The 2026 Lance-tailed Manakin webcam is live! Pro tip: click 'watch on you-tube' and scroll back in time to find the action, (today, see 8:23am). Or just enjoy the sounds of the tropical forest and see what's going on NOW in the world of the manakins. www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-t...
Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
A new documentary "Secrets of The Bees" will air on National Geographic on 31 March and land on Disney+ on 1 April and our bees are in it! See here for the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej2...
Figure showing how the correlation between mass and recruitment in Wytham Great Tits depends on environmental conditions - in particular note switch from almost none to very strong with increasing population density
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-...
Just a bit of snow during this and next week at our high elevation field site
New paper from the lab by Ai Ana Richmond - stronger associations with the locations used in serial reversal learning improves performance.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ellen Ketterson smiling while holding a plate with cake frosted in cream and crimson.
A cake with cream and crimson frosting and a frosting photo of Ellen from the early ‘90s. ‘Happy Retirement Ellen’ is written on the cake.
Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.
Just some snow coming to our high elevation field site next week, just as we were preparing to test our chickadees. Now we have to take a short break before 'diving' into all that snow.
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
🪹 In new research, Vatka et al. investigated how changing food abundance affects evolutionary potential of offsprings’ body size traits in two woodland passerines.
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/bXGpbPC
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
Fig. 1 from the article: Hypothesized bidirectional pathways connecting the gut microbiome and diet in wild birds.
Fig. 2 from the article: Proposed methodology of DNA extraction, PCR, and amplicon sequencing to characterize aspects of avian diet and gut microbiome from the same fecal sample. Researchers can also use the same DNA extract for microbial metagenomics, and they can perform an RNA extraction on the same fecal sample for transcriptomics analysis.
NEW PAPER: how bird diets and gut microbiomes shape each other: synthesizing how diet drives microbiome shifts, how microbes may steer diet choices, and outlining key questions and methods for studying diet–microbiome links.
➡️ vist.ly/4gjuw
#ornithology #birds 🪶
Figure 1 in Cuchot et al. (2025): "Locations of constant capture effort sites (CES). Colors represent the number of years of monitoring per site. Map lines delineate study areas and do not necessarily depict accepted national boundaries."
New publication: Phenological Plasticity and Its #Temperature-Related Drivers in Common #Songbirds Across Europe. #climatechange #phenology
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
yes :)
Winter field work as usual
Modular genetics drives behavioral diversity in this iconic species.
Paper here: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Corresponding author: scholar.google.com/c...
#JHered
The University of Miami seeks a Robert E. Maytag Chair of Ornithology, an Associate/Professor role for renowned avian researchers. Apply by Jan 10, 2026. More info: https://www.biology.as.miami.edu #job
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word. jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...
Got some snow
a 14 day old great tit nestling, ringed for individual identification
Figure from the paper showing that extreme climatic events interact with ambient climatic conditions and breeding timing within a season, in a developmental stage-specific manner, to influence nestling growth in great tits
New preprint! 🪶
We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️
With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Selection Shapes Animal Minds: In our next highlighted talk recording, Johan Lind explores sequences and animal intelligence youtu.be/BnjO7-glLOY @royalsocietypublishing.org
