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DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

a reminder that the live debut of bird rock is coming… at the San Diego bird festival next week! (and that you can get tickets here, without a ticket to the larger festival: secure.sandiegobirdalliance.org/nx/portal/ne...)

Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🧪

Woah @davetoews.bsky.social this has got to be the coolest and (IMHO) most important ornithology paper I've read in a good while. Already added it to my class this semester! doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Light-colored peppered moths right now

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...

congratulations to the Seahawks, who are technically named after the gorgeous Osprey — a great victory for birders everywhere! below is my rendition of an Osprey soaring to victory, drawn with full attention to detail. and no, this is not a photo!

A warbler makes the news in Nova Scotia? I can also be sustained on only peanut butter, but it's cold my little buddy! 🦉 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why does this duck have hair?! 😭

I firmly believe that Friday class attendance in spring semester is nearly entirely bimodal based on the weather. Too cold? I couldn’t imagine going to class in this! Too warm? It’s too nice out to go to class!

Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...

The way iOS 26 took us from circular sliders to little oval ones is pretty revolutionary, tbh

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

New episode just dropped of Extremely Accurate Bird Songs: the podcast… and it’s a big one. Our song for the Roseate Spoonbill goes full Vampire-Weekend-mode with legendary bird podcaster Ivan Phillipsen as the song judge! Our quest to write a song for *every* bird species continues….

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Taxonomy and phylogeny are two sides of the same coin, but that doesn't mean they are always in agreement. I wrote a blog post on why the new Phylogeny Explorer in @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is such a big deal in that regard, and what's in store next for us. eliotmiller.weebly.com/blog/birds-o...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Also, not to blow smoke, but @rushstudio.bsky.social is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and creative scientific illustrators I know. A pleasure to work with.. but more importantly, thankful to also call him a damn good friend!

Myrtle warblers from Alaska with tiny backpacks that measure light and pressure, so we can follow their individual movements (altitude and geography)? Yes, please!

It's never good when the forecast looks like it belongs at a Grateful Dead show

We’ve updated Our System to become more *streamlined* and *efficient*! Learn more about it in our 43-page PDF document, or sign up for a two-day training session!

great cartoon, the first ever graphical abstract I've seen that kicks ass

I could give you a great summary of our new warbler diet paper… but if a picture says a thousand words, this awesome graphical abstract by @rushstudio.bsky.social tells the whole story. 🦉🧪 academic.oup.com/auk/article/...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

holy crap you guys, i am so excited to announce that we are playing our first BIRDING FESTIVAL gig!! Bird Rock™️ finally comes to life…!

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Pleasantly surprised to discover last week's episode of the ABA podcast discussed our recent warbler hybrid work. Give it a listen! doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Hi. #Borbs

Given the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButts, I figured this photorealistic illustration by @tommysiegel.bsky.social would fit the bill…

One generous serving of orange loaf. Still warm

Got this tasteful piece by @tommysiegel.bsky.social printed for the lab! Now just to find an appropriate spot for it… 🦉

Just in time for the holidays, I had a fun chat with @drscottataylor.bsky.social about splits and lumps… and some of the other controversies roiling avian taxonomy 🤓 🦉🧪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

VRmivora: Birds, art, science and education! What more do you want? Also, don't enter into a staring contest with a golden-winged warbler—they will win! www.psu.edu/news/researc... 🦉🧪 cc @psubiodept.bsky.social

Objectively the best wren! More song ‘per gram of bird’ than a rooster—science fact ✔️

The Pacific Wren is a tiny forest undergrowth dweller of western North America. Until recently it was considered the same species as the Winter Wren and the Eurasian Wren, which explains why it looks so similar to the wrens I see in my neighbourhood 😁 #birdtober #birdart #wren #wrens #sciart 🪶

It's been a good few weeks for cool bird genomcis - incl this, on warblers sharing colour genes through hybridisation (with evidence of between-genus introgression journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Note, we didn't end up getting -every- species. Most that we missed were recent splits. But also, sorry, Leucopeza fans.

Great explainer thread by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social on our new warbler genomics paper! 🦉🧪

It turns out the Leiothlypis BCO2 spread to Setophaga and Cardellina via interbreeding, probably magnolia warbler with the ancestor of several extant Leiothlypis species. This BCO2 then spread among other species through hybridization. Vermivora separately shared its BCO2 with Kentucky warbler.

Introgression between species can shape #evolution. Study of the colorful American #warblers (Parulidae) by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social @davetoews.bsky.social &co reveals intergeneric & interspecific introgression of genes related to carotenoid #plumage color @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48MyfU2