Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Evolution

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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Very pleased to welcome Dr Alexandra Cones (LMU Munich) for an EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 4pm this Friday 17 April. Alexandra will speak on "Embracing Complexity: Untangling sources of phenotypic variation across scales using birds" - also live-streamed: joining details below: ⬇️

🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds

Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded

Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz

#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Merci aux grands frères et aux grandes sœurs, qui nous apprennent à nous nourrir et à voler de nos propres ailes (surtout lorsqu'on est une mésange charbonnière !) 🐣💕
👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/sMW

I'm going in person to #Evol2026 (and probably will have a poster) but I'm currently planning to give a talk in the virtual meeting: I want to reach all the people who will not be traveling to Ohio for various reasons and help support the welcome & inclusive move to virtual.

Final reminder: registration closes tomorrow (Thursday, 17:00 UK time) with more info to follow. It should be a fun and slightly different way to connect with others interested in fish behaviour!

Where We Go From Here: Harnessing Queer Perspectives to Advance Practice in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Science and society continuously shape one another; this relationship determines what science is funded, which inquiries are pursued, and whose voices are included in the production and dissemination...

📣 A perspective with @allydefduf.bsky.social @madeline-eppley.bsky.social and others out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 📣

Drawing from queer lived experiences, we offer new perspectives to confront existing biases in #ecology and #evolution.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

Opportunities Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here:

www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group.

We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology

Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad.

laurentian.ca/about/career...

Events - Alberta Wilderness Association Alberta Wilderness Association sponsors events of all types throughout the year and throughout the province.

We have some fantastic adventures coming up! For those living closer to Edmonton, check out our Tracks of Spring adventure 🐾 If you’d like to stay in Calgary, see our Nose Hill adventure🌷 We have also partnered with Jane's Walk YYC to offer three walks this year! 🦅

www.albertawilderness.ca/events/

Doctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology (1-2 positions) The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is seeking to recruit Doctoral Researcher in sexual selection theory (1-2 positions) starting 1.9.2026, or as soon as possible after that for a m...

Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

Extremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!

SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr - the Node In this SciArt profile, we meet Brittany Carr, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of

#SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr

In this profile, we meet @drbjcarr.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta. Brittany uses acrylic, watercolour, gouache & ink to create pictures of the natural world & uses microscopy for ‘science’ art.

thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision?

I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training.

Please share your experience & this post!

Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE

Early-life microbiome assembly and its effects on bird phenotypes We are looking for a motivated Masters/HBO/internship student to partake in upcoming microbiome manipulation experiments, investigating how this fascinating community impacts phenotypes in birds. Star...

Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :)
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Our new paper looks at how warming affects cognitive trade-offs. Slower deciding individuals are more accurate. But with modest warming, they speed up and lose that advantage, compressing the range of cognitive strategies in the population. Check it out!: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755) | University of Bergen Job title: Two PhD Research Fellows in Fish Physiology (298755), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2026

Two PhD positions in fish physiology with an amazing supervisor, @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social ! 🧪🐟

Tell your friends!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD

Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us

❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world

👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity

📆19th April deadline
tinyurl.com/343acaev
#maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia

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If you’re reading/thinking/learning about the IOC sex testing policy, I cannot recommend enough that you listen to @reveleth.com’s podcast.

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Thanks to everybody who shared and engaged with this piece! I'm closing socials for the day to protect my sanity a little, but I really do appreciate all the comments and thoughts and questions (less so the extremely aggressive emails, fix your hearts folks).

www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

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

If you enjoyed the paper below👇👇, you might also be interested in our symposium on “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World” at the Nordic Oikos-GfÖ conference! The amazing Viktoriia Radchuk will be giving a talk, and we still have a few spots open, reach out to if interested! #NSO2026 🐦🌴🐝🌡️📉

Most of what a university can offer that students can’t get elsewhere is stuff they don’t know to “demand” ahead of time precisely *because* it isn’t available elsewhere. Judging the value of a university program by how much it appeals to people who’ve by definition not encountered it is backwards.

Another thing: the rhetoric of “student demand” is (as anyone who works in a university knows) a nose of wax. Students can’t demand what isn’t offered or supported; and “demand” can be created by creating incentives and funneling resources to something brand new. These are choices, not natural laws