Female birds with confusing names.

Sometimes my research is relatable

Now with page numbers. Hybrid warblers! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢New warbler research!📢 A phylogeny of Myioborus (the youngest genus of warblers) plus a hypothesis for how they diversified in South America and a gene causing a color difference between hybridizing species. It was great co-leading this with Laura Céspedes Arias. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Day 2 of #BlackBirdersWeek is all about Migration 🌎 Migration is one of my favorite times of the year. Birds endure storms, exhaustion, predators, light pollution, habitat loss, and thousands of miles… yet they arrive and they sing. 🎶🥹🪶 #BlackInNature #BirdJoy #Birding #WiscoBirder

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

Beyond the limited edition poster, the regular 11" x 17" prints and stickers are available to ship. Now you can be ready when Tyrant Lizard Queen by @restingdinoface.bsky.social comes out in October. Print and Poster: www.emmalerae.com/store/p88/%2... Sticker: www.emmalerae.com/store/p90/%2...

I finally got around to uploading some of the "Bird Book of the Dead" illustrations I did last year to my Redbubble! My first six species uploaded are Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Kaua'i 'akialoa, Carolina Parakeet, Slender-billed Curlew and Pink-headed Duck. www.redbubble.com/people/halia...

I continue experimenting with messaging and doodles. Heart shaped sticker would be cute! Is this the right message? idk. Will continue playing.

Can someone please tell me how to stop the small wheeled food delivery robots from flirting with me

I'm sure that Phil Collins did not intend for his music to be the soundtrack of me wrangling with hundreds of zotero files as I do the final citation checks for this manuscript in the wee hours of the morning. And yet, here we are.

I need your help. When I'm making projects happen, I don't have as much time to remind people to buy merch/donate to Skype a Scientist. SO our balance sheet is...oh dear 😅 If you're able, becoming a monthly donor, even a couple bucks a month, would be really amazing. givebutter.com/SupportSAS26

I want to repost this one million times

Playing around with motivational plant posters this weekend

‘Failure is recognized as a necessary experience on the way to success… ‘ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Officially at the stage of my PhD where I hate everything I've ever written and I still have three more chapters to submit

Absolutely incredible. I genuinely didn't clock that there's a bird in this photo at first.

Come see @christoptomus.bsky.social at the native plant stand during the Fishtown neighbors association sidewalk sale at the squid house (dm me for the address).

I want to make a poster of a raccoon with a cool guy casual vibe saying “hey planting one native plant is better than none”, to encourage people to start planting something and I know he should not be smoking a cigarette. I know. But I just feel like in my heart he IS smoking a cig.

A happy, healthy Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) from this morning! 🤩🦉

coloring page done for event tomorrow, feel free to color it yourself and ask if you want to know about the various included goobers! #ColoringPage #SciArt

Stable ecology jobs are few and far between at the moment, but the team I'm on is actually hiring! Come coordinate the third Ohio Bird Atlas! This'll be a 5+ year role, based at Ohio State. Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred). Please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Oh, this is fantastic!

I have no notes.

motherfucker pick up a god damned pencil eatf.art/ai

Slightly increase a band Counting Ravens

Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

Slightly increase a band, raptor edition. 🪶

Every museum collection has this equivalent. Often several.

Riding on Mother Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1996

Domestic birds play major roles in our lives - so it's weird that we often lack basic knowledge of their wild forms, e.g. Red Junglefowl 🐓 / Rock Doves 🕊️! Eben Gering, @jenteo.bsky.social 🪿, Philip Lavretsky 🦆, and I discuss research + conservation priorities #Ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni...

In retrospect, my confusion and nonstop questions to my parents about why the puppies from Lady and the Tramp were cocker spaniels if female but schnauzers if male should have really been a giveaway for my current career trajectory

Time to add top coat #1!

The American Kestrel #birdart #animalart #kestrel #originalillustration

Meet IOB co author Allison Shultz. The Shultz lab seeks to understand the #evolution of #bird diversity. Along with being a #scientist, Allison is an incredible #artist: & www.allisonshultz.com/projects-8 & read Shutlz's co authored work doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Dr. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social is GOAT at global comm AND works her ass off on local, like offering native seed packets + murals in Philly. So passionate, and has to fundraise all year long. Help @skypeascientist.bsky.social out! Buy her a coffee! givebutter.com/SupportSAS26

Today in Philadelphia: Philadelphia will soon have some of the nation’s toughest local restrictions on federal immigration-enforcement operations after Mayor Parker approved legislation codifying the city’s sanctuary policies and banning ICE raids on city property. share.inquirer.com/rXwXKP

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

🌱 We’re hiring in Plant Biology at Penn State! The Department of Biology at Penn State University Park is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in any area of plant biology.

I need a song to go with our reel on insta to hype this market, and I need a fun cool mom-song. I am resisting the urge to use Fergie's MILF $$. What to DO. (Market is 12-5pm on Saturday at Starbolt in Fishtown, you should come if you're in Philly!)

Perks of being a biologist: you can correctly identify the moths in your apartment as Tineola bisselliella, otherwise known as the common clothes mot- wait that's not a perk

Proposals are due soon for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! This year the R. C. Lewontin Early Award and Rosemary Grant Advanced Award are both due on May 18. Be sure to review the application instructions and apply soon! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Cinnamon Teal. 9x12 Acrylic and Ink #art #painting #birds #natureart

📢 APPLY NOW For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 29 May 2026 🪶 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

Gouache Bug Studies !

Things I learned tonight while I should have been grading*: There's a species of moth whose genus and common name is "bad-wing", because they're hard for entomologists to display properly. It feels like the person who originally named them got frustrated and decided to be petty about it.

Slowly but surely figuring out the pattern to make the perfect dice bag/ibuprofen and hand sanitizer carrier (which is what all of my dice bags end up being)

Finally working on a new series of Portents! Been too long since I drew an owl. Based on the Northern Hawk Owl.

doing one last call—if you are a trans entomologist/trans researcher studying bugs (in the most capacious sense) please dm me, I'd love to interview you!