🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Out today in Science Advances. We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with HC Lim. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

🌎How do some birds reach the world’s most remote islands while others fall short? Our new paper explores how wing traits shape birds' ability to navigate isolation. 📖 Read it here: ttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.15038 DynaCom @GlobalChangeEco

Save longevity! As an old mammal, I endorse this message

📣 Please RT! I'm (co)advertising 4(!) PhD projects on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology! PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mapping-… PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-IXNS PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadive… PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 Happy 2 answer Qs

I don't use this platform much anymore, but I'm happy to share our work on sexual selection and the genomics of speciation in barn swallows. Thanks for reading and sharing, if of interest! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Big news! 🎉 My first PhD chapter has been published in PLOS Biology, and it just made the cover! 🐦🌍Perfect time to dive into the key findings from our global study on sexual selection in birds. 🧵👇 📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1371/journa…

It's a sign! 2025 means Birds 🦉

A bittersweet sight when they pulse and swerve as one like that. From one viewpoint it looks like beauty, magic, music. From another: death and geometry of the selfish herd. They only do that out of terror. You can see the sparrowhawk going for the kill around 10-14 s

Travelled to the Sarawat Mountains last week to see one of the last Arabian Magpies (aka Asir Magpie), in the hope that this would break the Geordie curse and bring us cup final glory. It worked! #nufc Newcastle United Aravind Ramesh Alan Curry Mike Carr

🚨 Macro-scale analyses linking species traits and genomics reveal that the ancestors of modern birds underwent major pulses of evolutionary change related to ecological niche expansion immediately after the Cretaceous–Palaeogene transition. 🧪🌐🪶 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Another tropical bird with impressive morphological and behavioural adaptations to reduce nest predation: much like Cinereous Mourners, baby jacobins apparently mimic urticating caterpillars. 🧪🪶

If you are interested in biogeography, speciation, diversification, and community assembly in tropical forests, please contact me at [email protected]. We are looking for a PhD student to join our lab in Aug 2025 #biodiversity #WesternGhats #EasternGhats #Arthropods

Heads-up for fans of trait-based models & trophic interactions! A fresh & fruity paper led superbly by Andressa Cabral & Renske Onstein Izdelek, Th.bsky.social investigates the role of seed-dispersing animals in shaping pantropical plant diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Finally got round to cataloguing bird images from South Africa fieldtrip in January, including Drakensberg mountains, Mpumalanga grasslands and the Flock to Marion cruise. Now I'm missing the ocean. Photos & trip report here: ebird.org/tripreport/326…