#maltese geometry

Unfolding the folded streets of La Valletta #Malta #holidays #relaxatlast

I am just back from a wonderful few days in Sweden where I visited the incredible Lars Jonsson exhibition in Stockholm, and then his museum on Gotland. Absolutely mind blowing, the selection and range of work was just unbelievable!

Our recent paper now live in Frontiers in Zoology @springernature.com - we show how climatic trends affect reproductive success of flycatchers in the Gotland population (nearing 50 yrs of continued monitoring ;)) link.springer.com/article/10.1... @ioes-ju.bsky.social @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social

It's been a busy summer for our scientists. Several of them attended the #ESEB2025 conference in Barcelona.

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!

I keep saying scientists are amazing artists and again this tuned out to be true :) the art corner at @eseb2025.bsky.social organised by @evokeproject.bsky.social went great, I’m thrilled to see all your amazing pieces! If you’re interested in discussing art&sci in science communication or would

@eseb2025.bsky.social art corner goes well, it will be available throughout the conference. Join us, draw your science :) @evokeproject.bsky.social I get asked - what if I can’t draw? That’s even better! Trust me - your art will be more honest, and awesome. And we want to see it:)

At @eseb2025.bsky.social please go and visit the art corner organised by @evokeproject.bsky.social (6th Eseb art&sci corner!:)) It’s in the far back-right of the poster area. You don’t have to be an artist! No prior art knowledge required ;) just go there & draw/paint whatever portrays your science!

At @eseb2025.bsky.social - as during previous eseb conferences, we will try to express our artistic selves. The art&science corner available to all and ready to take your artistic visions of science will be live starting from Tuesday morning. More details soon, here and in the conference app.

📢Nowe zasady open access w NCN: większa elastyczność – ta sama idea. ❗️Z dniem 26 czerwca odeszliśmy od wymogu publikowania wyłącznie w otwartym dostępie, jednak nadal rekomendujemy otwarte udostępnianie wyników badań. Szczegóły➡ ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/... #openaccess #projektyncn

New OPUS in the Institute! Congratulations to @szymekdr.bsky.social ! PanColAvi: Ekologiczne i ewolucyjne uwarunkowania ubarwienia piór ptaków ponad kontekstem prostej reflektancji

So - on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, there’s a pair of gulls with a nestling they feed ;) the most famous gull couple in the world ;p #birdwatcherbelike #birdseverywhere #conclave #iseebirds Follow them here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNe...

#gotland #fieldwork Day 32: it seems our blue tits finally saw the feathers we left for them to choose from. This one used a lovely set of white (not ours) feathers with an eclectic set of blue peacock feathers :)

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25/06 wychodzi moja nowa książka: Gęsi odpoczywają na Gotlandii // my new book (sadly for now in Polish only;)) comes out 25/06 czarne.com.pl/katalog/ksia...

Stay away from the vortex ;) #fieldwork day 19th during the 2025 season of the #gotland bird project :)

At least half the male pied flycatchers back at East Dartmoor now, with some pairs starting nest building.

Safety and wellbeing during fieldwork has been recognised for decades as an issue for all kinds of reasons. Although we are still so slow in making any progress on this topic. It's never a priority and demands for change are resisted. An interesting recent update here undark.org/2025/04/17/o...

I love common species. I know rarities are the exciting ones but it’s the commonly seen ones that make up the backbone of our avian communities, both ecologically and acoustically. That is what I love checklists like this one, where after a short walk I have 21 species and counting :)

We’re piloting a new study - looking at aesthetic tastes of blue tits, and possibly visual style copying behaviour. Today we distributed artificial bird bodies (mimicking the usual source of feathers for BTs - dead birds and leftover feathers). We used feathers of peacocks, Japanese quails and

We are starting our new season #gotland2025 - with warm weather, birds already starting first nests, and a visit to a changed Fide Odvalds plot (see photo: they cut down some of the densest parts, in efforts (as I was told) to eradicate invasive Rubus species…). The highlight of today:

Temperatures are rising in the Netherlands and despite the very cold nights the first birds are laying eggs! 🥚🥚 First Great tit egg in the long term study this year was 30th of march which is a week later then the record first egg we had last year #breedingseason25

Czy jest szansa na "przywrócenie" do życia mamutów czy dinozaurów? O tym opowiada dr hab. Szymon Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social z Instytut Nauk o Środowisku UJ w najnowszym odcinku podcastu Przystanek #misjaUJ open.spotify.com/episode/6GAy...

One of my studies, written with wonderful @itchyshin.bsky.social Sammy Burke @patricepottier.bsky.social Trace Ainsworth & Losia Łagisz earned a #TopCitedArticle badge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... We showed that coral diseases may get upended by climate change, wiping out most of corals

How #genome-wide sequence divergence maps to species status www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #biodiversity #genomics

“Profound, harmful, and unnecessary errors”applies to all that the current administration has done so far: from foreign policy & relationship with allies to domestic policies incl dismantling the US science infrastructure once the envy of the world but now the subject of worldwide concern and pity.

🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege? 💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846 We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

I feel embarrassed I used to think this guy was smart and a visionary

Dark times in US science, I wonder when they notice science funding is not sth you can turn on and off at will

Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology [Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Spring develops quickly this year. A week ago our Bird ID in the Field class saw a pretty usual list of Great tits, Blue tits, Starlings, Blackbirds, Robins and Nuthatches along our usual walking trail. This week: we added Wrens, Robins, Fieldfares, Song Thrushes, Mistle Thrushes, Chiffchaffs,

The latest issue of @nature.com sports a charismatic cover image ooooof... A frog! :) our recent paper on amphibians and the ways global climate change is bound to affect them (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) found its way to the cover of Nature. 💜💚🐸

A new paper with @szymekdr.bsky.social and others ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We can now test adaptive radiation, pleiotropy or phenotypic integration beyond mean, co-divergence and "contra-divergence" of traits (see next) Probably my favorite contribution so far to Evolutionary Biology

Winter thaw in the Carpathians. Plus bullfinches, crossbills, willow tits, first yellowhammers and song thrushes, and a cute three-toed woodpecker ;) Radziejowa (1260 meters) was a formidable opponent but who could resist her…

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️ Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally. See the thread below for a digest 🧵 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Nature

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

Were back - now on Bsky, our Twitter account will stay on but posting moves here :) Follow us for Gotland news, blues and trivia

We're moving out of Twitter (tbh honest tits and collards never did much of any "tweet-tweet" chirping ;)) Follow us for news from the field, Gotland trivia and kuriåsa, recent papers and events - and more. Reach out if you're interested in collaborating, visiting Gotland and ouir birds or just

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

led by @mlagisz.bsky.social - an important message to all learnt society #EcoEvo royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

DNA break repair through recombination. This is so hypnotising and beautiful, but also a striking testament to the power of biological evolution. Nothing is impossible. youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs?...

Do your (often subjective) choices done during data analysis change their outcomes? Unfortunately and strikingly 🤯 yes! A stellar team of authors (the paper resembles some of CERN outputs in terms of authors number ;) clearly shows that biases may be severe! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Experimentally mimicking 30 years of Magallana gigas infections with the OsHV-1 virus reveals evolution through positive selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637049v1

Interested in using comparative mixed models to analyze categorical/ordinal data? Have a look at a preprint, freshly published via #EcoEvoarXiv with @itchyshin.bsky.social Losia Łagisz & Ayumi Mizuno. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/o... Multinomial models are notoriously difficult to analyze. We hope

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