Good on the journal/reviewers for publishing negative results! I also like how the discussion mentions a difference in nest-building based on lighting conditions, keeping the nest out of direct light.

The funny part is back in 1910 they probably thought the hyrax was similar to these other animals. But they're actually more related to manatees and elephants than they are to other rodents! youtu.be/ASOyzh27VbY?...

Wanna better understand what society has gained from research? This website crowd-sources societal benefits that stem from US government-funded research publicusaresearchbenefits.com

Does anyone have a good alternative for the "chicken and egg" problem? We know the egg came first, dinosaurs and amniotes were laying eggs millions of years before good ol' Gallus gallus came along. We need a better way to phrase "which came first".

Shrikes are pretty awesome birds youtu.be/D-KVv4n9wZM?...

🦅 Birds in flight London, Gay & Hancock Limited, 1922. [Source]

I can see how people spend decades studying Emily Dickinson. "Repose to typify" is incredible. It sounds linguistically soothing to say.

Good to know that AI image generation hasn't (yet) conquered my "draw a vertebrate phylogeny" assignment.

youtu.be/_BrFKp-U8GI?... @3blue1brown.com always makes great videos, but this one is a masterpiece. From beautiful animations to going through the step by step creative process rooted in art or rooted in mathematics. Trial and error, labelling and symmetry. Bravo

🦤 A monograph of the genus Casuarius London: Zoological Society of London, 1900 [Source]

Love this part from the conclusion "broad auditory tuning may allow for greater awareness of diverse sound sources in their environments." There's a good chance that enriched, diverse environments lead to better auditory processing and sensitivity.

Excited to share our review of HCN channels in the auditory system! This is a great summary of my PhD work at Northwestern, and I'm really proud of how much we've improved it over the past year. 1 /🧵 🧪 journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

I'm always a fan of avian research using a variety of bird species. Also there's something hilarious about a hornbill looking at different configurations of string, and scientists waiting with bated breath to record reaction time.

youtube.com/shorts/v-JNF... Incredible, not just a "how did dinosaurs go from teeth to beaks" but also how young and old animals had completely different diets.

Today's xkcd xkcd.com/3101/ is a perfect pairing with xkcd.com/927/

Sign on to support the NIH staff in their demand to restore funding and infrastructure for life-saving research!

I might just replace Reddit, this has all the content I need.

We saw a mockingbird this morning putting on a show. My guess is it's a northern mockingbird, but good luck finding it before the end of the video. #birds

"In the example earlier of that 11,000 square kilometer salp swarm, every day saw a removal of atmospheric carbon equal to taking 7,500 cars off the road." That's incredible. So many climate change treatment strategies can be "let nature do it's thing". youtu.be/-cD7n6fjyPw?...

Happy Birthday Johannes Brahms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOsb...

I've noticed that Youtube ads are being placed at inconvenient or downright annoying times during videos. One instance: "But there has been a long-time beef between badgers and cattle farmers, at least in the UK. And it’s not because they eat the cows, because, *ADVERTISEMENT*"

It's been a long week (month? year? 78,000 hours since the death of Harambe and we entered the bad timeline?). So have some cool bird facts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Qz... (Credit to www.youtube.com/@HGModernism)

Or link your YouTube account and see what percent of your watch history overlaps with other Bluesky users. (Maybe favorites, gotta have some curation)

This is bad, and it's going to get worse for science and academia worldwide. Stand up. Fight back. Support education at all levels. www.science.org/content/arti...

I wonder what I'm talking about here... This was part of the Music on the Brain collaboration between Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. With host Amanda Humes and pianist Bill Buchman, I had a blast talking about Jazz, Birds, and the Brain!

A crazy double feature of Youtube videos: 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1... light travels all possible paths, but travels on the path of least action. 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_e... Your senses and cognition pre-prepare multiple actions which are selected based on environmental cues.

www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/ sad state!!

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If I had a nickel for every landmark avian research paper in 2025, I'd already have four nickels, and it's February.

Pretty awesome that there might be anl new objective measure of effortful listening www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Original article www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qZj... What a masterclass of a video essay. It's funny how now the video essays under 20 minutes long are often the better crafted ones.

New Year's Resolutions: 1. Fix everything 2. Stop making unrealistic goals

I wonder if the Achilles Tendon being a big deal for homo sapiens was a casual factor in creating the whole Achilles myth. Pro: dominate all bipedal apes, Con: tender ankles. (The timing is perhaps 100,000+ years late, but linking myth to biology sounds awesome)

Mice do not dream of a white Christmas.

Such a simple experiment with such profound implications!

I was trying to find a Youtube video for speech in noise and auditory stream segregation (totally normal behavior), and there were almost no examples? shorturl.at/B1TMH and shorturl.at/RIThb were OK I guess, but I want full sentences. Googling "Ready tiger go to red 5 now" doesn't help either.

An excellent thread on development, especially the precocious/altricial spectrum. It's such a good framework for which we already have a lot of results for birds www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Holy cow we found recency bias in bumblebees. This reminds me of how sex deprived flies drank more alcohol. Admittedly, many things remind me of the alcoholic fly paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...