"Una naturaleza sana y equilibrada nos protege de enfermedades" Esta afirmación, tan abrumadoramente aceptada, no se sostiene con datos. Recién publicado en Nature Los brotes surgen en cualquier lugar donde la gente interaccione con la naturaleza (es decir, cualquier lugar) No se pierdan el hilo👇

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d ago

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits in free-living populations? @erikpostma.bsky.social &co use the #evolution of clutch size in great tits to show the importance of gene flow in explaining contemporary evolutionary change and stasis 🧪 buff.ly/ngAKH6r

Oferta de tesis (financiada) en @ebdonana.bsky.social sobre redes de plantas y polinizadores con @domgarvir.bsky.social y conmigo. Detalles aquí: domgarvir.github.io/domgarvir_we... El deadline para recabar candidatos es de solo 10 días (bambu.csic.es/alfresco/web...). ¡Escríbenos!

💡Plenary Spotlight Sandra Bouwhuis – Institute of Avian Research, Germany Sandra studies life-history strategies in common terns, focusing on migration, pollution, climate change and avian influenza. #EOU2027 | 23-27 August | Brno, CZ Submit symposia: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym... #Ornithology

🦠 Working on gut microbiomes and going to Behaviour 2027? 🦆 I’m looking for co-chairs and presenters to contribute to a symposium on how gut microbes affect behaviour, from lab models to wildlife. Interested in factors and pathways shaping microbiome-behaviour interactions? Please get in touch!

Behaviour 2027@behaviour2027.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in having a symposium at #Behaviour2027 ? We are officially open to proposals! Please carefully follow the guidelines below:

La entrada sobre Acociles (cangrejos de río en Náhuatl) de la Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España muestra que Bernardino de Sahagún no los conocía de Castilla Normal, mediado el sXVI el cangrejo italiano, eso que @miteco.gob.es llama cangrejo ibérico, aun no había sido introducido (sigue)

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

Having non-natives species as conservation priorities is a form of the shifting baselines syndrome My @conbiology.bsky.social text on this issue has just reached 100 GS citations I built on the cases of the Italian crayfish and European mink, present in Spain since 1588 and the 1940s, respectively

Coming up on the 25th: the NWDUG’s #scienceslam that will take place in #Wilhelmshaven. Kindly supported by Navisense and @sfb1372.bsky.social, there will be 6 youngsters presenting their science in the coolest of ways. Among them will be Phillipp & Sonam, two PhD students from @ifv-whv.bsky.social:

The story of @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social's L49 on the Rare Bird Alert website: www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/G...

GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern suspected shot dead in France

A GPS-tagged Gull-billed Tern from Germany's last Central European breeding colony has been found dead in France, with preliminary evidence suggesting it was shot.

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López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population

Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

We did our best but couldn't find this little fellow. Here are some pictures of what the habitat looked like. After an hour searching through the ferns, we saw no sign of it, or of any raptor nest for that matter. We are really sorry @commonternproject.bsky.social 🙏

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can’t believe I am writing this, but chick T99 chose another route than his dad L43, and whereas dad seems to safely be hanging out in Spanish Laguna de Gallocanta, the GPS track of T99 suggests predation in Portugal. Here’s the position: maps.app.goo.gl/qHsMCT8HUzWm...

Japanese team have observed directly, for the first time, noctule bats hunting birds The images they provide astonishingly resemble that painted by Brueghel over 400 years ago... maybe he had actually seen the hunt!! Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ebdonana.bsky.social

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Update: @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social has offered to go search. So we've got Portugal covered. :-) THANK YOU, Alfredo!

Very nice aricle, partially based on our work on Brueghel depiction of bird-eating noctule bar With an interview with @romero-vidal.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/hist...

Historical art can hide scientific secrets

Scientists are working closely with art historians to uncover scientific documentation in historic paintings.

sciencenews.org

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I can’t believe I am writing this, but chick T99 chose another route than his dad L43, and whereas dad seems to safely be hanging out in Spanish Laguna de Gallocanta, the GPS track of T99 suggests predation in Portugal. Here’s the position: maps.app.goo.gl/qHsMCT8HUzWm...

Our pre-print analysing the 1 std decline in mass in Wytham great tits has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biology.ox.ac.uk

Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population

Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

David López-Idiáquez@davididiaquez.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

Hola!!! Would anyone in the Doñana Bluesky community have time to help with this, or know who could help?🙏🙏 [🛶might be needed] Every recovered tag is precious data! 🐦💎 @chikichanka.bsky.social @paniw.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...

cc @jmvidalcordero.bsky.social can you, or someone @ictsdonana.bsky.social help with this??

Common Tern Project@commonternproject.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...

Dear Bluesky-friends, I am back to ask another favour. Gull-billed tern chick H36 has died close to Parque Nacional de Doñana. It seems to be on a small island in the Caño de Guadiamar: maps.app.goo.gl/Z195ha4z9zYY...

Thanks to our wonderful invited speakers Ulrich Knief and Maria Moiron for giving fascinating talks and also helping us chair our sessions at #DZG2026

Our first keynote talk by @lizabeldm.bsky.social brings us to focus on the social behaviour in lizards! What behavioural characteristics enable lizards to be successful and resilient in novel environments? Check out Isabel's webpage to find out more: isabeldamasm.wixsite.com/id-m #DZG2026

Attending the keynote talk of assistant prof Isabel Damas Moreira, University of Bielefeld, bridging lizard behaviour with antrophogenically influenced landscapes. Learning so many cool facts about lizards🦎 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...

Recruiting grad students for fall 2027

The Reichert Lab in the Department of Biology at Oklahoma State University is recruiting 1-2 graduate students (MS or PhD) for Fall 2027. Our lab does integrative research in animal communication a…

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📢 My colleague Daniela Perez (not on Bluesky) is looking for a postdoc! The position is for 2 years, working on cooperation, competition & collective decision-making in 🪱. More info: tinyurl.com/mr2vd57n 📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026 📩 Interested? Contact Daniela directly!

Research Position (m/f/d) (Postdoc)

<div style="margin:0;">The Department of Evolutionary Biology explores how organisms' traits and behaviours evolve in response to envi...

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New #ornithology paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We show that female dotterels can move across large distances within a single breeding season in search of mating opportunities, visiting up to five different sites (median: 3) and travelling up to 1000 km between sites (median: 71 km). 1/n

New paper alert: making use of 40 years of measurements of POPs and mercury in eggs of oystercatchers and terns breeding in the Wadden Sea, we investigated whether pollutant levels differed between the two species and 17 sampling locations, and how they changed over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

please share widely and get in touch to help us recover this tag and learn about the cause of death #conservation #migration #redshank #GPS

Corinna Langebrake@co-la.bsky.social · 3w ago

To the birding community: one of our GPS-tagged redshanks was predated during its migration in France. We would be very greatful if we could have the GPS tag back and get as much information as possible from the bird! This is the last position: maps.app.goo.gl/jCWDXDfhnJPT... @genmig.bsky.social

New preprint out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with @devisatarkar.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social in which we analyse the effects of this summer's unprecedented and severe #heatwave on tit reproduction and mass. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

To the birding community: one of our GPS-tagged redshanks was predated during its migration in France. We would be very greatful if we could have the GPS tag back and get as much information as possible from the bird! This is the last position: maps.app.goo.gl/jCWDXDfhnJPT... @genmig.bsky.social