What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM! West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

sound up for a rainy waterfall

my partner has been waiting for CVS in MA to let him schedule his vaccine. their website kept saying they were waiting for the new version. now we are hearing CVS won’t carry the Covid vaccine in MA this fall. he has been waiting and checking the website daily for weeks…

OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution

Pretty sure I accidentally posted a pic of a katydid ballsack tonight so SORRY about that everybody I thought it was EGGS I didn’t think insects had fuckin ballz like that good lord.

New article out: The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology

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Bird sounds.

New publication! 🚨 If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦 We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types. @ucc.ie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

we learn about the food web early on in school, but it’s another thing to witness the spectacular growth of herbivores, all through the power of native plants! insects are declining, and one way we can help is by providing them with their native host plants. 🐛🌿💚

I know almost everyone hates their dissertation at the end, and I don’t hate mine, but wow is it hard to focus on writing this thing very few people will ever read or care about so I can earn my piece of paper while we freefall into fascism 🤦🏻‍♀️

caterpillars will never cease to amaze me. this is happening every day all around us. in the woods. in the parks. in your yard, especially if you have native plants!

Will habitat loss, insecticides and light pollution bring us another silent spring? Birds need insects. (By me, with photos by Melissa Groo.) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-shared-fate-180986805/ #birds #conservation #insects #animals

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

my results might by negative in not so exciting ways, but at least I can still make a nice color coded ggplot 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nothing abt this is quiet&people have been talking&posting& calling their electeds about it all week. It's been widely covered in the press, esp in the West. The Wilderness Society has an entire interactive built for people to see the lands affected in their area. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🧬Airborne eDNA 💰Costs of biological invasions 🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

for your consideration - another moth! this is a female Promethea moth who is getting released today. 🍃🐛🦋

bluecorridors.org is live! Watch whales doing their thing as they mooch and migrate throughout the year. It is an honour to be involved in processing the data for this amazing living initiative. Looking forward to expanding it further!

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

The June issue cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a shot from @dlnarango.bsky.social & Straley's study of the value of native vs near-native vs non-native plants for insect wildlife Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...

Oh and here's one with my handle on there if you're sharing as your own post instead of reposting one of my posts. (good looking out @danielb1609.bsky.social)

so much is stressful right now, and coping is really hard. I’m trying to find joy where I can, so look at this moth I raised I am obsessed.

This essay by a recently-fired Forest Service employee is worth a read. www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/...

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ok what’s your go-to website for looking up a plant to figure out if the plant in front of you is native or not? It cannot be an app for this purpose. This needs to be useful to people who are extremely fly-by. Website that lets you plop in a name and tells you where that plant is native to 🙏🏻

This is incredibly cool work, and a gorgeous cover! 🪺

a brief moment of serenity with the moths

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Last day to send comments for this. Please do it. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

they’re backkkkkkk

I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again

reason number 15 to keep your cat inside - your outdoor cat trotting through my yard is stressing the fuck out of my 3 indoor cats (including the 14 year old with cancer) to the point that they are taking it out on each other and fighting. we’ve chased this cat off 4 times this evening alone damnit.

Alarming to see populations celebrated as stable (waterfowl) now also declining. Last year I wrote about the most dire of all, grassland birds www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

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the thought that haunts me every time a new terrible memo or policy or cut or whatever gets announced, every time I learn about another decades-long effort to make other peoples’ lives worse - “It doesn’t have to be like this.” It doesn’t have to be like this.

I wake up in the morning and I am blasted by bird song and I love it so much. 🐦🎶 but I had a thought today about shifting baseline syndrome and I just have to wonder…how loud did dawn chorus used to be, exactly? 😱🔉

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Important thread

Life in emergent freshwater marshes. For my forthcoming book "PONDS: An Illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #marshes #freshwater #wetlands

there is something really comforting that even amid all of the human terribleness going on nature still follows its patterns. leaf out and spring migrants and peepers were giving me so much life today 💚 many foys including Wood Thrush, Gray Catbirds, Common Nighthawks, and many warblers!

New PhD position available on blackpoll warblers with fieldwork in the boreal forest and tropics. @audubon.org @birdscanada.bsky.social @vtecostudies.bsky.social

New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.

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I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”