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🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege? 💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846 We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

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Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Code-sharing policies are associated with increased reproducibility potential of ecological findings

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I feel embarrassed I used to think this guy was smart and a visionary

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Dark times in US science, I wonder when they notice science funding is not sth you can turn on and off at will

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Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology [Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

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In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Spring develops quickly this year. A week ago our Bird ID in the Field class saw a pretty usual list of Great tits, Blue tits, Starlings, Blackbirds, Robins and Nuthatches along our usual walking trail. This week: we added Wrens, Robins, Fieldfares, Song Thrushes, Mistle Thrushes, Chiffchaffs,

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The latest issue of @nature.com sports a charismatic cover image ooooof... A frog! :) our recent paper on amphibians and the ways global climate change is bound to affect them (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) found its way to the cover of Nature. 💜💚🐸

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A new paper with @szymekdr.bsky.social and others ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... We can now test adaptive radiation, pleiotropy or phenotypic integration beyond mean, co-divergence and "contra-divergence" of traits (see next) Probably my favorite contribution so far to Evolutionary Biology

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Winter thaw in the Carpathians. Plus bullfinches, crossbills, willow tits, first yellowhammers and song thrushes, and a cute three-toed woodpecker ;) Radziejowa (1260 meters) was a formidable opponent but who could resist her…

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How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️ Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally. See the thread below for a digest 🧵 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Nature

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@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

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Were back - now on Bsky, our Twitter account will stay on but posting moves here :) Follow us for Gotland news, blues and trivia

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We're moving out of Twitter (tbh honest tits and collards never did much of any "tweet-tweet" chirping ;)) Follow us for news from the field, Gotland trivia and kuriåsa, recent papers and events - and more. Reach out if you're interested in collaborating, visiting Gotland and ouir birds or just

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Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

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led by @mlagisz.bsky.social - an important message to all learnt society #EcoEvo royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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DNA break repair through recombination. This is so hypnotising and beautiful, but also a striking testament to the power of biological evolution. Nothing is impossible. youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs?...

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Do your (often subjective) choices done during data analysis change their outcomes? Unfortunately and strikingly 🤯 yes! A stellar team of authors (the paper resembles some of CERN outputs in terms of authors number ;) clearly shows that biases may be severe! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Experimentally mimicking 30 years of Magallana gigas infections with the OsHV-1 virus reveals evolution through positive selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.637049v1

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Interested in using comparative mixed models to analyze categorical/ordinal data? Have a look at a preprint, freshly published via #EcoEvoarXiv with @itchyshin.bsky.social Losia Łagisz & Ayumi Mizuno. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/o... Multinomial models are notoriously difficult to analyze. We hope

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Wordle 1307 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pretty average ;) @nytimes.com

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Connections Puzzle #583 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Last one got me really thinking hard ;)

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Wordle 1,304 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 91/99 Luck 48/99

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Gorgeous

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new work on evo genetics of senescense in wild birds that sounds interesting

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I had the doubtful privilege of seeing this disaster with my own eyes. It saddens and sickens me, adamant immunity to reflecting on our own destructiveness is both tragic and eerily fascinating…

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I keep telling this to my students, and yet still have to fence with reviewers when not providing any multiple testing adjustments. Plus: stats is not a black box or a one-hand bandit where you just pull a lever and report whatever comes out.

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Our updated EcoEvoRxiv preprint "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" is now live. Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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A neat bit we found out in revisions (now submitted). Our full data set shows that TF binding site variation explains >50% of Va for 60% of traits. But many of our binding site variants were epigenetic -- methylation changes that impact TF binding.

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A really exciting new study: evidence that males evolve better sight in order to detect female dishonesty in dance flies. One for the textbooks! A male resistance trait! Great one from @rosalindmurray @luc_bussiere @dtgwynne & team academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

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#oneyear if being on @bsky.app - with a looong 7 months idle period of nothing really happening. I’m curious if what’s happening now (an influx of massive numbers of subscribers plus an awakening of the sci community) is due to the recent US elections?

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