Lisandrina Mari
@lisandrinamari.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher & MSCA Alumna Uni of Jyväskylä working on transgenerational effects of pollution in birds 🕊️🪺🇫🇮 | Subject editor @ Journal of Field Ornithology | ecotox, behavior, cognition, ecophy, epigenetics | she/her
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BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
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Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🧵1/6
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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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Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Paper & incredible science alert: Our assistant professor @laurastidsholt.bsky.social & a passionate team @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social found proof for greater nocturnal #bats 🦇 preying on migratory birds 🐦 AND devouring them in flight! #bioacoustics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...
Social Cognition in a Human World
As humanity exploits and reshapes the environment to accommodate for development and population growth demands, animals need to adapt to these human-induced ...
link.springer.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...
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We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨👨👧👩👩👦
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨👨👧👩👩👦
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
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🚨🚨Our new preprint on #amphibians and #lightpollution
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Amphibians under artificial light at night: Current knowledge, conservation challenges and future directions
Amphibians have evolved under predictable light–dark cycles, with most species relying on darkness for foraging, reproduction, and predator avoidance. Introduct
papers.ssrn.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🚨🚨Our new preprint on #amphibians and #lightpollution
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!
Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!
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When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
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lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...
The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice
Abstract. In the field of conservation physiology, there is often a trade off between conducting research in controlled laboratory settings or in inherentl
academic.oup.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...
Happy to see our paper on heavy metal pollution and the sexually-selected egg coloration hypothesis in flycatchers is now officially part of this cool special issue 💙 #MSCA
*Special issue contribution*
Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca.
➡️ vist.ly/44yw6
#ornithology #pollution #EggColor #birds 🪶
Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca.
➡️ vist.ly/44yw6
#ornithology #pollution #EggColor #birds 🪶
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Happy to see our paper on heavy metal pollution and the sexually-selected egg coloration hypothesis in flycatchers is now officially part of this cool special issue 💙 #MSCA
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🧵THREAD: (1/7) Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is one of biology's most measured traits. We argue it isn't the constant baseline it's assumed to be. Our preprint discusses how sleep-wake cycles create a 'metabolic mosaic' that requires us to rethink how we interpret SMR. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
The myth of the metabolic baseline: how sleep-wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology
ecoevorxiv.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🧵THREAD: (1/7) Standard metabolic rate (SMR) is one of biology's most measured traits. We argue it isn't the constant baseline it's assumed to be. Our preprint discusses how sleep-wake cycles create a 'metabolic mosaic' that requires us to rethink how we interpret SMR. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies.
🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social
🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies.
🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social
🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social
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2 new papers now out in #ES&T on the persistent and multi-generational impacts of flame retardants on behavior and brain biology
Press release from @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
Press release from @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
Maternal Exposure to Crude Oil, Flame Retardants Can Affect Later Generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac ...
www.ucdavis.edu
August 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
2 new papers now out in #ES&T on the persistent and multi-generational impacts of flame retardants on behavior and brain biology
Press release from @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
Press release from @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
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🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨
"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"
Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r
Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n
#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶
"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"
Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r
Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n
#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨
"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"
Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r
Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n
#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶
"Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change"
Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r
Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n
#ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
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NEW PAPER: Human-driven changes can harm birds but may also elicit compensatory mechanisms. A call for lifelong, transgenerational, multidisciplinary research and suggestions for experimental designs to help advancement in the field
➡️ vist.ly/445yv
#ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/445yv
#ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶
August 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW PAPER: Human-driven changes can harm birds but may also elicit compensatory mechanisms. A call for lifelong, transgenerational, multidisciplinary research and suggestions for experimental designs to help advancement in the field
➡️ vist.ly/445yv
#ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/445yv
#ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶
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Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
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Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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We are happy to announce that the Faraday Discovery Fellowships are now open for applications. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more on now:
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We are happy to announce that the Faraday Discovery Fellowships are now open for applications. These prestigious long-term awards are designed to support mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. Find out more on now:
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
#RSGrants
royalsociety.org/grants/farad...
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The extended chemical defensome: emphasizing mechanisms of defense as key research avenues to tackle priority questions in environmental toxicology
Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social
👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social
👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
July 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The extended chemical defensome: emphasizing mechanisms of defense as key research avenues to tackle priority questions in environmental toxicology
Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social
👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
Happy to share our new paper led by the amazing Marco Franco! @eawag.bsky.social
👉 academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...
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In a world where multiple stressors collide, we often focus on their negative impacts on animals 🐟🐸🐢. But what if, under certain conditions, one stressor protects against another? Read our latest paper: dx.doi.org/10.1093/conp... @conphysjournal.bsky.social from our @sebiology.bsky.social session!
Protective multi-stressor interactions in the Anthropocene: Key considerations for investigating cross-tolerance in a conservation context
Species in a human-impacted world face multiple stressors, which sometimes interact in protective ways. Cross-protection occurs when exposure to one stress
dx.doi.org
July 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In a world where multiple stressors collide, we often focus on their negative impacts on animals 🐟🐸🐢. But what if, under certain conditions, one stressor protects against another? Read our latest paper: dx.doi.org/10.1093/conp... @conphysjournal.bsky.social from our @sebiology.bsky.social session!
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Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
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Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change
We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇
📸G. Casbas
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇
📸G. Casbas
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Urbanization enhances biodiversity loss. Yet sometimes cities may *paradoxically* shelter species threatened by other components of global change
We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇
📸G. Casbas
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
We studied if urban areas are sheltering an endangered iconic lizard 🦎 from a rapidly spreading predator 🐍 in Ibiza👇
📸G. Casbas
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.
July 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.
Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.