David López-Idiáquez
Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecologist at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology. Expect science, wildlife pictures and bike stuff (but not in that particular order).
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- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez🧬 Excited to present some of our recent research on 🐦⬛: (1/3) Contrary to expectations, migratory Eurasian blackbirds had longer telomeres than residents at a major stopover (Helgoland), despite similar mitochondrial DNA copy numbers 🔗 #OpenAccess nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezA selection of part of a flock of 500,000 starlings at Ham Wall Nature Reserve in Somerset arriving at reedbeds to roost this evening @mybirdcards.com
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThis week's EGI seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk will be given by Dr Kirsty MacPhie from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social on the contrasting insights to be drawn from studies of phenology in @phenoweb.bsky.social and @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social. Usual time and place - details below with streaming info ⬇️
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezA reminder about @jon-slate.bsky.social seminar in 58 minutes this afternoon... Will be live-streamed - see poster ⬇️ for details of how to get link.
- This week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Jon Slate @jon-slate.bsky.social of @sheffielduni.bsky.social at 3.30 on Fri 30 Jan in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk. OK, it's not quite birds, but our colleagues' work on @soaysheep.bsky.social has much in common with what we do. All welcome: details ⬇️
- Port Meadow (from Wolvercote) at its best this morning.
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThis week's EGI seminar will be given by Prof Jon Slate @jon-slate.bsky.social of @sheffielduni.bsky.social at 3.30 on Fri 30 Jan in LT1 in LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk. OK, it's not quite birds, but our colleagues' work on @soaysheep.bsky.social has much in common with what we do. All welcome: details ⬇️
- Opi - Omi down under version.
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezKangaroo chaos
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezI’m excited to share our new paper in Ecology! Our 9‑year study across an urban–rural gradient shows native trees, especially oaks, boost blue tit breeding success. More native foliage supports more of the birds preferred prey and improves reproductive success. 📃 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #ornithology
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez@hoyporhoy.bsky.social de @cadenaser.com habla de angulas y su pesca en el País Vasco sin mencionar que la anguila es una especie al mismo borde de la extinción Sigue un hilo explicando 1) lo Euskadi y 2) por qué hay que dejar de pescar, vender y comer anguila cadenaser.com/podcast/cade...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezI am very happy to announce that my first PhD paper has been published today at the Journal of Animal Ecology!!! It is on how three penguin species have been shifting their breeding times in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic in response to climate change. They are the fastest birds in doing so!
- There's been a record shift in the breeding season of Antarctic penguins 🐧 Gentoos are advancing breeding by an average of 13 days per decade, and Adélies and Chinstraps by an average of 10 days, likely in response to climate change. Led by @penguinacho.bsky.social 👇 bit.ly/4svQWnX
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezPublished today in PNAS: www-pnas-org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1073/... Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.
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- Goldcrests might be tiny, but they can certainly travel a long way. A male Goldcrest ringed in Lincolnshire was caught alive 1,665 km away in northern Sweden 11 months later! #Winterwatch
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezHoy, #PenguinAwarenessDay, es un día perfecto para recordar a Andrés Barbosa, el señor de los pingüinos. 🐧
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezFor those of us who involved in running long-term studies, our work's value can be increased by synthetic studies like this one, which included Wytham Great Tit data, and suggests that plasticity in timing in response to temperatures buffers against population change www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Led by Viktoriia Radchuk, an international collaboration shows phenological shifts in response to changing temperatures allow populations to remain stable or even increase in numbers. Support from #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezWe are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezJust a quick reminder of tomorrow's EGI seminar: please see joining etc details below
- Delighted to begin this term's seminars with Malcolm Burgess @piedflynet.bsky.social from @rspb.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social on Migration behaviour, demography & phenology of declining migratory birds. Seminar at 3.30 on 16 Jan in LT1 in the LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk: all welcome - see details ⬇️
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezDelighted to begin this term's seminars with Malcolm Burgess @piedflynet.bsky.social from @rspb.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social on Migration behaviour, demography & phenology of declining migratory birds. Seminar at 3.30 on 16 Jan in LT1 in the LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk: all welcome - see details ⬇️
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezLooking forward to an excellent series of seminars for the forthcoming term - programme now full till late March & will share programme very soon when we have a few last details. All seminars will be at 3.30 on Fridays in the Life & Mind Building (and usually streamed live)
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezNew paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
- I may be a bit early
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezOpen up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.
- I guess that one could infer the phenology of Wytham great tits by my activity in Strava :-)
- Recycling this little map I made with my rounds in the Woods this Spring
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezCOAL TIT APPRECIATION POST Coal has a lot of negative connotations at this time of year, so let’s give this beautiful little bird some love 🖤 #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife #Nature #Wildlife #Christmas
- Wytham gives, david takes.
- The end product after playing to be a dentist this morning 🦡🦡🦡
- Not a good year for badgers, I guess.
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezNew paper alert! Microclimate temperatures are more extreme than we previously thought! Near-ground temperatures are amplified in hot weather, cool refugia is lost and replaced with heat traps ☀️🔥🥵 escape from heat will be very hard for small ground-dwelling organisms doi.org/10.21425/fob...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezGreat talk by @rona-learmonth.bsky.social at #BES2025 on the absence of small scale local adaptation by winter moths to oak tree bud burst. Read more in this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez***New** Latest wild bird trends in Europe: Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) indicators 1980–2024. Data = 168 bird species, 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ebcc.info 🐦@rspbscience.bsky.social pecbms.info/european-wil... pecbms.info/trends-and-i...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThis week's seminar - last of this term - is our annual Christmas Seminar. We're welcoming Prof Tim Birkhead back to where he studied as a DPhil student ~50 years ago (can you can spot him in this 1978 photo?) Tim will be talking about "Sperm to Egg: Making a Biologist" - 3pm LT1 in the LaMB
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez‘Game changer’: System to track small animals from space takes flight—again | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology
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- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezJust a reminder of this week’s Seminar - 3.30 in LT1 in the LaMB
- This week’s EGI seminar will be given by @peterkorsten.bsky.social from Aberystwyth on the ecology of behavioural variation in the wild at 3.30pm Friday 5 Dec - LT1 in @biology.ox.ac.uk. All welcome & live-streamed: see joining details below.
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezSomeone know the authors?? Have they account here??? I have a doubt to ask them
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThis week’s EGI seminar will be given by @peterkorsten.bsky.social from Aberystwyth on the ecology of behavioural variation in the wild at 3.30pm Friday 5 Dec - LT1 in @biology.ox.ac.uk. All welcome & live-streamed: see joining details below.
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezEl restaurante Kresala, de Barcelona ("Un tribut als pobles pesquers d'Euskadi") ha organizado un banquete en el que se han servido 15 kg de angula. Unos 30000 individuos de una especie En Peligro Crítico de Extinción José Carlos Capel lo cuenta en IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRuw4bVCOc... Va hilo
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThermal physiology meets quantitative genetics - our new paper explores the drivers of body temperature in nestling sparrows #ornithology @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezWe are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027
- Reposted by David López-Idiáquez#AcademicRant Can we talk **again** about conference registration fees? I'd love to attend "big" conferences, but with EARLY-BIRD fees of €650, I just can't. And I am based in Western Europe. I'd also like to point out the total lack of remote attendance options. Who are those conferences for? 😤
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezOur next seminar on #UrbanEcology is in less than two weeks. This time it's on a Wednesday! This time, Juan Diego Ibáñez Álamo (@animalecpurban.bsky.social) from @universidadgranada.bsky.social will be talking about landscape configuration of urban green areas. 🔗 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThere are still two more weeks to apply for the PhD position on nematodes, isotopes, metals and PFAS in the terns. Don't be shy to reach out when having questions about it either. :-)
- There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezJust a reminder of today’s @egioxford.bsky.social seminar - all welcome
- This week’s seminar will be given by Prof Daniel Field of @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social on the origins of modern birds. 3.30pm Friday 28 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk - all welcome & see below for live streaming joining information
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezWe are looking for a PhD student to join the Animal ECO Urban group (University of Granada).
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezReposting our postdoc ad to fix a broken link: We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezA great seminar from @mmoiron.bsky.social walking us through how to disentangle the causes of similarity among partners & the estimation & implications of indirect effects in natural populations
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThis week’s seminar will be given by Prof Daniel Field of @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social on the origins of modern birds. 3.30pm Friday 28 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk - all welcome & see below for live streaming joining information
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezA lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026. Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more. 👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
- With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezNew publication: Phenological Plasticity and Its #Temperature-Related Drivers in Common #Songbirds Across Europe. #climatechange #phenology doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezWe are delighted to announce our upcoming LGBTQ+ seminar given by Dr Ross Brooks who will be talking about his upcoming book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life! 2nd December @ 4pm in the Life and Mind Building, open to all members of Oxford university 🥳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rossb-brighton.bsky.social #QueerBiology
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezSTOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
- Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere. mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezThere is still time (until 25 Nov) to apply for this #postdoc position 🐦. Get in touch if you have questions. Details 👇 @erc.europa.eu @evoldir.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social
- I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezI was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezPedigree = Crane’s foot 🤯
- Nice way to split the week :-)
- Reposted by David López-IdiáquezWelcome to #BOUasm25 “A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world” the BOU’s autumn conference. Today we’ll be in-person at the Natural History Museum (London) and online on Teams Follow the #BOUasm25 feed to stay updated. #ornithology 🪶
