I literally had a nightmare we lost 20-0 to PSG. The match was held at my high school. Let's see what fresh hell reality will bring #LFC

Every time I open my mouth in my Phylogenetics seminar it's just to say the exact phrase- Yes, but ____ ITSELF is also evolving

Prior to 2022, most AIV cases reported in terrestrial birds (ie waterbirds). But in 2022, huge devastating outbreaks in seabirds. Here, an index developed to better understand how viruses go from waterfowl > seabirds. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

reflecting on conversation where someone giving me unsolicited career advice told me to be careful publishing in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment because "those MDPI journals aren't always viewed highly on your CV" ☠️

🦢 A synopsis of the Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey) London: Priv. print. for the author, [1921-1922] [Source]

Big news, gulls eating bugs today

Who's in charge of woodcock public relations this year? They're really all over it

As much as I adore shearwaters and petrels, Newfoundland's seabirds will always have a soft spot in my heart

editing a species account, accidentally inserted The exceedingly small populations of American Herring Gulls in southwest Greenland have not grown, in contrast to the major expansion of Lesser Rhea ​​​​​​​in the same area.

I can tell you how well science is working, just give me a minute to crosscheck this list of studies with my list of true objective and righteous facts 🙄

dropped the bag of shredded cheese.

Stuck on this #phylogenetics Can anyone help with my intuition on how or why ILS gives a different signal than introgression/reticulation in a tree?

this paper on manakins plumage maturation is now typeset so i am going to drink beer and explain what the heck is going on here, because I think manakins and molt are amazing and I fear a lot of the evolutionary wonder runs the risk of getting lost, so to speak, in the sauce doi.org/10.1093/evol...

they should really invent horizontal phylogenetic trees so it's easier to put them on slides

Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

rather than having a nice day I am scrolling the job board, and looking up on reddit what it's like to live in various places rave review for the location of one nice position: "would not have enjoyed living here when I was younger but do now...very good quality tap water"

what my colleagues don't understand is that I've written this draft while watching the Pee-wee Herman doc (💙), that sort of thing can't be accounted for in the methods

me, an ornithologist, when I have to give a talk on general biology

For my bird conservation lecture in orni, i wanna present 2-3 case studies, incl conservation successes and conservation “fails”. Also want to include both tropical and N American examples, and i want the bottom line to be that cons is as much or more about ppl than ab nature. What should i include?

New article in Oikos with a global review of annual survival for waders comparing estimation methods and phylogeny. Survival increases with body mass but decreases with migration distance and during past 40 years. Team led by @dillensegerg.bsky.social. #ornithology #waders doi.org/10.1002/oik....

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

I am reading a (fantastic) review of fungal taxonomy and literally every third sentence I am audibly like "WHAT???"

New paper out from @rosetazetta.bsky.social Evidence of emperor penguins’ sensitivity to sea ice fluctuations We used very-high res satellite imagery to study the Ross Sea emperor penguin population over 20+ y, revealing potential sensitivity to sea ice fluctuations @drmichellelarue.bsky.social

"Against The Pathologization Of Scientific Understanding" Preprint of a forthcoming commentary from Erkan & me. Pathologization of many scientific processes and practices has become increasingly popular w the replication crisis. Such pathologies do not accurately represent the scientific process.

my in memoriam of dead scientific assholes just a slideshow of unsubstantiated assumptions in their conceptual frameworks over black-and-white photos of them yelling at students

Neoteny!

Applications are open for the LinnéSys Systematics Research Fund: we offer up to £1,500 for research in taxonomy & systematics - from fieldwork to equipment, specimen prep, and more. Open to researchers at any stage (UG+). Deadline: 27 March 2026, 23:59 Apply now: buff.ly/8eryOMN

Modest (<10%) Increases for Tri-Agencies, decreases for DFO (70%), ECCC (45%), Canadian Space Agency (33%), AAFC (10%)… and Canada Post will apparently decrease spending by 99%!?!?

Another lovely year at the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island, New Brunswick You can view the annual report here: indd.adobe.com/view/edcf4d1... #FieldStations #Biology

I have a bunch of great skuas frozen whole in freezers, that I need to take apart due to lack of storage. I will take samples tomorrow, but get in touch if you want random reference material of a North Atlantic top predator #seabirds 🧪🌍

I've looped back around I think I'm just going to call them seagulls, it's really fine

-89% Arctic Skua -37% Black-headed Gull -81% Lesser Black-backed Gull -47% European Herring Gull -60% Common Tern -29% Arctic Tern 😔

ah!! clever!!!

Szoboszlai you doggggg I love you I'd be nothing without you #LFC

Now with pages @systbiol.bsky.social ! "Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds" with @pseudacris.bsky.social and Rick Prum Some comparative support for the hypothesis that the evolution of complex social contexts restructure life histories doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

at the hairdresser, "what were you thinking?"; I open up an album of 50 pictures that are all just the cover of Kate Bush's The Dreaming

my first experience as a grown-up academic where I did not check my inbox well enough for multiple days on vacation. I don't need to actually answer these emails right? like, a statute of limitations thing?? I can just delete them all??? right????

torn between my two loves, the people and extremely technical plumage terminology

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

I love it when friends do cool stuff :) :) :) Tier list Good people doing cool science Good people doing nothing at all .... .... .... .... .... Bad people doing cool stuff, or nothing, idgaf tbh

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Accepted at ESA's Front. Ecol. Env.! Prebreeding populations and the importance of life history for conserving imperiled seabirds with @ejgnam2.bsky.social Or, why juveniles, subadults, immatures (whatever you call them) are important even when critters have a """slow""" life history!

The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be holding our next meeting in Glen Cove, New York on 8-12 January 2027! Have an idea for a special symposium? We want to hear it! #ecology #evolution #behavior 🧪 #popgen 🧬 Applications due Apr 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Have you considered whether animals differ in their perception of density? We explored how differences in our senses, interpretation and past experiences shapes density perception, causing behavioral differences and affecting fitness outcomes. 🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

On world book day might you be tempted to preorder the paperback edition of The Tree of Life? Out in pb on April 23rd. www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Life-So...

one of the coolest birds! One of the few lekking species with big delays in both female and male reproduction. Female reproduction regulated by decadal food fluctuations (like mast years for finches, or lemmings for jaeger) and male reproduction regulated (hypothesis!) by lek social development

Handing a Paul Kockelman book to a student but being like, hey kid, be careful with this stuff it's strong