Nice paper out from the lab! With genomics in breeding programs of Red Siskins, they were able to ground-truth genomic estimates of kinship and determine that there were no introgressed canary genes from cross-breeding of pets. So the captive populations are "clean" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Register if interested!

Great paper by @marcuschua.bsky.social out this month! In recent years, African Swine Fever has devastated wild pig populations in Southeast Asia. He found that the loss of pigs in Singapore appears to have resulted in a fivefold increase in greater mouse-deer populations. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Excited to give an online seminar with @amornith.bsky.social on Feb 2! I’ll be sharing new results from my dissertation work in Borneo. Interested in forest fragmentation, passive acoustics, landscape genetics, or just cool bird pics? Register: americanornithology-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Goodbye 2025! Absolutely the most eventful year of my life, so far. I got married, honeymooned in Peru, finished my final field season in Borneo, and advanced to PhD candidacy. Looking forward to a more ordinary 2026

📖Published📖 Plewnia et al. designed a comprehensive workflow allowing rapid community metabarcoding with minimum, self-manufacturable equipment in the field 🧬 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

A call to arms for eBirders and iNaturalists. 🚨 We want your bird photos! If you photograph feeding birds with flowers, fruit, seeds or prey, upload the image with locality details. We are data-harvesting species, size and type of food/prey to study foodwebs and species interactions. Thanks! 🧪🌐🪶

As I'm going through journal guidelines for a paper, I keep seeing suggestions that non-native English speakers pay $$$ for editing services, and thought it was a good time to remind anyone that needs it that @AnimalesEnEspanol.bsky.social will do this for free, just send us a message!

Harsher Amazonian dry seasons caused by climate change are linked to declining bird survival in 'pristine' Amazonia. Happy that NBC Conservation Awards Programme modestly financed some of the very early stages of this work. doi.org/10.1126/scia... #ornithology

EBIRD WRAPPED IS OUT #Ornithology #birding

A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology

Hooded merganser, first bird of the year!

Great paper by HC Lim, @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social et al. on color evolution in a manakin hybrid zone. Among many results, two hybridization events among three species allowed yellow collars to be moved from species to species (to species)! Evolution is messy science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn8339

As a current Oakton resident I can confirm.

When you see that mega-rarity

In the early stages of planning another field season in Borneo and it really had me missing the birds. This is a Blue-headed Pitta from my last time there. It’s my absolute favorite bird. How could a bird possibly be so round and colorful??

FANTASTIC PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION for Ecologist/Statistician (Interdisciplinary) focused on conservation at Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute (Front Royal, VA)! www.usajobs.gov/job/819535900. Come be my colleague! Please repost/ send to qualified candidates.

Months of work in the lab and ~60 samples all resulting in less than a drop of liquid. Ridiculous. Cant wait to get our sequences for Bornean Birds!

Hi folks! I thought I should do an intro post with the growing community on here I’m a PhD student at George Mason University studying mechanisms for avian responses to forest degradation in #Borneo. I love #birding, #ornithology, #genetics, #rstats, and collaborating, get in touch! 🌎

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Check out our latest OA paper on wolf population genetics and effective population size! @lperezsorribes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation

Hello world! We have created a starter pack to showcase the work of early career researchers in complex systems. The list is still under development! If you feel like you might fit in this category, let us know in the comments and we will add you :) go.bsky.app/95gzSqM

Fall bird banding doesn’t get much better than this. Thanks to Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute for letting us host a GMU wildlife society bird banding demo! #ornithology

Thanks to the @ababirds.bsky.social podcast for featuring my research! It is a great show, and I highly recommend everyone listen to it. I figured now was a good time to highlight my passion project on the unstudied mystery of why land birds get lost over the ocean doi.org/10.1186/s404...