Adam Lendvai

Excited for this one. Hannah’s research is top-notch and she’s a great speaker!

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

I politely declined MDPI Birds’ “editorial board” invitation. Twice. No reply, just more invites. I now realise I was the academic equivalent of someone wiring money to a Nigerian widow... Lesson learned. Spam filter on.

Wheatears are very cool (and sometimes hard to ID in the field). This is an interesting paper describing the genetic background behind their colour variation. Good stuff for another daily avian hybridisation story @jenteo.bsky.social :)

Body surface temperatures as biomarkers of physiological environmental adaptation in wild birds and mammals | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Biological Reviews | #ornithology 🪶

Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds - Nature Ecology & Evolution Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asrc-gc.bsky.social #NSFfunded with data from from 6 different continents

Evolutionary theory meets ballistics: longevity researchers pondering how cannons shaped extrinsic mortality patterns back in the day. @englishse.bsky.social has a model in mind, @eivimeycook.bsky.social prefers a metaanalysis, @kokkonut.bsky.social maybe thinking if they could shoot kokkonuts...? 🙂

A fantastic few days of ageing talks, great people, and excellent food!

Massive thanks to (Hanna!) @kokkonut.bsky.social, Margaux Bieuville, Victor Ronget, and the fantastic people at The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences

Just back from The Evolution of Ageing workshop — once again a fabulous meeting! Inspiring talks, great discussions, fun socials. Shoutouts to the organizers for making it happen again!

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

A little lab getaway to beautiful Oradea — just about an hour from our department @evozoodeb.bsky.social

Welcome to the new EOU President, Peter Pap, holding the traditional symbol of office! #EOU2025

From observation to publication: A new species of wasp-mimicking flower fly Observation by @franklinhowley Community science leads to yet another scientific discovery! A new species of wasp-mimicking flower fly, Monoceromyia ndidiae, has been identified in the Dominican Repub...

This is very cool. The creature and the story as well. www.inaturalist.org/blog/115291-...

Birds are dinosaurs

Something to try out in the next semester! I'm curious how it works for students compared to AVIDA.

🌟 You’re invited! 🌟

Join us for #ABL2025, a FREE online conference on 13–14 November!
Connect with scientists worldwide, share your work in a friendly, inclusive place and enjoy talks, posters, and plenaries, all streamed live on YouTube

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A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest study has been published in Avian Research! 🐦
You can read the full paper from the link below. Hope you enjoy it. Happy reading!

doi.org/10.1016/j.av...

New out at Frontiers in Animal Science: Amino acid supplementation supports growth and reproductive development under dietary restriction.
doi.org/10.3389/fani...

"This study on house sparrows shows the differential fitness consequences of immigrants and residents, the fitness of their offspring based on parental background, and the annual and lifetime contributions of immigrants to local populations.."
buff.ly/rFvyhH7

My 1000th iNaturalist observation was a graceful breeding white tern. My 1000th species could hardly be more different: island vs. mainland, tree vs. ground, white vs. black, slender vs. chubby—and thriving vs. dead (likely killed by a feral cat).😟 These contrasts highlight diversity & fragility.

Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857

With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell

We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation

Kudos. A Science paper as the outcome of a master thesis... not bad! 🫡

That was a super cool session! 👏

Where is 'transformative'? 😁

The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack A zoologist observed a Cooper’s hawk using a crosswalk signal as a cue to ambush its prey.

Once, while I was driving, a sparrow suddenly darted in front of me, using my car to shake off a pursuing hawk, not bold enough to follow. A few years ago, I saw a poster about how small #birds use cars as cover. Now, here's an interesting article showing the exact opposite happening. bit.ly/3H3EhFN

Individual clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict Clown anemonefish survive heatwaves by shrinking together with their breeding partner.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...