Predation, Personality, Plasticity: What happens to chicks of slow and fast exploring mothers under predation risk? Come to my talk on Friday, 11:45 in the Rome room (Predator-prey section) #ISBE2026
Rori Wijnhorst
@roriwijnhorst.bsky.social
Interested in evolutionary biology, population genomics and nature conservation | PostDoc | Someone who likes birds
Directly ater the first coffee break today (Tuesday 11:30) @isbe2026.bsky.social I'll present how group size can increase among-individual variation. Come by, if you want to see some cool applied game theory!
Individual repeatability in dietary specialisation across years and competitive regimes in wild birds doi.org/10.32942/X27...
PhD done! 🎓🐦🎉 Very thankful to everyone who supported me along the way @dingemanselab.bsky.social @hannah-scharf.bsky.social @barbaraclass.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @cdegroot.bsky.social @DWestneat @ACones @AKeller Excited for the next chapter! 👀
Have you heard of the impact-and-responsiveness model? It's a way to quantify individual differences in social interactions. Curious how it works, performs across study designs, and compares to other approaches? Check out our paper (also the first chapter of my PhD) 👇 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voag013
New method for studying social responsiveness and social impact: both shape the expression of social traits. Ignoring variation in responsiveness can limit understanding of social trait evolution: @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @cdegroot.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Decomposing social interactions: a statistical method for estimating social impact and social responsiveness
Abstract. Social interactions mediate the phenotypic expression of fitness-relevant traits. The expression of such labile social traits includes three dist
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The thesis is in! ☺️ Today, I offically submitted my PhD thesis about fluctuating selection, personality and dietary specialisation. Feeling grateful for the support, collaboration, and inspiration from so many people ♥️🐦. I’ll really miss these little guys, but am excited for what comes next.
Congrats Dr. @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for an impressive PhD-presentation and defence. Thanks partner in crime @cdegroot.bsky.social and collaborators @ali--wilson.bsky.social, Henrik Jensen & Jon Wright and @dfg.de for funding his project on social evolution in sparrows
Overleaf is down. Does that mean I get the afternoon off?
We are recruiting students interested in a thesis/internship in behavioral ecology to work with us this field season (Apr-July 2025) on breeding great & blue tits. We don't have internal funding, but we are happy to help students within the EU apply for Erasmus+ projects. erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu
I haven't seen any starter packs made for behavioral ecology yet, so I decided to create one! If you are a behavioral ecologist (any career stage), please reply so I can add you to the list so we can more easily find each other. go.bsky.app/9mAuB6x