Sophie M. Dupont

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa

Would appreciate a re-post!

@evoldir.bsky.social

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...

🧪🪶🌍🕊 25 Critically Endangered Birds
All of these species are on the brink of extinction.
A poster to raise awareness and inspire action. Every effort counts. ✨

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

An Atlantic puffin at the colony.

New paper alert: Behavioral response of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica to marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Maine, USA: A webcam study. By Julie Wallace et al.
#seabirds #OpenAccess #HeatWaves

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

Community Conversations: Webinars for building a career in conservation physiology. Speaker Dr Steven Cooke presents his "Reflections on Co-production and Impact in Conservation Physiology". The webinar is online and takes place on 5 November 2025 14:00-15:00 GMT

We're excited to announce Community Conversations, a new #webinar series in partnership with @sebiology.bsky.social 🤝 This is geared towards #EarlyCareer researchers. Our first speaker is @sjcfishy.bsky.social

Sign up here: buff.ly/MTC7R6B

#ConPhys #SEBcareers #ECR #PhD #conservation

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make"

Seasonal dynamics of female bill colouration: an observation in captive House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) Journal of Ornithology - Bill colouration is a highly variable trait with the potential to rapidly change over time. We observed strong interindividual and seasonal variation in the bill colour of...

Seasonal dynamics of female bill colouration: an observation in captive House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Call for Session Proposals – SEB #Conference 2026

We invite you to propose a session for our Conference in Florence 7–9 July 2026, themed Resilience.

📌 Submission deadline: 1 October 2025.

📍More information :
www.sebiology.org/events/propose-a-session-or-event/session-proposal-form.html

🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!

Last time I saw one of those, it had been in the stomach of a Sable (flesh-footed) shearwater. Plastic sachets should also be banned.
#PlasticPollution #Seabirds

Comment les incendies neutralisent des années de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique
👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/Mul

Great tit (Parus major). Photo: Francis C. Franklin, Wikimedia commons.

Fig. 3 from the article: The level of disturbance of an occupied nest box related to the exploratory score of great tits occupying the nest box.

Fig. 5 from the article: Associations between disturbance and (a) chick weight (g) and (b) chick tarsus length (mm). Black dots represent raw brood means. Lines and standard error are derived from the linear mixed model.

*Special issue contribution*

Human disturbance and birds: recreational activities do not predict nest box occupancy in great tits, but individuals nesting in disturbed areas are more exploratory and have lower fitness.

➡️ vist.ly/44s9a

#ornithology #birds #anthropocene #urbanization 🪶

We’ve got seven places left!

Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

🚨Session proposals for SEB 2026 are open.

We'd love to see some great conservation physiology sessions! 🦈🌲

➡️https://www.sebiology.org/resource/propose-a-session-for-the-seb-annual-conference-2026-in-florence.html

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"

The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Understanding the effects of extreme environments on wildlife #Ecology & #Physiology is essential for #Conservation. This review examines the ecophysiology of animals in extreme environments & identifies important knowledge gaps.

#EcoPhysiology

➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

poster for the program

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations A study using more than 90,000 scientific observations shows Earth is getting too hot for many tropical birds.

I usually tell people that *so far*, habitat loss, not climate change, has been the major driver of bird population declines... but now we're starting to get analyses directly connecting bird declines to extreme weather events fueled by climate change. 🪶 theconversation.com/70-years-of-...

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors!
Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology.
🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026
📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: proceedingsb@royalsociety.org
🔗 Info: jackbrand.work@gmail.com /dylan.ge.gomes@gmail.com

Parenthood - Everything you need to know about the wildlife series from filming locations to featured species and more Sir David Attenborough returns to narrate amazing stories of dedication, ingenuity and sacrifice, as animal parents embark on the greatest challenge of all - raising their young

The BBC #Parenthood series joined us in Benfontein to film infanticide in sociable weavers for Ep. 3: Grassland🪺

It shows how complex (and sometimes brutal) parenthood can be!
Huge thanks to everyone involved for capturing incredible footage and sharing these stories🎉
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

🎉New preprint!

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"

tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk

We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!

Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

In the #Anthropocene, species face multiple, severe stressors which may be anticipated to interact in harmful ways.

This #Perspective explores a more hopeful alternative: that stressors interact in a cross-protective manner.

Learn more here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...
🐸 🐦‍⬛ 🐝

New paper from @lealorrainsoligon.bsky.social‘s PhD
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Léa is also staring in the corresponding ECR spotlight
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Protective multi-stressor interactions in the Anthropocene: Key considerations for investigating cross-tolerance in a conservation context Species in a human-impacted world face multiple stressors, which sometimes interact in protective ways. Cross-protection occurs when exposure to one stress

In a world where multiple stressors collide, we often focus on their negative impacts on animals 🐟🐸🐢. But what if, under certain conditions, one stressor protects against another? Read our latest paper: dx.doi.org/10.1093/conp... @conphysjournal.bsky.social from our @sebiology.bsky.social session!

Pesticide mixture effects on physiological stress and morphology of growing wild nestlings Synthetic pesticides may pose a risk to non-target organisms, notably farmland birds, through their hazardous effects on life-history traits, but thei…

The last paper from Elva´s thesis is out !

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

@univ-larochelle.fr @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @jerome1879.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Disability in ecology and evolution In this TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We a...

Huge thank you @aeastephens.bsky.social‬ for initiating the TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in T.R.E.E. providing visibility for disabled researchers in #Ecology & #Evolution to make our field more #inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Image of a young person looking through binoculars. White wording on a green background over the image reads: BTO's Equipment Donation Scheme. This scheme redistributes second-hand binoculars and other birdwatching equipment to young people aged 11-21, schools and universities. www.bto.org. BTO Youth and Opticron logo top right of the image.

Are you a young person in need of birding equipment or someone who wants to send theirs to a new home? 🐦 Our Equipment Donation Scheme supported by @opticron.bsky.social‬ redistributes second-hand equipment to a young person under 21, school or university. ➡️ www.bto.org.uk/equip... #UKBirding