The environment an animal grows up in can affect it for life, but it may affect females and males differently – check out the first results of my PhD research: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
w/ @terryburke.bsky.social @hannahdugdale.bsky.social and @jj255.bsky.social !

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Great to have the opportunity to share our group's work at #ESEB2025 @yuhengsun.bsky.social @euantheyoung.bsky.social with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @yagmurerten.bsky.social

Pre-print by MSc student Mariia Vlasova with @yuhengsun.bsky.social and Janet Chik: Parental age effects on offspring telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🎉

1st PhD paper from @yuhengsun.bsky.social 🎉 Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population @jj255.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/behe...

This short observation was a great gateway to asking bigger questions (like @yuhengsun.bsky.social's paper on information in shearwater calls).
It also again highlights how little we understand the nocturnal behaviour of otherwise well-studied birds. 6/6 🪶
(sadly I couldn't embed the .gif) #seabirds

The awesome @yuhengsun.bsky.social showed that manx shearwater calls are individual - meaning they could use them as names! Absolutely fantastic publication from a masters thesis! @jamiedunning.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We've had a paper published today in @avianbiology.bsky.social.

We demonstrated that some elements of Manx shearwater calls can be used to identify individuals. Something long-suspected, but not tested.

In future, this could be used to measure site fidelity or breeding group size. #ornithology