Hey @espn.com. Come on; you gotta get your audio straight. We can hear the Atlanta Dream crowd and announcer louder than Ryan Rucco and Rebecca Lobo. @wnba.com

Hope back to school season is treating you all well! I had an energizing week back in the classroom. I always have students respond to a fun poll to take attendance in my larger classes and yesterday I did one where students could use their creativity. 1/n 🧪

Badger on a skateboard: SCIENCE POWER!

Turns out prairie dogs are even MORE important than we previously realized for supporting healthy grassland communities. All it took was an RC taxidermied badger to find out. (Read the thread to see a picture of said wonder).

The only being more scared of the badgerinator than the Long-Billed Curlews… was me. Read this paper so Andrew’s endless hours driving this demon chimera through the hole-filled prairie are appreciated!

Awesome - Dachsbot! Reminds me of an old paper I did a hidden markov model for - data were collected using a a "Fembot" remote controlled sage grouse. Here's video of it - watch to end for grouse-eye-view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3RY...

Curlews eavesdrop on prairie dog alarm calls to avoid danger. Prairie dogs = "keystone information producers" 💚 This thread explains the study outcomes, and the photo of the "badgerinator" used as a predator proxy is just the icing on the cake. 🧪🌏 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Curlews, prairie dog alarms, and the Badgerinator. Ethology can be fun AND super-informative! (from this new paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFifmjMA3tq)

Do you ever look at someone else’s job and think about all the bad choices you’ve made and how it might have been

Yes its a taxidermied badger on a skateboard. Incredible.

*Excitable Jonathan Pearce voice* "Uh-oh, here comes the Badgerinator!"

“Like climate change denialism, invasive species denialism is toxic” and “does a disservice to conservation.” PREACH 🙌💯 #iccb2025

Watching John Woinarksi rip apart “science” denying the role of cats/foxes in Oz mammal extinction is *chef’s kiss* perfection. #iccb2025

A powerful, persuasive, emotional & evidence-based rebuttal to Wallach & Lundgren’s claims, from Professor John Woinarski. My own view, it’s essential for science to challenge dogma, but if this is not done in a robust way, using weight of evidence, it is reckless & potentially harmful. #ICCB2025

Amazing: "Biologists estimate Wisdom has flown roughly 3.7 million miles in her lifetime—which is a greater distance than flying to the moon and back seven times"

Happy World Albatross Day!! Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!? After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life. 1/2 #ICCB2025 🧪

A snared Sri Lankan leopard was rescued, treated and translocated. Upon release he rapidly and directly moved back towards the location where he was snared, a journey that included swimming across ~1km of open water 🐆 Read the Practice Insights article👇 🌎🧪

Bloop.

Juan Bueno-Pardo showing that cnidarians and seabirds benefit most from nature-based solutions. Paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ICCB2025

This is so cool! @britishecologicalsociety.org - goals :)

A new sustainability standard has been set for conference lanyards! This #ICCB2025 one is compostable & plantable! Native seeds r embedded into the name tag so local delegates encouraged to plant it for habitat. How good?! As paying delegates, we can and should ask for sustainability like this 😎💃

Very much enjoyed this talk, focused on how working lands need to be better incorporated into conservation planning. #ICCB2025

Today is the day to come talk seabirds with me #ICCB2025! Especially if you’re a grad student studying seabirds in need of a low-risk chapter that you don’t have to scale island cliffs to pull off. Or even if you’re not a student and just want to wax lyrical about seabirds together.

Ahhh I love a talk that isn’t a complete downer, and let’s face it, in Conservation Biology, there’s a lot of downers. Nowadays when I go to talks about seabirds, many of them detail all the plastics they’re ingesting and the negative impacts of plastic pollution. #ICCB2025 🧪

Lauren Ohayon is reminding us that with progress like air taxis comes important considerations for conservation planning. Plans need to go from 2D to 3D - we gotta have vertical conservation planning so when these launch, they don’t negatively impact wildlife. #ICCB2025 🧪

do you ever walk in wearing it around your neck because that would be hilarious to the people who got it #unsolicitedadvice

of *course* I knew; I was educated, ie. watched a lot of Monty Python ;) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatro...

Have you ever wondered just how big an albatross is? Wonder no more; meet Jessica Alba, the life-sized albatross! This beauty is for outreach and hauled around by my buddy who works for @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social in the Pacific. Albatross mate for life, do courtship dances and are majestic! 🧪

I'm really excited to be in Brissy for #ICCB2025! Come see me Tuesday during the poster session (Poster 61), where I'll detail some questions that can be asked with the recently published Seabird Restoration Database! Could be a great PhD chapter for a PhD student. 🧪 www.seabirddatabase.org

New paper!! Really fun an innovative study. Thank you Dr. Andrew Dreelin and @andyjboyce.bsky.social for the opportunity to join the crew and be a part of this project. Very excited to see it out!

Dr. Andrew Dreelin talked about our research on grassland birds eavesdropping on Prairie-dogs on @npr.org Science Friday!! #ornithology www.sciencefriday.com/segments/din... study by Andrew, @dochpjones.bsky.social and I: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

hilarious contraption. Cool new paper on inter-species mutualism. Kropotkin would love this. Also love for there to be more scientific support of prairie dogs towns.

sk8r badger... has anyone ever gone this hard

It's taken until June, but at last we have a strong 2025 contender for "silliest photo taken as part of a serious bio study."

So excited to share this paper, lead-authored by newly-minted Dr. Andrew Dreelin from my lab and @andyjboyce.bsky.social's with you all! 🧪 There's this paradox about prairie dog towns - many birds seem to love them, but they attract a lot of predators. 1/n authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFifmjMA3tq

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

22-year-old Māori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was just suspended for 7 days over the haka she initiated in New Zealand’s Parliament last year. “The rules of Parliament don't really see or fit Māori people,” she told @teenvogue.com, in the profile we ran just last week.

Reminds me of a paper from my group in grad school that acknowledged the support of "M. Fleetwood" in the performance of the experiment.

So sorry, pick another title, your current title has the word dirty in the title and will be banned for salacious content!

@taylorswift.com.br 👀

Well, sorry to all the scientists out there, but best manuscript title is now taken: Synergy, complexity, and the dirty, dirty, cheats of the world. Congratulations to @jahkoop.bsky.social and #NeilBlackstoneDon'tSky. I really hope Taylor sees this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪

The world may be a dumpster fire but my office remains incredible.

One of my favs today. This is not fine. 🔥 #50501

Credit to the woman who organized this event, she kept people off the pedestrian bridge. She said she promised the Sheriff, and she kept her word. She also said, If Jesus were alive, I think he would be here with us protesting. 🫶

2,000+ strong in South Elgin, IL today. Thank you, everyone! @wecanleadchange.bsky.social

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We had a showing of Plastic People in Dekalb Il at the Egyptian Theatre tonight. Over 150 from the university and community learned so much about microplastics and the research we are doing at Northern Illinois University. This is a must see for everybody!

"Research shows what I’ve noticed throughout my career: women leaders are collaborative, inspiring, effective, and foster positive working environments." @dochpjones.bsky.social writes a blog post for #IWD2025 🤝 See here👇 buff.ly/LQmcouU

Peer-reviewed research suggests that trans and gender non-conforming children who have at least one accepting parent are as much as 39% less likely to attempt suicide This bill (thankfully) didn’t pass but the fact they were trying to remove trans kids from homes if parents accepted them? ghoulish

I’m not one to ask for funds on here but a family dear to us has had their transitioning child’s healthcare pulled bc of recent EOs and now need funds to cover their surgery out of pocket. If you can support them, they are very close to their goal. TIA! www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...