"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision @nature.com 🧪🎓

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

Misconceptions and regressions: The evolution of bird brains
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#ornithology

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

For #NationalHummingbirdDay, 47-million-year-old Parargornis from Germany was a proto-hummingbird with short wing feathers like a modern hummingbird but a short, broad skull like their cousins, the swifts. Perhaps hummingbird ancestors started hovering before they drank nectar. 🪶🧪 (📷Mayr)

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

Postdoc advertisement!

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻🧬 The Swedish Museum of Natural History is seeking a bioinformatician. Permanent position, 70-80% of the time should be dedicated to supporting day-to-day activities and long-term research of research groups. 20-30% for their own research.

Please share widely!
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New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Funded #PhD scholarship- Vocal mimicry in tooth-billed bowerbirds at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University ‪‪@animalecolab.bsky.social‬
@drbackhouse.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social‬
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Deadline: 30 Sept25 link: tinyurl.com/4uf92t5b

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...

New newer. I think we’ve added four or five since I posted this in June.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

One list to rule them all: Toward a unified global bird checklist
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Introducing AviList: a collaborative effort to unify avian taxonomy | #ornithology

Day 2 of Popgen is also where I say “Please look at your kinship matrix.”Probably the best summary of pop structure there is, identifies problems or weird stuff in the data, and avoids pitfalls of structure-like plots and PCA.