fx dechaume-moncharmont @fxdm@mamot.fr

I am looking for a #PhD student in behavioural and #Arctic ecology deeply interested in mathematical and/or computational modelling. It's a three-year position, based in Lyon, France (nice city & good food, close to the Alps). #science #biology #ecology #bird #sandpiper #fox #polar
📄 https://clarolineconnect.univ-lyon1.fr/resource/open/file/6452286

Ecology and Behaviour meeting in Strasbourg, France, March 21-24th, 2022. Young researchers have the opportunity to present their work in a friendly #conference free of charge. #science #biology #ecology #animalbehaviour #behaviour #congress
🔗 https://ecobhv15.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en

Icefishes are incredible and highly adapted to extreme cold (no haemoglobin or red blood cell). They form huge colonies with millions of nests, as the one discovered in Weddel sea. #science #biology #ecology #fish #icefish #polar
📄 Purser et al (2022) A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic. Current Biology 0 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022

By contrast with other species, human survive postreproductive period. Our delayed #senescence could be explained by our social structures in which grandparents remain active to provision offspring. #science #physiology #parentalcare #menopause
📄 Lieberman et al (2021) The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107621118

#science #math #probability #bayesian #xkcd
🔗 https://xkcd.com/2545/

Why do so many couples look alike? It is tempting to immediately interpret this pattern of assortative mating as resulting from preferences. This paper gives a very complete review of alternative explanations. #science #biology #matechoice #homogamy #convergence #stratification
📄 Versluys et al (2021) Why do we pick similar mates, or do we? Biology Letters 17:20210463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0463

Conference Evolyon 2021 in Lyon, France. #science #biology #evolution #univlyon1 #evolyon2021
http://evolyon.universite-lyon.fr/

I am looking for a #PhD student in behavioural and #Arctic ecology deeply interested in mathematical and/or computational modelling. It's a three-year position, based in Lyon, France (nice city & good food, close to the Alps). #science #biology #ecology #bird #sandpiper #fox #polar
📄 https://clarolineconnect.univ-lyon1.fr/resource/open/file/6452286

#Pruittgate : ongoing public debate in Science journal

https://www.science.org/content/article/data-probe-concludes-spider-biologist-placed-leave-has-ph-d-thesis-withdrawn

Fascinating book about the political and philosophical implications of #infinitesimal #calculus. This beautifully narrated historical book is focusing on Italy and England in the 17th century, way before the debate between Newton and Leibniz. #science #history #math #geometry #Euclid #Galileo #Hobbes #infinity
📄 Alexander (2014) Infinitesimal: how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

#Pruittgate : one of the greatest cases of scientific misconduct in behavioural ecology. #science #fraud #retractation

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/11/11/behavioral-ecologist-jonathan-pruitts-phd-dissertation-withdrawn/

In our post-industrial societies, we are becoming less active. Since accelerometer did not exist in the 19th century, it is tricky to evaluate long-term #activity declines. Yegian et al had a clever idea: our resting body #temperature is a proxy for our resting metabolic rate, and thus our global activity. It reveals an average decline of daily activity of 27 min. #science #physiology
📄 Yegian et al. (2021) Current Biology 31:R1375–R1376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.014

Spread of infectious disease in bees : mass-flowering crops has strong deleterious effects on wildlife epidemiology. #science #biology #ecology #honeybee #sunflower #agriculture #crop #biodiversity #parasite #disease
📄 Cohen et al (2021) Mass-flowering monoculture attracts bees, amplifying parasite prevalence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20211369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1369

Too smart for cage life : intelligence can confer poor captive #welfare in #parrot species. #science #biology #captivity #stereotypic.behaviour
📄 Mellor et al. (2021) Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots. Proc R Soc Lond B 288:20211952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1952

As bats and dolphins, some species of mouse use ultrasonic vocalizations for #echolocation: a nice case of convergent evolution. #science #biology #evolution #sonar #ultrasound
📄 He et al (2021) Echolocation in soft-furred tree mice. Science 372:eaay1513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aay1513

#Plankton are anything but passive particles. They actively move in the water column to evade #predation by fish or whales. #science #biology #ecology #oceanography #fear
📄 Urmy & Benoit-Bird (2021) Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.003

#Obituary of Richard Lewontin who deeply influenced generations
of researchers in #evolution. #science #biology
📄 Charlesworth (2021) Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021). Current Biology 31:R1020–R1022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.001

Animal Behaviour Live: second edition of the annual online conference on the 18th and 19th of November 2021. Once again, the conference is completely free of charge. #science #biology #ethology #animalbehaviour #conference
🔗 http://animalbehaviour.live/

Female Hummingbirds Avoid Harassment by Looking Like Males
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/science/hummingbirds-female.html