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🐦 Island birds reveal a link between immunity and gut bacteria
🧪Researchers on Cousin Island, including two professors from #GELIFES, discovered a connection between #GutHealth and the #ImmuneSystem – thanks to the Seychelles #warbler!
🔬🔗: rug.nl/research/gelifes/_news/2026/20260312-komdeur
This is already tomorrow! ⬇️⬇
🧪 New #Ecophysiology article in the Journal of Experimental Biology alert!
Very excited to share that the paper of our researcher, Ellie Laetz, was published in their new issue, with a photo of the study making it to the cover!
Big thanks to @jexpbiol.bsky.social 🤝 Read the article below!
Our researcher appointed as a member of the #KHMW 👏
#GELIFES is happy to announce Dr. Martien Kas, a researcher of Behavioural #Neuroscience and #Neurobiology, as one of the 28 new scientific members at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2026!
Read more at our LinkedIn page ⬇️
🔬🎧 In Science Podcast: Roelof Hut about biorhythms in humans and animals
🧪 Interested in #Chronobiology? Listen to our #GELIFES researcher talk about #Biorhytms in the podcast by @rug.nl, with the hosts @wimbrons.nl and Hanna van Loo!
👉 Check it out here (in Dutch): www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change
Apply before 31 Mar 👇
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#Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm
🧪 Dr. Dickson’s thesis explores tree-reefs and their potential to partially mimic historic #ecosystem services provided by sunken wood. Read it here if you’re interested in #MarineEcology and #ConservationEcology ⬇️⬇️
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Congratulations, Dr. Dickson! 🥳
Last month, he successfully defended his #thesis on #MarineRestoration and #Ecosystems – “Sunken driftwood: A lost ecosystem” 🌊
It was a pleasure to work together, and we can’t wait to see more of Dr. Dickson’s scientific journey. Cheers! 🏆
#PhD #PhDLife #PhDDefence
Larger broods beg more, parents feed more – but chicks still grow more slowly, suggesting that the energetic costs of competition are to blame. 🐣
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Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
New research in #Behaviour: “Begging efficiency rather than food received causes brood size effect on growth in zebra finches” by Marianthi Tangili, Michael Briga and Simon Verhulst.
@mtangili.bsky.social
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
🎖️ GELIFES’ researcher appointed as a scientific member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities 🎖️
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KMHW) was established in...
🧠🎬 The Missing Piece — Understanding Psychosis through Lived Experience
This new documentary (screening on 20 February), the team follows David — a father, caregiver and lived-experience expert. After the screening, join a discussion with the researchers and filmmakers. 👇
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Donders Institute
Issue 3 has closed and issue 4 is open
The front cover by Ellie Laetz shows an upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana. These jellyfish are found in shallow tropical and subtropical bays, resting bell-down with their tentacles extended upward
journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
On Friday, 20 February, the Precognition team will present a documentary by Tim Wiesner and Dr. Charlotte Fraza, with Prof. Andre Marquand, exploring the tension between lived experience of psychosis ...
