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Megan Thompson
@meganjthompson.bsky.social
NSERC postdoc fellow @ Univ Edinburgh
Evolutionary ecology, especially in cities

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RQV7cXwAAAAJ
Pinned
Last paper from my PhD at #EcolLett: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Using long-term data from European tit populations, we test three hypotheses to determine how urbanization affects phenotypic variation at different population levels.
#UrbanTitCollab #DiverCity #SPIBirds
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New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Excited to kick off my project “To Feed or Not to Feed Wild Birds”, funded by @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social
We’re setting up nestboxes and feeders in 40 private gardens in Innsbruck to study how bird feeding affects nestling welfare.
Stay tuned to see if our backyard treats really help birds!
October 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Thrilled to share our Perspective published in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻, #𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆.

It also elevates Eastern European perspectives - underrepresented in #urban #evolution narratives.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities
Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...
www.nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Sharing on behalf of my colleague Marcel Eens:

Post-doc position on #UrbanBirds at University of Antwerp:
6-10 month position with intention of submitting fellowship application (extends postdoc by 3 years if successful).

Deadline Aug 28. www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
Post-doc position Behavioural ecology in a changing and urbanizing world | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
www.uantwerpen.be
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?

#evolution #genetics

Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil
devillemereuil.legtux.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Condon Lighthouse
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Huge thank you @aeastephens.bsky.social‬ for initiating the TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in T.R.E.E. providing visibility for disabled researchers in #Ecology & #Evolution to make our field more #inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Disability in ecology and evolution
In this TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We a...
www.cell.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Last paper from my PhD at #EcolLett: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Using long-term data from European tit populations, we test three hypotheses to determine how urbanization affects phenotypic variation at different population levels.
#UrbanTitCollab #DiverCity #SPIBirds
July 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH!

Application deadline: 9 June 2025.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
May 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners
Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group
academic.oup.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Our project, led by Sanllorente, is out at Insect Conservation & Diversity:

"A systematic review and meta-analysis on urban arthropod diversity" (doi.org/10.1111/icad...)

We performed a meta-analysis of means & variances, and explored how methods matter when studying urbanisation. Check it out!
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋

Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰

doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005

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Testing space‐for‐time transferability of climate effects on occupancy and abundance
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Our latest research, led by Vaishnavi Purushotham, on breeding time plasticity in great tits has just been published in Oikos! 🐦🌿 We explored how temperature and conspecific density interact to shape breeding timing and success. Check it out! 🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Multidimensional plasticity of phenology: assessing the effects of population density on plastic responses of breeding time to temperature
Phenotypic plasticity is the key adaptive mechanism behind annual adjustment of breeding time in response to temperature. In nature, organisms are not only subjected to variation in temperature but e....
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM