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Do you like baby birds? Fun photos and stories about chickadees in my latest guest post at Wing Beat, the blog of the @amornith.bsky.social. This post accompanies our recent paper on postnatal dispersal and recruitment in mountain chickadees 🪶 americanornithology.org/hatch-early-...

Hatch early and eat well: Patterns of juvenile dispersal and recruitment in Mountain Chickadees from a long-term study - American Ornithological SocietyBeing a fledgling is difficult—and dangerous. The vast majority (~80 percent) of young birds do not survive this stage, succumbing to predation or starvation. What might give a vulnerable fledgling a ...americanornithology.org

The Smithsonian's NMNH is accepting applications for various fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. Projects using NMNH resources are encouraged. For details: https://fellowships.si.edu/SIFP #postdoc

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)node:field_teaser]fellowships.si.edu

🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26docs.google.com

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Assistant ProfessorOnline applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

Using long-term data from individually marked songbirds, Vatka et al. discovered that breeding time trends are not attributed to an evolutionary change but phenotypic plasticity. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Dissecting Factors Behind Temporal Trends in the Timing of Breeding in Two Songbird Species—Evolutionary Change or Phenotypic Plasticity? | The American NaturalistAbstract Warming climate has led to significant phenological advances in many plant and animal populations. Whether these advances represent evolutionary responses or phenotypic plasticity remain typi...www.journals.uchicago.edu

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of BiologyThe Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...jobs.oberlin.edu

Animal Cognition job at Hunter College CUNY: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today's highlighted talk is a great contribution by Arnon Lotem, discussing the evolution of learning mechanisms and their fine-tuning to fit different species' needs youtu.be/At9uqrPNz5Y @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social

Cognitive evolution: the mechanisms may be simple but their fine-turning may not beYouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal mindsyoutu.be

🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The next in our series of highlighted talks from our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting on "Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds" is by Rob Barton (University of Durham): youtu.be/tVqgb0PosHw

What is it like to be an octopus?YouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal mindsyoutu.be

A thing I've been working on is out now: I wrote the cover story for the summer issue of Living Bird! Scientists have sequenced the genomes of almost all 25 (!) song sparrow subspecies AND connected their genes to how they're each likely to fare under climate change.

The Secret to Song Sparrows' Extraordinary Success Lies in Their GenomeThis ordinary-seeming songbird species is teeming with subtle genetic diversity, which allows local populations to respond in various ways to a changing world.www.allaboutbirds.org

Today's highlighted talk is by Maurico Gonzalez-Ferrero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social, talking about evolutionary expansion of the human brain @royalsocietypublishing.org youtu.be/vhqKSSYMPaQ

Spandrel brain? Human brain expansion as a means to another endYouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal mindsyoutu.be

If you’re starting grad school in Fall 2025 (or planning to apply and start in Fall 2026), this is a foundation award similar to federal grad fellowships (like NSF GRFP). Always worth applying if you’re an eligible student!

Lots more detail about this work in this nice thread from @andreaestandia.bsky.social. A collaboration with @nilomr.bsky.social @jon-slate.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu and @ukri.org grants bsky.app/profile/andr...

Like many 'populations' the great tits in Wytham are a meta-population, with extensive immigration. We know very little about who & what immigrants are - here @andreaestandia.bsky.social et al use genomic data to try to understand origins & consequences of immigrants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Selection shapes diverse animal minds: We recorded the talks at our @royalsocietypublishing.org discussion meeting last year to share with those who couldn’t be there. Our first speaker is Stephen Montgomery (Bristol University) @ebablab.bsky.social. youtu.be/BzmRZlhTcrc?...

A circuit view of evolving cognition by Dr Stephen MontgomeryYouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal mindsyoutu.be

Next up is co-organizer Alex Thornton @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social talking about social drivers of cognitive evolution @royalsocietypublishing.org. youtu.be/yb4iSyPPaaI?...

Social drivers of cognitive evolution: the importance of strategic decisionsYouTube video by Selection shapes diverse animal mindsyoutu.be

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929royalsocietypublishing.org