Power is not the ‘probability of obtaining a statistically significant result.’ It is this probability only if the true effect is equal to the alternative hypothesis used for power calculation and if all model assumptions are correct. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

New Job in software development available at @vogelwarte.bsky.social: please apply before March 22. #python #django #typescript #javascript

New Paper alert 📄 Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks" -> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are hiring! 🙂 We are looking for a research assistant to help analysing movement and demographic data of little owls! 🦉 @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology tinyurl.com/9k6rj6rx

A successful study should result in useful information about how compatible the data (and background assumptions) are with values large (or small) enough to be deemed practically important. Giving less power to statistical power doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Verschwendung (" #Muda") in und durch Meetings kann unterschiedlichste Gründe haben – angefangen bei Teilnehmern, die eigentlich "fehl am Platze" sind über unnötige Reisezeiten uvm. Wie man Besprechungen #lean​er gestaltet und Verschwendung möglichst vermeidet: die-computermaler.de/lean-meetings/

New research just out in J Evol Biol: led by @lbliard.bsky.social with @jsmartin.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social & Arpat Ozgul using the very cool Covariance Reaction Norm approach to test environmental dependence of trade-offs in great tits academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

🐣 Excited to share our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61... #software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

Enjoyed reading this Perspective from Tautz and colleagues which calls for a re-engagement on the part of classical genetics with the realities of complex phenotypes as revealed by quantitative genetics academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

NEW PhD opportunity in #ornithology to investigate how much energy migratory birds require throughout the year based on #telemetry data: buff.ly/JXnVciF

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

Emil Mallmin and colleagues at MPI EvolBio show that simple ecological models can reproduce real-world species abundance patterns—and help identify when ecosystems are fragile vs. resilient. Read and find out more here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3865637/news...

Beyond Mendel: a new genetics agenda Most traits aren’t “one gene–one trait”. A Genetics perspective calls for new experimental paradigms to capture polygenic effects in real environmental context—backed by large-scale automated phenotyping and new infrastructure. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3866699/news...

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

New paper published! 🧬🐥🦠 Host WGS data can be repurposed to uncover endoparasite diversity at low cost, without destructive sampling, and outperform 18S metabarcoding. We test it in silvereyes. This work was led by PhD student Sarah Nichols @biology.ox.ac.uk www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds

2025 Georgina Mace Review now out in #ProcB - How monitoring matters for nature #conservation: 15 reasons framed in a theory of change #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Based on thousands of citizen-science observations across Italy, our study shows that many hunted game bird species 🐦 start their pre-breeding migration earlier than reported in the European Commission’s “Key Concepts Document” (KCD) 🇪🇺 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

House Martins are declining in Switzerland. To help them, our team conducted a study and recommend installing artificial nests withing 500m of occupied sites and using playback of conspecific vocalizations. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8

Have you read our recent paper looking at how #COVID19 #lockdown changed foraging behavior of #redkites in Switzerland? 🦅 (🧵⬇️) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @vogelwarte.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) population in northwestern Italy over two decades | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Giulia Masoero, Alberto Tamietti | #ornithology 🪶

Temporal Changes to Migratory Fuel Load in Migratory Birds Across Europe 🔗 buff.ly/9kTG82B

Since 2021, HPAI outbreaks have affected unprecedented amounts of bird and mammal species throughout the world. In a new study @jappliedecology.bsky.social we show how to quantify these demographic impacts—and reveal severe effects on an atypical host: the peregrine falcon. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Phenological Plasticity and Its Temperature‐Related Drivers in Common Songbirds Across Europe 🔗 buff.ly/9UXQdSb

🎉 New article out: 🎉 Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin population in northwestern Italy over two decades 🐦 doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... @bou.org.uk #ornithology #climatechange #OpenAccess

🌺🥤Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant–pollinator networks 📷 © Stéphane Aubert vist.ly/4g9h5 #Hummingbird #NectarRobbing #Pollination #TraitMatching

Schon angemeldet? Die BirdLife-Naturschutztagung am 22. November bietet die Möglichkeit, trockenen Fusses nasse Lebensräume zu erkunden. Sie macht versteckte Interaktionen zwischen Wasser und Land sichtbar und fördert dein blau-grünes Netzwerk. Anmeldung bis 14. Nov: www.birdlife.ch/de/content/t...

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Exciting science news on plumage colouration and genetic variation from our colleagues!

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

Matrilines attack, for the hosts there is no hope. Egg kaleidoscope. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I did something very special this week. had the big honour to speak at the opening of ‘#Johtingeaidnu – The Path Within’ a prize winning art exhibition of Emilia Tikka with Oula and Leena Valkeapää. special, because the opening speech I was asked to give should be on #epigenetics -

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Great article on the work of @genmig.bsky.social and others: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...