Hi! I’m Kā’eo Luke, The Waterbird Society’s new Communications Coordinator. I’m from Hawai’i, have a BFA in Animation, and I’ve directed two films. I’ve been a Research Associate and Media Tech. at Joshua Tree National Park and am currently a National Geographic + The Nature Conservancy extern. 🌎🤍

💅🏽 Think you’ve got what it takes to join Brussels's hottest comms team? We’re hiring a Communications Officer at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens’ organisations. 🧵👇

Reminder Postdoc job looking at aDNA of dogs at the NHM @nhm-london.bsky.social Deadline tomorrow 16th June jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

AMAZING—a condor flew into Oregon for the first time in 120 years! The critical conservation efforts I’ve supported are working to protect these amazing, endangered birds. I can’t wait to see more condors soar.

Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience! Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs. You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.

National Museums Northern Ireland are hiring a curator of vertebrates!! Details here - deadline soon!! ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Senior PIs when Postdocs discuss the job market

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas ⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026 🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybrid Come join our fantastic team! Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...

So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 REMINDER: IBIS SPECIAL ISSUE Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World If you use avian natural history collections in your research, then this Special Issue is for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.... ⏰ Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 #ornithology

Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)

"Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist" -1984 can't tell if the predatory journal spam is becoming self-aware or is just too stupid to catch the irony here

He’s back!!! We just captured male Bobolink LGB (light blue, green, blue) for the third year in a row here in Oswego. That means he’s been down to Paraguay and back at least three times- flying roughly 30,000 total miles! Simply an incredible feat for a bird that weighs as much as six nickels. 🤯

New DNA evidence shows dingoes are almost 90% pure – and fall into eight distinct groups 🧬 🐕 Write up based on our new research doi.org/10.1111/con4... in @consletters.bsky.social #popgen #consgen

Excited to have our new garden dormouse paper out! Small mammals are underrepresented in conservation research. Here we explore patterns of genetic erosion in garden dormice, considered the fastest-declining mammal in Europe, in its core German range #consgen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The US Forest Service National Genomics Center is hiring an eDNA lab technician! Come work with us on cool genetics projects in Missoula #ConsGen #eDNA

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

Desperate stuff. “In paleo-climate terms, New Orleans is gone; the question is how long it has” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can we reconstruct ancient pathogen genomes from animal remains? Can paleopathology help prioritize promising specimens? Our new paper demonstrates this by screening more than 300 specimens from across Eurasia over the past 6,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fantastic PhD opportunity linking cognition and conservation in an iconic corvid species! Get your applications in!

I have my theory--anyone else want to guess? Hint: we're in Central Europe, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a European species...

no greater interruption to manuscript revisions than someone asking you to ID a carnivore skull they found in the woods

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

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...

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden

For the bird 🧪 people: Viking Cruises is constantly looking for ornithologists to be paid to go on their cruises I've not sailed with them but know someone who has and enjoyed it www.vikingcareers.com/us/en/c/expe...

you guys have a gander at these cool blue mushrooms i saw 😊 werewere-kōkako (entoloma hochstetteri)

🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation

#wearehiring Wir suchen eine Vollzeitkraft (37,5 Stunden/Woche) für unsere Sammlung Lepidoptera in der Entomologischen Abteilung (m/w/d) Alle weiteren Informationen und Details zur Bewerbung finden Sie auf folgender Website: jobs.nhm.at/Wissenschaft... #nhmwien #wien #jobs #museum #wissenschaft

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

"Some right-wing Israeli lawmakers enthusiastically adopted the noose as a symbol of their support for the law, wearing golden noose-shaped pins on their lapels in the Knesset...Israeli lawmakers frequently invoked the American practice of capital punishment when justifying the legislation."

Preprint alert on the Scandinavian #wolf population and its conservation status. Populations are considered genetically safe if their genetically effective size exceeds 500. That's not a countable number, it reflects how fast the population loses heterozygosity and suffers from inbreeding. 1/ 🦊

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

Scotland: it’s absolutely spring now - the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the bulbs are flowering – enjoy the great outdoors 🌞 Also Scotland:

We’re pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Seabird Monitoring Programme report, in partnership with JNCC, in association with the RSPB. Click here to read the report: www.bto.org/our-work/sci... Read on for key findings ⬇️ #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

🐳🧬8 years in the making! 🐳🧬 Our new paper in Cell explores how bowhead whales responded to past climate change - and how commercial whaling reshaped their future. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #aDNA #PopGen

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Need to assess the future impact of changed survival or productivity on your UK #seabird population? Want to do PVA but don't have the resources? We have run 100000 PVAs for you and built a library of those impacts! New paper by Eve Merrall, @cathorswill.bsky.social + more doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Things are apocalyptic for science in the US. It might not seem that way to everyone because many academic scientists have tenure and get to keep their jobs (for now), and most grants last three years, so many scientists still have funding. But it's going to get way worse.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Genomic estimates of inbreeding with runs of homozygosity often outperform pedigree-based F, even from long-term datasets. They integrate occasional gene flow and are less sensitive to underlying pedigree assumptions. Congrats @marcofesta.bsky.social and co! #consgen

It's been highlighted in recent weeks but there is big concern following a huge wreck of seabirds (especially involving Puffins) along the Atlantic coasts as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

hey friends, trying to raise funds so my friend maha can pay rent and get medicine for baby hamoud—can you help out? sharing helps xo gofund.me/6aa13bbe7