🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: The impact of global change on parental care systems

Interested in Shorebirds? Global change? Parental care? Fieldwork? 🐣☀️ Come join us in Budapest!

Interested candidates - get in touch! Deadline Feb 28 2026

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🧵1/5 Our new paper is now published in @avianbiology.bsky.social! The first GPS tagging study of Kentish Plovers in Maio investigated the potential impact of tagging, finding no detectable impacts across multiple aspects of behaviour, reproduction & survival.

doi.org/10.1002/jav....

📰 Wader News #waders #shorebirds

Solar-powered GPS tags show no detectable harm to Kentish Plovers ⬇️
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...

New post doc funding opportunity:
Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat!
nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Researchers share their findings about the effects of tracking devices on survival etc., so that others can learn how to study waders as safely as possible.
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New paper suggests that Kentish Plovers are not affected by tracking devices.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
BUT ...

We assessed the effects of solar-powered GPS devices on behaviour, incubation, reproductive outcomes, and apparent survival, in an emerging avian model, Kentish Plovers.

We found no effect of tagging on behaviour or life-history indicating tagging is unlikely to manifest in demographic consequences

New research in @avianbiology.bsky.social:
"No detectable deployment impacts of solar-powered GPS devices for long-term use on a small shorebird"

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Shorebird #Wader #GPS #Reproduction
@roasty247.bsky.social

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects!
@stfx-university.bsky.social

Now in Animal Behaviour @asab.org‬ "Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird" #OA #Shorebird #ParentalCare
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Now in Animal Behaviour @asab.org‬ "Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird" #OA #Shorebird #ParentalCare
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Our new study, published in Scientific Reports and led by Abril Alexander, suggests the possibility that monogamy may remove constraints on reproductive tissue investment imposed by intense sexual selection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

LOOKING BACK in IBIS

The causes and implications of sex role diversity in shorebird breeding systems | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Tamás Székely et al | #ornithology 🪶

PhD opportunity in parental care and social ecology focusing on ground-nesting plovers in Cabo Verde, supervised by experts at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest. Apply by March 31, 2025: https://univet.hu/ #phd

Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social

📷: Dani Edmunds

Does the ratio of males to females predictably influence the ability to monopolise mating partners? Is male sexual selection more intense when femaleIs are rare? 🪰

We investigated by manipulating sex ratios in polyandrous fruit flies in our new #OA manuscript published in @evolletters.bsky.social

Field excursion out to Hortobágyi after a PhD student conference on Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Debrecen. ebird.org/checklist/S2...