Valentin Kiss
@valentinkiss.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Antwerp
Disease ecology - Urban ecology - Ornithology
Currently tracking superspreaders in the belgian urban jungle 🦠🐦🏙️
Disease ecology - Urban ecology - Ornithology
Currently tracking superspreaders in the belgian urban jungle 🦠🐦🏙️
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NEW PAPER: how does urban noise, lights, and stress disrupt birds’ sleep? This review shows that our knowledge about this is fragmeneted and calls for direct tests linking disturbed sleep to bird behavior, fitness, and survival.
➡️ vist.ly/4e7dj
#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4e7dj
#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
NEW PAPER: how does urban noise, lights, and stress disrupt birds’ sleep? This review shows that our knowledge about this is fragmeneted and calls for direct tests linking disturbed sleep to bird behavior, fitness, and survival.
➡️ vist.ly/4e7dj
#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4e7dj
#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Delighted to see Hannah’s penultimate PhD paper come out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Strong evidence against the ‘warmer, sicker world’ hypothesis. Parasites 🪱🦠 and their hosts are just very variable! Another great collaboration with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Delighted to see Hannah’s penultimate PhD paper come out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Strong evidence against the ‘warmer, sicker world’ hypothesis. Parasites 🪱🦠 and their hosts are just very variable! Another great collaboration with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social
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Comparing the feral city pigeon with its wild form, Early Career Fellow @willjsmith.bsky.social endeavors to reveal whether feral species are experiencing reverse-domestication or proceeding down a new evolutionary trajectory.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Comparing the feral city pigeon with its wild form, Early Career Fellow @willjsmith.bsky.social endeavors to reveal whether feral species are experiencing reverse-domestication or proceeding down a new evolutionary trajectory.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/wsmith @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Perceptions of #pigeons are not trivial. How we see them (either as companions or gross rats with wings) shapes the behaviour and #management policies that structure pigeon populations and the #pathogens they carry.
Mumbai: Pigeon feeding ban sparks debate in India - BBC News
Feeding pigeons is common in Indian cities but is now controversial due to rising numbers and health risks.
www.bbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Perceptions of #pigeons are not trivial. How we see them (either as companions or gross rats with wings) shapes the behaviour and #management policies that structure pigeon populations and the #pathogens they carry.
Cities aren’t uniform. Neither is disease. 🦠🏙️
Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling
#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25
Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling
#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Cities aren’t uniform. Neither is disease. 🦠🏙️
Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling
#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25
Psittacosis in #urban feral #pigeons shows fine-scale heterogeneity, even a few kilometres can make a big difference. City averages risk hiding the true #hotspots without dense spatial sampling
#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology #EOU25
Big day for psychedelic assisted therapy and research in the European Parliament! 🇪🇺
Today, was launched:
🔹 PAREA’s MEP Action Group on Psychedelics in Healthcare (relaunch)
🔹 The European Citizens #PsychedeliCare Initiative
#PsychedelicScience #MentalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #EUPolicy
Today, was launched:
🔹 PAREA’s MEP Action Group on Psychedelics in Healthcare (relaunch)
🔹 The European Citizens #PsychedeliCare Initiative
#PsychedelicScience #MentalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #EUPolicy
February 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Big day for psychedelic assisted therapy and research in the European Parliament! 🇪🇺
Today, was launched:
🔹 PAREA’s MEP Action Group on Psychedelics in Healthcare (relaunch)
🔹 The European Citizens #PsychedeliCare Initiative
#PsychedelicScience #MentalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #EUPolicy
Today, was launched:
🔹 PAREA’s MEP Action Group on Psychedelics in Healthcare (relaunch)
🔹 The European Citizens #PsychedeliCare Initiative
#PsychedelicScience #MentalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #EUPolicy
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🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Taking omega-3 and vitamin D supplements over a three-year period slowed biological ageing by three to four months, particularly when combined with exercise.
https://go.nature.com/4hjjGdO
https://go.nature.com/4hjjGdO
Omega-3 supplements slow biological ageing
The anti-ageing effect was even greater when combined with vitamin D and exercise.
go.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Taking omega-3 and vitamin D supplements over a three-year period slowed biological ageing by three to four months, particularly when combined with exercise.
https://go.nature.com/4hjjGdO
https://go.nature.com/4hjjGdO
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Job alert!
We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Job alert!
We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay
In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding
A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.
www.audubon.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay
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New paper! Out now in #Parasitology, open access:
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie!
#ornithology #wildlifemalaria
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie!
#ornithology #wildlifemalaria
The prevalence and immune response to coinfection by avian haemosporidians in wild Eurasian blackbirds Turdus merula | Parasitology | Cambridge Core
The prevalence and immune response to coinfection by avian haemosporidians in wild Eurasian blackbirds Turdus merula
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New paper! Out now in #Parasitology, open access:
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie!
#ornithology #wildlifemalaria
doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie!
#ornithology #wildlifemalaria
One of the standouts: calling for sharing fine-scale spatial data on infection patterns, as this fine-scale data is crucial for uncovering disease dynamics!
Quote: "Ecological and evolutionary principles help to explain why both pandemics and wildlife die-offs are becoming more common; [and] why land-use change and biodiversity loss are often followed by an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One of the standouts: calling for sharing fine-scale spatial data on infection patterns, as this fine-scale data is crucial for uncovering disease dynamics!
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All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:50 PM
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...