Great tit nestlings. Photo: Wikimedia commons

Fig. 2 from the article: indices of innate immune function measured in male and female great tit nestlings at the age of 14 days

New paper: in great tits, male nestlings grow bigger and show stronger immune defenses than females, showing fast growth doesn’t compromise immunity, likely thanks to priority access to food from parents.

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#ornithology #birds #ecoimmunology #dimorphism #development 🪶

A throwback to the EUFLYNET COST Action meeting in Vienna at the end of February.

Excited to be part of this fantastic network of bird migration scientists and conservationists working across the European–African migratory flyway.

www.euflynet.eu

News from the long-term study population of Siberian jays in Swedish Lapland

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

This work is part of the Lund Blackbird Project led by Arne Hegemann: www.biology.lu.se/research/cit...

Photo: M. Hyltman

Thrilled to share my very first paper with you, now out in @avianbiology.bsky.social!
We investigated whether innate immune function varies during moult in adult & juvenile blackbirds (undergoing complete or partial moult).

Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...

In one of those days where purpose seems hard to find, nice to read: "why does the world still need behavioural ecologists?"

A reminder of how exciting it is to see the world from the eyes of a behavioural ecologist.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Contributed to #theBOUblog to share my experiences at the #EOU2025 in Wales this summer!

Evolution Conference Information Congratulations to Enya Strahler  for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo! The selected logo includes the official state animals of Ohio, which represent a wide...

Congratulations to Enya Strahler for submitting the winning design for the Evolution 2026 Conference logo!
www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo.html

How great was #EOU2025 in Bangor, Wales?!
So delighted to have presented my Master’s thesis project on tracing the geographic origins of behavioural variation in Common Reed Warblers using genomic data. Huge thanks to @bou.org.uk and @dornitholges.bsky.social for helping make this possible!