Pablo Salmón

Epigenetic Potential and Dispersal Propensity in a Free‐Living Songbird: A Spatial and Temporal Approach Natal dispersal is a key life history trait determining fitness and driving population dynamics, genetic structure, and species distributions. Despite existing evidence that not all phenotypes are eq...

Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

coffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project – a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social

🚨 New paper in @royalsociety.org
🦟 Plasmodium relictum tweaks mosquito metabolism & behavior to boost transmission 🧬🐦
Thanks @olofhellgren.bsky.social and Ana Rivero 💪🏻

#AvianMalaria #VectorBiology #Transcriptomics

👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns

📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

#seabirds #ecotoxicology

@univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

Blue tit held for a scientific survey on colouration. Vivid blue crown, yellow breast, forest background

New paper out in Oikos (2025)!

Cities reshape selection on carotenoid-based, plumage colouration, in 2 related bird species
The widespread urban paleness of carotenoid-based plumage colouration might be driven by natural selection!
🥚🐣🐦🏙️🌳

doi.org/10.1002/oik....

#UrbanEvolution #Birds #Oikos

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social

uol.de/job788en

#ornithology

First paper from our tawny owl project finally out! Great European-wide collaboration, thanks to all participants who have kindly contributed their data. We found that noise negatively affects occupancy and breeding success, while the effects of light pollution depended on the distance to roads.

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

ECR Asks: Dr. Ed Ivimey-Cook SORTEE blog

I recently sat down with the awesome @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social in the fourth instalment of @sortee.bsky.social’s ECR Asks.

We chatted code review, data editing, and the recent SORTEE-led publication about data and code-sharing policies.

sortee.org/blog/2025/09...

We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD student to work on the evolution and mechanisms of intestinal remodelling in lampreys. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgmvls.bsky.social

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!

Only a few days to go… please share!!!

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/48ff2

Guest editors: Julia Schroeder, RoxanaTorres, Britt Heidinger, Jaime Muriel, Michi Tobler

Please repost 🙏

Host species and age‐specific variation on Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical crocodiles Many populations of species belonging to the order Crocodilia are threatened due to illegal trafficking, indiscriminate hunting, and habitat loss and degradation affecting crocodilian health and para...

📢Thrilled to share that our article “Host species and age-specific variation on #Hepatozoon prevalence and its effect on body condition in two Neotropical #crocodiles” is now part of the Disease Ecology Special Issue @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social ! 🐊✨
doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

Three more weeks left to submit your paper to @thermal-biology.bsky.social for our special issue on Ontogenetic variation in thermal biology 🦉🦫☀️❄️

Las condiciones ambientales y la coloración de las aves Una de las características más llamativas de las aves, además del vuelo, es su coloración. Las aves muestran una gran variabilidad tanto en el número como en la conspicuidad de los colores que tien…

Si necesitáis una lectura amena y entretenida sobre coloración y aves, he escrito una pequeña pieza para el blog de la AEET. Pido disculpas de antemano por el autobombo :-)

blogaeet.org/2025/09/22/l...

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

Msc internship proposal | Coraline Bichet With my colleagues Romain Pigeault and Jérôme Moreau we offer a 6-months internship position for a master student (2nd year) about the potential effect of pesticides on passerine birds. Check the atta...

With @romain-pigeault.bsky.social and Jérôme Moreau we offer a 6-months internship for a master student to test the effect of pesticides on passerine birds. Follow the link for more. @ecophycebc.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
@univpoitiers.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...

When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Another excellent paper by @matteobeccardi.bsky.social, with great help from Justine Bertam, @commonternproject.bsky.social, @pablosalmon.bsky.social, @icbm-uol.bsky.social

I'm happy to share with you our new paper out now in Environmental Pollution!
Here, we experimentally studied the maternal offloading of mercury pollution via reproduction in an avian model species.

Read the paper here for more details👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

Picture of a garden warbler. Photo credit: Erica Calabretta

Fig. 3 from the article: Stress-induced corticosterone concentrations (partial residuals) in (a) whitethroats and (b) garden warblers as a function of air temperature measured along the Mediterranean route to Ponza during the night before the bird's arrival

NEW PAPER: investigating hormonal mechanisms and energy conditions of birds at stopover in relation to weather conditions encountered over the Mediterranean Sea route during pre-breeding migration.

➡️ vist.ly/46jvx

#ornithology #birds 🪶
@ericacalabretta.bsky.social
@fusanilab.bsky.social

Come and join us on this journey
www.enlightproject.rs/enlight-conf...

#lightpollution #alan #darksky #arrificiallightatnight

🔬📢 Oferta #FPI (2026–2029) en el ‪@mncn-csic.bsky.social. Proyecto sobre vínculos de pareja en aves polígamas, éxito reproductivo y redes sociales.

@diegogil.bsky.social & Lorenzo Pérez Rodríguez (@irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social)

Excelente entorno académico y personal 🐦🥰
@behavecol-lab.bsky.social

Look at that! @genmig.bsky.social, @gullbilledterns-de.bsky.social and I fledged this supercool chick at the @ifv-whv.bsky.social on Wednesday. Let us proudly present to you: Dr Anna Schnelle.

Special issue cover: water colour drawing for the special issue cover by Violeta Caballero-Lopez

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨

"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"

Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo

Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r

Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n

#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶