Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Haemosporidian parasite infections in Spanish Sparrows Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis of the Western Palaearctic link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎧Jetzt reinhören bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur: @tannebergerf.bsky.social erklärt, wie Moor-, Klimaschutz und Landwirtschaft sich verbinden lassen. 🎧Zur Folge: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/moorschutz-w...

Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱 Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!? #Neuroethology 🧠🧪 Please share widely 🫶

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

Celebrating the curiosity, courage and brilliance of women and girls in science today and everyday👩‍🔬✨️🙌

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬 A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️ ##WomenInScience

All of the Reviews and Commentaries in our new Special Issue, Sensory Perception in a Changing World, are available for FREE! tinyurl.com/5t3mkrny

>140y Natural History Museum, 80m specimens, >300 scientists, >5m visitors per year. Enjoyed so much being one of them today! "Fixing our broken planet" is a great exhibition bringing solutions close to our lives. Found it particularly brave to address the carbon footprint of pets. @nhm.org

girl power for the win! amazing, appreciative, brave, clever, curious, creative, funky, funny, inspirational, persistent, supportive, stubborn (if needed), wonderful, visionary – and simply the best #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenInScience thank you!

Prof. Dr. Miriam Liedvogel Explores bird migration by linking behaviour and genetics to uncover how migration is controlled at the molecular level. @genmig.bsky.social

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

A bit of data from @bvdbirds.bsky.social paper tracking UK wintering birds with geolocators. The 'end date' of their autumn migration to the UK spans the month of Oct onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited about this seminar!

Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen. Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15! isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi... @isme-microbes.bsky.social

Proud to present: Suitcase Science, a new outreach format containing 6 assignments to take on a journey to schools in the region, to teach kids about terns, how to study them, their fascinating behaviour and some of the things that threaten them. Wanna book us? Drop me a line. :-)

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project focusing on adaptation and genetic basis of embryo size in Drosophila using our new large particle flow cytometer. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

A richly rewarding two days reviewing @ifv-whv.bsky.social: thriving under the brilliant leadership of Sandra Bouwhuis & Miriam Liedvogel. An exciting programme of research into avian migration & life histories with many future stars. Outstanding @commonternproject.bsky.social museum by frozen sea!

🧬 Excited to present some of our recent research on 🐦‍⬛: (1/3) Contrary to expectations, migratory Eurasian blackbirds had longer telomeres than residents at a major stopover (Helgoland), despite similar mitochondrial DNA copy numbers 🔗 #OpenAccess nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

There's one month left to get in your application for the WOS Mentoring Program! Students and early-career professionals in #ornithology can receive full funding to attend #AFOWOS2026 plus a range of networking and professional development opportunities.

The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it powers itself with a flood of sugar, and this may have evolutionary benefits

I could give you a great summary of our new warbler diet paper… but if a picture says a thousand words, this awesome graphical abstract by @rushstudio.bsky.social tells the whole story. 🦉🧪 academic.oup.com/auk/article/...

Fox on ice

A few less frequent (for us) visitors whilst doing the Big Garden Birdwatch today. Male Blackcap pictured, also Goldcrest & LTTs seen.

The 2026 Workshop on Genomics comes to an end! It has been two intense and inspiring weeks of Genomics in Český Krumlov. We hope everyone is going back home with a renewed excitement for science and new friends and collaborations around the world! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

And what can be found inside

Assessing the accuracy of species tree reconstruction using dependent gene trees evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIEvolBiol/... New recommandation made by Hirohisa Kishino from PCI evolutionary Biology : evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIEvolBiol www.biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/1...

📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

"Research is messy. … Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice." On #InternationalDayOfEducation, take a look back at this Working Life essay on teaching students about scientific failure. https://scim.ag/4sTaQcH

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

#ornithology academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

NEW PAPER: vitellogenin expression and DNA methylation in the VTG2 promoter changed between pre- and early breeding in dark-eyed juncos, indicating that liver epigenetic regulation may contribute to seasonal timing of reproduction. ➡️ vist.ly/4nzre #ornithology #birds #epigenetics 🪶

Come join us in beautiful Stockholm! A fun project using a cool system in a great place with an amazing supervisor - so many reasons to apply 🐟 🇸🇪

Out in @natcomms.nature.com, a collaborative paper showing that, across 73 species (including common terns), warmer years are associated with earlier phenology, and that populations in which such an association was observed have often been stable or increasing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you need something positive in your life right now, then how about nominating one of your favorite researchers for an award?? The Animal Behavior Society's Career Award nominations are due January 15th! Find more info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-c...

The University of Vienna awards at least 20 four-year and full-time (40h/week) postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, and economics.

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Gull-billed terns for the win! Anna’s final PhD chapter published in Evol Applications doi.org/10.1111/eva.... Thanks to all lovely collaborators, especially @commonternproject.bsky.social @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social @robertrollins1892.bsky.social & @dornitholges.bsky.social for funding

Out now in ‘Evolutionary applications’, the last chapter of Anna’s PhD thesis, in which she used whole genome sequencing data of contemporary and historic European gull-billed terns to assess whether the population decline in part of their range has had genetic consequences: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

Unpaid, but a wonderful place to be. www.welshwildlife.org/volunteer-sk...

🧪📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵 * one early-career, * one from the forestry sector, Please see details on the link below. Closing 30 Jan. ➡️ www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car... #forestry #plantsci #trees

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... 1/9

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

*First preprint from our lab* !!!!! How does the brain learn to anchor its internal sense of direction to the outside world? 🧭 led by Mark Plitt @markplitt.bsky.social & Dan Turner-Evans, w/ Vivek Jayaraman: “Octopamine instructs head direction plasticity” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread ⬇️

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

I saw a lot of people posting their favorite cover songs and thought I’d add mine to the mix

10 more days to apply for this postdoc position.