adam.bsky.social APPLY www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

First sight of a new generation... The first Great Tit eggs have hatched in Wytham Woods this morning.

Usually we put seminars on hold during the field season, but very pleased to have Alexandra Cones here giving a seminar as well as teaching a STAN workshop over the next couple of days; seminar details below - please share and feel free to join

Very pleased to welcome Dr Alexandra Cones (LMU Munich) for an EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 4pm this Friday 17 April. Alexandra will speak on "Embracing Complexity: Untangling sources of phenotypic variation across scales using birds" - also live-streamed: joining details below: ⬇️

📢Deadline approaching soon! Submit your abstracts by April 17! @nordicoikos.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social If interested in joining our symposium (with @davididiaquez.bsky.social), reach out asap!🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

for my followers who hold EU citizenship (and a conscience) to consider signing. "Democratic" isn't really the first adjective that comes to mind when I think of the EU, but this is one of the few democratic levers that we can pull to effect change. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

New seminar @igue-aeet.bsky.social tomorrow, with Pablo Capillas-Lasheras @ebdonana.bsky.social talking about phenotypic variation in urban areas. 16:30 (Madrid time, CET) Link in the image QR

Si pajareas por España, anímate a realizar esta encuesta de Ana Rivas para su proyecto de investigación sobre los perfiles, experiencias y dinámicas en la observación de aves, con especial atención a la participación y visibilidad de las mujeres en la comunidad pajarera: forms.gle/o9mU6cgUfVRh...

I’m excited to share the final chapter of my PhD published in #ProceedingsB @royalsocietypublishing.org ! 🌳🏙️🪺 We compared Great tit laying date responses to spring temperature between urban and forest habitats across five study systems : royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Ahead of this year’s field season, we’ve been busy installing SOPRANO devices at several of our sites. These devices automatically monitor biodiversity and climate, continuously recording birds and bats and sending real-time species identifications back to Edinburgh!🔈🐦‍⬛🦇

... Hearing actual birds is more soothing.

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...

Really excited to have presented work from my Master’s on the fitness benefits of polyandry at the #ASABSpring2026 Conference in Bristol - and proud to have won best student speaker! ✨ It was a great few days meeting other researchers and listening to all the exciting work happening in the field! 🦋

🎥🎞️The last EGI seminar of the term (but don’t worry, we will have one extra seminar in April), given by Jennifer Morinay on what determines helping behavior in long-tailed tits is now uploaded to our YouTube-page! m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wb2...

I was just thinking on connecting to the Tour of Flanders, just to discover that is next week! Saturday ruined :-(

Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…

If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference. There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!

New preprint from the fantastic @sarah-dobson.bsky.social !! Worried about assuming causality when estimating selection? Confused about knowing whether selection is hard or soft? We have the solution for you!

Next IGUE #UrbanEcology speaker online talk Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social ( @csic.es ) We will learn about the phenotypic variation in anthropogenic environments Save it to your 📆 drive.google.com/file/d/1DleV... @csicdivulga.bsky.social

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference. There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!

1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026 sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/ Join us for 3 days of cutting edge evolutionary ecology research in beautiful Cornwall this summer 🐬🏖️🏄‍♀️

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING! 🚨 Only 1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026! Submissions close April 1. All the details are at evoxeco.uk and below 👇

Worth giving this a look www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-v...

The last of what’s been an outstanding term’s @egioxford.bsky.social seminars this Friday. All planned and organised by DPhil students & postdocs. Many available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@EGIOxford

This week's EGI seminar (last this term 😢) will be given by Dr Jennifer Morinay from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on the factors affecting helping decisions in the Long-tailed Tit - the UK's only cooperatively breeding bird. Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk LT1 on Fri 27 Mar at 3.30. All welcome details ⬇️

Such a good EGI seminar from Innes Cuthill today on the ‘survivability onion’ - wide-ranging talk on defensive camouflage in birds, insects and more. One of those seminars that appeals across the department

In a return to his former stamping ground, this week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Innes Cuthill from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on how to understand defensive coloration - see if you can spot him in this old photo! Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 3.30 on Friday - joining instructions below ⬇️

Can you spot the bird in the picture? Really looking forward to the EGI seminar tomorrow that will be given by Prof Innes Cuthill on defensive coloration! Also streamed, so contact us if you want to tune in! Details below⬇️

Ecological harshness has a weak influence on reproductive trade-offs in a #greattit population: @lbliard.bsky.social et al. 2026: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Abstract submission is now open for the Nordic-Oikos-GfÖ conference taking place 14-17 September 2026 and bringing together +1200 ecologists! 👉 Submit your abstract here: vist.ly/4uzt9 We look very much forward to receiving your contribution!

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Theropods by Bryce Jones is the essential illustrated compendium of theropod dinosaurs, from the mighty Tyrannosaurus to fierce feathered raptors. Out now! Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Dinosaurs #Theropods #TRex

Not that easy being a toad @wythamwoods.bsky.social