Social groups with diverse #personality composition increase health in house #sparrows. Check out our NEW paper out today in Royal Society Publishing with Evol Zool Debrecen and Evol Ecol Group UBB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Female cuckoo calls scare host parents! Now with pagination and the cover image! by Attila Marton Attila Fülöp Miklós Bán C. Moskat onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14390310/2…

Diversity is just what the doctor ordered Our article about sparrows being healthier in groups of diverse personalities was featured in New Scientist New Scientist newscientist.com/article/226580… Original article in #ProcB Royal Society Publishing is here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Ecology & Evolution Conferences in 2021 & 2022 natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/ecology-… Our list includes both online and in-person meetings. Please help us to make it comprehensive and up-to-date by suggesting conferences to add.

“I know it was you who reviewed my paper, Fredo. You broke my heart”

No matter how good of a great reed warbler parent you are, sometimes it's just impossible to evade the pressure of brood parasites: Quintuple parasitism of a great reed warbler nest by common cuckoos onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Saw this after a meeting in Gloucester- a Lesser Black-backed Gull having fun surveying the scene in the city centre.

The power of colour-ringing! I plotted where, when and how many individually recognisable #sanderling have been observed (locations within 200 km pooled) 2003-2021. Currently, 100,760 observations of 6,592 individuals by 2,694 observers. A huge international collaboration!

If you like #dinosaurs (who doesn't really...? 🙂), you should check out our next seminar talk by Steve Brusatte on Thursday 16th of September, from 12:00 CET on Zoom at us02web.zoom.us/j/9059617665

Oh dear the minnesotazoo has lost its Eurasian Eagle-owl and someone got a photo of one with a cat on Galaxy Ave 😬😬😬😬 #CatsIndoors

If you are planning to submit a paper today, don’t! Wait until Tuesday 🖐 researchgate.net/profile/Marcel…

When Nick Lane's "The Vital Question" appeared Bill Gates said: "This biology book blew me away". Now you have a chance to listen to an online seminar given by Prof. Lane and ask him questions afterwards on Dec. 9 12:00 CET us02web.zoom.us/j/9059617665

Can an Athlete’s Blood Enhance Brainpower? New work shows that injecting sedentary mice with blood from mice that ran miles on exercise wheels, results in sedentary mice that did better on tests of learning and memory. It also reduced early Alzheimer’s nytimes.com/2021/12/08/sci…

This is cool: If only 100 people lived on Earth... youtube.com/watch?v=OQwHNq…

Super cool science that made my morning: Emperor penguins collectively figure out how to efficiently tile a 2D space to preserve heat. Huddle middle can be 100 °F! via PLOS One journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Also: Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/math-of-the-pe…

If you’re interested in how birds find the breeding site after migration, or how cool #CitizenScience data is, this could be worth a read! “Magnetic stop signs signal a European songbird’s arrival at the breeding site after migration”, doi.org/10.1126/scienc… (1/7)

Saying goodbye to CRAB, my home for the last six months. It was a true pleasure being around, meeting wonderful people, and doing research there. Darren Croft thanks for having me! Hope to be back soon.

Dear friends and colleagues outside of Hungary, I am actively looking for a new job in countries where democracy is not just a word. If you have info about open positions, please let me know. I am learning quickly and I can make awesome coffee.

A Blue Whale was spotted off the coast of Vancouver Island yesterday. The largest animal to ever grace this planet. The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male Blue Whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A Blue Whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs.

Turns out that oxidative physiology is only weakly associated with melanin and carotenoid pigmentation across 104 bird species... Evol Zool Debrecen Evol Ecol Group UBB, with Attila Fülöp Orsolya Vincze and other cool ppl onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…