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Stephanie Blain has used our long-term tracking data to test if hybrids survive at lower rates because of their intermediate behavior. She found strong support for this hypothesis and thus the role migration plays in #speciation. doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… (2/3)

This is everything.. to deprive oneself the opportunity of wild things is, to me, starving the soul..

By studying a system with innate vocalizations, Pogoniulus tinkerbirds, Sebastianelli et al. find candidate genes that underlie differences in speed in vocal rhythm in this system. Matteo Sebastianelli🇮🇹🇨🇴 Alex Kirschel nature.com/articles/s4146…

Don't forget to apply for the International Master of Bioacoustics MOBI! Deadline: May 31. Students with a background in biology, or physics or machine learning welcome. Also open to PhD students. masterofbioacoustics.com/admissions

The online Biodiversity Genomics Conference (BG24) is happening again 28 Oct - 1 Nov across time zones. To give a talk, apply by 30 June. I can highly recommend it. There will also be another Biodiversity Genomics Academy with BG24. More info on that soon. Please retweet!

Hot on the heels of the Giant Hummer paper in PNAS, another big-hitting bird speciation story appears, this time gracing the cover of Science. Langmore et al. show that coevolution between parasitic cuckoos and their hosts may drive sympatric speciation. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So disappointing. Just as we were about to submit a manuscript to it. Back to the drawing board for that one.

Devastating loss for the community, friends and family. Martin studied for his PhD in my lab at the University of Cyprus, was a friend and collaborator. May he rest in peace.

I couldn't believe my eyes June 2022, my first time in the Caribbean & Puerto Rican humid forest was full of endemic birds and...Black-faced Grassquits??? This observation sparked a project out today in Ecology Letters w/ Eliot Miller Matt SM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

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See this preprint on our latest work on hybridizing tinkerbirds, led by Loïs Rancilhac

A nice promotional video of our study on the genomics of vocal rhythm in Nature Communications. #SongGene Ίδρυμα Έρευνας & Καινοτομίας (ΙδΕΚ) - RIF tinkerbirds.com

A new paper with big news in the world of red carotenoid ornamentation: House Finches do not utilize CYP2J19/BDH1L to produce red feather pigments. Why is this big new?...(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet! Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics.

****Available PhD position in our group**** Offering one of the below funded positions with start in September 2025. More on the specific project here: nuclear-dn.eu/projects/proje…

Pleased to announce three publications from our lab. One led by Bridget Ogolowa on continent-wide diversification mechanisms in yellow-rumped tinkerbird published in Molecular Ecology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

A paper led by Lukhele Sifiso🇸🇿 on continent-wide patterns of carotenoid colour (reds and yellows) variation in tinkerbird feathers, published in Journal of Animal Ecology Journal of Animal Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

And a study led by @loisrancilhac on how introgression shapes the genomic landscape of phylogenetic variation, published in Systematic Biology Society of Systematic Biologists academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…

PhD opportunity in genomics and behaviour! Come join our team investigating the genomics of bird song and feather colour in Africa! More details on tinkerbirds.com Deadline this Friday(!!) 16th May 2025 University of Cyprus apply here: applications.ucy.ac.cy/postgraduate_a…

The day after I make that post with an extremely tight deadline, the deadline is extended to 30th May 2025. Please repost! 🙏