New paper on the link between FKBP5 expression and risky foraging in house sparrow. Low FKBP5 expression is associated with increased risk taking. Also confirming correlation between blood and HPA axis regulatory region expression with @martinlabusf.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing #academicSky theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Chinese national interested in a PhD with fish? Join our lab with a fully-funded PhD from the CSC and UoB. Success rates are high if you're eligible. More details, including application link (deadline 1st December!) here: ioannougroup.com/china-schola... @asab.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems? Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪 Please repost!

Join our Student Course in Behavioral Biology in Paris. 5 invited talks on exciting topics in animal behavior, and round table discussion on AI. Free of charge, registration before 31 Oct (in person) and 12 Nov (online participation). Please RT. www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/pages/IFE.20...

The 8th International Student Course in Behavioural Biology organized by IFE will be held on November 17th-18th 2025. Join us on Condorcet campus (Aubervilliers) or online it's free!!!! leec.univ-paris13.fr/pages/IFE.20... @leec-uspn.bsky.social

Only one day left to apply for this 5 year Postdoc. Everyone with experience in electrophysiology and a keen interest in #neuroethology is welcomed to apply. More infos about our lab can also be found here: www.spatial-navigation.com 🐝🧠🇩🇪

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

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

New preprint out from the lab, including @rroyaute.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this we test what we refer to as the "standard model" of behavioral variation. This was inspired by recent work identifying intra-genotypic variation as a major contributor to "individuality". 1/

The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

👀 👀 Attention potential post-docs! Stengl-Wyer Scholars are three year post-docs to develop independent projects at UT. If you would like to talk about potential projects please get in touch!

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

New PhD position available on blackpoll warblers with fieldwork in the boreal forest and tropics. @audubon.org @birdscanada.bsky.social @vtecostudies.bsky.social

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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

Présentation d'article d'ethologie par les étudiants de L3 psychologie de l'USPN dans l'UE Ethologie et Ecologie Comportementale

Présentation d'article d'ethologie par les étudiants de L3 psychologie de l'USPN dans l'UE Ethologie et Ecologie Comportementale

Présentation d'article d'ethologie par les étudiants de L3 psychologie de l'USPN dans l'UE Ethologie et Ecologie Comportementale

Présentation d'article d'ethologie par les étudiants de L3 psychologie de l'USPN dans l'UE Ethologie et Ecologie Comportementale

Présentation d'article d'ethologie par les étudiants de L3 psychologie de l'USPN dans l'UE Ethologie et Ecologie Comportementale

When the same data tells a different story… 📊🔍 You’d think analyzing the same dataset would lead to the same conclusions, but our new BMC Biology study shows otherwise. Different methods - different answers! Why? It's complicated... My experience in the study → 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/02/06/w...

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Take hundreds of biologists to analyze the same data and you find a wide variability of outcomes. It shows the influence of analytical decision on outcomes and that no single analysis could be considered a complete or reliable answer to a research question bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Great PhD opportunity with great colleagues. Join us!

Great collective work leaded by @mccainkailey.bsky.social comparing different populations of native and non-native house sparrows royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to start August 2025 at the University of Oklahoma to work on a project focused on hormones, neurogenomics, and behavior in birds! If you’re interested in applying or want more information, please see here: tinyurl.com/5758784p.

Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Hi bird people! Anybody knows if there is some field evidence of continued skeletal growth in birds? I have some starling data that suggests so for beak and tarsus length and cannot find much elsewhere. Thanks in advance!

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

I'll be defending my research Habilitation (HDR) on February 1st at 2pm (Paris time). A zoom link will be available if interested (request by dm).

We’re soliciting submissions for our exciting new special feature on genomic forecasting at the American Naturalist. Anyone working on empirical studies, methods, or theory are welcome to submit. Check out the link below for more details

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Great seminar by Lars Chittka showing how bees are amazing.

New preprint with Blanca Jimeno and Marty Martin on the potential role of HPA flexibility and FKBP5 in wildlife, causes of among and within individuals variations and how it could affect fitness in response to HIREC such as urbanization doi.org/10.32942/X22S4P

The IFE students international course is on at campus Condorcet. Starting with Wolfgang Goymann presentation on sex roles in coucals

I have 2 FULLY FUNDED ornithology-related M.S. opportunities that start Summer or Fall 2024! 🐦‍⬛ Check them out on Texas A&M job board or my website (link in bio). Looking forward to your application! 😁

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ANOTHER very cool climate/bird paper out today, with critical insight into effects of cold snaps/heat waves on bird reproduction across North America. Birds tracking average temperatures cannot simultaneously track thermal extremes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...