Oh shiiiiit native plant stickers are here and ready to ship! You can get 'em at SquidFacts.net

Now open: Applications for Field Inclusive's WOS-sponsored fellowship at Cape Fear Bird Observatory! Open to students & early-career professionals from marginalized / historically excluded identities (race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, etc).

Converting between bird taxonomy lists is taking years off of my life 💀

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Evolution's not a tidy family tree. New work from @davetoews.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org found warblers sharing genes for yellow plumage across species lines for millions of yrs. But some, like this Prothonotary Warbler, took their own path to gold. Durham, NC. #PROW #genomics #ornithology

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book! #booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️

Little painting #2 - "Chicken"

This training was excellent. We did 2 roleplays of an ice raid. We did so much better in round 2. It was helpful both in concrete learning terms but also in confidence building. If you're in Philly & want to hear about future trainings, sign up here instagram.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

One hallmark of pseudoscience is an emphasis on confirmation rather than refutation. Scientists are constantly and consistently trying to prove themselves wrong, whereas those who practice pseudoscience are more concerned with proving themselves right.

Absolutely packed house for the ICE out training in East Kensington tonight, put on by @riverwardsdems.bsky.social. I’ll share out things I learn here.

I’m 8 pages away from finishing this sketchbook, so it’s going to be birds until the end! I’ve accidentally found so many cool birds while doing #birbfest2026 ! #bird #sketchbook #illustration

Very nice paper for those of us preserving specimens in alcohol!

Abstract submissions for #AFOWOS2026, happening this July 7–9 in Newport, RI, are due March 1 — we hope you'll consider sharing your work with us! #ornithology afowos2026.org

Applications for the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are now open. Check it out if you are a PhD or PhD candidate who is interested in interdisciplinary academic research and community-engaged scholarship. tinyurl.com/2uub3xh5

Inked my osprey! 🦅 #art

Chicago-area TTRPG friends: I'm hosting a collaborative workshop for people into or interested in game design. Ideally, grab a (free) ticket. But you're also welcome to show up day of! www.eventbrite.com/e/ttrpg-game...

Using this DNA washi tape for all of my letters to science friends from here on out

As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

Today's the last day for the pre-order phase of these shirts! Want to be sure you get one in your size? Now's the time 🌱 About half of Skype a Scientist's funding comes from merch runs like this. Help us continue our work while lookin hot as hell. SquidFacts.net

More sparrow sketches. These ones will be use in a mobile app about sparrows behaviour. More coming soon! #sciart #birds

Male & female Belted Kingfisher hunting along the Kish this morning #birds

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Long-Tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis). From my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale Univ. Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #ducks

Spur-winged Lapwing, Serengeti southern circuit, Tanzania #lapwings #wadingbirds #birdsofafrica #spurwingedlapwing #serengeti #Tanzania #birds #bird #birdsphotography #conservationphotography #wildbirdphotography #biodiversity #nature markscheflen.com

www.rte.ie/news/2026/02... #birds

Biologist here. The 'reality of biological sex' is that in humans & many species do not have a binary expression of sex-linked traits. Some (fungi!) more than others, but even humans are complex in genotypic & phenotypic origins & expression.

Morning All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #openbeak is this Egyptian Nightjar and its amazing moth-catching gape at full stretch. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography

@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235 #genome #evolution

ICB's Tuesday blog Art in bio break with Jordan Rambo integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/a... "I have seen firsthand how #art encourages people to care, and the more people care, the more willing they are to listen and engage with #conservation..."

Sunday sketches. One of my favorite winter bird visitors is the white-throated sparrow. I love their little yellow eyebrows. #birds #artsci #birdart #sketchbook #mixedmedia #natureart #wildlife #birding

Excited that our paper is headed for publication at Animal Behaviour! - "Experimental study of social signaling through delayed plumage maturation in a colony-nesting seabird." Our experiments show how the unusual, brown plumages of young seabirds can help reduce aggression at the breeding colony.

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i think about the robins that made a nest near our front door a couple years ago alot. especially this picture of one of the fledglings in particular

After work, I usually do some personal sewing to wind down. Tonight I did something a little different -- a little kakapo painting! I think I'll keep doing little paintings, this was nice :)

I am upping my game as I draw my next graphical abstract, as you can see (still using the "freeform scribble" tool in PowerPoint with a mouse, of course)

What are you looking at? Neighborhood goosey in my sketchbook. #oilpainting #art

NEW on #theBOUblog from Fabio Marcolin Are parrots filling ecological niche space?: How non-native parrots become established in urban bird communities bou.org.uk/blog-marc... Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

Surprise! Next time you see a big group of ducks, watch carefully. Look who I saw among a big crowd of Common Goldeneyes - a Hooded Merganser! She’s not “supposed” to be here this time of year but there she is #birds

Today is my final birdy guest Raddle. 🪶 Can you solve it and get from TOCO to TOUCAN? raddle.quest/2026/02/01 (Photo by Giles Laurent)

While I didn't manage to paint all the birds for #birbfest2026, making these was still very rewarding, and it helped me learn, and let go of some perfectionism, create art faster and looser. #sketchbook #birdart #art #SciArt #TraditionalArt #watercolor #ink #watercolour

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Here's a closer look at one of the valentines 🥰 SquidFacts.net

I am on the amtrak and just heard the announcement: "change of plans, only two of the doors are not frozen"

Birbfest Day 30: Oyster Catcher 🐦 A beachy scene with sparkles, a tiny shell, and a chick staying close 🐥🏖 #Birbfest2026 #DailyArt #BirdArt #Procreate #DigitalIllustration

Alright my piece for the jinxed heart show is complete!

Ferbruary #oldknees

New episode just dropped of Extremely Accurate Bird Songs: the podcast… and it’s a big one. Our song for the Roseate Spoonbill goes full Vampire-Weekend-mode with legendary bird podcaster Ivan Phillipsen as the song judge! Our quest to write a song for *every* bird species continues….

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It took about 14 scans, but I got these guys onto the computer finally. #watercolor