May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:

“Above all else, show the data” — Edward Tufte But do biologists follow this directive? To find out, we analyzed 8,834 figures from 2,930 studies published between 2021 and 2025 in 18 journals from five fields of biology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis by Santos et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Really happy to see the @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social issue a strong policy banning the use of AI for reviewing manuscripts and submitting awards/grants/manuscripts. Science writing is a human endeavor and should be done by actual humans! wilsonsociety.org/wp-content/u...

One of the coolest things I've ever witnessed: a group of about 50 male Sharp-tailed Grouse performing their mating displays at a lek first thing in the morning 🤩

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

#AOS2025 Great to see great science and reconnect with old friends and colleagues. And a fantastic Latin American representation at the conference. Had the chance to present my most recent publication in representation of my wonderful coauthors @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @selvaorgco.bsky.social

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com! We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

Very happy to have attended #ABS2025. As always, a fantastic meeting with great science and great people all across the board. Got to present part of my PhD research on the heritability of cooperative behavior. New paper coming soon!!

We're on @npr.org Short Wave talking birds and prairie-dogs! www.npr.org/2025/06/25/1... #ornithology

New paper!! Really fun an innovative study. Thank you Dr. Andrew Dreelin and @andyjboyce.bsky.social for the opportunity to join the crew and be a part of this project. Very excited to see it out!

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Grey-headed Chachalacas checking out one of our lance-tailed manakin trailcams. Video wrangling by @dagutierrezc.bsky.social

Very proud of my student, Brooke Hagans, who presented her research at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference! She is studying how social status influences social connectivity and interactions in Lance-tailed Manakins in the DuVal lab @emilyhduval.bsky.social. Paper coming? Stay tuned!

Published today, plumage color genomics! We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with H.C. Lim. #evobio #birds 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...