Experimental design to test range expansion theory of secondary forests… intraspecific trait variation is relevant to understand early succession dynamics of animals (lizards in this case). @miguelacevedo.bsky.social team!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

In case you missed it: Applications for our Mentoring Program, which includes full funding to attend #AOSWOS2026, are open now thru 2/28! We also need volunteer *mentors*, so please consider this if you're past the early-career stage & will be at the meeting. wilsonsociety.org/students-and...

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

Morphological change of lowland rainforest birds in Colombia!! A long-term fan of all these authors in #ornithology 🙇🙇 @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social Ph.D. Results from the Colombian Resurvey Project!!!

Extended specimens (permanent chewing louse) provide another perspective of the long-term *enigma* of evolutionary and biogeographic history of _Sapayoa aenigma_… parasite linage revealed consistent extra-Neotropical origins! 🤯 #follow @julisoto.bsky.social for cool research on #ornithology

Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

#ornithology Wait, birds as truffle dispersers? What a cool research! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite. I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...

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@swamplily.bsky.social terrific talk! Many butterflies at risk but not enlisted in the Endangered Species Act need more research! To help them: 1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard 2) leave the leafs (they hibernate) 3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social

Today is #SNRE Research Symposium!!! Honored to belong to this program and share some of my dissertation. Leveraging community science data we found similar patterns of estimates of probability of persistence than those from standardized monitoring! @uf-ifas.bsky.social @ufcalsdean.bsky.social @

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

@floridamuseum.bsky.social PI Dr. Glaucia del Rio contributing to natural history information of a magnificent nocturnal bird in the Neotropics

Latest articles at the WJO: Insect richness in the stomach of a Nacunda Nighthawk. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Could we use community/citizen/participatory science data to estimate population extinction risk? Our results comparing the estimates from eBird and from a standardized survey suggest we can!! #ornithology #ecology #conservation See our detailed tutorial oaccolombia.github.io/vpm_eBird/vp...

@oacevedocharry.bsky.social @carolinepoli.bsky.social @fletcherecology.bsky.social @betteloiselle.bsky.social @miguelacevedo.bsky.social @floridamuseum.bsky.social

@miguelacevedo.bsky.social, English as my second language must be the reason to don’t know how to say no!!! 🤭 Hehehe

Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!

Not great photos from my old phone, but here is @julisoto.bsky.social at #TheNat last night inspiring us all with her story of mystery, research, and intrepid women #nattalk #SanDiegoBirdAlliance

NEW PAPER: investigating uropygial gland microbiome in African hornbills. Microbiomes were similar among species but with slight differences by body region. Nest sharing influenced microbiota, suggesting that nest environment is key shaping them. ➡️ https://vist.ly/3mvuzd4

Apply by Sept 15, 2025 for this Fulbright Scholar Award 🇺🇸-🇨🇴 We house the world's largest and growing collection of Colombian birds, with rich field opportunities and an incredibly talented student community at ICN - National University of Colombia 🇨🇴🐦 @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology #AcademicSky

Planning a sabbatical or between postdocs? Join us at the National Bird Collection (ICN-UNAL) for 3-6 months through Fulbright 🇨🇴 We'd host researchers studying avian speciation / HZ, biogeography, phylogenomics, mountain diversification, Choco-Amazon, resurveys fulbrightscholars.org/award/all-di...

Welcome @carlybatist.bsky.social !! Looking forward for having your amazing work here!

A Perspective from Belitz et al. suggests that focusing conservation and management actions at the assemblage level has multiple benefits relatively to purely species-focused or ecosystem-focused actions. go.nature.com/40F5MNa

New paper! Out now in #Parasitology, open access: doi.org/10.1017/S003... Paper led by former MBio student Ellie Lebeau - congratulations Ellie! #ornithology #wildlifemalaria

Morphological changes in 5 migratory birds, based on specimen data #collectionsareessential #resurveys #globalchange #ecology #ornithology #museums #anthropocene royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds | doi.org/10.1111/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology

The bishop at President Trump’s inaugural prayer service implored him to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, as well as undocumented immigrants. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” asked Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

Well deserved recognition to @miguelacevedo.bsky.social by @ufcalsdean.bsky.social as the CALS Undergraduate Teacher of the Year!!! 🙇🏽‍♂️🙇🏽‍♂️ 👏🏼👏🏼

Reminder: Applications for 2025 AOS Student Research Grants of up to $4K are due by 1/31/25. Check out our website for requirements & information on how to apply! americanornithology.org/awards-grant... #ornithology #researchgrant

Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together? www.perspectecolconserv.com/en-are-threa...

I would like to thank @martin-nunez.bsky.social for providing this great opinion in the blog of one of the most importants #EcologyJournals @jappliedecology.bsky.social inspiration to think out of the box! appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/06/13/i...

Traditional knowledge is valued because people who have been living in these places so often have come to the same or better conclusions that someone who just got there and is trying to do science from scratch. What's racist is claiming that valuing it is just bc "wokeness."

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Amazing, AMAZING unexpected result from our surveys to study interaction networks in urban settings. So proud of y'all!

So, so happy and proud to share that our urban pollinator's team, lead by Rhayza Cortes, is working on the morphological measurements of not one... but EIGHT potential new species of bees for science, collected in La Paz city and surroundings. #Warmiciencia #WomenInSTEM #montanolab

Multiple Long‐Term, Landscape‐Scale Data Sets Reveal Intraspecific Spatial Variation in Temporal Trends for Bird Species | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

2. This story I wrote about how Great Gray Owls hunt through snow (and how researchers figured this out) was apparently the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine's most-read story of the year. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/to-catc...

🙏 Give this post the reach it deserves! @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers Tackle Together Five Interlinked Global Crises in Biodiversity, Water, Food, Health and Climate Change www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-...

Here you go, so pitted!

Academic Christmas

more evergreen than most Christmas trees

Thanks you so much @Wiley for this certificate❤️ I specially thank you for replacing the ñ, not for the classic n, but for the more interesting ± symbol. I see this ± as a deep recognition of the nature of the sometimes difficult job of accepting or rejecting articles Dr. Nu plus/minus ez

Join our faculty! We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word! careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet! Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics. #SICB2025