Feeling happy to have given up my office phone, saving the department some money. There are better ways to reach me.

@scienceofthetimes.bsky.social is back after the summer break! We talk to @joanstrassmann.bsky.social about her fabulous new book "The Social Life of Birds". If you like the podcast: subscribe, like, share! We enjoy making it but have no idea how many folk listen! scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

Apply online by November 1st! Wiko Early Career Call for fellowships 2026/27 in the #NaturalSciences and #LifeSciences. Gain time to think during a 3–5 month #fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study: wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde... #cfa

I got the hard copies of my new book findable anywhere books are sold on September 23!

Up here in lovely Leelanau County Michigan we have a problem. A fancy resort community deals with its sewage by spraying so it drifts onto our landmark Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Their permit to do this is up for renewal and we are fighting it. Homesteadsewage.org Help would be great!

Do you have a bird you saw behaving unusually recently?

Use AI to find referees? Sociobiology.Wordpress.com/2025/07/08/referee-finding-a-role-for-ai

Social Lives of Birds is coming in September and here is an anticipatory post on the dawn chorus!

Heck out my series on recommendations

Have you tried any of the activities in the Slow Birding Journal? Here is one I did slowbirding.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/l...

I'm so excited to share the cover for my book, The Social Lives of Birds, available for preorder now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768621...

"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%." Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.

Anyone actually using Slow Birding Journal for observations? #addbirder

Applications now open for the 2025 International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2025! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Can also be used to attend #ESEB2025! Apply by January 31: https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe @evolmtg.bsky.social

The hidden cost of aggregation lies in the incompatibilities between cells with different genetic dialects doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @jahanisrat.bsky.social, @treyjscott.bsky.social, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social, and David C Queller

Signing copies of Slow Birding and Slow Birding Journal at my local bookstore, Left Bank Books.

Just in time learning advantages Do you feel vaguely guilty when you get emails from your institution exhorting you to attend learning sessions for some new software? Right now I'm getting them often. They want me to… https://sociobiology.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/just-in-time-learning-advantages/

Where are people sending RNAseq samples, eukaryotic samples

Love the Black-throated Blue Warbler we banded today!

Nothing is more fun than bird banding in the height of migration, especially in the fall when molt limits are the challenge of the day!