Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

We wish we could have cited this paper by @sonjawild.bsky.social & @lucymaplin.bsky.social , which came out after our commentary was accepted. In great tits, as in human families, siblings are important role models for social learning. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Siblings and nonparental adults provide alternative pathways to cultural inheritance in juvenile great tits

In species with extended parental care, parents are often the preferred sources of information, but what about species with limited periods of parental care? This study reveals that juvenile great tit...

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An egg shuffle reveals how innate drivers and early environments affect European songbird’s ranges. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4v8LCY0

Innate factors and ontogeny determine nonbreeding areas of migrant songbirds

Migratory birds connect ecosystems worldwide and often show connectivity between breeding and nonbreeding areas, meaning that individuals have nonbreeding (“wintering”) locations close to others from ...

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Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population

We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found

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New paper - we show that in chickadees, males with better spatial cognition sire more extra-pair young and that when a female has an EPY, it is sired by a male with better spatial cognition compared to cognition of her social mate. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Female chickadees look for cognitive skills in male partners

Three-year study suggests wild female chickadees seek out additional males with better cognitive abilities than their nestmate, to produce offspring with better survival skills.

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Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

A U.S. federal mandate to make scholarly papers free to read could triple the government’s bill for publishing fees to $937 million by 2030—an increase most research agencies aren’t prepared for, says a report released by Congress’s spending-watchdog agency. https://scim.ag/3Q3y29F

U.S. agencies aren’t ready for the rising cost of making research papers free, report warns

Science agencies could soon face nearly $1 billion publishing bill, Congressional analysts find

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May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:

New paper from the lab by Sofia Haley: chickadees with better spatial cognition sing more songs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

More smarts, more song: male chickadees with better spatial learning and memory abilities sing more throughout the day

Abstract. Cognitive abilities may allow flexible responses to variable environments, proving critical to individual survival in many species. When cognitiv

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New preprint from the lab by @jwelklin.bsky.social : "Drought to deluge: Differential impacts of snow on mountain chickadee reproduction across the Sierra Nevada mountains" where we combine our long-term data with ebird data. Chickadees and snow - my favorite things! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New opportunity for PhD fellowships at interface of ecology & evolution from the Simons Foundation. Application deadline June 30, 2026. My interpretation is that this applies to prospective PhD students & those accepted/not yet matriculated. Full details: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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New paper out in Biological Reviews📝🚨 When trying to explain why female birds engage in extra-pair copulations/paternity, we mostly focus on the benefits. But what about the costs? Should we not consider the downsides of the behavior we try to understand? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds

Extra-pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecol...

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In our new paper, published yesterday, we use the long-term data set of Wytham Woods to show that great tits have maintained stable temperature at breeding despite the almost 2ºC increase in Spring temperature. w. E. Cole, C. Regan & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Link -> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 2026 Lance-tailed Manakin webcam is live! Pro tip: click 'watch on you-tube' and scroll back in time to find the action, (today, see 8:23am). Or just enjoy the sounds of the tropical forest and see what's going on NOW in the world of the manakins. www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-t...

Lance-tailed Manakins

Watch the Lance-tailed Manakin cam

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Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

New paper from the lab by @laurenwhitenack.bsky.social academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

Fecal metabarcoding reveals differences in nestling diet across years with extreme variation in climate and arthropod availability in a montane songbird

Abstract. Animal diets are shaped both by the availability of resources and preferences for certain food items over others. Environmental conditions can af

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A new documentary "Secrets of The Bees" will air on National Geographic on 31 March and land on Disney+ on 1 April and our bees are in it! See here for the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mej2...

Secrets of the Bees | Official Trailer | Narrated by Bertie Gregory | National Geographic

YouTube video by National Geographic

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New research just out in J Evol Biol: led by @lbliard.bsky.social with @jsmartin.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social & Arpat Ozgul using the very cool Covariance Reaction Norm approach to test environmental dependence of trade-offs in great tits academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Just a bit of snow during this and next week at our high elevation field site

New paper from the lab by Ai Ana Richmond - stronger associations with the locations used in serial reversal learning improves performance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.