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Want to work with raptors in Mongolia? Job opportunity for an adventurous research biologist. mbcc.mn/Home/News

Holy shit. A lot of wild stuff in this new bird phylogeny. Most notably, their radiation of modern birds is completely unrelated to the KPg mass extinction. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We're hiring several field assistants for this summer (June-August). Work involves looking at egg-laying & provisioning strategies in wasps🐝 (non-stinging) to see how helping initially evolved. Accommodation is provided and some money towards expenses. Feel free to get in touch!

We are delighted to announce that NEOF funding has been renewed until 2031. This lets us continue to help NERC scientists address global challenges in climate change and train the next generation of environmental scientists Natural Environment Research Council UK Research and Innovation #neoftraining

Unable to visit the museum in person? Not to worry! Now you can explore the space virtually with a 360 VR tour developed by our digitisation officer Kane and the Sheffield University Digital Learning team my.matterport.com/show/?m=BTaKuN…

A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21

Well done Frigg Speelman - 3rd pre-print of PhD is out showing a surprising lack of parental mate-switching effects on SeychellesWarbler offspring fitness components doi.org/10.32942/X2BG9Z David S Richardson Terry Burke Nature Seychelles

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/… A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share

My hot take that people look to rule out the possibility of the Scarlet Tanager being a potential escape - based solely on these images below and a vague location seems to be causing a meltdown for some on Birdforum. So here's some more thoughts 1/🧵

Tired of flattened early bird fossils? Today is your lucky day. Very happy to finally welcome 'Navaornis hestiae' to the world! It allowed us to see for the first time a (near)complete enantiornithine brain. Today in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… #spinningskull

🎉Janet Chik has a fantastic paper on Genotype x Age effects on telomere length in LundySparrowProject doi.org/10.1093/evlett… J Schroeder Terry Burke Mirre Simons in Evolution Letters

New paper: causes and short & long-term consequences of divorcing 💔. This papers highlights the shortcomings of studying divorce to date and provides methods to address them. Plus some new insights on divorcing in birds! See 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

Our latest findings on #ruffs:

Dads with Double Lives! 🐦 House sparrows might look like simple little birds, but their love lives are anything but! These birds form social pairs, meaning a male and female team up to build a nest and raise chicks together. Both parents help feed and protect their young,

New paper out in BEAS! Co-first with Jamie Dunning : we compared three different ways of defining social associations from RFID data across four avian study systems. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Paper now out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution!! Looking forward to seeing how the community applies this method. Since the preprint, I updated the documentation and even made a video tutorial. Do check it out! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behaviour…

Head over to the Methods Blog to find out the story behind YOLO-Behaviour, a framework for automated behavioural coding from videos! 🐦 Alex Chan buff.ly/3Xft0ax

Everton bid farewell to Goodison Park with a beautiful violin rendition of Z-Cars 💙 📺 TNT Sports & discovery+ UK

Ever wondered how divorce affects offspring fitness? SeychellesWarbler Check out our new paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Frigg Speelman David S Richardson Terry Burke