New paper! Reporting the first results from a new project w/ Dr Jenny Dunn! We look at Trichomonas gallinae🦠 in feral + wild pigeons 🕊️, assessing parasite prevalence & diversity. It's the first time this has been done for wild Rock Doves. #ornithology doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpa…

Job alert! We need someone to lend a hand with badger vaccination in Cornwall for 3 months, starting asap - could it be you? (apologies for previous post with broken link) careers-zsl.icims.com/jobs/3250/badg…

Why do parasites sometimes become deadly? Find out about parasite-associated mortality in birds and the roles specialist parasites and host evolutionary distance play, in new #BiologyLetters paper - ow.ly/fIuQ50IIE89 #avian #malaria #parasite #smbe2023

Proud of our latest publication in Current Biology based on 25 years of monitoring #climate and #phenology of organisms in Zackenberg Research Station, #Greenland. "Little directional change in the timing of arctic spring phenology over the past 25 years" doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Very honoured that my project On-ETTI to explore the ontological foundations of the project(s) on the Evolutionary Transitions in Indivuality has been one of the chosen ones. Competition was fierce! Looking forward to starting my work on it after my much needed summer break

Here's the story of how some senior academics plagiarized my work, led by my former advisor Stuart Pimm. I reported research misconduct to Duke University a while ago. Earlier this year, they had to acknowledge their wrongdoing, though they did so very subtly. This is what happened👇

If any mutuals are looking for a bIuesky invite code, DM me, I have a few.

Happy to share our new study in @sciencemagazine tracking nearly 4,000 Galápagos finches using genomics over 30 years! These tanagers have taught us a lot about the genomics of speciation. How is this reflected in contemporary evolution? science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Our review paper, focused on the stunning variation in mating systems in waders is free and available to read at BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈!

Our collab review paper, on diversity of #matingsystem variation in #shorebird species, is free to read at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib… Highlighting current knowledge, #research advances, research bias & suggestions for future research. *Click to zoom* #parentalcare #animalbehaviour

Two more going spare. DM me if you want one

The latest QvarnströmLab paper is out in Evolution Journal! This was a huge effort, lead by the incomparable Dr. Murielle Ålund. We used 17 years of data to explore where hybrid inviability arises in Flycatchers, from eggs to adults! Carolina Segami Navaneeth K Menon doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

There has been a big influx of people to BIueSky in the last couple of days. If anyone else is looking to make the jump, I have some codes available for mutuals.

EARLY VIEW in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Haemosporidian infections are more common in breeding shorebirds than in migrating shorebirds | William Jones Zsófia Tóth et al Nayden Chakarov onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… | #ornithology