Marianthi Tangili, PhD
@mtangili.bsky.social
Greek Evolutionary Biologist, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen @rug.nl studying epigenetics and other stuff 🐦🧬
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"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population"
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
doi.org/10.32942/X27...
Extremely proud of my good friend and colleague @euantheyoung.bsky.social whose work is featured in @nrc.nl. Read bellow for some excellent science and fascinating results. 👪🤰👶🧬
Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten destilleerde Euan Young uit grote historische bevolkingsregisters.
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De risico’s en voordelen van oudere broers en zussen
Jong Geleerd: Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Extremely proud of my good friend and colleague @euantheyoung.bsky.social whose work is featured in @nrc.nl. Read bellow for some excellent science and fascinating results. 👪🤰👶🧬
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
13/ And since I have you here, it's time for some shameless plugging!
I defend my PhD ( :O ) next week, and if you are interested in more of what I got up to over the past few years, you can check out an @nrc.nl here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
I defend my PhD ( :O ) next week, and if you are interested in more of what I got up to over the past few years, you can check out an @nrc.nl here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
De risico’s en voordelen van oudere broers en zussen
Jong Geleerd: Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten de...
www.nrc.nl
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
13/ And since I have you here, it's time for some shameless plugging!
I defend my PhD ( :O ) next week, and if you are interested in more of what I got up to over the past few years, you can check out an @nrc.nl here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
I defend my PhD ( :O ) next week, and if you are interested in more of what I got up to over the past few years, you can check out an @nrc.nl here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Epigenetic Potential and Dispersal Propensity in a Free‐Living Songbird: A Spatial and Temporal Approach
Natal dispersal is a key life history trait determining fitness and driving population dynamics, genetic structure, and species distributions. Despite existing evidence that not all phenotypes are eq...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨 New paper alert!
We find a small fraction of all CpG sites to show age-related changes in DNA methylation with the majority of them being located on the haploid, female-specific W chromosome in two passerines. 🐦🧬⌛
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We find a small fraction of all CpG sites to show age-related changes in DNA methylation with the majority of them being located on the haploid, female-specific W chromosome in two passerines. 🐦🧬⌛
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sex‐Chromosome‐Dependent Ageing in Female Heterogametic Methylomes
Recent research in humans and both model and non-model animals has shown that DNA methylation (DNAm), an epigenetic modification, is one of the mechanisms underlying the ageing process. DNAm-based in...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚨 New paper alert!
We find a small fraction of all CpG sites to show age-related changes in DNA methylation with the majority of them being located on the haploid, female-specific W chromosome in two passerines. 🐦🧬⌛
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We find a small fraction of all CpG sites to show age-related changes in DNA methylation with the majority of them being located on the haploid, female-specific W chromosome in two passerines. 🐦🧬⌛
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social
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Having older siblings affects a child’s chance of survival – but the precise effect depends on the older siblings’ sex and age
go.nature.com/46oaaCU
go.nature.com/46oaaCU
Will a child survive? Older siblings have a powerful influence
Swiss birth data from 1750 to 1870 reveal that girls who had lots of older brothers close to their own age were less likely to survive than were those who did not.
go.nature.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Having older siblings affects a child’s chance of survival – but the precise effect depends on the older siblings’ sex and age
go.nature.com/46oaaCU
go.nature.com/46oaaCU
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Long-term effects of early-life adversity on DNA methylation in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.23.649997v1
April 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Long-term effects of early-life adversity on DNA methylation in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.23.649997v1
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How did the #COVID-19 pandemic shape scientific productivity? Stephanie Meirmans, @maurineneiman.bsky.social, Shalene Singh-Shepherd @royalsocietypublishing.org and I crunched the submission and acceptance data for 25 journals in #Ecology&Evolution: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
How did the #COVID-19 pandemic shape scientific productivity? Stephanie Meirmans, @maurineneiman.bsky.social, Shalene Singh-Shepherd @royalsocietypublishing.org and I crunched the submission and acceptance data for 25 journals in #Ecology&Evolution: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social
New paper alert🚨
We used calibrated Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficients to estimate grass biomass, woody canopy volume and tree basal area in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We used calibrated Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficients to estimate grass biomass, woody canopy volume and tree basal area in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Advancing the mapping of vegetation structure in savannas using Sentinel‐1 imagery
As vegetation structure monitoring is important for the understanding and conservation of savanna ecosystems, we explored the utility of C-band synthetic aperture radar imagery for mapping both grass...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New paper alert🚨
We used calibrated Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficients to estimate grass biomass, woody canopy volume and tree basal area in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We used calibrated Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficients to estimate grass biomass, woody canopy volume and tree basal area in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
April 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Glad to see that our efforts for accessible, transparent and reproducible research are being recognized!
@unigroningen.bsky.social
#openresearch #openscience #rug
@unigroningen.bsky.social
#openresearch #openscience #rug
February 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Glad to see that our efforts for accessible, transparent and reproducible research are being recognized!
@unigroningen.bsky.social
#openresearch #openscience #rug
@unigroningen.bsky.social
#openresearch #openscience #rug
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
1/11
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
1/11
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
Reposted by Marianthi Tangili, PhD
Begging costs rather than food received cause brood size effect on growth in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635459v1
January 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Begging costs rather than food received cause brood size effect on growth in zebra finches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635459v1
🚨 New preprint alert!
More siblings, fiercer competition, extra food—but stunted growth! 🐦🍕📏
In zebra finches raised in large broods, increased energy spent on begging—not less food—causes reduced growth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
More siblings, fiercer competition, extra food—but stunted growth! 🐦🍕📏
In zebra finches raised in large broods, increased energy spent on begging—not less food—causes reduced growth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Begging costs rather than food received cause brood size effect on growth in zebra finches
Altricial species rely on parental provisioning for early-life sustenance, and a larger brood size leads to higher levels of competition between siblings for food provided by the parents. Early-life s...
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🚨 New preprint alert!
More siblings, fiercer competition, extra food—but stunted growth! 🐦🍕📏
In zebra finches raised in large broods, increased energy spent on begging—not less food—causes reduced growth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
More siblings, fiercer competition, extra food—but stunted growth! 🐦🍕📏
In zebra finches raised in large broods, increased energy spent on begging—not less food—causes reduced growth.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...