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We study the evolution of birds on islands and we are part of CIBIO, Portugal (Sociality group) and CEFE, Montpellier, France (E3CO group) www.islandbirdproject.com

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11.02.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Raquel Ponti @raquelponti.bsky.social is a #MSCA postdoctoral research at BIOPOLIS, Portugal, studying general patterns of morphological evolution in endemic island birds, and the mechanisms involved. ๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ๏ธ
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Ana Leitรฃo @anavleitao.bsky.social is a MSCA postdoctoral researcher at #BIOPOLIS. Her work has been focused in understanding the evolution of elaborate (or lack of) traits such as plumage colors and bird song, in both female and male birds. ๐Ÿชถ๐Ÿฆ
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Claire Doutrelant is a senior researcher at CEFE, Montpellier, with especial interest in the impact of sexual and social evolution on islands signals (both male songs and male and female colors). ๐ŸŽจ๐ŸŽถ
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Rita Covas, principal researcher at BIOPOLIS, Portugal investigates adaptation patterns to island environments, focusing on the evolution of reproductive life histories, #sociality, immunity, and morphology in island birds, among other interests. ๐Ÿ๏ธ๐Ÿฆค
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Happy #WomenInScience Day !
What better day to introduce our incredible core teamโ€”powered by four women! ๐Ÿ’ชโœจ

#WomenInSTEM

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11.02.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Global bioacoustics dataset ! ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿฆœ

WABAD, the World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset

5,044 min of annotated bird vocalizations, 1,147 species, 70 sites ๐ŸŒ across 27 countries & 13 biomes

Open-access for AI training & conservation research

๐Ÿ‘‰ by C. Pรฉrez-Granados et al.
doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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30.01.2025 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Our first Funk lecture of the new year is tomorrow! For more information and to register please visit our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/gh...

28.01.2025 20:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

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We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History:

[Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection ๐Ÿฆš, w/ me, Knud Jรธnsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al
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23.01.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Check our website for current projects

www.islandbirdproject.com

27.01.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We study evolution of birds on islands, particularly focusing on investigating the mechanisms underlying life history traits, colour, song, behaviour and morphology.
We examine questions from both ultimate and proximate perspectives and combine field and comparative work.

27.01.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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