A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪

The deadline to apply to the Assistant Curator in Mycology or Cryptogamic Botany position we are advertising at NBYG is THIS Friday! Happy to chat about my experience at NYBG and the cool science going on here. Come be our colleague!! jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8I...

Happy (early) Halloween 🎃

I posed recently about my recent obsession with Hooke's Micrographia (1665) and the incredible feather drawings it has. I really wanted to see an original copy and luckily, Yale has two! So, earlier this week, I headed down to the Beinecke Library with @mylestogo.bsky.social to check it out

We are looking for a physics/maths graduate with an interest in biology, or a biology graduate with strong computational/mathematical skills/interests, to join us as a PhD student working on biomechanical modelling of butterfly wing scale structure formation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING ⏰ BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025 Full details via links ⬇️ Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c... #ornithology 🪶

The latest on Wing Beat | "Distinctive casque morphologies among cassowary species" by Todd L. Green Blog post: americanornithology.org/distinctive-... Related paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni... #ornithology

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

museum job alert 🇨🇦 royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...

BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology

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"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' " Too true omg 😂 Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset! phys.org/news/2025-09...

Job alert #TeamFish. Curator of Fishes gig!

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

RIP Dr. Goodall - thank you for being one of the driving inspirations that set me on my path to become a biologist

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

Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...

In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn. Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.

For anyone who wants to hear me chat about iridescence to a semi-captive audience, be sure to check it out 👇

Mammal colours boring? Guess again (mostly a note to myself). Superstar Jess has been finding iridescence colours across mammals! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Curator job opening at the fabulous American Museum of Natural History in New York City! Know a marine fish person 🐠 or oceanographer who might be interested?

The SECOND bird conference at the Natural History Museum this year is the @bou.org.uk annual science meeting. A really diverse set of talks on how collections support ornithology research & conservation, plus an option for behind-the-scenes collections tour!

My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!

I'm very excited (and a bit nervous) to talk all about the work I did on Zonotrichia sparrows with @darrenirwin.bsky.social at UBC tomorrow morning at 10:30 am in the JEB Stearns Prize Symposium at #ESEB2025!

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster to talk to me at #AOS2025 last night! If you're interested in learning a bit about the taxonomy of Conirostrum binghami (Aka, Giant Conebill, aka the world's coolest bird), my poster will be up until Friday at board 16

A recent study of seabird collisions with human-made structures published in the WJO turned up over 400 such incidents, involving seabirds including pelicans, gulls, and even albatrosses. #ornithology

Like birds? Hate ecotoxins? If you answered yes, you may be interested in my #AOS2025 poster! Come find me during Wednesday’s poster session at poster #184.

Applications are now open for the Guggenheim Fellowship: www.gf.org/program/how-...

If you need a fun distraction today, try to wrap your brain around how a peacock feather can function as a laser. Because apparently it can. 🦚 #birds

Visual information in the dark: Bioluminescence and perceptual design through evolution - Oakley - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon! Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

We finally got to see the hardcopies of ‘Nature Selecting’ the #evolution book I wrote for kids (around 6th grade level and up) and illustrated by my 14 year-old daughter Anjali Free pdf here www.lsu.edu/mns/news-and... We plan to send hard copies to local schools and teachers for free.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

📣📣📣 So pleased to see @vdbijl.bsky.social's stunning analysis of the inheritance and genetics of guppy color diversity out today @natecoevo.nature.com! Deep learning reveals the complex genetic architecture of male guppy colouration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jenna talks about the emotional connection that people have with birds in our Kingfisher episode. Her dad had a very emotional experience before Jenna studied them. Here is the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1... #kingfisher #podcast #bird #birds #science #nature

Go Prosanta!!!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

Check out our deep dive into the molecular genetics of male-specific cell type : the gorgeous UV-iridescent scales of Sulphur Butterflies by lab wizards 🦋🔬 🖥️ 🧬 Ling Sheng Loh @hanliconius.bsky.social and a big team 1/n

Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness Paul et al. 2025 BioScience "Despite their potential for contributing to pandemic preparedness, natural history collections are underused" academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

In case you missed it: The latest guest post on the WOS blog recounts how the members of the Smithsonian's Feather Lab identified the bird behind an aircraft strike in New Jersey as a vagrant Western Marsh Harrier from Europe. #ornithology

Pls share: I'm seeking ornithologists willing to comment about how the Bird Banding Lab &/or Breeding Bird Survey are crucial to their research & conservation efforts, for a piece for @therevelator.org defending these programs. Reply, DM, or email me at rebecca dot heisman at gmail. #ornithology

Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes Carr et al. 2025 Nature Comm. 459 known biofluorescent teleosts (the majority are associated with coral reefs); estimate biofluorescence evolved multiple times but first ~112 mya www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Less than two weeks left to order one of the shirts I designed for this year's LSUMNS Big Day, featuring the most magnificent bird, Fregata magnificens! lsuornithology2025.itemorder.com/shop/home/ Also please donate to our Big Day Fundraiser to support our Ornithology research! givelsu.org/bigday

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Today four @lsumns.bsky.social Ornithology graduate students are treking across Louisiana trying to see as many bird species as possible for our annual Big Day Birdathon Fundraiser! Donate to support our research here: bbis32491p.sky.blackbaud.com/big-day-fund... #ornithology #birding

Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!