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Marc Gilles @marcgilles.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Behavioural Biology Netherlands (NVG) - www.gedragsbiologie.nl @gedragsbiologie.bsky.social · 9d

𝗡𝗩𝗚 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟭𝟵-𝟮𝟭 𝗡𝗼𝘃 @ 𝗭𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗱𝘂𝗶𝗻, 𝗘𝗴𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗭𝗲𝗲
You can register for the meeting via the link on our home page www.gedragsbiologie.nl
Deadline for sending in abstracts & registration is October 20th.

PhD workshop, MSc scholarships & Logo contest info on our website!

NVG – Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology

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David S Richardson @david-s-richardson.bsky.social · 20d

An excellent PhD opportunity - at a great place - with a great system .....and with a great group! Should be fun....as well as very scientifically rewarding😀

Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 20d

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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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Aug 28

Translocations and high-resolution tracking show that field margins improve connectivity and corridor functionality in agricultural landscapes... even for habitat generalist birds like bulbuls! 🐦🌎🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · Aug 27

New paper out now! 🥳📄
Massive shoutout to Sarah Worsley, who did the heavy lifting 💪 – absolute star! 🌟

Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congrats 🎉 Sarah Worsley "Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population" ISME Communications doi.org/10.1093/isme... @chuenlee.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out our new paper led by Gaoyang Yu!

Territorial aggression in blue tits is repeatable in both sexes, but females were the fiercer defenders. How does this challenge long-held assumptions about sex roles in territorial behaviour?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

Intrasexual and intersexual territorial aggressive responses are repeatable and correlated in blue tits of both sexes

Aggressive behaviours are commonly expressed in the competition for limited resources and influence the survival and reproduction of individuals. Howe…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

NEW PAPER OUT 📃: My first ever paper, which reports on my Master’s research, is now out in Animal Behaviour.

Can blue tit nestlings sense their relatedness to their nestmates through smell? 🧵

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preregistration #AcademicSky🧪

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · Jun 21

New preprint out on social interactions and the gut microbiome in a cooperative breeding species

doi.org/10.32942/X2N...

Social interactions shape anaerobic, but not aerotolerant, gut microbiome composition in a cooperative breeding species

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Jun 18

Note the (barely visible) thin, wavy larval fin fold: a transient membranous structure running along the dorsal, caudal, and ventral edges

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Jun 18

From egg to hatchling!

Swipe through the larval development of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Jun 15

@amcuervo.bsky.social Hi! Could you still use photos taken close to Manizales?

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Rob Heathcote @rjpheathcote.bsky.social · Jun 13

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟
If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · May 22

My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our review article of methods used to study olfaction of birds during foraging is now published. We found 80 experiments of this topic. In most of the experiments birds were attracted to the odour source, but there were biases, too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

Feathered noses: methodological insights into understanding avian olfaction and foraging

Research into avian olfactory abilities has so far attracted relatively limited attention due to their complex nature and methodological difficulties.…

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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · Feb 18

Our new paper, using shotgun metagenomics on the gut microbiome, shows small but interesting longitudinal changes with age in a natural population.

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Metagenomic analyses of gut microbiome composition and function with age in a wild bird; little change, except increased transposase gene abundance

Abstract. Studies on wild animals, mostly undertaken using 16S metabarcoding, have yielded ambiguous evidence regarding changes in the gut microbiome (GM)

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · Mar 30

First male Pied Flycatcher singing this morning at East Dartmoor. Second earliest arrival recorded on the reserve. #phenology

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hi, thanks for setting this up. Could you add me please to the pack? Thank you!

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thank you!

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

Many thanks to my supportive supervisors and collaborators @peterkorsten.bsky.social @stphn-slzr.bsky.social Gaoyang Yu, Koen Baas, Marco van der Velde, Maaike Versteegh, Jan Komdeur & Barbara Caspers | @unigroningen.bsky.social | Bielefeld University | @aberdlsagb.bsky.social | @aberuni.bsky.social

No evidence for olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings

Olfactory kin discrimination occurs in many animal taxa, but its potential contribution to commonly observed kin-biased behaviours in birds has rarely…

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

Conclusion: We found no olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings. To assess the importance of olfaction in kin recognition across birds, more work is needed. Current evidence suggests colony-breeding birds (e.g. seabirds) may rely more on olfaction than species that breed solitary.

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

An extra exploratory analysis showed no difference in growth and survival between cross-fostered and non-cross-fostered nestlings shortly before fledging, adding further support to our results and (re)confirming that cross-fostering doesn’t negatively affect nestling growth and survival.

Blue tit nestlings shortly before fledging

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

After the experiment, the nestlings were fed until satiated and returned to their nests, heavier than before the experiment. 🐣🪹

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

We replicated most previous findings, including stronger begging responses from lighter nestlings and after longer food deprivation. However, nestlings did not show stronger begging responses (in probability or duration) toward kin versus nonkin nestmates.

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Alexander Schlatmann @aaschlatmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

Apart from cross-fostering, we followed the exact same experimental procedures as used before. We temporarily food-deprived nestlings and presented odour samples from related versus unrelated (yet familiar) cross-fostered nestmates at 30, 90 & 150 min after the onset of food deprivation.

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