🪶 New Research reveals that hormonal plasticity to food restriction is heritable in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus 📖 Read the full paper here! ➡️ buff.ly/BoWB3Dt

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com 🐦🪺🐦 The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The evolution of negotiation strategies diversifies parental cooperation - Communications Biology

Parents often negotiate during offspring care. A simple evolutionary model incorporates explicit negotiation rules to explain why the behavioural patterns of parental care are highly diverse in nature...

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👀Behind the Paper!👀 🪺Author Valentina Alaasam discusses single parenting in the avian world, enjoying all the outdoors has to offer, and the importance of not fearing failure🐦 Read it here👇 buff.ly/EjX8SQO 🧪🌍

Valentina Alaasam | What is the “hidden cost” of abandonment to rock sparrow offspring?

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, we’re getting real about parenthood! From their recently published paper: “Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and p…

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New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social: Parental conflict over care is bad for offspring growth! 🐤🐣 Check out our article: Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and physiology in a songbird with multiple parental strategies. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mate desertion affects offspring survival, development and physiology in a songbird with multiple parental strategies

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I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico. www.istitutoveneto.it/premio-matte... Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026 Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.

Premio Matteo Griggio | Istituto Veneto

Con i fondi messi a disposizione dai famigliari di Matteo Griggio e, attraverso una sottoscrizione promossa dalla Società Italiana di Etologia, da amici e colleghi, l'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lette...

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#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

New paper out! Experimental Evidence That Blood Parasite Infection Affects Incubation Patterns in a Cavity‐Nesting Songbird - García‐del Río - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Experimental Evidence That Blood Parasite Infection Affects Incubation Patterns in a Cavity‐Nesting Songbird

Chronic blood parasite infections in wild birds can affect their incubation behavior. In pied flycatchers, females with reduced parasite infections incubated for longer than control females. Despite ....

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