Super happy to see our new paper out in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
today! We found that cocaine pollution affects salmon movement and space use in the wild!
Big congrats to the team for this huge effort!
@michaelgbertram.bsky.social
Find the paper here: tinyurl.com/cocaine-fish
We are looking for a full-time, permanent, animal caretaker in Wilhelmshaven.
Work with songbirds & quail in an international research team:
- Bird care & welfare
- Breeding programs
- Hand-rearing chicks
- Husbandry & hygiene
- Data records
More info: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/institute...
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y
#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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📢Deadline approaching soon! Submit your abstracts by April 17! @nordicoikos.bsky.social @gfoesoc.bsky.social If interested in joining our symposium (with @davididiaquez.bsky.social), reach out asap!🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉
Interesting work showing that mtDNA copy number is associated with flight performance! This got me thinking about the idea that mitochondrial bioenergetics and mtDNA variation may influence state–behaviour feedbacks - something we explored in our recent TREE paper (tinyurl.com/mtDNA-behaviour).
🧬 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...
The museum we designed and built at the field site, to share both our view on, and growing knowledge of, the Banter See common terns now has a sign, and is open for business. Opening times can be found here: www.wattenmeer-besucherzentrum.de/flussseeschw...
This was a great team effort with @miguelhergon.bsky.social, Winnie Bonner, @eivimeycook.bsky.social and Pat Monaghan.
🧬 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...
Great experience at the @eoufledglings.bsky.social meeting in Gdańsk #EOU26, presenting my research on seasonal changes in prolactin levels in magnificent frigatebirds and how mercury-induced disruption of this parental-care hormone may contribute to the emergence of disease outbreaks
A fascinating plenary at #EOU26 by Miriam Liedvogel (@genmig.bsky.social)
Uncovering the mysteries of migration through work on blackcaps, and ending with an important reminder: the need for outreach and communication beyond academia, especially with children.
Inspiring on many levels.
With @mmoiron.bsky.social, we are organising a symposium on Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a Changing World at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference.
There are still a few spots left, so if you are doing research on eco-evolutionary dynamics and would like to contribute to the Symposium, contact us!
Next IGUE #UrbanEcology speaker online talk
Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social ( @csic.es )
We will learn about the phenotypic variation in anthropogenic environments
Save it to your 📆 drive.google.com/file/d/1DleV...
@csicdivulga.bsky.social
First page of the review in Journal of Avian Biology entitled: Oxidative costs of migration: infections as an added burden by Michi Tobler and co-authors. Inlcudes journal banner and doi-link
Nice to see our review out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! Flight is costly - but so are infections. We argue that infections may be a substantial, yet mostly overlooked, source for oxidative stress in migrating birds.
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
#Migration #Birds #OxidativeStress #Ornithology 🪶 🧵1/5
Massive thanks to @danielwanoble.bsky.social and @gwendeconninck.bsky.social for some awesome quality of life additions to metRscreen (a shiny app for paper screening in R).
Now updated:
github.com/EIvimeyCook/...
New publication alert! 🥳🍾 With Prof. Dr. Kraiczy's lab, we asked how natural genetic variation affects the function of immune modulatory Borrelia proteins and if this could influence how pathogenic the populations are to humans. Out now in Scientific Reports:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🌊 read the story behind Dr Arostegui's paper, "cranial endothermy in mobulid rays: evolutionary and ecological implications of a thermogenic brain", shortlisted for the 2025 Elton prize!
📝 buff.ly/gIM2qpc
Preview of the website, with the example of Acadian flycatcher sightings in Western Palearctic, with maps of records, a picture of the species and additonal statitics to help looking for the bird durinf the year.
Finally managed to push a new update on my website, the Phenology of rare birds of the Western Palearctic today!
tony-rinaud.shinyapps.io/WP_rare_birds/
New items are rare birds sightings from rarity reports of Poland, Switzerland, Malta, Faroe Islands and Syria.
Enjoy this interactive website!
Brilliant work by Devi!
Catch me on BBC Wales (March 11) - radio, news and website - covering our recent paper on pet-flea treatments, sheep-dip chemicals and some surprising revelations about how they reach streams and rivers
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy
#EcoEvo #evolution
Special issue flyer. Photo shows bar-tailed godwits (image: iStock)
Editorial team behind the special issue: Tiia Kärkkäinen, Pablo Salmón and Barbara Helm
Figure from the editorial: Features and topics of the studies included in the Special Issue. (A) Global distribution of studies with Flyway System boundaries and names defined according to BirdLife International. The circle size represents the number of studies per country. (B) Taxonomic composition of studies grouped into broad species categories. (C) Distribution of studies across physiological domains addressed in this issue. Each category represents a primary focus, although several studies span multiple topics.
✨ Editorial: a summary and synopsis of the studies included in the special issue on migration physiology written by the editorial team @pablosalmon.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social #TiiaKärkkäinen
➡️ vist.ly/4ucex
#ornithology #birds #migration #physiology
🔈Really happy to see this one ⬇️ out! 🎉
Great to see this compilation of studies finally published. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and the team @avianbiology.bsky.social who made this possible!
Editorial: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Ornithology #Physiology #Migration
Cover credit and caption: Migratory birds face the complex challenges of migration with an array of physiological adaptations, exemplified clockwise: thermoregulatory, endocrine, microbial, energy metabolism (fuel use), immune and mitochondrial. Water colour painting of a bar-tailed godwit by Abby McBride.
✨ New Special Issue Out!
"New frontiers in avian physiology: what’s migration got to do with it?"
This special issue highlights emerging frontiers across scales, from molecules to whole organisms, in relation to the physiological mechanisms behind birds’ migratory feats
➡️ vist.ly/4u94s
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female blackcap with its characteristic brown cap
happy international women's day
(c) of the beautiful female blackcap @co-la.bsky.social
“Empowered women empower women.” 👭
As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked our fantastic senior female scientists to share a few words for the next generation of researchers; about curiosity, resilience, and lifting each other up along the way.
Illustrated by Charlotte Hintzmann.
A flyer advertising an open PhD position titled "Evolutionary Ecology of Avian Energetics" at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. It is funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). The text outlines a project investigating avian energy metabolites using fieldwork, macroevolutionary analyses, metabolomics, and advanced statistics. It lists essential qualifications including an MSc degree, and offers a fully funded position with guaranteed income and student housing. Applications require a CV, a max 400-word motivation letter, and references, submitted via a provided link. Review begins March 16, 2026. The flyer features photos of field researchers, a bird being measured with a blood glucose meter, and a research team working together around a table.
Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺
Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids).
🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines)
🧪 Metabolomics
💻 Adv. stats in R
Apply by March 16! 👇
forms.gle/AFkpt4foeV5i...
#EcoEvo #PhD
A comparison of methods to assess selective disappearance and quantify ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
🚡¿Un teleférico a 30 metros de la Red Natura 2000 en Cantabria?
Hemos presentado alegaciones ante el proyecto del teleférico "Mirador del Pas" que afectaría a aves como el aguilucho pálido, el buitre leonado o el alimoche.
+info seo.org/abogamos-por-la-restaura...
Our research on Tawny Owls at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk was featured on this episode of BBC Radio Scotland - listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
We discuss how we track Tawnies' movements and the way they are adapting to noisy and light-polluted areas
@dmdominoni.bsky.social
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social