Ana Cristina Gomes

PostDoc at Stockholm University
Sexual selection, social behaviour, personality, cognition, phenotypes evolution
PhD (she/her)
@anacrgomes.bsky.social

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

For those still here, my updates will only be @anacrgomes.bsky.social from now on (or @AnaC_RGomes in mastodon), and my account here will be removed in due time. hope to keep following you all in better alternative places :)

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Our results indicate plastic and cautious investment in costly coloration by females, likely to preserve body condition. In males, absence of senescence in colour indicate an attempt to always express high ornamentation, possibly due to stronger sexual selection. (5/5)

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

📢New paper alert!📢 We found stronger senescence and environmental effects on female colour than on males in a mutually ornamented bird, the common waxbill. with S Guerra, @RomerodiazC, P Silva, @trigo_st, and @mostlywaxbills at @BehavEcol (1/5)

https://t.co/Y57aaar9pt

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Colour ornamentation, especially in females, also increased when moving from the wild to the mesocosm, likely due to environmental effects. Fine-scale monitoring of aditional common waxbills in bird cages suggested that bill and plumage redness peak in the breeding season. (4/5)

[Andrew King @SHOALgroup]

We are recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. October 2025 start. Working with @SHOALgroup, @rjpheathcote @wl_allen, @joefresna, @MarinaVPap. Advert probably not out until new year now, but keep your 👀 🍌

[Marina Papadopoulou @MarinaVPap]

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️
With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

https://t.co/PW5eF9w3qQ

[Lauren Brent @ljnbrent]

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC @GW4plusDTP. Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: https://t.co/9ooDKh4KF0

[ManyBirds Project @TheManyBirds]

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 "Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade" is now available in pre-print: https://t.co/MrGhV9JjOb and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

[Robin Morrison @DrRobinMorrison]

POSTDOC ADVERT: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is hiring a postdoc on their NIH project examining how early life adversity influences aging. Particularly looking for someone who can support lab analyses of physiological biomarkers. Please share!

[wheatcroftlab @wheatcroftlab]

‼️Job alert ‼️

We have an open position for a bioinformatician to work on songbird genomics until October next year: https://t.co/V8WfVxi4wQ

Please RT!
🐦🐦

[Josh Firth @JoshAFirth]

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉

Intro: https://t.co/w7EOwuZfca

Full ToC: https://t.co/WahxfVSWft

A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Already looking forward for Torino ! 😁

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Really happy after these days in Melbourne and presenting my work @ISBE2024 huge congratulations to the organisation for such an amazing conference! Thank you to all that came to check my work and to ISBE for the travel grant that allowed me to be here :)

[Marta Acácio @MartaAcacio]

Very happy to share our new paper in @PNASNews on how #GriffonVultures change their movement and social behaviour with age: https://t.co/bya0wGHazv

It seems that old griffons are much like old humans: they like to stay at home, are set in their routines and are a bit antisocial.

[BIOPOLIS-CIBIO @CIBIO_InBIO]

📖 #TheDiaryOfAScientist 19/26
Mariana Ribeiro’s research scrutinises how profit-driven captive breeding impacts the conservation of sable antelopes, unveiling the complex challenges involved in preserving this majestic species.

@EcogenCibio
https://t.co/vX1Ri7YLfG

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Finally, I also want to highlight the amazing initiative by @Publico , @PublicoAzul , @CIBIO_InBIO , for allowing non scientific public to understand what researchers are and are made of!

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

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Check out this beautiful science outreach piece from a very interesting work. Highly recomend the reading even to non portuguese speakers. Do translate it, it will be worth it,trust me. This work is being made by PhD student Mariana Ribeiro (1/4) https://t.co/HCGZppLhBn

[Ana Cristina Gomes @AnaC_RGomes]

Mariana started as my uni colleague, that became a very good friend, until making her way to the family I chose. But, We all can be supportive to colleagues, friends, family, and all in science everytime.. to me I couldn’t be more proud of and happy for Mariana as I am every day