PhD done! 🎓🐦🎉
Very thankful to everyone who supported me along the way
@dingemanselab.bsky.social
@hannah-scharf.bsky.social
@barbaraclass.bsky.social
@roriwijnhorst.bsky.social
@cdegroot.bsky.social
@DWestneat @ACones @AKeller
Excited for the next chapter! 👀

Big thanks to co-authors @cdegroot.bsky.social, Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Jonathan Wright and @dingemanselab.bsky.social

Have you heard of the impact-and-responsiveness model? It's a way to quantify individual differences in social interactions.
Curious how it works, performs across study designs, and compares to other approaches?

Check out our paper (also the first chapter of my PhD) 👇
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voag013

Decomposing social interactions: a statistical method for estimating social impact and social responsiveness Abstract. Social interactions mediate the phenotypic expression of fitness-relevant traits. The expression of such labile social traits includes three dist

New method for studying social responsiveness and social impact: both shape the expression of social traits. Ignoring variation in responsiveness can limit understanding of social trait evolution:

@roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @cdegroot.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

The thesis is in! ☺️
Today, I offically submitted my PhD thesis about fluctuating selection, personality and dietary specialisation. Feeling grateful for the support, collaboration, and inspiration from so many people ♥️🐦. I’ll really miss these little guys, but am excited for what comes next.

Congrats Dr. @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for an impressive PhD-presentation and defence. Thanks partner in crime @cdegroot.bsky.social and collaborators @ali--wilson.bsky.social, Henrik Jensen & Jon Wright and @dfg.de for funding his project on social evolution in sparrows

Hi, I'd love to ask you some questions about birding in Cyprus, but I can't DM you. I'm going there soon :)

Good opportunity to do some administrative stuff I've been putting off for weeks

Overleaf is down. Does that mean I get the afternoon off?

We are recruiting students interested in a thesis/internship in behavioral ecology to work with us this field season (Apr-July 2025) on breeding great & blue tits. We don't have internal funding, but we are happy to help students within the EU apply for Erasmus+ projects. erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu

Hi, could you add me :)

I would like to be added. Merci
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rori...

I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one!

If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other.

go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x