Impressions of the RIN conference: Big Ben, Challenges in Navigation Research, John O' Keefe, Poster session where Chiara Tenneriello and Yibo Ma presenwd their research, Royal Holloway University

✨️The RIN conference on Animal Navigation was great! My highlights:
🏅Neurobiology session including a talk by nobel laureate John O'Keefe and that @katejj.bsky.social advertised the navigation challenges book
🏅Introducing my team to the community, meeting old friends & new people
🏅London at night 🤩

Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between allocation of resources to reproduction or self-maintenance, yet how environmental variability shapes this trade-off remains poorly understood. We sho...

Mohring @bertillemohring.bsky.social et al. Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds

Fully funded Ph.D. Opportunity - Behavioral Neuroscience @ TCU (Fall 2026)
We study how social environments and experiences shape brain function and behavior.
How to apply: through TCU’s Experimental Psychology Ph.D. program (graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng...).
Deadline: Jan 1, 2026

Don't forget to look, every few days, at the amazing tracks of red #knots (tagged by team Bijleveld @ Royal NIOZ, Texel): www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...

This is part of project WAAKVOGELS www.waakvogels.nl/trekvogels/k...

Within a fortnight they likely migrate on to Iceland or Norway!

📢🎉@hhmi-science.bsky.social HHMI competition for the next cohorts of #HannaGray Fellows and #FreemanHrabowski Scholars opening 11/3/2026. Senior postdocs and faculty within 7 years of appointment. Up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Spread the word and consider applying! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

PLS RT📣

Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms

(Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green)

🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...

🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

come and work with us, we are looking forward to it!

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...

The first day was full of exciting animal research input:

Two sessions covering topics on cultural and genetic inheritance 🧬🧪 and celestial navigation ✨️☀️🕗 in moths, birds and fish🦋🐦🐟 as well as a poster session with flash talks to attract interested visitors 🦋💡🤗

Out now in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: a study in which we assessed whether mercury levels vary among feather types within individual terns, how feather mercury levels relate to those in blood, and whether all levels vary with sex and age in a similar way: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

Oben: Porträt von Jonathan Fröhlich vor dem Hintergrund einer mit bunten Klebenotizen beklebten Wand. Unten: Die Überschrift des im Post verlinkten Artikels "Ressourcenreiches Repositorium“, gefolgt von dessen Vorspann „Wie finde ich gute Projekte, wie halte ich spannende Vorträge, wie werde ich ein guter Mentor? Jonathan Fröhlich hat eine Liste mit über 200 Tipps zusammengestellt.“ Links daneben befindet sich ein Icon mit Smartphone und Magazinseite sowie der Schriftzug „Kostenlos online lesen!“. In der rechten unteren Ecke befindet sich das Laborjournal-Logo.

Ausschnitt aus dem verlinkten Artikel.

Wissenschaft umfasst neben Labor und Publikationen auch Präsentationen, Mentoring und Karriereplanung. Jonathan Fröhlich stellt dafür über 200 Ressourcen frei zur Verfügung und teilt somit eine 8 Jahre gefütterte Schatzkiste: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3...
#Laborjournal #LifeSci #OpenScience

Excellent paper with very clear and important results - selection on relative egg size (maternal investement) reduces lifespan and accelerates ageing in females.

Founder's building

✨️Today starts the 12th Animal Navigation International Conference “Orientation & #Navigation: Birds, Humans & Other Animals" 🚶🐦🐜🐟🐸🦋🧭🗺 in Egham @royalholloway.bsky.social organised by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social, Emily Baird & Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
↘️ rin.org.uk/events/Event...

In other lovely news: the first gull-billed terns have returned over the weekend too. You can follow their stories on the blog of @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's website:

gelochelidon.de/blog/gull-bi...

Don't miss our upcoming webinar with @birdfiddler.bsky.social on Wednesday! Register free at plainsconservation.org/the-amazing-...

Join us for this exciting seminar to learn more about phenotypic plasticity and its genetic basis!

Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏
I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣

It is always a delight talking with @gbaucom.bsky.social! This time about what I learned while writing an editorial in @evolletters.bsky.social about how to maintain integrity as AI changes how we write. Conversation@ www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... Editorial@ doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research Recent advances in the field of wild avian microbiome research have significantly deepened our understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bird–microbe interactions. Consequently, the field is ...

New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out!

Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research

🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Enjoyed watching the #mason #bees that moved into the little bee house on our balcony feast from our rhododendron. The way they wedge themselves into the flowers 😄 They might also have found some little extra sugary surprises - it was Easter after all 🐰🌸🐝
#WildlifePhotography #insect #bee #macro

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...

#Shorebird eggs are optimised for camouflage and each one is a unique piece of art. Thee eggs are coloured by the females individually (who probably inspired the #Easter 🐇). Our annual "egg hunt" at Liminka Bay, Finland, searching for hidden #ruff and #dunlin 🪺 will soon start again.
#ornithology

Dutch Spoonbills are in the air and on their way to Netherlands. These are the days to visit www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... and enjoy the antics of spoonbill #migration.
Cool story by @wmgvs.bsky.social about these tagged birds, including joint flights www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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...

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

Migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline due to pressures along their paths, including dams, altered flows, habitat degradation, pollution and unsustainable fishing.

Restoring rivers and habitats cannot wait.
Read the #CMSFreshwaterFishes report: www.cms.int/publication/...

The danger of few genetic markers: Revisiting introgression between Chukar and Red-legged Partridge In contrast to previous studies, genomic analyses point to little gene flow between these species.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

The danger of few genetic markers: Revisiting introgression between Chukar and Red-legged Partridge
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/07/06/t...

#ornithology

Neurodivergnet | A network by and for neurodivergent scientists A grassroots network created by and for neurodivergent scientists in academia.

NeurodivergNet is a grassroots network founded by and for neurodivergent employees of the Max Planck Society. A place where people can connect & support one another, as well as a platform for collaboration on raising awareness and advocating for accessibility in the field of #neurodiversity.

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception in bumble bees Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

What do The Bee Gees and bumblebees have in common? Both bees have rhythm!🕺🪩🐝 check out this new paper where authors show that bumblebees can discriminate rhythms across sensory modalities! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...