Snow is falling down. May has passed by, becoming June. Good morning Arctic.

It has been an honour to work with the long-term data set from Kent Isl. After a survival paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2710), here is a mate-switching paper. Huge thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social on this one! A third one is under review. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Worth a read! 🧪 🌍 #MovementEcology

Fun to play a small part in this new work led by Tsevi Beatus and team: when the lights go off, honeybees simply stop flying and fall! (unlike flies and mosquitoes, which pull off smart maneuvers) Thanks to Richard Terrile in our lab for turning the lights off on bees, in the name of science 🐝🪰🦟

#ornithology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The snow buntings are back in full force in Nuuk, and this guy didn’t mind sharing the balcony during his dinner 🪶

How much do you trust AI for bird ID? I’ve run all three pictures through Merlin. Wilson’s snipe is the top hit. Common snipe comes up too. Merlin doesn’t give a probability for the matches… Is the ranking due to more training data available for Wilson’s vs commons or is it real? 🪶 #Ornithology

Still puzzled by this one 🪶 Can anyone help with the ID?

We’re looking for recommendations for an affordable camera to film slow motion of tadpole swimming. Doesn’t have to be crazy high tech or water proof, but decent frame rate and resolution to calculate velocity etc. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated 🙏🏼

A call to get chronobiology away from only selected model organisms in the lab. Investigating ecology and diverse solutions to biological timekeeping in the wild will progress the field 🧪

🚨 Bird alert 🪶 Snipe in Nuuk, but which one?! 1st impression was common, but the underwing and birdNET of call suggest Wilson’s, though both are lower quality. Shadows reduced on underwing pic. BirdNET confidence was 8.7% and 1.8% on 2 detections. FYI snipes are rare here; both species possible

Postdoc available in herbivores and vegetation mapping, focusing on reindeer and muskoxen. Collab between Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Cambridge Uni, and the Scott Polar Research Institute. More details, naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/... 🧪 🌍 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Full annual-cycle tracking elucidates migratory activity patterns and stopovers in nightingales 🪶 🧪 🌍 #Ornithology (3rd try to repost…)

Full annual-cycle tracking elucidates migratory activity patterns and stopovers in nightingales 🪶 🧪 🌍 #Ornithology

Job for experienced bird caretakers #Ornithology 🪶 🌍

You are what you eat eats.

Every wonder how deer, elk, and pronghorns use habitat across the annual cycle? This report should be a treasure trove of info for ungulates in the US. 🌍 🧪

Looking for a postdoc on bird migration and have computer science or remote sensing skill? 🌍 🧪 🦑 #Ornithology

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email [email protected] 📧

Bumping to #Ornithology 🪶 🌍

Have any of your biologging devices ever failed? ⁉️ If so, we’d like to hear from you! 👂 Researchers at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, are investigating biologger device failure rates to help improve research practices. 🎓 The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete: forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVB...

Wondering how diel activity rhythms change across latitude? Check out Tash’s new paper. TLDR, Kittiwakes, a seabird, are flexible and range from 24-h rhythms at low latitude and appear to free-run or be arrhythmic at high latitude 🧪🪶🌍🦑

Guesses of what kind of fish 🐟 this is?

tidyverse on the streets, base r in the sheets

True story.

New snow bunting research from our friends working in Iqaluit, Canada. Found that snow buntings breeding there have a broad longitudinal wintering range. Paywalled, so will have to wait until I’m in the office to read the entire article 🧪 🪶

Fun read about (pie)bald eagles Excerpt of book by, @bittelmethis.bsky.social Couldn’t get the tag to post above #RaptorResearch 🪶 slate.com/technology/2...

Dapper fellows. Arctic redpolls are the main passerine we have in Nuuk over the winter 🪶

Our paper on snow bunting activity and flight across the annual cycle spotlighted by J. Avian Biol. 🧪

Postdoc available in Arctic marine bioacoustics and soundscape ecology Greenland Institute of Natural Resources Deadline: 10 March 🌍🦑 naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/...

We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑 The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities. naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/...

Can confirm. The warmth is unseasonable here. Many of us are sorely missing snow for under our skis, and didn’t help that we had a misty rain today… www.information.dk/udland/2026/...

Bumping this to the science feed 🧪 Interesting science to ponder the interplay between seasonality and circadian rhythms.

Jenny writes great popular science pieces, plus the research is cool 🌍🧪

PhD lab still putting out papers on Nazca boobies in Galapagos 🧪🌍🪶 #Ornithology

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Someone brought penguins to Røst in northern Norway in the 1930s. The caretakers thought the idea was good and tried to set the birds up for success, but the penguins did not survive 🪶🌍 One was even killed by an old lady because she thought it was the devil. In the… 1/n www.nrk.no/nordland/sli...

The streets were full today in Nuuk. #Greenland had something to say 🇬🇱 Notice how the stream of folks stretches the length of the street in the left photo. Behind is just as packed for just as long. Nuuk is only ~20,000 people. This was a very large portion of the city.

A group of ravens is called a conspiracy And penguins = land dolphins (I heard this once so it must be true) 🪶 #Ornithology

How do birds sense the magnetic field to navigate? The research field is slowly coalescing around a quantum mechanics mechanism described in the thread below. #Ornithology 🪶

Happy solstice ❄️ In the Northern hemisphere we have our shortest day of the year. In Nuuk the sun came up at 11:21 and will go down at 15:27 (3:27pm). How much daylight do you have for the solstice?

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Last night the sky danced like I’ve never seen before. It was wild. 🔭

Greenland Science Week starting off with a strong discussion on the importance of science for Greenlandic society and how to harmonize international and national interests for the benefit of society. #GreenlandScienceWeek #SciPol

Seasonal vs opportunistic breeders, a seasonal morphological and endocrine comparative study of the gonadal cycle in birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | General and Comparative Endocrinology | #ornithology 🪶

Do songbirds align (migratory) flights to a specific part of their diel rhythm? In the snow bunting, nope, it’s flexible, but they keep a 24-h rhythm year round, even in Arctic summer. Includes a glossary of chronobiology terms relevant to ecology and migration 🪶 🧪 🌍 dx.doi.org/10.1002/jav....

Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Mammal Ecology 🧪🌍 #science

There are forces in #nature that are at work that we don't experience or aren't aware of, but that are essential parts of the lives and spectacular numbers of creatures. For example, this from Ranjiangshang Ran and colleagues @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...