Our article about the functional morphology of down #feather has been published Evolution Journal #ornithology BiolEcolBBU Evol Ecol Group UBB Evol Zool Debrecen @ZoologyMuseumUBB onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Our study bioRxiv. Largest dataset on reproductive senescence: 36 #bird species & 101 #mammal species. Is degree of #sociality associated with reproductive #senescence? A comparative analysis across birds and mammals biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The edited final version of our study is out in 'Physiological & Biochemical Zoology' Chicago Journals The Relationship between Hormones, Glucose & Oxidative Damage Is Condition & Stress Dependent #IGF1 #sparrow #ornithology journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… @BiolEcolBBU Evol Zool Debrecen

Unbelievable research horizon is opening w/ the B10K project. Here is a report at the end of phase 2, comprising 363 species w/ whole genome sequenced. #evolution #ornithology nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our study accepted for publication in #PhilTransB Royal Society Publishing special issue 'Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?' Is degree of #sociality associated with reproductive #senescence? A comparative analysis across birds and mammals

Our study accepted for publication in #ProcB Royal Society Publishing #Social groups with diverse personalities mitigate physiological #stress in a songbird biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #ornithology #personality Evol Ecol Group UBB Evol Zool Debrecen

Varietas delectat / Variety is delighting Evol Ecol Group UBB & Evol Zool Debrecen created groups of house sparrows w/ different personality compositions. Individuals were healthier in groups of diverse personalities. Our NEW paper out in Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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…

“Revision has been requested and a new version is required within two months.” x.com/HumansNoContex…

Brilliant research addressing a fundamental biological question Experimental manipulation of body size alters life history in hydra onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Special issue about #ageing and #sociality is out in #PhilTransB Royal Society Publishing ‘Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?’ compiled and edited by Judith Korb & Jürgen Heinze royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2021/…

Our study out in #PhilTransB Royal Society Publishing Theme Issue 'Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?' Is degree of #sociality associated with reproductive #senescence? A comparative analysis across birds and mammals royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Just finished up a week teaching Bayesian statistics with R #rstats for non-stats PhD students & 💜 it #bayes #mcmc #jags 🌍 Dedicated website bit.ly/3u0XPhV 🍳 Material bit.ly/2PxzDVu 📽️ Video recording (in English w/ 👽 accent) bit.ly/3cmaLJn

Ending the week with a key collaborative paper out finally in Science Advances - bad news for long-lived, low-reproductive species, and v particularly 4 mammals and amphibians advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/13/e… @OxZooDept Sandra Diaz @bjenquist drnickisaac.bsky.social Peter Vesk Fernando T. Maestre David Nogues-Bravo

So extremely proud of this paper! We started fieldwork in 2009 when I joined Evol Ecol Group UBB as BSc student. It's a massive accomplishment publishing it in Ecology Letters.We show that immunity is mostly female-biased in birds, similar to patterns in mammals bit.ly/3Gl55Lz

I'm truly honoured to have contributed to this important work. Thanks a lot Alice Carravieri! I've learned so much!! It's in fact my first ever true meta-analysis! Let's do another one! We are experts on this now!😉😀

And...it's out! AVONET, a collection of morphological measurements and ecological trait data for 90,020 individual birds representing 11,009 species, fully integrated with phylogenetic, geographic, IUCN, and eBird info, published today in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature. nature.com/articles/s4158… An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]

Despite of a mechanistic link between plumage colouration & #oxidativestress at the species level, seemingly there's no such relationship at the macroevolutionary level. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Birds have incredibly high blood sugar, but show no ill effects, so what protects them? Csongor Vágási & colleagues Evol Ecol Group UBB wondered if antioxidants might be the solution, but after checking over 1700 birds, it turns out that antioxidants are not journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…