liedvogel lab

Wildlife group sues to protect rare bird in coastal Virginia, North Carolina The population of Wayne’s warblers, which rely on wetland forests, has precipitously declined in recent years.

Based on genetic work from our lab .. let’s go! 🦉🧪

Strain variation identifies a neural substrate for behavioral evolution in Drosophila Sexual selection acts on heritable differences within species, driving the parallel diversification of signal production in one sex and behavioral res…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and
@reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

Excited to share that our former postdoc, PhD student, Master student and intern @juleneumann.bsky.social will give a #TEDx talk on #lunar #rhythms in #marine organisms next week.

I'm very much looking forward to see the video!

#chronobiology #ecology #moon #tides #clunio #crabs

And not just for UK folks! 👇 #ExE2026 welcomes evolutionary ecologists from around the world! Join us in Cornwall next summer 🏖️🐬

Honored and over the moon to add another Chronobiology talk to the TEDx universe at Aberystwyth next week! 🌓🦟 There are still some tickets left!

tedxaberystwyth.com

@aberuni.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @clocksevolution.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social

Left: Adult and nestling White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus; adult on top, chick below). Right: Microscopy images showing microplastics from nestling faecal samples. Birds were handled under license.

🔈New study!

Microplastics found in 62% of White-throated Dipper broods in Scotland & Basque Country. No body condition effects detected.

Led by @cmartin3.bsky.social

@sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
@aranzadiornito.bsky.social

🔗
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#Ornithology🐦 #Microplastics #Freshwater💧

Excellent line-up of speakers

Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms Abstract. The long-standing notion that genotypes map to phenotypes through simple one gene–one trait relationships continues to shape both research in the

New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic

looking forward to seeing many of you there, come and join us 15.-17. April in Royal Holloway College - registration still open s.gwdg.de/UOwiYf

huge thanks also to our generous sponsors @jexpbiol.bsky.social‬ @lotektelemetry.bsky.social and Carmanah Management

@joewynnbirds.bsky.social did an excellent job on keeping all ducks in a row for the programme juggling and will surely live up to full potential in the legendary pub quiz and other evening highlights - stay tuned!

four panel figure with a bee on a forget-me-not flower upper left, ants finding their way upper right, migratory bird on the lower right and the logo of the special intestest group on animal navigation of the royal institute of navigation on the lower left. in the middle it is written "royal institute of navigation (RIN) - animal navigation group with the RIN logo"

12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation - one of my favourites 🧭🦉🐟🦇🐝🐜 - this time we tried a new format, inviting topical sessions to make sure we represent the wonderfully broad range of research in #animal #orientation and #navigation and are super excited about the lineup s.gwdg.de/EBROf7

Beyond Mendel: a new genetics agenda
Most traits aren’t “one gene–one trait”. A Genetics perspective calls for new experimental paradigms to capture polygenic effects in real environmental context—backed by large-scale automated phenotyping and new infrastructure.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3866699/news...

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Below is the link to the article.

@luisapallares.bsky.social @nedabarghi.bsky.social @rachaelabay.bsky.social @ahancock.bsky.social @genmig.bsky.social @meauxjuliette.bsky.social @abepalmer.bsky.social @kjschmid.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Emil Mallmin and colleagues at MPI EvolBio show that simple ecological models can reproduce real-world species abundance patterns—and help identify when ecosystems are fragile vs. resilient. Read and find out more here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3865637/news...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

We studied the endemic stonechat of Fuerteventura and found something surprising: areas specifically designated to protect birds (SPAs) are not effectively covering most of its population. Nearly half of the individuals, and most of its occupied área, lie outside these boundaries.

Even more striking: during the 2024 population crash, unprotected areas became critical refuges, while static reserve borders failed to track the species’ shifting distribution.

Hello Bluesky!

Does Nₑ really explain mutation rate (μ) or genome size (GS) in vertebrates?

We find the apparent Nₑ–μ link in Bergeron et al. (2023) is a “back-door” path via generation time, and GS is decoupled from both Nₑ and life-history traits.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#evobio #PNAS

We are looking for postdocs with research programs in:
•     Genetics of Health and Disease
•     Computational Genomics
•     Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics and Human Population Diversity
•     Functional Genetics and Genomics

Decline in body mass in adult (left) and nestling great tits. In the nestling plot, the purple line represents all nestling and the green line those that recruited to the population as breeders. Their different slope suggest an increase in the strength of selection on nestling mass something confirmed in the MS by analysing the temporal trends in selection differentials (see link for further information)

We have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Haemosporidian parasite infections in Spanish Sparrows Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis of the Western Palaearctic - Journal of Ornithology Spanish Sparrows in the Western Palaearctic show different migration strategies that might affect haemosporidian parasitism. In a migratory Croatian population, haemosporidian prevalence averaged at 3...

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology

Haemosporidian parasite infections in Spanish Sparrows Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis of the Western Palaearctic

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎧Jetzt reinhören bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur: @tannebergerf.bsky.social erklärt, wie Moor-, Klimaschutz und Landwirtschaft sich verbinden lassen.

🎧Zur Folge: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/moorschutz-w...

Screenshot of the ISN account

Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱

Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!?
#Neuroethology 🧠🧪

Please share widely 🫶

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

Celebrating the curiosity, courage and brilliance of women and girls in science today and everyday👩‍🔬✨️🙌

Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by highlighting the incredible women of SFB 1372 advancing our understanding of birds, behaviour, and the natural world 🐦🔬
A small glimpse of the brilliant minds behind our research ⬇️
##WomenInScience

The front cover the Journal of Experimental Biology Special Issue, Sensory Perception in a Changing World, volume 229, Supplementary issue 1, published February 2026. The background of the cover is purple. In the centre there is an image of a butterfly, surrounded by a dove (top), turtle, seal, snake, dolphin, frog and fish, arranged in a circle. Those images are surrounded by a second circle of images representing sources of environmental change, including; a submarine (top), a wind turbine, a thermometer with the mercury to the top, a flask containing bubbling chemicals, a car (bottom), an electricity pylon, a light bulb and a factory with smoke coming out of its chimneys. The Company of Biologists logo is in the bottom left corner.

All of the Reviews and Commentaries in our new Special Issue, Sensory Perception in a Changing World, are available for FREE!

tinyurl.com/5t3mkrny

>140y Natural History Museum, 80m specimens, >300 scientists, >5m visitors per year. Enjoyed so much being one of them today! "Fixing our broken planet" is a great exhibition bringing solutions close to our lives. Found it particularly brave to address the carbon footprint of pets.
@nhm.org

wonderful female scientists I have the pleasure to work with

girl power for the win! amazing, appreciative, brave, clever, curious, creative, funky, funny, inspirational, persistent, supportive, stubborn (if needed), wonderful, visionary – and simply the best #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenInScience thank you!