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melissahrowe.bsky.social
Group leader @ NIOO studying evolution, reproductive microbiomes, sperm, behaviour, and sparrows. Mum of 2. she/her.
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Last few days to apply! I am looking for a research assistant to support the group with our work on avian reproductive microbiomes.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 new paper out! In this paper Bernice Sepers, Tjomme van Mastrigt, @christanioo.bsky.social and @keesvanoers.bsky.social show that an increased yolk testosterone decreases begging behavior and emphasized sex differences in body mass in great tit chicks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for recommendations for PhD level courses (in Europe/UK) on microbiomes and shotgun metagenomics for animal microbiomes. Have you or your PhD done a course and would recommend it? Then I would love to hear about it!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Please spread the word!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Continuing the spider theme - check out this great short film made by Yuting Dong sharing the results from her first PhD thesis chapter. #spiders www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvT...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Yuting Dong on the publication of her second thesis chapter!!!! #spider #copulationduration

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for the Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology (NLSEB) annual meeting - April 8 in Ede, NL. Great keynote speakers and sure to be a fun day. Abstract submissions now open! @nlseb.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely to see Devi Satarkar’s first DPhil paper out in print

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for someone to review a manuscript? Is it on avian urban-rural ecology/evolution, dietary adaptation, or dietary analysis using metabarcoding or stable isotope analysis? Then please send me a request. I am looking for an opportunity to review a manuscript with a PhD for training purposes.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

#SICB2025 Need more frog sperm in your life? My lab has two presentations today! 10am, Huey Award - Examining relationships between pre- and postcopulatory traits in male green frogs Poster session (P2-187) - From pond to proteome: comparing sperm and egg jelly proteomes of anurans See you there!

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

We need curiosity driven science for what it tells us about the world, and sometimes there is an unexpected bonus. Without basic science we would never have these random discoveries.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The life of each of us began when a sperm and an egg came together. But what happens at a molecular level? Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

Journal editors - I would like to review a manuscript with a PhD (for training purposes) - if you have a manuscript for review on any of the following topics - sparrow behaviour, urban-rural avian ecology, avian diet/feeding/foraging, bill morphology - please consider sending me a review request!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for inspiration - what are your favourite, most appreciated, and most useful tips and topics for lab/group meetings? We have great group meetings, but looking for new ideas. Are there things you do that you recommend? I would love to hear about them.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing opportunity in a brilliant lab!

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Congratulations to Ruth Fawthrop - brilliant to see the first paper from her PhD out today in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. A great opinion piece with collaborators @markravinet.bsky.social, @naturalselection.bsky.social, and others. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Happy to share a recent publication from a collaboration with Sarah Leclaire, Jukka Kekäläinen, and others. We interpret our findings with caution, but think this is an interesting result. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments