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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What if species survive, but their behavioral diversity dissapear? Our paper in @science.org argues that behavioral homogenization is an overlooked form of biodiversity loss, and that global biodiversity monitoring should start measuring it. 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Martin Bulla @martinbulla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why have birds evolved complex songs? Across 4,940 passerine species, #BirdSong complexity peaks in temperate regions and is structured by evolutionary history and ecology, but shows weak associations with proxies of sexual selection and cognitive signalling. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Global distribution of passerine song complexity showing highest values in temperate regions, with accompanying phylogenetic patterns across major lineages.

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our new paper is out in @consletters.bsky.social ! Social media can help conservation, but virality should not be confused with conservation impact. The real question is whether online visibility produces positive net conservation outcomes. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/con4...

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Martin Bulla @martinbulla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Is #AI turning grant evaluation into a lottery? 🎲 The 2025 generative AI improvement coincides with ~20% of proposals scoring >95% in EU #MSCA call. We’ve reached "excellence saturation." Time to rethink funding? 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf... w/ @birder158.bsky.social #MetaScience #AcademicSky

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Have you ever notice that while speaking about biotic homogenization, we almost never speak about behavior? It’s literally true. But that doesn’t mean behavioral homogenization isn't happening. Our new paper is finally out! plos.io/4b6FcRb

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Behavioral convergence under urbanization: An overlooked dimension of biotic homogenization

A consequence of Anthropogenic change is behavioral homogenization: the human-driven convergence of behavioral traits across individuals, populations, and species across space and time, often in urban...

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Is #AI turning grant calls into a lottery? 🎲 We show how AI assisted grant-writing collapsed the signal-to-noise ratio with ~20% of grants scoring >95% in the recent EU #MSCA call, opening the debate on waste of public money and change in funding system 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Our new paper is out! Thanks all colleagues for a fruitful collaboration.

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Our newest paper on long-term urbanization effects on bird tolerance to humans is finally out!

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We're looking for a new #postdoc colleague to join our team at CULS, Prague (Czechia). Ideally, someone with expertise in macroecological and macroevolutionary analysis to help fill our knowledge gaps in this area :) Full call: researchgate.net/job/1021667_... #postdoccall

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Food availability influences bird migratory routes, but little is known about co-migration between insectivorous birds and their insect prey. We found a strong temporal overlap between number of migrating hoverflies and insectivorous birds in Czechia. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our new paper on escape decisions in dragonflies.

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Peter Mikula @birder158.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our new study is out! 🏙️🦟Do invertebrates, like vertebrates, increase their tolerance to humans in cities? We found that dragonflies & damselflies don’t respond to urbanization itself, but rather to the level of human activity at the site. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/een....

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