A photo of a podcast being recorded in a room. The two hosts are sitting at the table with the guest, listening as he talks enthusiastically. There’s three microphones standing on the table, one for each person, and a small camera pointing at the guest. A pack of snacks and a few cups of tea or coffee can be seen at the table.

🔬🎧 In Science Podcast: Roelof Hut about biorhythms in humans and animals

🧪 Interested in #Chronobiology? Listen to our #GELIFES researcher talk about #Biorhytms in the podcast by @rug.nl, with the hosts @wimbrons.nl and Hanna van Loo!

👉 Check it out here (in Dutch): www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

A picture of a Seychelles warbler sitting on a tree, with a few colored rings around its legs. | Image by Hannah Dugdale

🐦 Island birds reveal a link between immunity and gut bacteria

🧪Researchers on Cousin Island, including two professors from #GELIFES, discovered a connection between #GutHealth and the #ImmuneSystem – thanks to the Seychelles #warbler!

🔬🔗: rug.nl/research/gelifes/_news/2026/20260312-komdeur

Larger broods beg more, parents feed more – but chicks still grow more slowly, suggesting that the energetic costs of competition are to blame. 🐣
brill.com/view/journal...

@gelifes.bsky.social @rug.nl

Proportion of time spent on each behaviour by chicks in small and large broods divided in the age categories of the chicks.

New research in #Behaviour: “Begging efficiency rather than food received causes brood size effect on growth in zebra finches” by Marianthi Tangili, Michael Briga and Simon Verhulst.
@mtangili.bsky.social

📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change

Apply before 31 Mar 👇
werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten...

#Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm

🧪 New #Ecophysiology article in the Journal of Experimental Biology alert!

Very excited to share that the paper of our researcher, Ellie Laetz, was published in their new issue, with a photo of the study making it to the cover!

Big thanks to @jexpbiol.bsky.social 🤝 Read the article below!

It was! 🥳

But in all seriousness, very interesting article. Human brains are amazing, and people who study them are too :)

Future me, was my guess correct?

That seems like a very interesting documentary! Will it be available online sometime after the screening? We'd love to see it for ourselves 😊

This is already tomorrow! ⬇️⬇

It's insane that no matter how many animal species from the past we keep discovering, there are still so many previously unknown ones that keep popping up 😅 I wonder if at some point we'll find any other herbivore species from even before that time.

#gelifes #khmw #universityofgroningen #fsegroningen #ecnp #science #scienceandsociety #scicomm #sciencecommunication #research #researchimpact #researchtosociety #psychiatry #neuroscience… | Groningen... 🎖️ GELIFES’ researcher appointed as a scientific member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities 🎖️ The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KMHW) was established in...

Our researcher appointed as a member of the #KHMW 👏

#GELIFES is happy to announce Dr. Martien Kas, a researcher of Behavioural #Neuroscience and #Neurobiology, as one of the 28 new scientific members at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2026!

Read more at our LinkedIn page ⬇️

Congratulations on getting featured in the journal! It's really nice to see awareness being spread on important topics like this one 🙌

An image divided into three sections, featuring a tree reef at the bottom of the sea. The text below states “Tree reef development over time”. The section on the left shows an empty tree reef on sand and rocks. The middle section shows the same tree reef after some time had passed, with some sea creatures making a habitat on it, and a little bit of green growing. The right section shows the tree reef full of green, with sea life swarming on and around it, indicating even more time had passed.

🧪 Dr. Dickson’s thesis explores tree-reefs and their potential to partially mimic historic #ecosystem services provided by sunken wood. Read it here if you’re interested in #MarineEcology and #ConservationEcology ⬇️⬇️

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Cover page of the dissertation: an image of chopped trees going down the river and into the water, with multiple “zoomed in” sections showing how driftwood and its effects are fundamental for life at sea. The text in the left corner reads the title of the thesis: “Sunken driftwood, A lost ecosystem”, and the name of the author below it: “Jon Dickson”.

Congratulations, Dr. Dickson! 🥳

Last month, he successfully defended his #thesis on #MarineRestoration and #Ecosystems – “Sunken driftwood: A lost ecosystem” 🌊

It was a pleasure to work together, and we can’t wait to see more of Dr. Dickson’s scientific journey. Cheers! 🏆
#PhD #PhDLife #PhDDefence

🧪Open #Postdoc position: Facilitating and monitoring agroecological living labs in the North of the Netherlands

🌱Contribute to #SoilHealth, facilitate innovation & science-based solutions
🌿PhD in #Agronomy, Agroecology, #EnvironmentalSciences, or Socio-Economic disciplines needed
📅Deadline: Feb 1st

📢Hiring a #Postdoc: Agroecological assessment of farm business models in bird conservation areas

🐤Are #BirdConservation and #NatureConservation your thing? Do you have a PhD in #Agronomy, #Agroecology, #EnvironmentalSciences, or Socio-Economic disciplines?🌾

Waste no time, apply before Feb 1st! ⬇️⬇️

Those are very interesting insights! I wonder what environmental factors might have something to do with it, hopefully the study will allow researchers to further investigate this topic 🤔

🙌 New project on #BiomarkerResearch featuring our #GELIFES researcher and funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social – will #Biomarkers finally be considered in #Psychiatry?

See the press release: www.ecnp.eu/news/press-o...

#MentalHealth #MentalDisorders #Depression #Psychosis #Anxiety #Neuroscience 🧪

That's great news! It's good to see more knowledge become available through open access 🙌

🔔 Update: A new #PhDPosition at the University of Groningen (@rug.nl)! If you:

🧪 have a Master's in #Biology
🌱 are interested in #PlantBiology, #Physiology, and/or #MolecularBiology

Then this is a perfect opportunity! We at #GELIFES are looking forward to working with you 😉

#PhD #PhDLife

Great website! I love that it has a section that helps narrow down the plant family if you're unsure which plant you're looking for 🥰

Way too late for the actual event, but I have to compliment the visual – very fitting and pleasant to look at!

We always need more research facilities focusing on the #environment and #sustainability 👏 Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing their work :)

Cover page of the dissertation: the image of the earth on the background with icons of a bird, a drone, and two destination points. The foreground is blue, with an image of a bird on the front and the text containing the title of the dissertation and the name of the author. Title: "Bird’s-eye views: tracking landscape change through remote sensing imagery and movements of Black-tailed Godwits" Author: Taylor B.Craft

📢 Upcoming PhD Defence alert!

Bird’s-eye views: tracking landscape change through remote sensing imagery and movements of Black-tailed Godwits.

📍 De Beurs, Leeuwarden | 💻 Join online at video.rug.nl/media/Promot...

🕒 22 Jan, 11:00

#PhDDefense #PhD #PhDLife #Ecology

Just stumbled upon one of the later #MethodMonday posts of yours, and I have to say, it's a very interesting idea!

It's always nice to see information on research become more accessible to the public (and to the researchers & institutions who are curious about others' methodologies 😜)

Unfortunately 😭 I do hope we'll get to see less species become endagered, especially the ones we have only just discovered, though!

Very interesting article! Looks like biochar indeed has potential, let's see what the future brings 👀

*Reads the first sentence*
Oh, a bird species we haven't heard of before, that's cool!

*Starts reading the article*
"A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction."

🥲

🧪Did you know that #beetles 🐞 can compensate for a poor #NutritionalEnvironment experienced during sexual maturation? 🤔

Read this #publication to know all about this ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72210

#LifeHistory #BuryingBeetle #NutritionalStatus #EvolutionaryEcology #Ecology #SciComm