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Big thanks to my exemplary #UrbanTit collaborators. It has been such a pleasure!

@annecharmantier.bsky.social @denisreale.bsky.social @clairebranston.bsky.social @pcapi.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social @senarjc.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky. Also @spibirds.bsky.social 🙏

We find that urbanization increases phenotypic variation within subpopulations by 11% on average (local spatial scales), and some evidence that urbanization also increases differentiation between subpopulations (larger landscape scales).

Thanks to my fab co-authors and to @nikaudet.bsky.social for organizing the Genetics of Animal Cognition special issue: link.springer.com/collections/...

Using #quantgen, #commongarden, and #GWAS approaches, we find that urban and forest great tits do not differ (phenotypically or genetically) in their cognitive abilities related to inhibitory control, but show that cognitive variation may have a genetic basis.

This experiment was a huge undertaking and wouldn’t have been possible without help from co-authors, the Montpellier Zoo staff, and the CEFE tit team. 🙏

There is further support that evolution has driven smaller urban body size in Dutch great tit populations. See another recent common garden to F3 led by @babimt.bsky.social currently in press at Evolution Letters. (preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

Table 1 synthesizes an impressive 77 common garden experiments with urban organisms showing that urban divergences can be driven by both genetic and plastic change; a conclusion that aligns with our study’s results.

We find trait-specific evidence of urban evolution where genetic change likely drives urban divergence in body size and stress, while behavioural divergences are more strongly driven by plasticity.