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Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out an E4 Doctoral Training Partnership PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/supervi…

PhD position available 🚨 We are looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n picture © S. Golüke

PhD position available in the best research group! 👇🤩

[Please RT] PhD position offer to study migration profitability in waders in our team Vojtěch Kubelka Andreas Rimoldi Miguel Silva-Monteiro Deadline 10 Jan #PhDoffer #ornithology #shorebirds

LOOKING BACK in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Preen oil composition of Pied Flycatchers is similar between partners but differs between sexes and breeding stages | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Marc Gilles, Rienk W. Fokkema, Peter Korsten, Barbara A. Caspers, Tim Schmoll | #ornithology

My PhD thesis on the smell of birds is now published! You can find it here pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2993613 or here researchgate.net/publication/38… #ornithology #birdsmell #preenoil

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🦜🦜🦜Happy to share our study on investigating the use of 👃odour and 👁️colour foraging cues by rosy-faced #lovebirds🦜 using deep-learning based analysis! doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe… #parrot #animal #behaviour

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by Elliot Gould Dr Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Very delighted our latest paper "Impact of Nectar Composition and Nectar Yeasts on Volatile Emissions and Parasitoid Behavior" is now published in Journal of Chemical Ecology International Society of Chemical Ecology 📖 Read more here: [link.springer.com/article/10.100…] #ChemicalEcology #ParasitoidBehavior #mVOCs

Are studies in chemical ecology reproducible?👀 We replicated a previous study on preen oil chemical composition. SPOILER: not all results could be reproduced! Congrats Laurence for this beautiful first publication 🤩doi.org/10.1111/jav.03… #ornithology #reproducibility

In our latest preprint, we showcase how to use a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species We collected data for 172 birds (314 populations) to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing 🔗doi.org/10.32942/X2PG92

🚀 Exciting news! Our latest review article has just been published in J. of Avian Biology 🦜📖 "Preening for protection: a systematic review of the #antimicrobial properties of #uropygial secretions" 🦠✨ Read it here 👉 [doi.org/10.1111/jav.03…]

NEW BLOG! Sniff test for plover chicks #theBOUblog #ornithology bou.org.uk/blog-gilles-pl…