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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Natasha Gillies @tashgillies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New paper in @animalecology.bsky.social!📝http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70350 Coordination is thought to be key to the success of biparental care, but we don’t know how this varies with species’ ecology 🍃 We explore: how important is partner coordination & does this depend on environment? 🏞️

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Joe Morford @morfjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very excited to see this work published, led by Paddy! Have a read here: www.cell.com/current-biol.... Despite recent advances on mechanistic theories of magnetoreception in birds, more work is required to demonstrate how, when and why birds use the magnetic field to navigate in the wild!

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Free-ranging Manx shearwaters do not rely on magnetic maps or compasses

There is well-supported scientific consensus and widespread public knowledge that birds can use the earth’s magnetic field to orient. However, Lewin et al. show that long-distance foraging seabirds do...

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lovely work from Paddy! Worth a read if you want to dive into the increasingly complex story of avian magnetoreception 🧭🗺️🐥

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Excited to share my second published PhD chapter out now in Current Biology! @cellpress.bsky.social 🧵 below but tldr: birds are known to use the magnetic field to navigate. But is magnetism the whole story? We find that an amazing avian navigator doesn’t seem to rely on magnetic cues at all.

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 10/09/2026

Long-distance navigation is no easy feat, but for some seabirds it can involve traversing hundreds of kilometres of open ocean New research led by @plewin.bsky.social shows that even if Manx shearwaters can sense the earth’s magnetism, they don't rely on it to get home 👇

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Homing shearwaters don’t need magnetic sense to navigate

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mathotlab.bsky.social @mathotlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

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********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

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Dr Katrina Siddiqi-Davies @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Excited to publish the last paper from my PhD which explores how light can constrain chick provisioning behaviour in Manx shearwaters Thanks so much to all my co-authors and to everyone who helped support this manuscript! #seabird #science #research royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Day length may impose an ecological constraint on chick provisioning behaviour in a high-latitude seabird

Abstract. Variation in daylight hours may shape light-dependent behaviours both across seasons and among latitudinally distinct breeding colonies. We inves

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our (with @plewin.bsky.social) @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatches is out today (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). Covering two recent papers about bird eye movements during flight, using homing pigeons as model species.

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Big congrats to @morfjoe.bsky.social on this exciting new paper in Science Advances! We provide evidence that larger flocks of migratory birds navigate more accurately toward their target direction than smaller ones

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Really pleased to see this paper out! We show that collective intelligence emerges in wild birds, using radar traces from flocks of migratory hirundines. Many wild social animals might benefit from similar processes, but we could also see Allee effects as migratory populations decline.

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Joe Morford @morfjoe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The WISDOM OF CROWDS emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds! Excited to share our work published by @aaas.org in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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The wisdom of crowds emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 01/06/2026

Professor Tim Coulson FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a biologist working at the interface of ecology and evolution, developing theory to explore how ecological change influences evolution, and vice versa. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/timothy-cou…

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 05/06/2026

Congratulations to Sophus zu Ermgassen, who's been listed on the ENDS Power List 2026! Sophus is listed in the Academics category, with his work mentioned as being highly influential in shaping environmental policy not just domestically, but also globally 👇

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Sophus zu Ermgassen recognised in ENDS Power List 2026

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Irene Martinez-Baquero @imbaquero.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

First paper, first post 🥳 Many congrats to Liliana Silva and everyone involved! Every behavioural ecologist who’s stared at hours of video footage should check this out 👀 Very proud that the Wytham Tits are part of this!! 🐥🐣 @egioxford.bsky.social

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🥳 New paper alert 🥳 The first of the data chapters from my DPhil, and the works from my first few field seasons on Skomer, is out! "Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales" - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... A huge thank you to everyone involved 🩵

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Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales

Summary: A fine-scale displacement of Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging pelagic seabird, reveals that they preferentially adopt shorter homing routes following release at proximal sites, demonstrating ...

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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

1/25 New paper out in PNAS! We show that the fitness costs of reproductive specialization, where somatic cells give up reproduction, scale inversely with organism size. Larger organisms can afford far more soma, removing a key barrier to multicellular complexity.

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The fitness costs of reproductive specialization scale inversely with organismal size

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Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

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Joe Morford @morfjoe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Does being in a collective buffer against individual forgetting, when it comes to navigation? New paper by Joe Morford: we find that collectives of homing pigeons remember their routes better than individuals @dorabiro.bsky.social @richardpmann.bsky.social Thanks to @templetonworld.bsky.social !

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

You’ve probably heard of collective intelligence but what about collective memory? 🧠🐘 New paper in press, led by Joe Morford! We investigated whether collective decision making in pigeons can rescue long-term memory of learned homing routes 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Fantastic @egioxford.bsky.social seminar from @pauldufour80.bsky.social on the latest work on avian vagrancy

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Jørgen Søraker @jorgensoraker.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📑📊We have just uploaded a new pre-print where we decompose spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal variation in natural selection on reproductive traits for great tits and blue tits. With Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @ellafcole.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Paolo Salvador @paolosalva.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

📄New paper out in Behaviour doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10356 🐦 Ambush behaviour is rarely reported among #seabirds. We observed that #MediterraneanShag might employ this strategy to seize fish schools. Our knowledge on seabird #foragingbehaviour is still lacking! #ornithology

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liedvogel lab @genmig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation - one of my favourites 🧭🦉🐟🦇🐝🐜 - this time we tried a new format, inviting topical sessions to make sure we represent the wonderfully broad range of research in #animal #orientation and #navigation and are super excited about the lineup s.gwdg.de/EBROf7

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liedvogel lab @genmig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@joewynnbirds.bsky.social did an excellent job on keeping all ducks in a row for the programme juggling and will surely live up to full potential in the legendary pub quiz and other evening highlights - stay tuned!

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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)

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Joey Baxter @joeybaxter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I wrote an article for The Conversation about birds' often overlooked sense of smell. From vultures that detect gas leaks to citrus-scented seabirds - read more below:

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The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control

Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 30/01/2026

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 27/01/2026

In theory, nature markets allow governments to attract more private investment and diversify funds that help restore nature. The reality is much more complicated. New from Sophus zu Ermgassen @iccs.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/how-to-make-...

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How to make sure the nature credits you buy are real – new research

Four essentials are crucial for establishing scientifically credible nature markets.

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Nat Duffus @natduffus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Super honoured to have contributed to this paper, led by the brilliant Sophus zu Ermgassen! We use our experience evaluating nature markets from around the world and derive 5 'golden' rules for the design and implementation of markets that deliver scientifically-credible outcomes. 🌱 rdcu.be/eYFx8

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Five rules for scientifically credible nature markets

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Perspective synthesizes insights from the past use of nature markets to identify design factors that are necessary if such markets are to achieve their...

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

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Abby Williams @abbyevewilliams.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦‍⬛🏝️ #pgg59

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds

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Dr Katrina Siddiqi-Davies @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project. Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour. drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!

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George Rabin @ghtrabin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I had a very enjoyable time at #ASABWinter2025 and was delighted to present a poster on my work on bird visual fields! Thanks to the organisers @asab-meetings.bsky.social for a sociable and useful few days.

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

PhD student @ghtrabin.bsky.social with his great poster at ASAB, all about avian visual fields! Along with @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @gayatrikumar.bsky.social, a great group of first year postgrads doing research in bird flight and vision. Give them a follow!

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Congratulations to #ASABWinter2025 best talk winner Jonah Walker (“Multimodal signalling and mate choice across peacock spider species“) and poster winners Helena Norman, Joey Baxter and James Robertshaw 🙌🎨🏆

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

And an especial congrats to Innes on his retirement! Jolyon had everyone stand up who worked with or had been taught by Innes - it was very touching 🥺 So many standing! #ASABWinter2025

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎉 Congratulations to @tashgillies.bsky.social and @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social, the runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award! 🏆 Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q #ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution

The runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award: Natasha Gillies and Katrina Siddiqi-Davies.

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Starting with a public lecture by Innes Cuthill on camouflage… not only did he come dressed in camo, but a camo kilt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ! #ASABWinter2025

Ines in front of a slide reading „Animal Camouflage: evolutionary biology meets neuroscience, art and war“ with a chameleon

Ines in a camo Kilt in front of the podium

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance. Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.

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Biology LGBTQ+ Journal Club @oxfordbiologylgbtq.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology

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