Very interesting talk this morning by @lisandrinamari.bsky.social on paternal effects of lead exposure on vigilance and fearfulness in quails #SEB2025

⭐New paper out on great tits' social behaviour⭐
We manipulated food access & stability of social interactions at feeders (small-scale) to investigate their effects on individual-level social network position & dyadic assoc.
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(birds handled with required permits)

Excited to have started a new position as a Lecturer at the Université de Rennes 🥳
More work on the role of cognition in dealing with environmental change coming this way!
#newPI #animalbehaviour

I’m having the same issue

#BOU2024 #Sech2 In this project, I’m looking at the effect of a high-fat high-sugar diet on the gut microbiota (GM) of young pigeons (as a pathway influencing cognition). By manipulating the diet in early-life (HFHS vs control) we found flexible responses to diet, and long-term effects of HFHS diets

(2) We teased appart stopping behaviour in different contexts. We found support for the multifaceted nature of stopping, & for species differences. Lesser black-backed gulls were faster at going & stopping a discrete action than herring gulls. Diff potentially related to migration shorturl.at/dPUXY

🐦2 new recent preprints
(1) We manipulated the physical & social environment at a within-group scale. Both changes in food distribution & social stability influenced great tit's social network metrics, but food distribution seem to have a stronger effect on social centrality. shorturl.at/ekrAR