Hannah Broeckx successfully defended her thesis entitled “Light or Flight? The impact of artificial light at night on insect predation risk” in September. Congratulations Dr Broeckx!
Hannah defends!
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Impact of Environmental Pollution on Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) and the Role of Climate Change as an Interactive Stressor
New review paper out now from a former MSc student.
Daniel did his literature review with us and did such a nice job it is now published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry!
Postdoc position available in my group
I have an opening available for a postdoc to work on decision making in birds. The position is for 14 months and would involve working in Finland. Ideally looking for someone who can start very soon.
Please take a look at the job add below.
https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/postdoc-position-in-decision-making-in-birds-netherlands-14433
New paper out now!
The final chapter of Cristina’s PhD is out now in Functional Ecology!
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.70122
In it we set out to test how resource availability shapes the relationship between colour and chemical defense in the wood tiger moth. We found that – counter to our predictions – honest signalling was only present when moths were reared on a high protein diet.
Entomologendag 2024
Entomologendag was a nice way to round off the year. I spoke about the effect of urbanisation on warning signals, Jiajia and Hannah presented beautiful posters. Hannah also continued the proud IBED tradition by winning the poster prize!
Hannah talks about the effects of light pollution
Folia made a nice video on the night walk Hannah recently gave.
New paper from Chiara!
Chiara’s final(?) thesis chapter is now published in the Journal of Animal ecology! In it she shows that female attractivness may play a role in maintaining the genes for male colour polymorphism in the population.
Check it out here:
Morph-linked variation in female pheromone signalling and male response in a polymorphic moth
New Nest Boxes
In collaboration with Wouter Halfwerk and Barbara Tomotani we put up another 50 nest boxes around Amsterdam this friday. Bringing our total up to 80 boxes!
We will use these to study the effects of urbanisation on great tit and blue tit behaviour and breeding. Let’s hope the birds like them!
Joining the Amsterdam Young Academy
I’m happy to announce I’m joining the Amsterdam Young Academy! Amsterdam Young Academy (AYA) is an independent platform where talented young scientists from different disciplines meet to develop views on science, scientific policy and how to build bridges between science and society in Amsterdam. I’m looking forward to working with them in the future.
https://amsterdamyoungacademy.nl/aya_news/aya-welcomes-10-new-members
