Canada geese work hard on their badassrey but these nēnē are pretty badass without visible effort.

Our New Year’s gift to you: Proposals for the 2026 conference are now due on January 16! We can’t wait to read your proposals🥳

Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!

We experienced some amazing scenery in Aotearoa/New Zealand and there was so much more we could have seen.

Went to New Zealand on (our) winter break and it was an amazing trip. So many birds! Also, eels! Tuatara! Pohutukawa flowering!

✨UCF is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Technical Communication!✨ Teach upper-level undergrad & grad courses; oversee Writing for the Technical Professional. Happy to answer questions (email is best: [email protected])! More here: jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

We are delighted to announce the finalists in the 2025 Student Research Competition. Please join us at 8:00am on Sat Oct 25 in Room 124 in the Student Union Building to hear their presentations. Thanks to all of participants, our excellent judges, and everyone who attended the poster session.

What not to do when anonymizing interview transcripts...

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

Fall migration is well underway! Our first three painted buntings showed up in the yard yesterday, and the first two catbirds today. Hopefully they'll all be hanging out all winter!

Classic Orlando experience: was bit by a goose at Lake Eola en route to see a Shanghai-set production of LA Boheme at Opera Orlando.

Want to study the intersection of humanities and technology at a smaller scale than a PhD? T&T also offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate, Digital Humanities in the Age of AI. We'll be holding an information session Wednesday, November 5 at 6pm applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

Spooky Season is near 🩶🤍🖤 (poached from FB @zoodraws.bsky.social with associated info in AltText)

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I'm gonna need a good car wash after today!🪶

🚨TAKE ACTION🚨 In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered part of the Pulse memorial painted over. That’s why we’re calling on everyone in Orlando to show up for a peaceful gathering today at the Pulse Memorial at 6:00pm ET. #ShowYourRainbow🌈

Lads the HONK I just honked

Are you into 🐦 + 🔉? Or 🐦 + 🎶? Or just 🐦 + 👂? Next week's BtB Thursdays meetup is all about birds and sound. We'll share projects and inspiration and probably listen to a whole lot of chirps, cheeps + trills. binoculars-to-binomials.disco.co/p/btb-thursd... (img: Lou Sheppard) 🪶

Saw my 700th species of bird yesterday! Behold, my least terrible photo of an island scrub-jay.

#TBT to T&T faculty member @terpsinoe.bsky.social's 2021 article, "Story mapping and sea level rise: listening to global risks at street level." Take a look! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Welp, I did it, I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org on the proposed funding cuts to the Bird Banding Lab & Breeding Bird Survey and what they would mean for bird research & conservation in the U.S. Definitely a different sort of writing than I usually do. 🪶 therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird

you’ve been on my mind all night

Time for the night-blooming cereus at Mead Gardens! It blooms once a year. Each flower is about eight inches across, and the cactus is an epiphyte that climbs a long way.

I'll be doing this! Looking forward to some creative bird time this summer.

Lots of things blooming now at #LeuGardens in #Orlando! Here's a skipper working on some globe amaranth today. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

another pedantic comic by me about logic problems with the the fictional space wizards Wondermark #1194; It's the Dune Sea for Me

A petition to stop destruction of this critical wildlife refuge is here: chng.it/2YnNmW2vWR

Live the dream! Eagle-Duck cam. www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/web...

TLDR: the administration wants to remove habitat loss from the definition of "harm" for endangered species, which will effectively gut the ESA. I just commented. If you're in any way interested in ecology, nature, and the protection of endangered species, you should, too. Free daily action!

Another SpaceX project designed to obliterate a refuge for wildlife.

The apprentice is now the master.

Such a well-groomed bun.

Well, fuck.

We are delighted to be hosting a free online nature writing workshop led by the brilliant @electrarhodes.bsky.social ! Click below for more info and to register a place! goldengrenades.com/peewits-yaff...

There's a lot of crap going on right now. But if you'd like to take a break from it and chat about apps and birds, plants, herps (even mammals!), consider participating in my study. Link below!

I love the week or so in late winter here in #Orlando when the Tabebuia are blooming! Lots of trees around town right now dressed in such bright bold fervent yellow. So gorgeous. These pics are by Casa Feliz in @winterparkfla.bsky.social . With @terpsinoe.bsky.social

The marsh rabbits were out and about at twilight in Mead Gardens today.

Our very happy Carolina jessamine is blooming! It's been pretty consistent for us showing off the yellow flowers in the garden every late winter/early spring for many years now. And the vine sure isn't shy about growing over everything. With @terpsinoe.bsky.social 🌿

Are you a nature enthusiast who uses an app to help you identify species? I’m conducting a research study to understand how people use nature ID apps, what role apps play in observing, and what users like or dislike about apps. If you’re interested in participating, see terpsinoe.com/study

Call for submissions: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2... First deadline is Sat Feb 01. Not ready yet? Enter the second round, Wed Apr 30. Questions? Let me or @argella.bsky.social know!

I just used this to contact my reps, it was helpful!

SIGDOC Student Research Competition for 2025 is ready for your submissions: gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We are trying a two-stage process this year, with deadlines Feb 1 and Apr 30. See the CFP linked in the Qualtrics for details. Questions? Talk to me or @argella.bsky.social.

The ACM SIGDOC invites proposals for its 2025 in-person conference in Lubbock, Texas on October 24-25, 2025. We are excited to announce that SIGDOC will be co-located with the 2025 CPTSC conference. Proposals are due February 1!! sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2...

Begin 2025 as you mean to go on.