Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

As well as @markspa.bsky.social's great thread, read a summary of @markspa.bsky.social and @euantheyoung.bsky.social paper doi.org/10.1098/rspb... on older sibling associations with younger sibling here: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

1st PhD paper from @yuhengsun.bsky.social 🎉 Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population @jj255.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Pre-print by MSc student Mariia Vlasova with @yuhengsun.bsky.social and Janet Chik: Parental age effects on offspring telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🎉

Congrats 🎉 Sarah Worsley "Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population" ISME Communications doi.org/10.1093/isme... @chuenlee.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social

Great to have the opportunity to share our group's work at #ESEB2025 @yuhengsun.bsky.social @euantheyoung.bsky.social with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @yagmurerten.bsky.social

Telomere length declines with mean blood lead concentration in an urban passerine' doi.org/10.1016/j.en... 👏 Janet Chik!

Apply for a PhD with us!: 'Multi-dimensional population projections and management of wild bird populations' @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social Deadline 29th June. www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @vvenhorst.bsky.social @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social

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Broken families can have huge effects on children, even later in life. But is that the case in species other than humans? Read my latest article in the ‪@aunz.theconversation.com‬ on mate switching effects in offspring of the ‪@seychelleswarbler.bsky.social‬ 👇 theconversation.com/the-chicks-a...

What an honour to receive the NWO Athena Award on Wednesday at NWO Life. Congratulations to NoGutsNoGlory @umcgroningen.bsky.social for the NWO Communication Award. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic event!

Ever wondered how divorce affects offspring fitness? @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social Check out our new paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @friggspeelman.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social

Some excellent facts and fun relating to this wonderful bird. An iconic example of how science and conservation can work hand in hand! Delivered by those doing the work! @chuenlee.bsky.social @clairetsui.bsky.social Alessandro Pinto pintofscience.co.uk/event/the-fa...

Check out @yuhengsun.bsky.social first pre-print from PhD 🎉: Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population doi.org/10.32942/X2Z... @terryburke.bsky.social @jj255.bsky.social

We're recruiting - funded PhD "Adaptive social flexibility – a powerful mechanism to cope with a rapidly changing world" @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social Deadline 20th April www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

"Many, and perhaps most, members of our academic community do not understand [the benefits of publishing] in society-based journals ... compared with for-profit journals from companies like Springer Nature, Frontiers, Wiley, and Elsevier." 🧪 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Happy to share our new paper about working part-time in academia. We hope it can help to get the conversation going about this important aspect of EDI and research culture elifesciences.org/articles/106... @elife.bsky.social @emiliapsantos.bsky.social @englishse.bsky.social @hammofish.bsky.social

Congratulations Dr. Chik on defending your PhD thesis yesterday on "The evolutionary and ecological drivers of senescence in two wild passerine systems" 👏🎉 doi.org/10.33612/dis...

It was great fun being a guest on the ‘In Science’ podcast. Happy International Women’s Day for tomorrow!

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Our new paper, using shotgun metagenomics on the gut microbiome, shows small but interesting longitudinal changes with age in a natural population. 🧵1/5 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

1/11 New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

Congratulations @chuenlee.bsky.social 😊

New paper: causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔. This papers highlights the shortcomings of studying divorce to date and provides methods to address them. Plus some new insights on divorcing in birds! See 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

A lovely feature in iflscience on the causes of divorce 💔 in Seychelles warblers! 👇👇👇 www.iflscience.com/why-these-li...

This work is co-authored by @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, David Richardson, Jan Komdeur, and Terry Burke

Then, we studied divorcing using long-term data of @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social addressing all these shortcomings, and found that divorce is related to male age, pair-bond tenure, and reproductive success, but that there are no strong fitness consequences to divorce

We addressed 5 shortcomings: (1) divorcees and widows and (2) initiators and victims of divorce are not disentangled, (3) consequences of divorce and widowhood are not studied together (4) long-term consequences and (5) age-dependency of divorce are not addressed

Great thread by @friggspeelman.bsky.social explaining new paper on causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔 in @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social 👇

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Welcome to Bluesky @naturesey.bsky.social !!

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

I’m delighted and honoured to be one of the two NWO Athena Award winners 2024! www.nwo.nl/en/news/meet...

🎉Janet Chik's @evolletters.bsky.social paper is out on Genotype x Age effects on telomere length in Lundy house sparrows academic-oup-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/evlett/advan... @jj255.bsky.social

Listen to Frigg Speelman speaking on ABC radio national drive about the love life of the Seychelles warblers: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Find out more about the Seychelles warbler project by following us @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social

Want to know how divorce in birds is associated with rainfall? 💔🌧️ Frigg Speelman wrote a piece (in non-scientific jargon!) theconversation.com/divorce-in-s... about our recent paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Important to assess whether narrative CVs help or hinder peer review. Here’s a first step in answering the question from DORA sfdora.org/2024/11/05/n...

Congratulations Agus Bentlage on first-author paper from your MSc thesis 🎉 - rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks to the organisers of the 17th International ITU Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress for a fantastic meeting

Always a delight to find the California acorn report in your postbox 😁

Why do birds build their nest in a certain location within a territory? Insight from the Seychelles warbler: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

Well done Frigg Speelman - 3rd pre-print of PhD is out showing a surprising lack of parental mate-switching effects on Seychelles warbler offspring fitness components doi.org/10.32942/X2B...

Our paper led by Sarah Worsley is out in Molecular Ecology! We find limited evidence of changes in gut microbiome diversity or composition with age or time to death in adult Seychelles warblers; environmental effects were strongest predictors doi.org/10.1111/mec.... @charlisdavies.bsky.social

Our paper is out in Mol Ecol, led by Janet Chik! We found adult telomere length was positively linked with survival and lifetime reproductive output in the Lundy house sparrows🐤🧬 @jj255.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Congratulations to Alex Sparks 🎉 #TopCitedArticle in Molecular Ecology dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Check it out: first #preprint of Frigg Speelman’s PhD ‘Causes and consequences of divorce in a long-lived socially monogamous bird’ #seychelleswarbler doi.org/10.22541/au....

Congrats to Arne van Eerden on this #preprint 'Nest-site selection and nest predation in a tropical passerine in relation to food, friends and foes' #seychelleswarbler doi.org/10.32942/X28...

Huge congratulations to Agus Bentlage on pre-print from his Masters project 'Rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler' doi.org/10.32942/X21...