Woohoo! New paper!! Nightjars bang their wings together to make sound! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

I'm not sure what's going on with my university's schedule of classes... they seem to be planning classes for the afterlife? But when I click through, the BIOL major is no more... #UCR

Photos from my recent trip to Manitoba. The owls really like perching ON the microphones..

Myiarchus flycatchers ordered by size and intensity of yellow underparts. When it comes to flycatchers, differences between species tend to be very subtle. Impressions of size and color in the field can be quite subjective, but the differences are real.

That five-year-old is no angel.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

On Closer Inspection...

Got the first one! Juvie that got measured and got some bling (band). No GPS tag cause the mortality is too high for this age so just some bling… #GoldenEagle #WomeninRaptorResearch #RaptorResearch 🪶

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Volle et al. Lifetime evolution of vocal repertoires in a songbird, the black redstart: a longitudinal field approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

Withdrew my 1st scientific paper today. I submitted a paper with a weird result a couple months ago. Got a citation alert on monday, citing paper said nice things abt my paper and had a paragraph on a concept I had not heard of w/ intriguing citations. 1/

Caught a bunch of birds to show to my Vertebrate Natural History class this weekend, including this gremlin

Our latest paper is out: Sean Wilcox measured the 3D kinematics of Black-chinned Hummingbirds performing one of their courtship displays. Lots of evidence of flight performance tradeoffs! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dear student, please do not put broken supplies stuff onto the shelf alongside working stuff. Sincerely, your PI

Quite possibly the easiest thing I’ve ever skinned, and now our teaching collection has a new genus of mammal

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉

🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight. Extreme agility ✔️ Morphological computing ✔️ Meshes! ✔️ jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Per the #AOS quiz bowl last night: the bird with the longest tail is the Onagadori, a chicken breed from Japan

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

The NIH says that mRNA shows promise as a vaccine against multiple cancers. Is this part of the $500M research that RFK Jr canceled? 🧪 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798545/

*Sigh*. Caught a grad student using AI to generate fake citations today. Need to figure out the best strategy to make this a teachable moment. Maybe "gentle teasing"? "Strict warning"? Unclear which will work best in this case.

Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections

#writerwednesday #madmagazine

Awesome as always, ‪@zefrank.bsky.social is back to making True Facts videos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=spuO...

The potential deletion of 100 years of bird banding, breeding bird survey, and various other survey data would cripple bird conservation efforts not only in the US, but in the entire hemisphere.

This article doesn't say it, but clearly this report was written with use of AI such as ChatGPT. There's a reason legit journals have policies against use of AI in writing scientific paper. Hat tip to good reporting from notus.org www.notus.org/health-scien...

They came for everyone else very quickly www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Further, it allows a political appointee (usually not a scientist) to take disciplinary action against those seen as sharing misinformation— based on their political determination. Basically, this is threat to scientists to draw conclusions consistent with the Administration’s position.

Science and research should be objective. This Exec Order is a rant on science the Administration does not like. Following that it seems to promote good research practices (Sec.3, part a)- but alas… The EO gives a political appointee the power to decide when findings need to be “corrected.”

Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.

The Pope has "Florida Man" for an older brother!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

New True Facts! Insect Waterbenders! youtu.be/H5bZ4Vk2u7M?...

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Hegseth deleted all mention of the Holocaust from Pentagon websites. Here is why we need more investigations into antisemitism at American universities.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

Great gray owls are abundant in Manitoba this winter

Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.