🧪🪶🌍🕊 25 Critically Endangered Birds All of these species are on the brink of extinction. A poster to raise awareness and inspire action. Every effort counts. ✨

Our new paper is out! @camillasoravia.bsky.social leads this research, which looks into the relationship between heat- mediated cognitive impairment and the antipredator response in wild pied babblers. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology? I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social! research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

#SICB job share- an opening for Assistant #Professor of #Vertebrate #Physiology towson.taleo.net/careersectio... Email Dr. Vonnie Shields [email protected] with any questions #biology #physiology #anatomy #research #PhD

Application deadline approaching.

Wear bright clothing.

RIP Jane Goodall. She was such an inspiration & role model. May her memory be a blessing 🧪👩‍🔬 #HPS

Excited about a new preprint from PhD candidate Megan Heft, showing that nestling provisioning rates in male tree swallows are not limited by the male's risk of overheating (in contrast with previous studies of females) 🧪 #ornithology #science www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I read close to 50 papers in order to give an evidence-based, accurate response to Monday's press conference. There's a lot to unpack here. I hope you find this informative. Cc: @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. They’ll only do this once in their entire lives.

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

This is definitely one of those papers that goes in the, 'hm, I never really thought of it that way' category. I love these 'simple' but somehow mind shifting papers. And it's probably more relevant to my own niches than I had previously considered. Cool!

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right! tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr... Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community! DM me for questions!

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

New post at ecolightsforseabirds website! Pufflings navigating the lit night About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin... #ornithology #seabirds

Thanks @airamrodriguez.bsky.social for featuring our study on ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/new-pub...! Storm-petrels avoid light after stranding - and we can develop post-stranding mortality mitigation strategies that take advantage of this. Ta-da... Hide boxes! @garyburness.bsky.social

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

I think breweries (& bars) with large car parking lots are such a scary symptom of forced car dependency. In cities, esp, residents should have the option (& ideally be incentivized) to take a mode of travel that doesn’t involve driving a car home after drinking.

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽 New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team @diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm in Ottawa. Very sorry for all citizens who bike in this city. It could be beautiful, there's space, but I have seen several death traps where the bike lane just ends and you have to merge into traffic. Oh, they added a green bike drawing or a yellow sign that says "share the road", ok thanks!

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for students to join your lab as a PhD student? I made a Starter Pack to help PIs and potential PhD students connect! If you would like to be added to this pack, please let me know! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Some US members of congress wrote the Canadian ambassador on July 7, 2025 with respect to fire management and the resulting smoke from Canadian forest fires. The reality is that the increase in fires & smoke is largely due to human-caused climate change, and we will see more fire in the future.

Plenty of time to apply for this #postdoc in my group :) #genetics #microbiome #ecophysiology #evolution #avian #ECR

One reason I think it’s important to continue to highlight the disparity on our streets is that most people just don’t see it. Despite it being obvious to some, so many people don't have clarity because we have done such an incredible job of normalizing this imbalance.

@canjzoology.bsky.social is seeking #ECRs to join its editorial board as Associate Editors! Gain hands-on experience with #peerreview, contribute to journal development, and connect with leaders in the field. Apply by Aug 15 ▶️ buff.ly/hpVApYd #AcademicSky #SciComm 🧪 #AcWri #PHDSky #ScholComms

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

ChatGPT offered to make an image for me of how the cerebellum interacts with other brain predictive processing pathways and this amazingly confused diagram was the result--mislabeling almost every brain structure & even inventing new ones. 😱 Let's hope our future doctors aren't using LLMs to study!

Sharks just proved the 2/3 scaling law. 🦈📏 Using 3D modelling of 54 species, we found sharks follow the expected surface area-to-volume relationship almost perfectly — validating a key physiological theory. 📄 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 📸 Rachel Moore 📍 @jcuofficial.bsky.social #SharkScience #shark

JOB ALERT: @cdnsciencepub.com is hiring a Research Integrity Specialist, responsible for overseeing ethics cases and bringing awareness to publication ethics & scientific integrity. A critical job in science right now. Apply here: cdnsciencepub.com/pb-assets/re...

Doing our part for AI training.

Putting this out here, but I’m available for peer-review request, guest lectures, article writing & collaborations. My expertise is in animal behaviour & physiology with a focus in North America bats. I also have experience with wildlife diseases and veterinary medicine! 🦇🧪🌎🪶🐞🦅

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

This is a really fun question to throw at your colleagues when you’re a biologist

There is still time to apply for this post. DL extended until 15 June. Read more and apply 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #HotLife

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Excited to share our new paper led by Fred Tremblay @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social ”Dealing with heat stress: Assessing heat stress in an Arctic breeding seabird using 3D-printed thermal models” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social #seabirdsaturday

Okay, so I'm going to be writing a lightly reported piece for @therevelator.org about this. Ornithologist friends, I'll probably be hitting some of you up for comments about how important the BBL and BBS are.

Excited to share that our work previously shared as a preprint is now out today in it's final peer-reviewed form in PLOS One! #OpenAccess Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line, by Fraass et al. 2025

This very cool article on how birds' mitochondria power long-distance migration includes a quote from WOS member Scott McWilliams. #ornithology

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

Now the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.

Here's a genuinely wild fact: the large, super-adaptable tegu lizard is able to switch its metabolism to warm-blooded (usually during the breeding season)

Great interview with early career researcher Chantelle Penney, in which she discusses her new paper on inter-generational responses to warming in cold-water fishes @jexpbiol.bsky.social @cpenney.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

@romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Collection Specialist for the Vertebrate Paleontology collection🦕🦖! Deadline for applications is May 20 t.co/CTtfs3MBMB