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🔈New study! Microplastics found in 62% of White-throated Dipper broods in Scotland & Basque Country. No body condition effects detected. Led by @cmartin3.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @aranzadiornito.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Ornithology🐦 #Microplastics #Freshwater💧

Slightly surreal career moment 🐦🏙️ Our recent paper in @animalecology.bsky.social has been featured in a Research Highlight by @natecoevo.nature.com — “Pale pavement plumage” 👀 Huge thanks to @simonharold.bsky.social for highlighting our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our special issue on 'Chemical communication and behaviour' is now complete in Animal Behaviour @asab.org www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Editors: Leanne Grieves @leagrie.bsky.social, Tyler Buchinger, Alex Van Huynh and myself Find the papers in the thread below 🧵

I am really proud of this paper, led by @sevans.bsky.social and funded by #NERC @ukri.org, which allowed me to go back to where it all began 20 😮 years ago!

New PhD opportunity to study vectors, pathogens, birds and urbanisation with @dmdominoni.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and #LuigiSedda @lancasteruni.bsky.social The impact of urbanisation on vector-borne transmission: avian malaria as a case study Deadlines: 🌍 1/10 to 30/11 🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

New Paper Alert! 📢🧪 The remarkable population increase in Finnish white-tailed #eagles 🦅 was driven by high adult survival, although there are spatial differences. Interested to find out more? The paper is open access! shorturl.at/EEQE2 #raptor #conservation @oikosjournal.bsky.social @utu.fi

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

I'm very proud of my next first-author publication, this time in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! We analysed the breeding #niche of four #raptor species using a novel method for #NicheOverlap of multiple species & found possible factors promoting or hindering #coexistence: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

This study provides the first continent-scale evidence that carotenoid-based colouration declines along a continuous urbanisation gradient 🏢 🐦‍⬛ 🌍 📖 Read more: buff.ly/1LoiOGp

‼️Now published @evolletters.bsky.social Developmental differences between males and females alter the sex ratio. 🐥🧵 about this study 1/9

New blog thing 🐦🏙️ I wrote the #StoryBehindThePaper about our latest JAE article (doi.org/10.1111/1365...) for Animal Ecology in Focus. Featuring nice photos of yellow tits 👀 📝 animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/09/25/p...

🐸 Join us online, 16–18 December 2026, for our symposium on Amphibian Ecophysiology and Conservation: Integrative Approaches Across Life Stages! Abstract submissions are closed, but listeners are very welcome to register...and it’s free! 🌍 Register here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We are so thrilled to announce our 2026 BES Award winners 💫 This year, our awards honour ten distinguished ecologists whose work has benefited the scientific community and society as a whole.

Oferta de contrato predoctoral para realizar una Tesis Doctoral en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre Micro y Macroevolución en 🦗 combinando trabajo de 🧬 y bioacústica 🎧 dentro del proyecto "Severo Ochoa"

Introducing disappR. The shiny app made by @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social and I to help diagnose and model selective [dis]appearance!! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Please do try it out and let us know how you get on! (and if you spot any bugs!).

📖 New paper! Early-life environment drives long-term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population🌍 🐦‍⬛ 🏔️ 🔎 buff.ly/7Lra4iN

"Una investigación internacional revela cómo la belleza de las mariposas condiciona su interés social y las políticas de conservación" Nota de prensa @universidadoviedo.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente trabajo: Daporto et. al. @currentbiology.bsky.social www.uniovi.es/actualidad/n...

New paper out in @animalecology.bsky.social ! 🔥🕺💃🔥 Across 6 European cities, great tits breeding in more impervious territories had paler carotenoid-based yellow plumage! 🐦‍⬛🏙️ doi.org/10.1111/1365... Huge thanks to all co-authors and everyone involved in long-term monitoring who made this possible!

New paper out on barn swallow flight energetics!🐦 We did wind tunnel experiments and found that, compared to other species, their flight efficiency is low but constant across speeds. Flight efficiency may reflect species-specific flight ecology. ⬇️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... @jexpbiol.bsky.social

📖 New paper Sex-specific responses to warming: A longitudinal study linking life-history variation to telomere dynamics, telomerase expression and oxidative stress 🧬 🔆 🌍 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/foZRPGN

Fantastic to see our first paper on Soay sheep social networks now published in @royalsocietypublishing.org - tinyurl.com/mry3mtpf Check out this thread from @erinsiracusa.bsky.social to find out more!

This #PeerReviewWeek we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has reviewed for us over the last year. We really appreciate the time and effort spent in helping us to publish quality research. List here: buff.ly/h2wgahV 💫

cc @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social can you, or someone @ictsdonana.bsky.social help with this??

Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...

Our pre-print analysing the 1 std decline in mass in Wytham great tits has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biology.ox.ac.uk

2026: exceptional #HeatWaves across Europe🔥 #WildlifeRescue centres have felt it, with sharp spikes in #swift nestlings admitted! Project info and survey (5min, 23 languages) by 31 October: giuliamasoero.github.io/project/resc... Please share! @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ClimateChange #BirdConservation

In our @natureportfolio.nature.com Biodiversity Reviews paper, we outline the many scales at which endotherms are affected by climate warming. We argue that meaningful novelty are most likely to emerge from broad collaborations that integrate across these scales. Read paper here: shorturl.at/YnZw4

Opportunity! We have an #internship offer through the RISE program. This applies to undergraduate students studying at North American, British or Irish Universities. If you are interested in doing fieldwork with us next spring/summer, have a look at the RISE website: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise...

Paper out, first one with @lizabeldm.bsky.social @averymaune.bsky.social & Ö. Maraci. Metabolic rate & body condition of🦎are similar across urban & non-urban habitats. Urban ♂️ (not ♀️) were smaller & lighter than non-urban ♂️. Let me know if you want the pdf. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New paper alert: making use of 40 years of measurements of POPs and mercury in eggs of oystercatchers and terns breeding in the Wadden Sea, we investigated whether pollutant levels differed between the two species and 17 sampling locations, and how they changed over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

New preprint out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with @devisatarkar.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social in which we analyse the effects of this summer's unprecedented and severe #heatwave on tit reproduction and mass. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🦌💩🦠 PhD opportunity! I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in caribou. Start date is flexible. Please share!

🪶 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🪶 16th European Ornithologists' Union Congress Brno, Czech Republic 23-27 August 2027 Do you have a research theme you’d like to bring to EOU? The call for symposia, round table discussions and pre-congress meetings is now open! Apply: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym... #EOU2027

Excited to share this joint first-author paper with @andreaestandia.bsky.social, now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We combined translocations, common garden experiments and genomic analyses to test for local adaptation to individual tree phenology in winter moths 🌳🐛 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Always great to help with a colour-ringing project! We ringed an extra 3 LBBG in Liverpool today (!), likely the last ones we'll catch here this summer. Keep an eye out for green colour-ringed gulls & report any sightings at nwgulls.org.uk 💍 #seabirds #ornithology @joewynnbirds.bsky.social

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 New #ornithology paper 🚨 Maize fields as post-breeding habitat for songbirds doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... What affects bird abundance and diversity in #maize fields? ➕Weed cover 🌿 ➕Surrounding woody structures 🌳 ➖Distance to field margin ➖Surrounding maize cover Led by Mirjam Rieger

Conference website for #EOU2027 is on! www.eou27.cz

New paper alert: doi.org/10.1016/j.tt... 🚨🥳 Here we can finally support that higher tick infestation rates on juvenile birds is due to an increase in the number of larva! We argue this is due to behavior as juveniles fledge during the larval activity peak for Ixodes ricinus! (1/2)

Conserving the world's specialist riverine birds: our new review on the global threats and conservation options for this group. Led by #AnkitaSinha and @nilanjan.bsky.social - who took these stunning photographs. Free to air at: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

El grupo de investigación "Diversidad y Conservación Animal" hoy y mañana en la Feria de Muestras de Asturias, hablando de conservación animal (lobo, salmón, anguila, urogallo), desde el conocimiento científico, en el stand @universidadoviedo.bsky.social Os esperamos!!!

Next year is the centenary of the publication of Elton's Animal Ecology - excellent idea for a Special Issue of @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/06/30/2...

how does seasonal migration evolve? this question is to the heart of our focus and here we use common garden approach to characterise the amount of seasonal change in chromatin accessibility in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Excited to present my new study on great tits tomorrow (Tuesday) at 16:30 at @isbe2026.bsky.social ✨

📢 happy to share our new paper in @molecology.bsky.social Common chiffchaff subspecies diverge in the same migration-related region as willow warblers (see thread): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In many fields, pilot studies are critical for methods & tool development & refinement, yet are often overlooked & rarely reported Any ecologists & evolutionary biologists with a special interest and experience in piloting in ecology & evolution: suggested reading, previous research, etc...?

Tenemos nueva publicación, en la que investigamos los factores que determinan la composición de la microbiota en mosquitos. @microbiomacsic.bsky.social De libre acceso en: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now & open access in Avian Pathology - a collaborative paper showing how highly pathogenic avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b euBB) was introduced, and led to high mortality, in breeding colonies of black-headed gulls and common terns in Germany in 2023: doi.org/10.1080/0307...

Looking forward to 3 days of great #biologyresearch at #SEBConference! Come and say hello in the exhibitor hall and get some @nordicoikos.bsky.social.bsky swag! Hope to chat to many of you about our journals and our society! #ecology #ornithology #evolution #physiology #plants