Associate professor at University Sorbonne Paris Nord. Behavioral neuroendocrinologist mostly interested in how animals cope with stress
Paris, France
Joined March 2016
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New paper on the link between FKBP5 expression
and risky foraging in house sparrows. Low FKBP5 expression is associated with increased risk taking. Also confirming correlation between blood and HPA axis regulatory regions expression with @MartinlabUSF sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
The 8th International Student Course in Behavioural Biology organized by IFE will be held on November 17th-18th 2025.
Join us on Condorcet campus (Aubervilliers) or online it's free!!!!
leec.univ-paris13.fr/pages/I…
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Fantastic new paper by Reese Richardson et al.
"The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly."
An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @ERC_Research project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at #LundUniversity! Details 👇
shorturl.at/vkMuV
Please RT 🙏
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We have a 3 year doctoral contract available on "Evolution of anticancer defenses in wild animals" supervised by Drs. Giraudeau (LIENSs), Vincze (LIENSs) and Bertile (IPHC, Strasbourg)! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/3…
@LIENSsCNRSULR @IPHC_Strasbourg @CNRSecologie
Great opportunity with great scientists!
Looking for a new postdoc in my lab @usfcoph. Join a collaboration between John Orrock and me on Lyme disease ecology here in beautiful Tampa. Job #40278 at USF Careers website. Please R/T or email me with questions.
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Brilliant summary! Well done!
The Free Energy Principle: a 'theory of everything' that includes not only brains, societies, but perhaps even the universe itself… It's known for being considerably convoluted but the principles underlying it are actually straight forward. If the FEP is right, then is your entire reality a 'controlled hallucination.'? What does that even mean? And how does this relate to entropy? 1/13
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New publication: Microbial surveillance versus #cytokine responsiveness in native and non-native #housesparrows, by @melissah_rowe a.o.
#inflammation #microbialsurvaillance #introducedspecies
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.04…
![Figure 1 in McCain et al. (2025): "House sparrow (Passer domesticus) distribution as of 2019, with the green shading representing their native range and the yellow shading representing their introduced or non-native range. The locations of the sparrow populations sampled for this project are highlighted: native populations (locations A–E) are marked in red, while non-native populations (locations F–I) are marked in blue. (Figure adapted from [10].)"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GjLTV8RW4AA4FGG.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Figure 1 in McCain et al. (2025): "House sparrow (Passer domesticus) distribution as of 2019, with the green shading representing their native range and the yellow shading representing their introduced or non-native range. The locations of the sparrow populations sampled for this project are highlighted: native populations (locations A–E) are marked in red, while non-native populations (locations F–I) are marked in blue. (Figure adapted from [10].)"
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This masterpiece just dropped at @BMCBiology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers
Same question, same data: go figure!
tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices
doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…
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The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @Elliot_Gould_ @HannahSFraser @TimParker88 and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
Great PhD opportunity with great colleagues. Join us!
Fully funded PhD position on 'Paternities and spatial kinship structure in a population of South African bush Karoo rats'. Field work in South Africa. Analysis of existing long-term data at Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord. Please RT!
www-leec.univ-paris13.fr/doc…
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My first lead-author paper is officially out in #BiologyLetters! 🐦
📄 Microbial Surveillance Versus Cytokine Responsiveness in Native and Non-Native House Sparrows
Check it out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Huge thanks to my co-authors for their collaboration! 🎉
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Attending #SICB2025? Check out my poster on Sun Jan 5! Learn how urbanization elevates FKBP5 expression in Peromyscus leucopus, highlighting stress response and implications for zoonotic reservoirs
#UrbanEcology #StressBiology
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I'm looking for guest speakers (paid, awaiting funding) for my Primate Behavior class. I'm hoping to find people who work with primates in diff settings (zoo, lab, field). Preference for in-country, historically excluded, & student/early career primatologists. Please reach out!
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Hello! We are currently looking for a Master student to start Fall 2025! Are you interested in ecological physiology and how maternal stress can alter offspring physiology? Check out our website and send me a message/email! ensmingerlab.weebly.com
Please retweet and thank you!
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We have a PhD studenstip available in any area of insect cognition or welfare through the China Scholarship Council (CSC - Chinese applicants only) to start in September 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project/co…
Time for the round table on ethics in animal research animated Christophe Feron and Gilles Gheusi from @LEEC_USPN
Second talk of the day by Javier Sierro on vocal performance in bird song. @LEEC_USPN @LecdNanterre
Start of the second day of the IFE students course with Louise Peckre from the @LEEC_USPN on communication complexity across modalities #ethology #animalbehavior
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Louise Peckre giving a talk on communicative complexity at the International Student Course of IFE! @LEEC_USPN
