6/6 #BOU2022 #Break2 We emphasise that future studies investigating hatching failure in birds should: ensure they have considered the female factors influencing fertility, clearly differentiate between infertility and embryo mortality, and monitor failed breeders more routinely.

Super work on female #fertility in #birds by The University of Sheffield Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ACCE DTP PhD student Katherine Assersohn - to find out more read her @RoySocPublishing paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #ornithology #reproduction #eggs #BOU2022

The #AlbatrossesfromSpace website is now live! Here you can find out more about using high-resolution #satellite imagery to monitor breeding #albatrosses on remote islands! bas.ac.uk/project/wildli…

Very excited to read the proofs for a new Thylacine book coming out soon! It will be my first book chapter.

And our third most-discussed #ornithology article of the last week is Marie Attard & Steve Portugal's Global diversity and adaptations of avian eggshell thickness indices | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib… | #altmetrics x.com/ibis_journal/s…

New findings using global dataset of 4260 (> 41%) avian species assess evolutionary adaptations of their eggshells to be relatively thicker or thinner due to diet, nesting environment and breeding strategy. #eggshells #shellthickness #birdevolution doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13…

If you would like to help us find albatrosses from space, we currently have a live campaign:👀📷📷 zooniverse.org/projects/marie…

HUGE paper on carnivore skull trade-offs by Gabriele Sansalone Marie Attard CarmeloFruciano Geoff Coates and Steve Wroe Nice work on the gazillion models! rdcu.be/dEW4C

From lions and tigers to bears, mammalian carnivore skulls vary greatly. New research reveals that there is typically more variation in carnivore skulls optimised for velocity (how quickly the jaw closes) than force (to produce a more powerful bite). doi.org/10.1038/s41467…