Evolution of a novel adrenal cell type that promotes parental care | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our newest paper, in which we report our discovery that monogamous oldfield mice have very recently evolved a novel cell type in their adrenal glands that promotes parental care 🧵
Work led by the fabulous Natalie Niepoth and Jenny Merritt
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Searching for a project manager for our NSF-funded mosquitofish mesocosm work testing 'adapt or die' responses to stress careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5185… Based at ABS with opportunities for independent research and travel to W.K. Kellogg Biological Station . Please spread the word!

May brood desertion be ruled by partner parenting capability in a polygamous songbird? An experimental study | doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1… | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

Award in honor of outgoing Dean Greenberg at Auckland Uni: auckland.ac.nz/en/giving/dona…

Previously a one-bullfinch kind of guy (I mean, the original one, not counting those funny Caribbean tanagers) my bullfinch-life has somehow become five-times more complicated so far this year. These two Indian beauties were peachy encounters to say the least.

I am SUPER excited to announce that we are hiring a Restoration Ecologist! Apply to work with our team to develop & implement our restoration monitoring & testing programs! Help drive positive change and continual learning. abmi.ca/home/careers/c…

Our new paper is out! We show how sequential island colonisation has resulted in unique sets of divergent genes. Is genetic drift or parallel adaptation responsible?

Find out below 👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Protocols for recording embryonic and chick vocalisations from shorebirds
by Dr Kristal Kostoglou et al.
waderstudygroup.org/article/17849/
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Giant hummingbird split into two cryptic species, with the larger, high-elevation resident described as a new species, Patagona chaski: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #birds #dinosaurs

What do elephant calls, bird feathers & soft-shell crabs have in common? They're all some of the real-life science behind episodes 5&6 of #StarTrekDiscovery season 5. Learn more in 'BioTrekkie with the Admiral' with Mohamed Noor Duke University & @TheJayneBrook youtu.be/Ovjc-7WxDUA

Happy my modest contribution to the project of Callum McDiarmid w Daniel Marc Hooper Simon Griffith is now published in Molecular Ecology.

Mitonuclear interactions impact aerobic metabolism in hybrids and may explain mitonuclear discordance in young, naturally hybridizing bird lineages

Today I started a 5-day course 'Bioacoustic Analysis in R: Unveiling Nature’s Sounds' taught by Marcelo Araya-Salas through the Organization for Tropical Studies.
Feeling out of my depth as an R novice, but enjoying learning new approaches in #bioacoustics .
tropicalstudies.org/course/online-…

Job Alert 📢 3yr The Leverhulme Trust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals + quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/res…

Going back a week, I forgot to mention this new book

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by literary scholar Renée Bergland hit the shelves on April 30.

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Good Evening - looking for a little help. Does anybody know anything about - or someone who might know anything about - the moult of the head feathers for male Golden and Lady Amherst's Pheasants (the 'hooded' pheasants)? #birds #ornithology

The iridescence of an Anna’s Hummingbird

📹Anthony Bucci

Applications for the 2025 Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship are now open. Applications are due on September 30 and are open to those pursuing the discovery and formal taxonomic description of Earth’s animal species. bit.ly/3ygxDHO

Human-Made 1,000 Hectare Archipelago “Marker Wadden” Has Positive Impact on Regional and Flyway Populations of Waterbirds of Dynamic Freshwater Ecosystems
bioone.org/journals/water…

It’s about Her: Male Within-Season Movements Are Related to Mate Searching in a Songbird
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…