Zoltan Nemeth

Silver Lining for Shorebirds: New Study Shows Arctic Nesting Species Are Cued into Climate Change Attentive long-distance migrants are following environmental cues better than expected, showing some shorebirds to be surprisingly adaptable.

Audubon Alaska has a new blog post on our article in Global Change Biology on the effects of climatic variation on timing of nesting in arctic-breeding shorebirds. Led by Eveling Tavera and Kirsty Gurney with the Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network. #ornithology 🪶 ak.audubon.org/news/arctic-...

New PhD position available on blackpoll warblers with fieldwork in the boreal forest and tropics. @audubon.org @birdscanada.bsky.social @vtecostudies.bsky.social

Post-doctoral fellow in functional genomics and ecophysiology Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇
shorturl.at/wijEq

Would appreciate a re-post!

Snapshot Europe 2025 Snapshot Europe is launching its 2025 season, and scientists are invited to join the annual Europe-wide wildlife camera trapping project

🐾 🦌🐗🐿️🐺 Join the effort to build a continent-wide Snapshot of Wildlife! Scientists across Europe are invited to join the annual wildlife camera trapping project - Snapshot Europe. More information: www.ab.mpg.de/722403/snaps...

Trends in loss and retention of vision-related genes are similar between two trechine beetles independently colonizing caves Abstract. Whether evolution is predictable has been tested in evolutionary biology by comparing lineages that experienced parallel evolution. For example,

Two cave beetles lost the same visual genes after independent cave colonization. Why? Genes with fewer roles in the body (low pleiotropy) were more likely to be lost. Gene loss may not be so random after all:

Niida, Ashida and Koshikawa

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

A book cover entitled: Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis by authors Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. It features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel, as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...

And the ebook will be open access!

#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this? Join us for hands-on-training in the mountains! Please share widely!

www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...

Cut out image of a Yellowhammer on a purple background. Wording alongside reads: Work with us! Research Ecologist (x2). www.bto.org/jobs. BTO logo top right of image.

We’re looking for two Research Ecologists. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology

These roles in our Terrestrial Ecology team focus on farmland, heathland & woodland bird projects using landscape-scale, local, volunteer & professional surveys.

📅 Closing date: Monday 16th June

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A nesting crunch sees the true story of 'Avian Sister Wives' unfold on St. Thomas, Ont., porch | CBC News Two squabbling female robins, eight eggs and a few visiting male birds have been sharing a nest perched on top of a St. Thomas woman's porch light. While the two females appeared to be fighting at fir...

a modern family (of robins)

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Body of dead Lesser Black-backed Gull, Netherlands Peter van der Sluijs Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Body_of_dead_seagull.jpg

What conservation interventions could limit mass deaths of wild birds from avian influenza? A new paper in #BirdStudy looked at the options. The findings are sobering: doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

My paper showing a significant decline of a Common Buzzard Buteo buteo population during an outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI)has just been published | www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... | Bird Study | #ornithology

EOU CONFERENCE 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! All the details (registration, accommodation, excursions, payment, plenaries, symposia) can be found on the conference website: www.bangor.ac.uk/eou-congress We look forward to seeing you in Bangor, Wales (UK) August 18-22 #EOU2025

Memory and the scheduling of parental care in an insect population in the wild Field et al. show that, in the wild, digger wasps use integrated memories to schedule offspring care. As well as remembering the locations of up to 9 separate nests, they feed offspring in order of ag...

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Just a few days left to apply to this postdoc position on Red Knots in the #WaddenSea within the fantastic project www.waakvogels.nl Please share :)

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.

"But [as we slide into a fascist nightmare], the value I want to encourage is professionalism."

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩‍🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs

Diseases in Wild Birds: A One Health Perspective - British Ecological Society Join the Parasites and Pathogens SIG for this webinar covering the implications of the range of diseases present in the wild bird population.

📢🐦 Join us this June for our first free webinar!

"Diseases in Wild Birds: A One Health Perspective"

Where: online, free
When: 9th June 2025

Speakers, info & registration ⬇️
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/dise...

@britishecologicalsociety.org @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

A new meta-study challenges the widely held belief that hormone levels in wild bird eggs are an adaptive mechanism: There is no effect of egg hormones on maternal or offspring fitness. Read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Icarus Birds – just posted on the EOU noticeboard, an opportunity to collaborate in tracking common birds to understand where, how, and why they die – see eounion.org/latest-news/... #ornithology

ICARUS Projects

ICARUS BIRDS
Where, how, and why do birds die?

We are launching the ICARUS BIRDS project to find out! Join us in tracking common birds across Europe to uncover the factors behind their decline.

Learn more on our website: www.ab.mpg.de/icarus

Even faced with the same data, ecologists sometimes come to opposite conclusions Study highlights powerful role subjective choices can play in research, though some critics urge caution about applying findings too broadly

I spoke with @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for this story on the many analysts paper in ecology. To me the concerning thing is the interpretation, not the (expected) finding.

www.science.org/content/arti...

I am searching for a PhD candidate interested in investigating how knowledge of thermal physiology and ecology of wild pollinators can help promote biodiversity conservation 🐝 Dynamic thermal team at @biologylu.bsky.social. Apply by March 20 👇 I would appreciate a re-post!