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Studying the macro eco-evolutionary dynamics of birds.
https://claramuntlab.org
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Kevin J. Gaston
8 days ago
How should the discipline of ecology and the community of ecologists respond to the ecological crisis? Is it time that these were put on something more akin to an emergency footing?
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BOU
11 days ago
🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
onlinelibrary.wiley....
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
14 days ago
NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Mizuno et al.
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Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits
Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) are fundamental tools for understanding trait evolution across species. While linear models are widely us
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf116
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Andrew Straw
19 days ago
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey
#bees
🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dongmin (Dennis) Kim
23 days ago
Preprint! Ever wondered why individuals within the same species migrate differently? Or what drives some animals to become partial migrants? Then, this paper is for you! Our new paper synthesizes the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape partial migration. Link:
doi.org/10.22541/au....
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Understanding partial migration: linking genetic, developmental, and environmental drivers
Partial migration, where some individuals in a population migrate while others remain resident, arises from the dynamic interplay of multiple non-exclusive eco-evolutionary mechanisms. These mechanism...
https://doi.org/10.22541/au.176463855.58122192/v1
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Lukas Musher
24 days ago
I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jeremy M. Brown
25 days ago
A quick reminder for everyone registered for SSB2026: please take a moment to complete the survey to submit lightning talks, sign up for workshops, and indicate your interest in other meeting activities. If you haven’t filled it out yet, today’s the day! We're excited to see you all in January!
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Alberta Claw
26 days ago
New possible stem-falcon Masillaraptor buchheimi:
deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/616a40...
🪶🧪 (📷Li et al.)
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Alberta Claw
26 days ago
Fossil birds from the Quaternary of Brazil, with insights into the geologic age and ecology of the extinct vulture Pleistovultur:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🪶🧪 (📷da Costa et al.)
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Victor Luque
about 1 month ago
We got published in Ecology&Evolution! We propose an equation from which we derive the fundamental equations of population ecology and evolutionary biology (the Price equation).
#evobio
#philbio
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Joseph Tobias
about 1 month ago
Wutt!? New ecosystem service just dropped. Birds are fungi dispersers! And, even better, tapaculos are truffle dispersers! My week is complete.
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Colin Allen
about 1 month ago
Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2025/380/1939
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Alessio Capobianco
3 months ago
I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (
@heckeberg.bsky.social
,
@basantakhakurel.bsky.social
, Gustavo Darlim, and
@hoehna.bsky.social
)!
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Our synthesis on patterns of bird diversity and diversification dynamics in South America is available online:
books.google.com/books?id=lyi...
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New Perspectives in Ornithology
People have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology. Research q...
https://books.google.com/books?id=lyiUEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA190&dq=info:TNbzITIh3fAJ:scholar.google.com&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q&f=false
about 2 months ago
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Lukas Musher
about 2 months ago
Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in
@systbiol.bsky.social
.
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Sebastian Schreiber
about 2 months ago
Yes - isometric scaling as a way to understand the benefits and costs of being small versus large. Haldane's Harpers article from 1926 is an amazing example of popular science writing.
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Szymek Drobniak
2 months ago
Continuing our series on difficult comparative models - and how to address them properly - we’re happy to showcase another study, this time in
@jevbio.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
We will guide you through a series of increasingly complex models, from binary, through ordered to
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Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits
Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) are fundamental tools for understanding trait evolution across species. While linear models are widely us
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf116/8276732
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Brian J. Enquist
3 months ago
This looks to be a fundamental theoretical advance by
@jpodwyer.bsky.social
et al. Using linkage disequlibrium-based Ne to back out σ² and then predict fluctuation sizes from a single temporal snapshot is a real advance for broad application 🧪🌐https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu6396
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Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest
Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu6396
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Alex Tomlinson
2 months ago
Juncos and ginkgos! 🐦 🍂
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ignacio quintero
2 months ago
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02873-7
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Ryo Yamaguchi
2 months ago
New review out! With students in my lab, we explore how population size shapes speciation—from drift in small populations to selection in large ones. Do small or large populations speciate faster? The answer is more nuanced than you might think.
esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge
Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas...
https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1438-390X.70008
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BOU
2 months ago
Linking habitat preferences and fitness across scales for a relict bird species of the southern Andes |
www.nature.com/artic...
| Scientific Reports |
#ornithology
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Ben Sheldon
2 months ago
Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from
@louisbackstrom.bsky.social
et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Jeremy M. Brown
3 months ago
Ok, we're down to the last 10 (!) spots available to register for
#SSB2026
in Baton Rouge in January. Who's in?
ssb2026.github.io
@systbiol.bsky.social
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Matthew Hahn
3 months ago
The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of: 1/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
3 months ago
A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.
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Current Biology
3 months ago
Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/obituaries/jane-goodall-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.uhQ3.RD92BtqgJsHG&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Dr. Jessica L Ware
3 months ago
Join us! We are hiring a new
#curator
at the
#AMNH
in
#Vertebrate
#Zoology
careers.amnh.org/postings/4600
#academicjobs
#tenuretrack
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Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology
The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...
https://careers.amnh.org/postings/4600
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Evolution Meetings
3 months ago
1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest!
www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
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The Society of Systematic Biologists
3 months ago
Due Monday - don’t hesitate!
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Wilson Ornithological Society
3 months ago
The ever more detailed data coming from bird tracking devices is letting researcher gauge whether migrating birds are threatened by offshore wind development.
#ornithology
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Scientists Can Now Track How High Songbirds Fly Over the Ocean—a Potential Lifesaver
Researchers are gathering new insights that improve migration science and may help make offshore wind energy more friendly to small birds with big treks.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/scientists-can-now-track-how-high-songbirds-fly-over-ocean-potential-lifesaver
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
3 months ago
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url:
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How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf047/8253815
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World
3 months ago
SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE Brutally hot night in PARAGUAY🇵🇾: Minimums up to 28.6C, but next night is the goat.. and can be the hottest September night in all Hemisphere history ! In ARGENTINA🇦🇷 Monthly record broken at Oran with 42.3C Tomorrow will be historic
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Joanna Masel
3 months ago
Our new paper
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
develops a Grand Unified Theory including both exploitative and interference competition
doi.org/10.1086/737628
. The R* rule of ecology (that 2 species cannot coexist on a single resource), is widely broken, including via a new trade-off we describe. 1/9
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A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence | The American Naturalist
Abstract Many ecological models treat exploitative competition in isolation from interference competition. Corresponding theory centers around the R* rule, according to which consumers that share a si...
https://doi.org/10.1086/737628
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Royal Society Publishing
4 months ago
New from
#BiologyLetters
: Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses
buff.ly/abJm5Zv
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#Evolution
#Palaeontology
#Taxonomy
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Marie Monniaux
3 months ago
Check out this cool work from
@crouxevo.bsky.social
and others, congrats!!! 🥳 Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals
Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2356
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BOU
3 months ago
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion |
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
| Ecology and Evolution |
#ornithology
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Patrick McKenzie
4 months ago
super excited to share this big project with
@daeaton.bsky.social
out now in Systematic Biology! We derived distributions for -- given an arbitrary species tree model -- how far you have to move along a genome before observing a change in the underlying genealogy:
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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Estimating waiting distances between genealogy changes under a Multi-Species Extension of the Sequentially Markov Coalescent
Abstract. Genomes are composed of a mosaic of segments inherited from different ancestors, each separated by past recombination events. Consequently, genea
https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf059
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Josef Uyeda
7 months ago
Unsolicited listicle: My list of the most criminally underused/underappreciated phylogenetic comparative methods. Note, I am not involved in ANY of these methods; but I see them as things people are often asking of comparative data but have been surprised at how infrequently they have been cited.
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Excited to share our new paper on flight morphology and migration in North American wood warblers. Surprisingly, ground-dwelling warblers may be better adapted for migration than aerial ones!!!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Morphological adaptations for migration in North American wood-warblers (Aves: Parulidae) - Journal of Ornithology
Migration exerts a selective pressure for increased flight efficiency and reduced energy expenditure in long-distance migratory birds. In North America, eastern migratory flyways are longer and requir...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-025-02324-x
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Cody Limber
4 months ago
My feather cell type paper is finally out!
doi.org/10.1111/ede....
We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!
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Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity
We used single cell sequencing to investigate the cell types of developing chicken feathers. From these data, we are able to describe the transcriptional profile of feather cell types, look at their ....
https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.70016
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Alberta Claw
4 months ago
Ecomorphology of the bird lumbosacral organ:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🪶🧪 (📷Pelletan et al.)
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
4 months ago
C. Zhang, R. Nielsen and S. Mirarab integrate all ASTRAL-like methods into a single package called ASTER, comprising several tools that collectively enhance the scalability, accuracy, and versatility of species tree inference. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf172
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#molbio
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ASTER: A Package for Large-Scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions
Abstract. Many algorithms are available for inferring species trees from various input types while accounting for gene tree discordance. Several quartet-ba
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf172
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Martin A. Nuñez
5 months ago
🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉
mybook.to/ScienceGuide
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Jeremy M. Brown
4 months ago
Registration is now open for
#SSB2026
! I'm so excited to see many of you here in Baton Rouge in January! We're going to hear great talks, discuss the immeasurable value of natural history collections, and continue to strengthen our scientific community.
ssb2026.github.io
@systbiol.bsky.social
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BOU
4 months ago
Linking performance to powerhouse: mitochondrial aerobic metabolism in blood cells reflects flight endurance of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) |
royalsocietypublishi...
| Biology Letters |
#ornithology
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Gustavo A. Bravo
4 months ago
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds | Biology Letters
The ability to unequivocally identify the sex and reproductive status of individuals is crucial across many fields of study. Recent evidence indicates that avian sex determination is more flexible tha...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0182
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W. P. Mueller
5 months ago
#ornithology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02811-7
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Wilson Ornithological Society
5 months ago
A recent study of seabird collisions with human-made structures published in the WJO turned up over 400 such incidents, involving seabirds including pelicans, gulls, and even albatrosses.
#ornithology
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Guest Post – Anthropogenic Structures: Unseen Killers of Seabirds
Collisions with anthropogenic structures may pose an underappreciated threat to seabird populations.
https://wilsonsociety.org/2025/07/28/guest-post-anthropogenic-structures-unseen-killers-of-seabirds/
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