Our new #WindowCollisions paper is now out, with Viviane Zulian, Krista de Groot, @adam-birdstats.bsky.social, et al. peerj.com/articles/199... British Columbia forest birds are highly vulnerable to collisions @uvic.ca #conservationscience🌎 #ornithology #WindowStrike 📷M Strickland

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) was sold by Harper government to SNC Lavelin (now Atkins Realis) Atkins Realis is now giving US firms the largest contract in Canadian history (costing taxpayers 24 billion) petition parliament to review this deal. #elbowsUp www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A nice tutorial on distributed lag models using #rstats 📦 {mgcv}. But if you want to fit these to time series you might want to consider the {mvgam} 📦 instead ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/distrib...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Hello, world! This is a post from R using bskyr.

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Ontario is planning to replace its Endangered Species Act with weak legislation that will allow habitat destruction, killing endangered species and withdraw the province from planning for conservation of ES ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0... Send comments to ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0... From CSTWS:

This is from a letter sent from MECP (Hilary Gignac, Manager, Landscape Species Recovery Section, Species at Risk Branch) describing the replacement of Ontario's Endangered Species Act in more detail. It is BAD NEWS. Please send comments to the ERO as linked by @marcofesta.bsky.social below. #onpoli

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

(1/) On Good Friday, David from the BBS Team at BTO HQ completed his ‘Early’ visit to his square in Dorset. Although it was a challenging square to survey due to the terrain, he enjoyed it and it got him outside before it rained! @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social

alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint. so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality. also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting

🦉Join us for the next Low-key Bird Walk on 4/17! Led by our very own #BirdNerd Extraordinaire, Lishka Arata, these monthly events are a great way to connect with nature, discover avian life, and build community. All are welcome! 🌍🤝🔗 shorturl.at/LJ6rt

@timothysnyder.bsky.social, author and one of America’s most famous historians, has seen tyrants like Trump before and has this to say: macleans.ca/the-intervie.... Snyder’s book “On Tyranny” provides guidance for action in . . .

abcbirds.org/news/2025-st... "The report highlights findings from the 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, noting that the total economic output related to birdwatching activities is $279 billion, and birding-related activities support 1.4 million jobs."

Any photos of gulls eating stuff? Submit them to the project database at citsci.org/projects/gul...

This speech by Justin Trudeau is quite impressive, especially the part in French at the end where he is actually inspiring (of course he's not the most popular man in Canada, so it might be a bit late for the flowery words). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRO...

I still haven’t seen JD Vance say “thank you” to the American taxpayers for his little skiing vacation.

March 7

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

And the gutting continues. Hope ppl will continue to fight back by SIGNING/sharing this declaration against #censorship. It's for all irrsp of field, lang, expertise. #scienceforall #defendresearch #moretocome docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1/ The @naturescot.bsky.social Scottish indicators were published last week. The data, a lot from @[email protected] from 94-23, show how Scottish birds are doing in different habitats. Woodland birds are doing relatively well, but upland birds are in decline. www.nature.scot/doc/official...

Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31! conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

“The whole room seemed uncomfortable,” added the lawyer, who is known to the Star but requested anonymity to speak freely. “I felt like I was in a bit of an alternate reality. I felt like I was in the States. It felt very Trumpian.”

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome to the Canadian High Arctic Research Station #HigherEd 🧪 #UofG #Gryphons youtu.be/n6fnKCUSnWQ

Apparently it’s #DarwinDay, so I’m sharing the most relatable quote by any scientist ever

JOB: Program Director, Quebec, @ncccnc.bsky.social * Create protected areas or OECMs in northern Quebec, incl strong relationships with Indigenous communities. * Flexible location in Quebec * Salary $99k-112k/yr * Apply by 25 Feb 2025 www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... #ConservationJobs

Pete Davidson and I recently wrote this blog for Birds Canada: an update on conservation assessments of Canadian birds in 2024. #COSEWIC #birds #conservation www.birdscanada.org/recent-updat... 📷 Ian Routley

#ornithology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🔔 The Emerging Bioacousticians’ Days come back ! 🗓️ 24 to 26 June 2025 📍Vernon, France 👋🏼 See you soon ! #scientific #conference #bioacoustics #science

#ornithology🐦 #conservationscience🌍

Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list! Warning: do not watch without a tissue www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

(1/) If you live in Hampshire or the surrounding area of southern England and would like to take on a Breeding Bird Survey square, there are currently several available across the county. Please visit: app.bto.org/bbs/public/r... or scan the QR code for more information. #UKBirding #Ornithology

WELCOME to @bsky.app the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (@gdfcf.bsky.social ) - the nonprofit partner to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste #ACG in northwestern #CostaRica Give a follow 4 amazing stories of #conservation, #education, science-based management and #biodiversity development

Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians. “From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."

When we act on the science, endangered species recover. For most species in Canada, we haven't acted enough, yet. thenarwhal.ca/endangered-s...

America, not knowing shit about other countries but still not letting that stop us, since 1776 .. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

💯What if Bayesian modelling could be faster, more flexible, and easier to interpret? 🎧 youtu.be/7POdNknJ1Es?... 🎙️ Episode 123 is here! @alex-andorra.bsky.social chats with @aloctavodia.bsky.social about ground breaking tools and ideas that are shaping the future of Bayesian workflows. #LBS #BART

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

One of things I find fascinating about the 'back to the office' mandates is that most employers don't offer incentives for employees to come into the office. If you genuinely want people to return to the office, make the office a place people want to be. 🤷🏼

#ornithology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So many good points in here. When women begin to enter fields, first people cheer the pioneers. Then women do it more...and men get nervous. And then men run. And then they declare they NEVER wanted to do it anyway. Education is for GIRLS. celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...

My final Talking Climate newsletter of the year is the ultimate Climate Conversation Cheat Sheet—spotlighting the year's highs, lows, and most unforgettable moments in climate news. Click here to read and subscribe (it's free!) us14.campaign-archive.com?u=fa37a09043...

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...