New @adriftlab.bsky.social paper in Conservation Biology: we estimate 629,000+ seabirds died during Australia's 2023/24 marine heatwave. Fewer than 5,000 were counted on beaches, less than 1% of total mortality conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 📸: SIlke Stuckenbrock

Happy Earth Day.

Someone better check the bsky server rooms in case the fire suppression system is sprinkler-based.

Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia 'strategically aligned' in keeping Straits of Malacca open: Vivian Balakrishnan - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/straits-malacca-open-indonesia-malaysia-vivian-balakrishnan-6073151

Why let the Iranians have all the fun?

New paper alert 🚨 A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊 Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉 bsky.app/profile/offi... OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Birders, unless you are doing a point count there's not a lot of point in submitting butterfly records in BirdTrack. The location data are rarely precise enough to be of value. For butterfly records, can you please use iRecord, or iRecord butterflies. With at least Tetrad (e.g TL1234) resolution

Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)

eBird reviewers, on the other hand...

New paper on the pattern, process and implications of trans-Atlantic vagrancy for ecology and evolutionary biology, written with @pauldufour80.bsky.social and Andrew Farnsworth read free at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S... #Ornithology #Ecology #UKBirding 🪶🦋🌱🌎🌍🧪

Paper 19 is out: Conrad Schittko et al conducted a synthesis across a number of publicly available ALAN datasets that investigated effects of light intensity on ecological responses. The work highlights how many responses to ALAN occur at low (sub-lux) doses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

A collage of my bird illustrations from my book "A Field Guide to Cape Cod," Yale Univ. Press, a.co/d/gnK4EtZ 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #songbirds #birdart #CapeCod

Wrote a fun little thing on gene tree discordance: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Pangolins possess a spectacular, dense network of diploic veins for brain drainage! In our latest study, we show that this pattern may also provide rare morphological evidence linking pangolins and carnivorans in the Ferae clade. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Migration speed, timing, and long-term shifts in age structure in North American passerines during fall migration vist.ly/4y22b #AvianConservation #Migration #Demography

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that #tropical #forest birds are moving higher up the mountain due to #climate change: buff.ly/5DQBiZN

If biocide usage and non-native plants mean that your garden is bereft of colourful Lepidoptera then capitalism has your back @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - seen at a garden centre today #ExtremeCivilisation

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Blood parasites in Eleonora’s Falcon revisited: new insights from the eastern Mediterranean support transmission outside the breeding niche Open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Resource abundance can buffer trophic mismatch in a caterpillar-passerine food-chain doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

Brilliant article, but not a *single* mention of GEORGE TAKEI or JONATHAN PRYCE?!

One of the best decisions ever made by the biodiversity community in Singapore was to have their annual showcase/roadshow at shopping malls, which are still heavily frequented by the public in Singapore. People don't read, but impact is more likely when you take science to where the masses are

Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...

Finally bit the bullet and re-created my eBird account after it was somehow set to perma-private mode yrs ago, but of course the data migration is a HUGE pain. For one, the eBird data download table doesn't match the import format, so I need 3rd party software (Scythebill!) to reformat everything

The conflict in Iran has severely disrupted conservation efforts for the Critically Endangered Asiatic Cheetah, raising fresh concerns for the survival of the world's rarest big cat:

Malaysia joins growing number of Southeast Asian countries seeking to secure Russian oil - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-petronas-russia-oil-southeast-asia-6066221

My initially thought this was an insect when I first heard it, then I saw this large-ish brown bird crashing through the reeds and realised it was a Savi's Warbler! Incredible breath control!

Was taking a video to remark on the surprising similarity between Blackcap and Oriental Magpie Robin songs, when a Great Bittern started booming!

Our new preprint On a global scale, plants did not experience a catastrophic mass extinction during the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). However, they still suffered losses, with extinction rates reaching around 30%. doi.org/10.64898/202...

"Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. FOUR, shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceeds't to three. FIVE is RIGHT OUT!".

@phylieu.bsky.social and I have another paper in our informal series, “we worry about diversification rates.” This time, how to get unbiased estimators of speciation & extinction, even when looking at small clades as part of MiSSE, CLaDS, etc. models. Overview: brianomeara.info/posts/biasco...

Microsoft Finally Ups FAT32 Size Limit

I love how East German dishes can have fancy names like Römerbraten, and inevitably end up being some variation of cooked ham.

Two marsupials thought to be extinct for millennia have been rediscovered in Indonesian Papua. Researchers documented the pygmy long-fingered possum and the "Tous" glider. The find was made possible through deep collaboration with Indigenous elders. @john-cannon.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

just finished this a few hours ago. a fun little book that has me thinking quite a bit about making a us history tour of some part of the country a regular part of my life each year.

Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

China tells travellers to use caution after 'malicious' US border checks - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-us-border-checks-malicious-travellers-caution-6060586

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

Out now in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: a study in which we assessed whether mercury levels vary among feather types within individual terns, how feather mercury levels relate to those in blood, and whether all levels vary with sex and age in a similar way: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations. New paper led by Jana Nickel out in GBE @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Origem, evolução e declínio dos manguezais europeus: o registro paleobotânico do Cenozóico www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indonesia police arrest six for Komodo dragon smuggling - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indonesia-komodo-dragon-smuggling-arrest-6058161

Singapore dive operators gear up for return of diving at Sisters’ Islands - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/sisters-islands-marine-park-scuba-diving-reopening-6058056

Forests that regrow on farmland are resilient and regain much of their lost biodiversity and species richness in 30 years — a finding with implications for conservation go.nature.com/3O6gR6t

New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy Migratory and breeding behaviour of Water Rails in east-central Scotland revealed by geolocators. Tagging of British-breeding Water Rails in the Tay Reedbeds showed some are resident and others are partial migrants. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/0006...

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer