Registration for the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course is now open! I am beyond excited to be involved in the 2nd edition of this amazing project 💚 Please share widely & sign up if you are interested! I look forward to seeing you in June :)

SCIENCE IS FUN! And releasing 6 surface drifters in the Baltic Sea to follow eDNA and ocean currents at 3m depths has definitley excelled at that! Read about the hunt during @VeroMerten and my #traceDNA project below! GEOMAR_en

‼️ Fieldwork opportunity ‼️ We are looking for volunteers to join us in the Australian outback to study Chirruping wedgebills, July-Dec 2023. Apply and learn about animal behaviour, ornithology, and want to experience fieldwork!🐦🔍All applicants welcome #ornithology #fieldwork

Super excited for @EMPSEB28 in less than 2 weeks! After attending EMPSEB in 2022, I am joining again this year – this time as part of the organizing committee. I look forward to seeing you in Scotland! #EMPSEB28

Little helper…

If you’d like to know a bit more about what we sticklelab do, about our latest paper and the story behind the picture of one of our beautiful stickles that made the cover…here’s a short blog post for you 🐟🐟🐟 royalsociety.org/blog/2023/06/b…

Hey fellow #behavior enthusiasts! Time to dig up those cool observations you haven't published yet because you didn't know where to submit these treasures. 🕷️🦜🐦🐟🪲🦌 We have a place for you!! 🚨Special Issue Alert!🚨 inandsight.science/journal/issues… /🧵

Hey! I recorded a series of lectures on a few topics in EvoBio (speciation, phylogenetics, quant gen, adaptive dynamics...) as my contribution to the 2023 edition of the Pre-Master Crash Course in Evolutionary Biology EvoBio Crash Course. Now available on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Document your code or suffer the dinosaurs.

Taking the opportunity to broadcast Christoph Netz and my Am Nat paper, now formatted. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Agents use neural networks to move, assessing local cues to select next step. Network weights mutate, & spread based on ecological success of agents, this is evolution.

Check out Pratik Gupte’ thread on our latest paper if you’re interested in social behaviour and animal movement and how these can be affected by a novel pathogen …and lots more! Happy to see this one published! Fun taking part in this individual-based evolutionary model!

Evolution, Behavior and Ecology

Stickleback PhD position!

A little paper ecosystem is developing at #Behaviour2023, still 3 days to go, come on people! 💪 Frog art by Jakob Gismann Bird art by ??

A nicely formatted version is out now elifesciences.org/articles/81805 I'm especially happy that they include the section in the review responses for how we corrected a bug in exploitation competition, while still being able to recover our results (susprise, spatial structure is key!).

Six more days to apply, we are looking for you...

Check out this blog post (stri.si.edu/story/living-c…) telling the story of Floriane Coulmance‘s journey across the Caribbean to study coloration in Hamlets! 🐠 Happy to have contributed! Had great fun (free) diving with Flo and Melanie Heckwolf.

I’m really proud and happy about my PhD thesis “The missing link: exploring laterality and personality development in two fish species”which is finally online: research.rug.nl/en/publication… #laterality #personality #fish

Publishing negative results is good for science microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Couldn’t wish for more beautiful study sites!