Antoine Stier
@antoinestier.bsky.social
@CNRS Researcher at @IPHC_Strasbourg
Avian ecophysiologist (metabolism, mito, ageing, heat stress)
Head @Econergy1🐧 project
Editorial board @J_Thermal_Biol
Avian ecophysiologist (metabolism, mito, ageing, heat stress)
Head @Econergy1🐧 project
Editorial board @J_Thermal_Biol
Pinned
The Marie Skoldowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships had the most applications ever in its history this season. ~17k this season vs. ~10k last season. It is brutal out here for we who love physics beyond measure. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
MSCA has supported many ECR and amazing research over the years.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
Some (old) but new research being finally published 8 years after conducting the experiment!
@utu.fi @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
@utu.fi @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
Warm and cool temperatures decrease early‐life telomere length in wild pied flycatchers
Climate change represents a major challenge for avian species. It is characterized by an increase in average ambient temperatures, but also by an increase of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves...
doi.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Some (old) but new research being finally published 8 years after conducting the experiment!
@utu.fi @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
@utu.fi @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
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📣 Only a few days left to secure your spot at ECOMITO: Bridging Cellular Performance to Ecophysiology!
Dive into cutting-edge science and connect with leading experts.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!
👉 Book now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/eco...
Dive into cutting-edge science and connect with leading experts.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!
👉 Book now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/eco...
EcoMito: Bridging Cellular Performance to Ecophysiology : Only a few days left to book your place
Join us in Lyon from 19 to 20 February 2026
www.sebiology.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
📣 Only a few days left to secure your spot at ECOMITO: Bridging Cellular Performance to Ecophysiology!
Dive into cutting-edge science and connect with leading experts.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!
👉 Book now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/eco...
Dive into cutting-edge science and connect with leading experts.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!
👉 Book now:
www.sebiology.org/resource/eco...
Reposted by Antoine Stier
Chuffed to have been invited to write for Annual Review of Physiology, describing our work on climate change impacts on terrestrial mammals. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Physiological Challenge of Climate Change for Free-Living Terrestrial Mammals
Most scenarios that seek to predict the responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change focus on the direct thermal effects of higher ambient temperatures. Measurements from free-living mammals rev...
www.annualreviews.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Chuffed to have been invited to write for Annual Review of Physiology, describing our work on climate change impacts on terrestrial mammals. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
MSCA has supported many ECR and amazing research over the years.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
The Marie Skoldowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships had the most applications ever in its history this season. ~17k this season vs. ~10k last season. It is brutal out here for we who love physics beyond measure. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 AM
MSCA has supported many ECR and amazing research over the years.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
Yet, the increase in applicants (+64%) for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships (linked to ECR fleeing the US?) has not been met by an increased budget.
Thus a score of 96.4/100 is not enough this year to have a project funded.
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Just starting to realize that double-blind reviewing (which is good) kind of conflicts with preprint publishing (which also is good). Has this been discussed?
#ScientificPublishing
#ScientificPublishing
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Just starting to realize that double-blind reviewing (which is good) kind of conflicts with preprint publishing (which also is good). Has this been discussed?
#ScientificPublishing
#ScientificPublishing
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⚠️Paper out ⚠️
Here, we tested if extra feeding lesser kestrel nestlings during development (and under a heatwave) can help them deal with extreme heat. Spoiler: they really struggle. Extra food helps them grow when it’s just hot, but not under a heatwave. See 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here, we tested if extra feeding lesser kestrel nestlings during development (and under a heatwave) can help them deal with extreme heat. Spoiler: they really struggle. Extra food helps them grow when it’s just hot, but not under a heatwave. See 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extra food buffers thermoregulatory costs during early development but does not reduce heatwave-induced mortality in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor
Global climate change is increasing both average temperatures and the occurrence of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves. These changes pose majo…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM
⚠️Paper out ⚠️
Here, we tested if extra feeding lesser kestrel nestlings during development (and under a heatwave) can help them deal with extreme heat. Spoiler: they really struggle. Extra food helps them grow when it’s just hot, but not under a heatwave. See 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here, we tested if extra feeding lesser kestrel nestlings during development (and under a heatwave) can help them deal with extreme heat. Spoiler: they really struggle. Extra food helps them grow when it’s just hot, but not under a heatwave. See 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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!📃New paper📃!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
Energetics link long‐term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population
Using a unique 25-year dataset, we uncover how environmental changes scale up from individual to population responses. We show that sea ice drives individual energetics, while parental foraging effor...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:22 AM
!📃New paper📃!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
In Crozet archipelago, we have one of the best toilet spot in the world, when conducting fieldwork on king 🐧.
Yet, to be honest, this is not the main field site, where proper toilets were installed a few years ago
ipev119.wixsite.com/econergie119...
© IPEV - A Stier
Yet, to be honest, this is not the main field site, where proper toilets were installed a few years ago
ipev119.wixsite.com/econergie119...
© IPEV - A Stier
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In Crozet archipelago, we have one of the best toilet spot in the world, when conducting fieldwork on king 🐧.
Yet, to be honest, this is not the main field site, where proper toilets were installed a few years ago
ipev119.wixsite.com/econergie119...
© IPEV - A Stier
Yet, to be honest, this is not the main field site, where proper toilets were installed a few years ago
ipev119.wixsite.com/econergie119...
© IPEV - A Stier
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Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research.
🧪🌐🌍
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪🌐🌍
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research.
🧪🌐🌍
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪🌐🌍
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Today, we are welcoming Elsa Marçon at @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social, who starts a joint PhD between our team 'Physiological and behavioral adaptations to changing environments' and Akongo, a private research company specialized in using science to improve the welfare of animals in zoos.
@unistra.fr
@unistra.fr
January 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Today, we are welcoming Elsa Marçon at @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social, who starts a joint PhD between our team 'Physiological and behavioral adaptations to changing environments' and Akongo, a private research company specialized in using science to improve the welfare of animals in zoos.
@unistra.fr
@unistra.fr
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
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Excited to share our new paper! 🎉
we explored foraging behavior, contaminant exposure ( #Hg & #PFAS), and mitochondrial bioenergetics, revealing how #pollution can affect cellular energy in an apex marine predator @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social
#mitochondria
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
we explored foraging behavior, contaminant exposure ( #Hg & #PFAS), and mitochondrial bioenergetics, revealing how #pollution can affect cellular energy in an apex marine predator @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social
#mitochondria
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Pollutant Exposure Shapes Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in a Wild Seabird
Laboratory studies show that mercury (Hg) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can impair mitochondrial bioenergetics, which is a vital process for cellular energy production. However, their...
pubs.acs.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Excited to share our new paper! 🎉
we explored foraging behavior, contaminant exposure ( #Hg & #PFAS), and mitochondrial bioenergetics, revealing how #pollution can affect cellular energy in an apex marine predator @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social
#mitochondria
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
we explored foraging behavior, contaminant exposure ( #Hg & #PFAS), and mitochondrial bioenergetics, revealing how #pollution can affect cellular energy in an apex marine predator @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social
#mitochondria
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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For the love of mammoths, if you're not going to review a manuscript please decline right away. Don't just ignore the reminders and then let the system auto-decline after two weeks.
Happy holidays to all who say "no" in a timely manner, and may those who suggest alternatives have a happy New Year.
Happy holidays to all who say "no" in a timely manner, and may those who suggest alternatives have a happy New Year.
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For the love of mammoths, if you're not going to review a manuscript please decline right away. Don't just ignore the reminders and then let the system auto-decline after two weeks.
Happy holidays to all who say "no" in a timely manner, and may those who suggest alternatives have a happy New Year.
Happy holidays to all who say "no" in a timely manner, and may those who suggest alternatives have a happy New Year.
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same ⬇️👏
No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
same ⬇️👏
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Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The Birgitta Sintring Foundation – Department of Ecology and Genetics – Uppsala University
www.uu.se
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study
Highlighted Article: Osmolality is a biomarker for dehydration in mammals: data from 12 years show that striped mice have increased blood osmolality during the dry season, especially when food availab...
journals.biologists.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
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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
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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@constantperry.bsky.social presenting his work about thermoregulation of diurnal lizards during sleep
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@constantperry.bsky.social presenting his work about thermoregulation of diurnal lizards during sleep
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
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Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global!
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org
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Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data.
Info and application at
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details
#postdoc #seabirds #Genomics
Info and application at
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details
#postdoc #seabirds #Genomics
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data.
Info and application at
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details
#postdoc #seabirds #Genomics
Info and application at
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details
#postdoc #seabirds #Genomics
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Just back from the SEEEE 2025 conference 🐦
xixcongresoetoecoevo.wordpress.com
🎙️Talk on maternal hormone-mediated effects and their impact on offspring survival, ageing, and pathogen susceptibility
#marie-skłosowska-curie #MSCA @ec.europa.eu
#Ethology #Ecology #EvolutionaryEcology #LifeHistory
xixcongresoetoecoevo.wordpress.com
🎙️Talk on maternal hormone-mediated effects and their impact on offspring survival, ageing, and pathogen susceptibility
#marie-skłosowska-curie #MSCA @ec.europa.eu
#Ethology #Ecology #EvolutionaryEcology #LifeHistory
September 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just back from the SEEEE 2025 conference 🐦
xixcongresoetoecoevo.wordpress.com
🎙️Talk on maternal hormone-mediated effects and their impact on offspring survival, ageing, and pathogen susceptibility
#marie-skłosowska-curie #MSCA @ec.europa.eu
#Ethology #Ecology #EvolutionaryEcology #LifeHistory
xixcongresoetoecoevo.wordpress.com
🎙️Talk on maternal hormone-mediated effects and their impact on offspring survival, ageing, and pathogen susceptibility
#marie-skłosowska-curie #MSCA @ec.europa.eu
#Ethology #Ecology #EvolutionaryEcology #LifeHistory
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With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...
@predateursmarins.bsky.social
@ecophycebc.bsky.social
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
@predateursmarins.bsky.social
@ecophycebc.bsky.social
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
6-monts internship proposal | Coraline Bichet
With my colleague Christophe GUINET we offer a 6-months internship position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals 🦭. Check the attached file (in French) for more detai...
www.linkedin.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...
@predateursmarins.bsky.social
@ecophycebc.bsky.social
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr
@predateursmarins.bsky.social
@ecophycebc.bsky.social
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr