Congratulations to Christine Madliger for having her most recent paper entitled “Do baseline glucocorticoids simultaneously represent fitness and environmental quality in a declining aerial insectivore?” accepted for publication in the highly-regarded Ecological journal Oikos. Christine’s paper is one of the very first to combine an examination of environmental variation and fitness to examine whether baseline glucocorticoids have the potential to link the two. To date most researchers had simply assumed a causal link between the two, but Christine’s correlative and experimental work in free-living Tree swallows now calls this simplistic prediction into question. Excellent work Christine!