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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 detailsπŸ‘‡
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

18.09.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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And to add some more beauty to the internet: here's a close-up of Dr Schnelle, with her gorgeous hat crafted skillfully by various members of the @ifv-whv.bsky.social, fired on by @robertrollins1892.bsky.social. πŸ₯°

29.08.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Andrea wearing her PhD hat after successfully defending her thesis.

Andrea wearing her PhD hat after successfully defending her thesis.

Congratulations, Dr. Andrea. What a very special day. Happy, proud and honoured to see you fledge πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸ§¬πŸοΈπŸ§ͺ - fly on @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

24.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Postdoc - Birds on Islands Naturalis is looking for a postdoc studying birds on islands.

Work!
www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...

10.05.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Robin team with T30 - field work on a partial migratory robin population in Northern Germany.

Robin team with T30 - field work on a partial migratory robin population in Northern Germany.

spring has sprung and the #dreamteam is out in the forest. first #geolocator robins have been spotted and data already secured - such exciting times. we use #lotek radiotelemetry and light and pressure loggers to understand partial #migration in a European #robin population in Northern Germany.

02.05.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to share our new publication on the effect of inbreeding on male fertility and sperm senescence, out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org.
Many thanks to @oscarvedder.bsky.social, @btschirren.bsky.social and @ifv-whv.bsky.social.

Take a look below if you want to know more about this workπŸ‘‡πŸ˜‰

30.04.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Freshly out in Environmental Pollution – Anna’s new paper in which she assesses mercury pollution in the last and endangered population of gull-billed terns in Central Europe, breeding at Neufelderkoog, a heavily mercury-polluted area: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

19.04.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long‐term experiment in a precocial bird This research experimentally manipulated the quality of early-life conditions in Japanese quail, and monitored individual performance over the complete adult lifespan under standardized conditions. I...

New publication in @animalecology.bsky.social by @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @matteobeccardi.bsky.social 'Poor developmental conditions decrease adult body size and egg size, but not egg laying rate and survival throughout adulthood: A long-term experiment in a precocial bird'
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

10.04.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you to @genmig.bsky.social for supporting this project and everyone at the @ifv-whv.bsky.social who took part in this. Also thank you to the amazing colleagues who are not on Bluesky: Lidia Chitimia-Dobler and Anna Obiegala.

18.03.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and associated microorganisms collected on the North Sea Island of Heligoland - Parasitology Research Heligoland is an island located in the North Sea, where vegetation was almost destroyed as a result of heavy bombardment during and after the Second World War. However, over the past 70 years, the veg...

I am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions πŸ˜„

doi.org/10.1007/s004...

18.03.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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High-recombining genomic regions affect demography inference based on ancestral recombination graphs Abstract. Multiple methods of demography inference are based on the ancestral recombination graph. This powerful approach uses observed mutations to model

Happy to share our new paper OA in Genetics. We show that population genomic methods based on ARGs (ancestral recombination graphs i.e.Β genetic ancestry along chromosomes) for demography inference can be biased when applied to genomes with wide high-recombining regions. doi.org/10.1093/gene...

27.01.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Combining Individual‐Based Radio‐Tracking With Whole‐Genome Sequencing Data Reveals Candidate for Genetic Basis of Partial Migration in a Songbird Combining individual-based radio-tracking and whole-genome sequencing, we investigated the population genetics of a partial migratory songbird, the common blackbird. Using population genetic summary ...

Excited to share my first paper with the Liedvogel lab @genmig.bsky.social at @ifv-whv.bsky.social:
Together with @jpartecke.bsky.social from the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and many others, we looked at the genetics of partial migration in blackbirds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

10.01.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Welcome to the new blue sky account of the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Here we will post updates on science, news and outreach of our Institute: ifv-vogelwarte.de/en/home

10.01.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist // University of Oldenburg

Please spread! The newly established CF Genomics at UOL is re-advertising a position for a bioinformatician uol.de/en/job/bioin...

07.01.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Figure 1 from the article: Schematic overview of the geographic distributions of the four major tick genera (Amblyomma (yellow), Ixodes (orange), Haemaphysalis (green), Hyalomma (blue)) found on birds within the African–Western Palearctic region

Figure 1 from the article: Schematic overview of the geographic distributions of the four major tick genera (Amblyomma (yellow), Ixodes (orange), Haemaphysalis (green), Hyalomma (blue)) found on birds within the African–Western Palearctic region

Figure 4 from the article: Point estimates for tick species/migratory season interactions for all tick species in the reported dataset.

Figure 4 from the article: Point estimates for tick species/migratory season interactions for all tick species in the reported dataset.

NEW PAPER: a detailed overview of the current state of research on hard tick movement on migratory birds along the African–Western Palearctic flyways, investigating the role of bird species and migratory season.

➑️ https://vist.ly/3mqeyny

#ornithology #migration #disease #birds

21.12.2024 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wide spectrum of tick-borne pathogens in juvenile Ixodes ricinus collected from autumn-migrating birds in the Vistula River Valley, Poland | bmcvetres.biomedcent... | BMC Veterinary Research | #ornithology πŸͺΆ

10.12.2024 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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