David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help them better identify birds and may even protect against age-related cognitive decline

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

NEW JOB in #ornithology helping with data management and analysis to understand the dispersal patterns of juvenile little owls: buff.ly/bzwui1c

An illustration for "Ornis" of BirdLife Switzerland. It shows the identification criteria of males of the three different species of "subalpine warblers"
#birdart #birding #scientificillustration #birds

Scientific Software Engineer | 80% - 100% The Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach is a non-profit foundation for ornithology and bird conservation. It monitors native bird life, researches their habits, and campaigns for endangered bird...

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61...

#software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

The gull puzzle was back at #Biology26 🇨🇭🐦🧬

So honored to receive the Best Talk award. Huge thanks to the organizers for a brilliant conference and to everyone who came by to hear about the messy, wonderful world of gull genomics 🧬✨

#GullGenomics #WomenInScience

A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea.

Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4arYPUI

Plate for 'Dutch Birding' for an article on taxonomy, phylogenetic history and identification of the sand plover complex
#scientificillustrations #birdillustrations

In this recent paper in Journal of Ornithology, I used citizen-science data (Macaulay library) to resolves disputed subspecies limits in the lesser spotted woodpecker across the Balkans and Minor Asia.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration The reshuffling of genomic variation from multiple origins is an important contributor to phenotypic diversification, yet insights into the evolutionary trajectories of this combinatorial process and ...

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.