Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Reintroduction time! I’m Joel - a professor, researcher, and bird enthusiast 🐦 🦚🦉. I study ecoimmunology in birds, and I teach ecology, evolution, and immunology. I was here before but drifted away for a bit. Happy to be back and excited to connect again! #Science #AcademicLife #Birds

I will be applying for sabbatical the same time as tenure this year. It can only be a semester-long tenure. My ultimate goal is to be a master bander, or at least get permission to mistnet. I saw @instbirdpop.bsky.social offers courses, which is a possibility. Does anyone have ideas?

this is #whysciencematters

I am looking for a MS student to take on a project. We have samples already collected, and there is opportunity for more field work. California resident is preferred (fees for non-resident and international students are too high IMO). Repost please. #ecology #physiology #ornithology #grad

Two articles just published this week very closely resembling the paper my grad student is ready to submit 🙃 It’s scoopin’ season! 🥲

From NSF’s website: ‘Our investments account for about 25% of federal support to America's colleges and universities for basic research: research driven by curiosity and discovery.’ More than 95% of NSF’s budget goes back out the door to fund science. Cutting staff won’t save much tax payer money.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

❌ BREAKING NEWS ❌ 1/4 of freshwater animals are at risk of #extinction‼️ The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date has revealed that 24% are at high risk of extinction, according to analysis published in Nature today. 👇 shoalconservation.org/global-fresh...

New paper out in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social! Research from our group shows that males of the polygynous ruff visit many potential breeding sites within a breeding season, travelling up to 9000 km and visiting up to 23 different sites! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 1/7

Sucks. Didn’t Louisiana recently pass a bill that doctors and other health care professionals cannot promote vaccinations? I feel bad for the family and I hope this is a one-off. This has me thinking it’s time to swab some birds.

The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the US has died, Louisiana's health department said: www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/h...

Are you familiar with the growing body of research on how climate change is reshaping birds' bodies? Here's a great overview of how this trend is playing out in Australia. #ornithology

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

“Can you bump my C to an A?”

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

The Chimney Swift Restoration Fund (the Chimney Swift Fund) helps maintain nesting and roosting sites for the Chimney Swift by providing financial support for the restoration of anthropogenic structures (i.e., chimneys, barns, etc.) known to be important for the species in Canada. #birds

Well, shit… It was a matter of time, but one case isn’t a cause for panic yet. www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...

Page charges? Gone! Publication date = date published online! THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology. Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!

You know why you should never ask a goose for directions? They always anserinae honk 🪿

We know that immune genes often show stronger signatures of selection than the genomic average. But what about immune cell types? In a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... we merge single-cell RNAseq (defining stickleback cell types) and population genomic measures of selection...

Wonder how long it will last this year?

I’m Joel. I study avian ecoimmunology. Mainly work on songbirds, and understanding the evolution of their immune system. Glad to see the community grow on here! #scicomm

There are now over 14,000,000 people here! Science and conservation friends, reply and reintroduce/reintroduce yourselves- I’m David. I study shark conservation, and post about that as well as marine biology and the environment in general. I’m in the Washington, DC area. 🌎🦑🧪🦈🐠 #SciComm

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #426,443!

<stares into the camera>

"Are you seeing this???" A fledgling house finch telling everyone who will listen what utter nonsense is is that dad is enjoying his own lunch at the feeder instead of doing food delivery for Junior. #FinchyFriday 🪶

💀 also so not true

The coolest study I’ve seen in a very long time in regards to bird migration. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Do people feel that reject but resubmit is the new “major revisions”? I have heard more seasoned colleagues speak like journals have changed to this format. #academia #STEM #research

People at R2 institutions or PUIs. Do you keep trying to find closed access publications to curtail publishing costs, or do you publish open access? If so, does your college help you, or do you pay out of pocket? @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

A massive infrastructure project is underway to suture together the vast tracts of fragmented wildlife habitat that have been separated by the highway for decades. Construction on a key phase of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing began last month and it is expected to open in early 2026.

🪶 Happy Tuesday! Here's an #unsolicitedbirdfact: Did you know that the 6 species of kingbirds that occur in the US & Canada all have a fiery feathered patch on the crown of their heads? It's usually hidden under other feathers, but they raise the crown when showing aggression.

10 eggs? In this economy??

We're looking to hire a Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Fresno State! Please Repost and share wittkieffer.com/positions/20...

Been a minute! 🦇 Animal #299 🐾 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟧🟧🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6 metazooa.com #metazooa

It's FEMALE BIRD DAY all weekend!!!! If you are a birding type, go outside and appreciate one of the most unappreciated birds on the planet. I promise you, it'll be fun. femalebirdday.wordpress.com

Merced National Wildlife Refuge being beautiful. 😻😍🥰 🦆🪿🐦‍⬛🦅🦉🐺🐝🦋🐌🐞🐜🪲🕸️🦂🐢🐍🦗🦟🕸️🐠🦞🐿️🐀🌿🌾🐚🍄🪺🌤️

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: Tourist center staff Train museum curator Fish store staff Student research assistant in: -biology museum -plant cell bio lab -whale feeding ecology Science camp staff Attendant for student with a health condition

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: Movie theater employee (ticket seller, projectionist, reluctant popcorn maker) Horse wrangler for kids with disabilities Helpdesk tech Systems administrator College lecturer Editor

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Brassica by Randall Munroe @xkcd.com xkcd.com/2827/

🕷️ Animal #39 🐊 I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟧🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 2 metazooa.com #metazooa I was lucky today!

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🦚 Animal #36 🐢 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟨🟨🟧🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 8 metazooa.com #metazooa