Feeling lots of FOMO right now about missing all my ornithology peeps at #AOS2025. 3 of my current/former lab sent me this photo… miss them and hearing about their science so much!

Direct impact of research—in the field communication and hands-on demonstration of how virtual fence creates the heterogeneity that grassland birds need.

Today is the last regular day of fieldwork for my Kansas team. I miss them and wish I could be there! Plus, check out their crew y-shirts! Sparrows & music, what’s not to love?

We have become the caretakers of an AMAZING garden. Very wild right now due to a gap year in maintenance, but the daily discoveries make me very happy.

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

After a mass bird collision in Oct 2023, Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside took action, installing bird-friendly dots on nearly 2 football fields of glass. Collisions have dropped dramatically. Real change is possible. Learn more: bit.ly/stopbirdcoll... #StopBirdCollisions #BirdSafeStructures

Loving my new bike commute!

I feel so welcome and so happy to be at my new workplace!

I got to fly over the flint hills today including my 2 main study sites! What an amazing goodbye present!

Love my awesome students! Here Logan and AH fitting a Grasshopper Sparrow with a #Motus tag at one of our spectacular #NationalParks yesterday. Yay public land & science!

Packing up the lab the past few days… very bittersweet. Wish I could take these inscriptions high on the wall with me…

Our last Kansas gig … roving musicians at the symphony on the flint hills. What a glorious day!

I’m having trouble posting normal science-y content right now. Instead, I can offer this moment of calm. Take strength from where you can, everyone.

What's happening in LA? Here's what I see. scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-re...

Australia sends crews to help #Canada in its fight against wildfires Thank you #Australia 🍁😊 globalnews.ca/news/1123059...

Newsweek #Climate

I am in love with this place… Smokey Valley Ranch #TNC #Kansas

Dusk at the TNC’s Smokey Valley Ranch

This video highlights some of the things that I'm most looking forward to when I join folks at the AFAR and CAM at Western when I move in a few weeks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFp...

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Read my TEVALS this am. Amazing that students are upset about having to learn a bunch of birds when they enroll in Ornithology

Cedars for science! (Experimental manipulation of woody encroachment). Logan for scale! #tallgrass #prairie #grasshoppersparrow

Support the BBL Amand BBS! Sing up to attend the National Wildlife Federation's “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science” www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

The”lasts” continue… my last undergrad graduation at KSU

So thankful for the kind, smart, thoughtful, and hardworking people I work with! Here, post-doc Theo Michaels. Despite major surgery this spring, she has worked hard to be healthy enough to be out in the field this spring.

I feel sorry for all the people walking down my street that don’t realize that little fluffy gems are singing their hearts out above their heads: Blackburnian, Blackpoll, black & white, yellow warblers, American redstarts, Baltimore orioles… and many more.

What kind of twisted person would do this on a quiet gravel road in middle of a wildlife refuge? #Quivira #NWR

Sooooo much birdsong on my counts this am. Can you pick out these Tallgrass Prairie specialties? Henslow’s & Grasshopper Sparrows, Dickcissel, Eastern Meadowlark, Bobwhite…

this is crazy! If you ever have to convince someone that their vote matters, send them this story: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Is there anything more beautiful than dawn on the Tallgrass prairie in spring?

Black rail!!!!!!!

Work-life balance, folks! (Or as I like to say, work-life balance and swing!)

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Please do this, everyone!

For the past 10 yrs I have trained students and collected mark-recap data from non-breeding birds at #konza. Today we pulled up stakes… removed as much evidence this ever happened as possible. Bittersweet. Nature gave me this gift.

Delighted to be playing fiddle for a real barn dance—and what a barn! Upper story of the lovely restored Pioneer Bluffs in Chase Co. in the heart of the flint hills.

On stunning spring mornings like today, I can forget that things are not normal. #konza #birdbanding #ornithology

Still hoping for answers!!!

Looking for help from my climate-savvy friends! What climatic index would best reflect summer temperature anomalies from the central Canadian boreal & arctic? thanks in advance

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Each year, my ornithology students compete in a “big morning”; teams of 3-4 birding until 10:30 am. The winners get their names on a plaque and small prizes. My prize is seeing their joy, pride in their abilities, & newfound enthusiasm for birds!

Today was a good day. Thanks Canada 🇨🇦!

C’mon Canada! 🇨🇦 elbows up!

Polls don't vote. People do. Take nothing for granted in this historic election my friends. We need to stop MAGA MAPLE while ensuring there is a progressive presence in Canada's palrliament. Your vote matters. Here's my latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/take-nothi...

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

I felt moved/complelled to write my first poem. (Please be kind while I bare my soul!) And then I visualized the last stanza with data. Will this help me feel better?

Peace… for a few hours

So proud of @kayeshobbs.bsky.social who presented a great online seminar as part of #AOS student grantee series. Congratulations Kristen! #ornithology #manakins

Come on #canada! Get out and vote! Carney is the best defence we have against the USA and PP who parrots the oligarch south of the border. Worried that Carney support has been declining the past few days… vote like your life depends on it

Many people are aware that the Lesser Prairie-chicken is at risk of extinction (listed, un-listed, listed again). However, many fewer realize that the Greater P-Chicken is on the same path. Extirpated from most of range, flint hills were once a “stronghold”… no longer. 41% decrease from 2021-2024.