BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler. Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ... www.psu.edu/news/eberly-... 🦉🧪

I mean, the title says it all: Genetic confirmation of an “uncommon mourningthroat” (Geothlypis philadelphia  ×  G. trichas): A rare but persistent hybrid warbler. Fun stuff with @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social and Kurt Gielow, OA in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social! 🦉 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sorry folks i am indeed a splitter

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Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦‍⬛

#AOS2025 don't miss @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social's talk at 11:15am on Wednesday in the Genomics 2 session (Ballroom C). We're cooking up some cool stuff with @mbtoomey.bsky.social on warbler carotenoid processing enzymes! 🦉🧪

Some good news for a Friday morning: it's been a long road, but this work from my M.S. is now published! Using RAD-seq data, we assessed genetic diversity and the demographic history of the world's second largest migratory wildebeest population in Zambia's Greater Liuwa Ecosystem

A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding. 🧪🦉 📸 Ronnie d'Entremont royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @psubiodept.bsky.social

As a comic relief I present to you the worst name ever for an R package

A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.

I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Seeing and hearing that NSF panels & reviews shut down. Again, for the love of science, this is not the time for scientists to be quiet..speak up if you can and push Uni administrators to do so as well.

Hey #SICB2025 - interested in adaptive radiation? Morphological evolution? Cool birds? Just trying to figure out where to start tomorrow morning? I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!

At long last, my first paper (ever, first-author, and with @davetoews.bsky.social) is out in @plosone.org 🐦🎶 We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

something coming from me, watch this space tomorrow 👀🐦🎶

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

New warbler paper /w Anna María Calderón & Zachary Szpiech. Kirtland's warblers were ESA delisted in part because of 👍 management. What wasn't known at the time—and we show here—is that they have a striking footprint of inbreeding in their DNA🦉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 📸 Nathan Cooper

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Are you a Black woman in any subfield of Ecology, Evolution or marine science? Come join BWEEMS, learn about our community and all of the programs we offer! Spread the word, Black women supporting Black women! #BlackSky #BlackinSTEM #BlackSTEM #WomeninSTEM #BlackinAcademia

NEWS: 5 ʻAlalā (HI Crows) were successfully released yesterday on Maui in an assisted translocation, reversing their extinct-in-the-wild status. www.audubon.org/magazine/wor...

One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.

I passed my defense! Officially a bird doctor 🧪🐦🎓

Hi friends (or foe, idk how y’all feel about me)! I’m defending my dissertation in exactly three weeks!! There’s gonna be a whole lot of big talk about vocalization—check the word cloud for deeds. DM me if you wanted a zoom link 🐦 May 6, 2024 @ 1PM EDT

currently accepting suggestions of cheesy evolution quotes to end my dissertation with thank u sm!!!! 🐦

Share your science at #AOS24 in Estes Park, CO! Our call for Abstracts for Oral Presentations & Posters for closes on 3/17 (firm deadline). Details are on our meeting website! meeting.americanornithology.org/aos-2024-cal...

Happy Send your abstracts to coauthors Weekend to @amornith.bsky.social members who celebrate 🐦 reminder that it’s due on Sunday, you’re welcome

By 30, your face should be a knife. By 30, you should have a barbed tongue longer than your arm. By 30, you should be able to slam your head into a tree 20 times per second. By 30, you should be able to withstand an acceleration of 1,400 g’s. By 30, you should be a woodpecker.

omg a dissertation is just three sorta-publishable manuscripts in a trench coat

#BirdsNamesforBirds because it’s very annoying trying to write possessive nouns with some dudes’ names already attached to it

My lab at University of Alaska Fairbanks is recruiting an NSF-funded postdoc to study the evolution of ice-binding proteins in intertidal species. Field and labwork in beautiful places! 2 years of support at $67K/yr. Applications accepted until 3/16. Please share! careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...

Does a tufted puffin work at @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

making figures is writing making figures is writing making figures is writing 🧪

🧪 Dissertation prep: ✅ Download university template ✅ Idea for wholesome acknowledgement slides ❌ Words in dissertation document

Had a grand time at my first SICB 🥳 Thanks to the Broadening Participation Committee for the travel award that enabled me to attend. See everyone again next year!

I’m presenting at #SICB2024 on my most recent work on yellow-rumped warbler hybrids! Come to find out if which call the hybrids sing, and a surprise about potential genetic underpinnings of calls 🧪🎶🐤 Session: Speciation and species delineation Time: 9:15AM Room: 608

I just closed all my browser tabs?? Because they can be closed and I no longer need them?? Is this real????

Just paid for society membership renewal on my own, feeling like an adult 🫡

Froga

watching Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and we’re still having people who plays scientists using “theory” when they mean “hypothesis”. once again on my knees begging hollywood to get proper scientific consultations

being an ex-gifted kid just means I have to unlearn trying to be the best all the time and constantly reminding myself that being good is good enough. it’s not that serious!!!!

is there any worse suspense than waiting for a not very responsive committee member to respond 😭 having mini heart attacks every hour over here #phdsky

My institution just changed unlimited access to Adobe Suite to request-only 🙃 anyone wants to make my figures for me from now on #phdsky

The rgdal package retirement really mess with my maps, because the alternatives are not compatible with ggmap at all ☹️ don’t love it when scripts written within the past 3 years are already not reproducible anymore. If any R geospatial wizards out there want to give me tips that’d be great!! 🧪