What can researchers do if they suspect that their manuscripts have been peer reviewed using AI? go.nature.com/4pxUNyD

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

Some people are replying here with things already addressed in this thread and paper, so please click through bsky.app/profile/oliv...

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches #Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide doi.org/10.32942/X23...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out

How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior. Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF @trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social

This is a brilliant piece. youtu.be/EsxYrC_dwVk?...

Watching birds watch a total eclipse--this week on the @science.org podcast w/ @rosvall-lab.bsky.social Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...

This is an incredibly cool way to learn about behavior

The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses

Community science! Input from over TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE! From Mexico to Canada! In a natural experiment! “Bc a total solar eclipse occurs in the same location once every 3 or4 centuries, most free-living birds, like most ppl, have never seen day turn quickly to pm, only to return again mins later”🧪

This is a nice IU short on our eclipse project. #NSF youtube.com/shorts/PrQGn...

I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

So excited to finally share our work on how birds responded to the 2024 Great American Eclipse! Thanks to @rosvall-lab.bsky.social for inviting me on this journey! I never expected any of my research to show up in @science.org, let alone on the cover. Surreal. I hope you enjoy it!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

I know I needed to see this today. Maybe you did too

1 in 6 vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024. This is a shocking statistic. In this post, I give some of the details behind this statistic from a recent paper led by Cory Merow.

It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review. Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So honored to be honored by a society I value so much

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field. Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv #KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Join us August 20 at 12pm ET for "Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments," a @sfn.org webinar featuring Hans Hofmann and Kimberly Rosvall. Learn how organisms cope with change and what it reveals about plasticity. Register: bit.ly/3HeL1kv #KavliNeuro #NeuroSky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

Did ceratopsian (horned) & ankylosaur (armored) dinosaurs walk together? Newly discovered dinosaur tracksite in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta CA) suggests they did, similar to modern multi-species herds. News item includes comments by Yours Truly. 🧪🦖🐾 P.S. Quite a day for cool fossil finds!

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪 jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 National Science Foundation Letter of Dissent Against the Administration's Actions

Super excited about our first analyses on extra-pair paternity in tree swallows! New results coming soon.

This. 90% of my job is writing. It's basically almost all I do

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be. If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social #ABS2025

At ABS 2025, join us and @aibsbiology.bsky.social July 9 at 12:15 PM for a workshop on communicating science to non-technical audiences! We'll focus on influencing policy and public understanding—perfect for making your science matter beyond academia. Sign up here: fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/gdrr...

SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal. This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Good thing I put my senator on speed dial back in January. Already left angry voicemail.

Judge Young on NIH grant terminations cont.: "I have never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable, I have sat on this bench now for 40 years, and I've never seen government racial discrimination like this, and I confine my remarks to this record, to health care."

Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS! therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

Here is a link to a good CNN story including an interview with two of the NIH folks who wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration and stood up. More bravery facing the cameras. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8y...

The absurdity of “catching” a cavity nester

Writing one's promotion dossier is basically a lot of googling oneself. 🙃

🚨Our new paper ‘Nest building and circulating testosterone dynamics in male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata’ is out!🚨 With @simonemeddle.bsky.social and @cogwild.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3