Joe Manthey
@jdmanthey.bsky.social
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Birds, ants, genomics, photography (all photos posted my own unless stated)
And a nice picture of the kingfisher 🪶
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A Belted Kingfisher telling me what it thinks about me hiking near its fishing spot 🪶
2 days ago
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Saw a bunch of eagles this morning, including this one landing on a frozen lake in Kansas 🪶
4 days ago
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An acrobatic Northern Cardinal 🪶
7 days ago
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Northern Shoveler on West Texas ice 🪶
13 days ago
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A very fabulous looking Great Blue Heron, with a snowy backdrop 🪶
15 days ago
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Lincoln's Sparrow in the snow 🪶
16 days ago
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What is takes to be a snipe during a snowstorm 🪶
17 days ago
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Hermit Thrush during this afternoon's snow in West Texas 🪶
17 days ago
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House finch floofed up in the snow. You can see a few snow flakes streaking by in the photo. 🪶
18 days ago
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Robins in West Texas snow 🪶
18 days ago
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Not a common winter visitor here, a January American Redstart 🪶
19 days ago
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A hybrid or admixed red-shafted x yellow shafted Northern Flicker 🪶
20 days ago
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This Great Blue Heron was fishing and didn't mind me so I waited to get a nice headshot. 🪶
24 days ago
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Northern Shoveler in flight 🪶
27 days ago
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Great Blue Heron keeping an eye on me while fishing 🪶
29 days ago
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Two different angles of a Great Blue Heron in a spillway🪶
about 1 month ago
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Red-Winged Blackbird in the typical pose 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Two Greater Yellowlegs in shallow water. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Green-Winged Teal walking in the mud. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Saw a Williamson's Sapsucker today, rare here in Lubbock, TX. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Look at the feet of this American Coot walking on the side of the playa lake 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Red-Breasted Nuthatches in classic upside down poses. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Meadowlark marching through the short, dry grass 🪶
about 1 month ago
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Two Pied-Billed Grebes in conversation. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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A Red-Eared Slider performing a balancing act
#wildlife
#photography
about 1 month ago
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West Texas Brown Creeper 🪶
about 1 month ago
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A couple Black-Crested Titmice in early January. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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First bird photographed of 2026: A White-Crowned Sparrow on a windy day in Lubbock 🪶
about 1 month ago
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A Hooded Merganser showing off its crest. 🪶
about 1 month ago
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A good day when you can get a decent photo of a Brown Creeper
#birds
#photography
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about 1 month ago
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A long-necked Dark-Eyed Junco in Lubbock, TX
#birds
#photography
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about 1 month ago
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This Ruby-Crowned Kinglet took a moment to look at me in between hopping around looking for food. Taken in West Texas.
#birds
#photography
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about 1 month ago
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Yellow-headed Blackbird staring back at me
#birds
#photography
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about 2 months ago
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Christmas Eve kingfisher seen today in Lubbock, Texas 🪶
#birds
#photography
about 2 months ago
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Joe Manthey
Cell Press
3 months ago
"Rediscovery of the greater chestnut #weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation"
spkl.io/63326Ad07u
#weevil
@Michael A. Charles & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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Lukas Musher
2 months ago
I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I believe I carved a decent Brown Creeper pumpkin. 🪶
4 months ago
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Jessie Williamson
4 months ago
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
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Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Article:
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
Highlight:
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175
w/
@bourgeoisyann.bsky.social
,
@lcampillo.bsky.social
, and others not on bsky
4 months ago
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Joe Manthey
Genome Biology and Evolution
4 months ago
The October cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of
@jdmanthey.bsky.social
et al., who evaluated changes in genetic diversity of Ethiopian birds using genome data from contemporary and historical samples. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
#genome
#evolution
#birds
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Kameron Hurley
5 months ago
Gettin' wild
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
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Strange Bird Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is the First Known Hybrid Between a Blue Jay and a Green Jay
The ranges of the two parent bird species have expanded due to climate change and now overlap around San Antonio, researchers say
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-bird-spotted-in-a-texas-backyard-is-the-first-known-hybrid-between-a-blue-jay-and-a-green-jay-180987383/
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Kelly Zamudio
5 months ago
Hahaha...
#botanists
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Bird species #134 photographed of 2025: Ruby-throated Hummingbird in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶
5 months ago
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Bird species #133 photographed of 2025: House Sparrow in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶
5 months ago
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Bird species #132 photographed of 2025: Rock Pigeon in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶
6 months ago
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Bird species #131 photographed of 2025: European Starling in St. Louis, Missouri 🪶
6 months ago
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Yann Bourgeois
6 months ago
The latest paper on Ethiopian birds, led by
@jdmanthey.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Temporal genomics reveal a century of genomic diversity shifts across a biodiversity hotspot avian assemblage
Abstract. Biodiversity has experienced tremendous shifts in community, species, and genetic diversity during the Anthropocene. Understanding temporal diver
https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
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Bird species #130 photographed of 2025: Purple Martin in Lubbock, Texas 🪶
6 months ago
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Bird species #129 photographed of 2025: Common Myna in Florida Keys 🪶
6 months ago
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