🌟🌟 Postdoc position in Disease Ecology & Nature-Based Solutions 🌟🌟 We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the UKRI @netpositivecentre.bsky.social and the @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall, UK. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/11... 🦠🌳🏙️🌍🗺️🐝 🦌🕷️

Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This UKRI funded full-time post is available from 01/1...

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Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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...

New paper out in Phil. Trans. B! We set out to understand how seasonal migration evolves by combining a common garden experiment and scATAC-seq of the hypothalamus in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap. 1/n

Differential epigenetic regulation underlies evolutionary transition of seasonal migration

Abstract. Seasonal migratory animals can evolve residency through adaptation. The threshold model of quantitative genetics predicts that residency evolves

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🐦 A new paper out! GPS tracking of 85 Common Redshanks revealed how breeding phenology and habitat use vary across the species' breeding range, highlighting the value of protected grasslands, AES and tailored conservation. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... #ornithology #waders #shorebirds #HABITRACK

⛰️+🏃‍♂️=💛 four days of running the beautiful trails in Pitztal. it was AMAZING! 75 km and 4500 hm full of happyness, gratitude and lots of fun. mountains are just my happy place, for me there is no better place to refuel.

Most scientists learn peer review by trial and error. Check out this practical guide for both first-time and experienced reviewers. It covers the entire review process, with useful tips and common pitfalls. 👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb... #JVertBiol #PeerReview #PhDChat @fishecoevo.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/...

Common Chiffchaffs (<fi>Phylloscopus collybita</fi>) Diverge in a Genomic Region Associated With Migration Differences in Willow Warblers (<fi>Phylloscopus trochilus</fi>)

Despite technological advances in both tracking and sequencing technologies, finding the genetic mechanisms behind migratory traits remains a challenge. Recent studies have shown that migratory direc...

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Cannot recommend this opportunity enough! Come for cute birds 🐦 , stay for the brilliant, supportive mentor ❤️

@mathotlab.bsky.social · 4w ago

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/

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

congratulations @pauldufour80.bsky.social for so elegantly and efficiently orchestrating such a big flock of species (and collaborators). thanks for inviting #blackcaps and #robins to be a part of it.

Paul Dufour@pauldufour80.bsky.social · 4w ago

🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵

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...

🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN... ...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries Application deadline: 30 Oct 2026 Full details via links ⬇️ Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c... #ornithology 🪶

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

Glad to see my former study species blackcap appear in the final plenary by @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social #smbe2026

Paper alert!🧬🐦💻 Divergent selection is the textbook explanation for narrow inversion clines. Our blackcap inversion cline doesn't fit: it is wide, and the inversion is always the rarer arrangement. We show that negative frequency-dependent selection shifting between populations underlies this!

Shifting Balancing Selection Underlies an Inversion Cline in Eurasian Blackcap

We investigated what factor contributes to a cline of a chromosomal inversion of the Eurasian blackcap, which differs from typical inversion clines maintained by divergent selection. Using a simulati...

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Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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#SMBE2026 I will talk about **evolutionary roles of non-genetic variation**. If you care about expression noise, developmental instability, microenv. variance, or selection experiments (or if you don't believe in genetic determinism), come join me in S20 "mapping fitness landscapes" (17:30, Pjerrot)

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#SMBE2026 S20: Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

How does highly pathogenic avian influenza affect wild seabirds? This #ProcB study found the 2023 outbreak caused near-total chick mortality and earlier migration in Baltic black-headed gulls, while survivors developed lasting immunity.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2026.0128 | #Ecology #Evolution

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Distinct genetic architecture in the tails of complex traits - Nature

Genome-wide analyses in multiancestry and European cohorts show that in complex traits, rare alleles have disproportionately large effects at the tails of the phenotypic spectrum compared with common ...

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'Avian Population Genomics: Latest Findings and Future Prospects' DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2C...

we won! 🏆 kids4kids was awarded the open-science-prize from UG (Unversitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg) tinyurl.com/356mmf6m @ifv-whv.bsky.social we’re incredibly happy and grateful for this recognition. It really means a lot to see our passion project celebrated

Great to see this one published! Worth a read if you’re into the role of collective behaviour in migration 🦅🌍 Very pleased how it came out, glad to be a (very) small part of it.

Joe Morford@morfjoe.bsky.social · last mo.

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...

Exiting new MbyRes programme @uniexecec.bsky.social 👇 I am offering multiple One Health projects - get in touch if interested. 🦡🦌🐭🧪🦠🔬🧬

Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · last mo.

Spread the word! 📢 Funded by @aria-research.bsky.social, @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall is creating a cohort of 20 (!) MbyRes students that will tackle some of the biggest questions in order to bring about a step-change for ecosystem resilience. For more information, see 👇!

Interested in the evolutionary genomics of host-pathogen interactions or the evolutionary ecology of senescence? 1 week left to apply for the two postdoc positions in our badger - bovine TB project🦡🦠🧪🧬👇

Barbara Tschirren@btschirren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Excited to celebrate the opening of the Kids4Kids Mobile Exhibition on Bird Migration with @genmig.bsky.social ! 🐦🎙 A project where children communicate science to their peers through podcasts, interactive exhibits, and a VR journey following a robin's migration.🌍✨ #Kids4Kids

Dream job alert 🎉 Are you a talented videographer with a passion for nature? Join our team! Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📆 Full time. 📝 £33,954 per annum. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). ⚠️ Application deadline: 5 July.

awesome work by @junishigohoka.bsky.social highlighting the underappreciated role of shifting balancing selection. jun used demography inference, pogen simulation under our blackcap demography, and ABC to (i) identify the type of balancing selection and (ii) estimate its spatially varying parameters

Jun Ishigohoka@junishigohoka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paper alert!🧬🐦💻 Divergent selection is the textbook explanation for narrow inversion clines. Our blackcap inversion cline doesn't fit: it is wide, and the inversion is always the rarer arrangement. We show that negative frequency-dependent selection shifting between populations underlies this!

impressive thesis, amazing defense talk and utterly gorgeous hat! huge, huge congratulations, Matteo, fly on! it was a pleasure having had you with us @ifv-whv.bsky.social 🪶🪺🐦🧬

Institute of Avian Research 'Vogelwarte Helgoland'@ifv-whv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Huge congratulations to @matteobeccardi.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis "Intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping individual quality in birds"!!!🐦🥚🐣🤔🎓 🎉 Cheers to the next chapter!!!🍾🍾🍾

And the star of the show: the Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi). We searched for the species along the Russian border, near where the birds that winter in Europe are breeding. Let’s see whether they all go east or west.