🌺 What happens when plants and pollinators team up for millions of years? 🧬 Genomes reveal their long-term interdependence: populations fluctuate in sync and hummingbird foraging shapes plant genetic diversity. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #ornithology #coevolution @currentbiology.bsky.social

At Zavodovski Island, chinstrap 🐧 decreased by 63% from 2011 to 2025, while macaroni 🐧 increased. Declining krill availability linked to ocean warming is the likely driver. Could this signal a wider Antarctic ecosystem shift? 🌊 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #ornithology @currentbiology.bsky.social

British Antarctic Survey 🐧@bas.ac.uk · 4d ago

The world's largest penguin colony has lost its title 🐧 A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost over half a million chinstrap penguins since 2011, a decline so steep it could see the species reassessed as 'Endangered'. 🧵1/2

New PhD opportunity to study vectors, pathogens, birds and urbanisation with @dmdominoni.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and #LuigiSedda @lancasteruni.bsky.social The impact of urbanisation on vector-borne transmission: avian malaria as a case study Deadlines: 🌍 1/10 to 30/11 🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

OUT TODAY: Living Planet Report from @wwf.panda.org & @zslofficial.bsky.social highlighting the ongoing loss of nature, including an 85% collapse in freshwater species populations on average since 1970 - far worse than decline for terrestrial & marine species livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/downlo...

🐟 Two coexisting Japanese dojo loaches share a similar mating sequence, but one of the species has more developed mating structures and significantly longer coiling during spawning. ❓ Could these differences help maintain reproductive isolation? 👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb... #JVertBiol #ichthyology

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS

In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...

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Funded 3.5 year PhD🎺 The effects of gamebird release and management on the lowland ecosystems of S England Lots of fieldwork. A robust and resilient student is required. Focus on reptiles and ecto-parasites Any Qs, please DM or email me Please RT www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

🐸 Why is a frog a frog is a frog, while a salamander is not a salamander is not a salamander? 🤔🦎 After many brainstorming sessions with Ronald Bonett, we explored this question in a new perspective. We discuss how life-cycle complexity may shape morphological diversity! 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1086/744206

🐸 New paper from the META-MOSPHOSIS team! Vivien investigates how external factors (temperature, continental fragmentation) and internal factors (life-cycle traits) shape species richness in salamanders. 🌍🦎 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #Salamanders #Biodiversity #Evolution #Herpetology

Job Alert! 🐦🎧🚁 We are seeking a #Postdoc in #Bioacoustics to join our EU-funded project investigating the impact of #Drones on #Birds. Position: 18 months (expected start Feb/Mar 27) Deadline: November 3rd University of Salford, UK @salforduni.bsky.social jobs.salford.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Bioacoustics)

Join us at the University of Salford and be part of Team Salford and one of the UK's fastest growing universities!

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CALL FOR SYMPOSIA: EXTENDED DEADLINE! Still thinking about submitting a symposium proposal for #EOU2027? We have extended the deadline: Monday 19th October 2026, 23:59 European Ornithologists' Union, Brno, Czech Republic 23-27 August 2027 Instructions & more info: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym...

We're excited to announce our MSc projects for 2027 are live! 🧪🪶 Our postgraduate opportunities page now also advertises placement projects for PhD students too Find out more here: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

Who gets to the top of the jay hierarchy? Pacific morphotype Canada jays formed steep, linear social hierarchies. Males ranked higher, dominance increased with tenure more strongly in males and juveniles sometimes outranked adults! 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s002... @ryannorrissci.bsky.social #ornithology

🏝️ How do island species persist despite small populations? A recent synthesis shows that purging, genetic drift and ecological buffering can act together, yet genomic erosion may still leave populations vulnerable to environmental change. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

New findings in the Pacific Hagfish, a jawless vertrebrate, show that adult retinogenesis 👁️🐟 is a deeply conserved trait within the vertebrate lineage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Patterns of Proliferation in the Pacific Hagfish (<i>Eptatretus stoutii</i>) Retina Suggest an Ancient Origin for Adult Neurogenesis

The hagfish, a jawless early-branching vertebrate, has very rudimentary eyes that are diminutive and oddly devoid of melanin pigment. Yet, the degenerate hagfish eye grows throughout life and express...

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A perfect example of how detailed field observations can help reveal the complexity of habitat and food requirements in a declining species! 🐦🔎 👇 Check the thread #ornithology @lesserspotnet.bsky.social

Rufus D@rufusdawson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deep within a Gloucestershire valley is a hidden world. The wider countryside is covered by mixed-age beech woodland in a complex mosaic of forest, commons and farmland. But in this quiet corner, a strikingly different blend of habitats can be found - and with it a mix of unusual species. (1/10)

🐸 #FrogFriday Seeing with your fingertips? 👀 Surinam toads use their bizarre star-shaped fingertips as ultra-sensitive sensory organs to detect prey in murky water – even before the fish touches them! 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s003... Frog biology never stops to amaze! 🤯 #herpetology #amphibians

Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

These frogs “see” prey with their star-shaped toes. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4daOBJh

good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...

Measuring the edges of species' geographic ranges

The fundamental unit of spatial ecology is a species range: the geographical area that it occupies. Species ranges are delineated by range edges (also known as boundaries or limits). Why range edg...

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New at Tetrapod Zoology ... A World Without Baw Baw Frogs? tetzoo.com/blog/2026/10... #frogs #amphibians #herpetology #conservation

A World Without Baw Baw Frogs? — Tetrapod Zoology

frogs, anurans, anura, myobatrachoids, Myobatrachoidea, limnodynastids, Limnodynastidae, Baw Baw frog, Philoria, conservation, herpetology, frog decline, decline of frogs, Australian frogs, frogs of A...

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My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes.

Oded Ritov@oded-ritov.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💡Plenary Spotlight Bart Kempenaers – Max Planck Institute, Germany Bart is an expert in avian mating systems, currently exploring how sexual selection affects the activity and movement of shorebirds. #EOU2027 | 23-27 August | Brno, CZ Submit symposia: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym... #Ornithology

🦎*Please share!*🦎 Review begins Oct 5. The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

🐸 One frog ‘species’ becomes six! 💚 A major taxonomic revision of the Scinax nebulosus complex combines DNA, morphology and calls to reveal three new species and revalidate S. cynocephalus. 👉 doi.org/10.25225/jvb... #JVertBiol #herpetology #taxonomy #amphibians

📢NEW paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org #RSOS. 📖Practical implications of temporal body mass variation for biologging and comparative studies. 🌟Showcasing the value of #long-term studies - 1000s of body-mass measures analysed. 👥Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153

A fascinating look at how one simple idea connects population dynamics, life-history evolution, conservation, movement and disease ecology. Reproductive value as a common currency for thinking about the future of populations. #PopulationEcology #EvolutionaryBiology

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jean-Dominique Lebreton and Madan K. Oli and tell the #StoryBehindThePaper for their published article, “reproductive value as a key concept in ecology and evolutionary biology”, which breaks down the meaning of reproductive value. buff.ly/vtMlNG4

#ornithology #birdmigration

Swiss Ornithological Institute@vogelwarte.bsky.social · 3w ago

In a new report, @pauldufour80.bsky.social et al analyzed data from 411 migratory landbirds to quantify the proportion of migratory flights at night. They found that nocturnal migration is the dominant strategy in small- to medium sized landbirds. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

A Northern Waterthrush tagged in Cape May, NJ left after sunset on Sep 11. Two weeks later it was over Colombia! Jamaica -> Colombia included ~800 km of open Caribbean. 3,082 km so far! @birdscanada.bsky.social @originalstu.bsky.social #MotusWTS #BirdMigration #ornithology @nature.org