@egioxford.bsky.social
Research Institute in Dept of Biology at University of Oxford studying all aspects of Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution of Birds in natural environments. Follow us for updates on science, seminars, jobs & field projects: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/
New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.
04.12.2025 14:56 β π 28 π 10 π¬ 2 π 2Just a reminder of this weekβs Seminar - 3.30 in LT1 in the LaMB
05.12.2025 08:56 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
This weekβs EGI seminar will be given by @peterkorsten.bsky.social from Aberystwyth on the ecology of behavioural variation in the wild at 3.30pm Friday 5 Dec - LT1 in @biology.ox.ac.uk. All welcome & live-streamed: see joining details below.
02.12.2025 17:01 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Amazing work from Daniel Field on origin of modern birds and diversity in todayβs EGI seminar
28.11.2025 16:49 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.
26.11.2025 07:25 β π 44 π 13 π¬ 2 π 0
Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?
Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social
Reach out to chat more!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This weekβs seminar will be given by Prof Daniel Field of @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social on the origins of modern birds. 3.30pm Friday 28 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk - all welcome & see below for live streaming joining information
24.11.2025 09:19 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
A great seminar from @mmoiron.bsky.social walking us through how to disentangle the causes of similarity among partners & the estimation & implications of indirect effects in natural populations
21.11.2025 16:53 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
#Wisdom is back!
The worldβs oldest known living banded bird, MΕlΔ« (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
This week's EGI seminar is being given by Dr Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social of the University of Bielefeld at 3.30pm on Friday 21 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk. See below for online joining details - all welcome!
17.11.2025 09:11 β π 19 π 8 π¬ 0 π 2
πππ Delighted to announce that this year's EGI Christmas Seminar will be given by Prof Tim Birkhead at 3pm on Friday 12 December - in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building in @biology.ox.ac.uk πππ
11.11.2025 19:14 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Welcome to this week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk when Prof Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social from @monashbiol.bsky.social will talk on The Evolution of Metabolic Rate and Life History: 3.30pm Fri 14 Nov in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Life & Mind Building. Also live-streamed: instructions β¬οΈ
10.11.2025 16:22 β π 4 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting π₯ in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! π¦
09.11.2025 18:56 β π 30 π 23 π¬ 0 π 2Thread β¬οΈ @joewoodman.bsky.social explains key results of these analyses in much more detail. Last of four papers from Joe's DPhil thesis:
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New paper from @joewoodman.bsky.social et al in @asn-amnat.bsky.social uses the long-term study of Great Tits in Wytham Woods to ask how differently aged birds are distributed in space & what consequences this has for spatial variation in reproductive output
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A superb seminar from Kristen Ruegg on the Bird Genoscape Project and the insights into annual cycles, local
adaptation and climate change.
Reminder of todayβs seminar at 3.30pm - welcome in person or email for joining details online β¬οΈ
07.11.2025 11:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They're not parasitic (not all 'cuckoos' are) - but they do sometimes nest communally
03.11.2025 14:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
We're all looking forward to this week's seminar, being given by Kristen Ruegg from Colorado State University on the power of avian landscape genomics in the Genoscape Project. Seminar at 3.30pm on Friday 7 Nov in Lecture Theatre 1 in LaMB. Welcome in person or to join online - details β¬οΈ
03.11.2025 10:36 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 3
An excellent turn out for @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social seminar this afternoon - dealing with the question of feedbacks between social life and cognition
31.10.2025 15:35 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Reminder of todayβs seminar at 1530 - actually will be in Lecture Theatre 1 - come along!!
31.10.2025 10:30 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Nice to welcome my new DPhil students with an evening at St Hughβs College. Welcome Gayatri Kumar, @smthmpsn.bsky.social and @ghtrabin.bsky.social. The White Stork was not part of the formal evening, but I was pleased to see it and grab a photo earlier in the week.
30.10.2025 09:34 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! πͺΊπ¦π
29.10.2025 10:53 β π 28 π 15 π¬ 1 π 1
Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for π
27.10.2025 09:28 β π 36 π 13 π¬ 0 π 3Where do immigrant great tits come from, and what consequences does immigration and dispersal have for genetic structure at fine scale? Read this thread from @andreaestandia.bsky.social describing new preprint on this topic
02.07.2025 20:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice video explaining some of the Wytham tit fieldwork from @joewoodman.bsky.social. Anyone who has the good fortune to be taught by Joe will be lucky - he has a great gift for explanation
01.07.2025 12:14 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy to share our last work just published in @animalecology.bsky.social. With @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social and Peter Pearman. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cnrs.fr @biology.ox.ac.uk
12.06.2025 17:27 β π 42 π 19 π¬ 0 π 0
After the usual Field Season hiatus, we will be having a few seminars this term, beginning with Dale Clayton from University of Utah talking about Ecology, Evolution and Endocrinology of Grooming in Birds. 4 pm today in the Board Room in Mansfield Road at @biology.ox.ac.uk
05.06.2025 08:14 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Congratulations Denise on a great DPhil journey!
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