One week in, 149 birds have been registered. Among them is 25-yr-old Roy, currently the oldest bird of the population, after most other elderly terns died during the HPAI outbreaks of 2022 and 2023.
Gracias @gorizaola.bsky.social y @arandanera.eurosky.social por la difusión y el interés! :)
🧬 New study!
How do mitochondria change across life? We tracked mtDNAcn within Zebra finches and found early-life decline and links of mtDNAcn to late-life flight performance
#Ornithology #Physiology #Mitochondria
@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @ifv-whv.bsky.social
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
A stylised colour logo of a house sparrow - the text reads "Oslo Sparrow Meeting 2026"
Do you work on #Passer #sparrows ? We want to bring together all sparrow researchers in a diverse array of fields. If you're interested then please join us for the Oslo Sparrow meeting in May! See here: www.mn.uio.no/cees/english... - sign up deadline fast approaching. Please share!
Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)
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...
Black and white bird perched on a branch, singing, with foliage in foreground.
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Reproductive consequences of mate retention and divorce in a short-lived migratory passerine | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Daniel R. Rodríguez-Solís, Iraida Redondo, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Carlos Camacho, Jaime Potti, David Canal | #ornithology 🪶
a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript
the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock
Aquatic Warblers on the Move (AWOM) is a multi-country LIFE project that aims to restore Aquatic Warbler staging and wintering areas, including Doñana.
From @ebdonana.bsky.social, researchers will assess its habitat use with highly innovative technology, among other studies.
www.awomconference.com
Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly.
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
Poster advertising doctoral positions in 2026 at the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology.
Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
We are looking for a PhD student to join the Animal ECO Urban group (University of Granada).
Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds*
Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:
unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Collage de ilustraciones coloridas relacionadas con la ciencia y la educación. En el centro aparece el logotipo de “Artículos científicos para tod@s”, con un libro abierto del que surgen símbolos científicos (átomo, ADN, microscopio, ecuaciones, etc.). Alrededor se ven varias imágenes: una persona pensativa con frutas y verduras, un paisaje glaciar, monedas sonrientes luchando contra un virus, rocas y montañas, un equipo de científicos trabajando juntos, un paisaje desértico al atardecer, capas geológicas de la Tierra y un fondo espacial con asteroides. El conjunto transmite ciencia accesible, divulgación y aprendizaje.
Nace articulosparatodos.unizar.es un #proyectoFECYT para ofrecer recursos científicos adaptados a docentes.
Dirigido por @orogenia.bsky.social del #IUCA y con la participación de investigadores como nuestra compañera @amorenocab.bsky.social
@articulosparatodos.bsky.social
@ipe-csic.bsky.social
Great opportunity to get involved in a beautiful project merging archaeology and avian ecology! For avian ecologist/modellers. Deadline 30th October!
archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
Two weeks left to apply for our graduate school IMPRS-BI and join us as a PhD student! Find out more: imprs-bi.mpg.de
Special thanks to @mtangili.bsky.social @markravinet.bsky.social , Jesús Martínez-Padilla, and other co-authors!
@ec.europa.eu #MSCA
@ipe-csic.bsky.social @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social @mncn-csic.bsky.social
Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How does the brain maintain dormant core abilities even when they're not used? A new study in female canaries shows that their neural circuit for song learning remains intact throughout life, even though the females usually never sing.
Read more: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-10...
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...
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social
We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
New out @royalsocietypublishing.org PRSB: Birds developing in cold snap-like conditions downregulated mitochondrial heat tolerance. Alarmingly, this response was asymmetrical: growing up in a heatwave did not protect your mitos from overheating 😱 🐣🌡️@biologylu.bsky.social #OroborosI
shorturl.at/QN52A
II Bioblitz #URJC 🐦🦇🦎🐸🦋🐞🌷🌳🍄
El 30 de abril se celebrará la 3ª edición del Maratón de Biodiversidad en el Campus de Móstoles. Se tratará de identificar el mayor número de especies posibles
¡Y con premios a los participantes!
A las 10h frente al Aulario II para dar comienzo a la jornada. ¡¡Apuntaos!!
Our next seminar @EvoZooDeb :
A Unified Model of Ageing
James Wordsworth, Newcastle University
The seminar will take place in the Life Sciences Building of the University of Debrecen, room F.201, 24 April 2025 at 12:00 CEST
Live on Youtube:
youtube.com/cha.../UCIeGGr…