Are you interested in parasites, physiology and evolutionary ecology? I have up to three years of funding for a postdoc to work on the resource-ecology of parasite-host interactions.

Impact of Environmental Factors on the Efficacy of Chemical Communication in the Burying Beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) academic.oup.com/jinsectscience… #entomology #buryingbeetle #nicrophorus #ecology

Where have you seen or heard a Greater Honeyguide? Share your record on honeyguiding.me! If you have any relevant pictures, cool observations or (guiding) experiences you'd like share with the Twitterverse, don't forget to tag Honeyguide Research Project & #honeyguidestories 🪶🐝🍯🐍🌍

#BlackInAnimalBehavior begins this Thursday! Follow the hashtag and check out the schedule below:

ANU PhD scholarship applications are opening soon! I'm looking for students that are keen to explore questions on phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects in lizards that combine field and lab experiments with meta-analysis! Come join the amazing Ecology&EvolutionANU Please RT

The potential utility of carotenoid‐based coloration as biomonitor of environmental change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #ornithology #coloration #climatechange

Spotless starlings prefer spotless eggs: conspecific brood parasites cue on eggshell spottiness to avoid ectoparasites sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #ornithology #starlings #eggs

Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #evoluiton #ecology

BBC News - Beetle-mounted camera streams insect adventures bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… #entomology #tracking

I’m looking for some help with the #hihi on #TiritiriMatangi this breeding season. If you know anyone keen to spend summer on a paradise island with lots of birds send them this! Department of Conservation doc.govt.nz/get-involved/v…

Lousy grouse: Comparing evolutionary patterns in Alaska galliform lice to understand host evolution and host–parasite interactions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #ornithology #evolution #parasitism #grouse

Differential movement and activity patterns of sexes in a biparental beetle during the reproductive season onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #entomology #ecology #behaviour

Plumage colouration in gulls responds to their non‐breeding climatic niche onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #ornithology #ecology

Very pleased that Joana Meier and my paper "The Persistence of Polymorphisms across Species Radiations" has been selected as the #TrendsEditorsPick this month! Read the paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution at: tinyurl.com/y29l4ygr Dept of Zoology Cambridge BE group FitzPatrick Ins @heliconians

Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #ornithology #mimicry #finches

Taking the microbiome-gut-brain-axis to the field: how to overcome challenges of identifying #microbiome mediated behaviour in wild animals. Article online Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Was super lucky to work with such inspiring co-authors @AuraRaulo Sarah CL Knowles sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Female cuckoo calls elicit vigilance and escape responses from wild free-range chickens tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #cuckoo

Joana Meier and Gabriel Jamie are #earlycareerresearchers in #zoology Cambridge University FitzPatrick Ins Read the #TrendsEditorsPick here: hubs.ly/H0szpLd0

Once again this super PeerJ Publishing paper comes to the rescue to answer all my mixed effects model questions. Thanks Xav Harrison et al.! peerj.com/articles/4794/

Our paper on mimicry in Africa's brood-parasitic finches is now out in Evolution! You can read the full open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Evolution Journal @SVBelleghem FitzPatrick Ins Dept of Zoology Cambridge BE group Claire Spottiswoode 1/6