Reposted by Andrés CuervoDimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@amcuervo.bsky.social 👇🏾 011
Reposted by Andrés CuervoCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892122873
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What a study! congrats all authors, especially the incredible Liliana Dávalos #bats #cienciacriolla @labdavalos.bsky.social 183
Reposted by Andrés CuervoJoseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... From @phylieu.bsky.social @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comEarly-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestorsAbstract. Large phylogenetic trees are often unbalanced near the root, with a species-depauperate lineage sister to a far more species-rich clade. The spec 411053
Reposted by Andrés CuervoSara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Super excited to share this study by @gamaevo.bsky.social in collaboration with Steve Nowicki and Susan Peters!! Response to geographic song variation predicts differential gene expression in the blood of a songbird: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...cell.comResponse to geographic song variation predicts differential gene expression in the blood of a songbirdBehavioral neuroscience; Ecology; Transcriptomics 25424
Reposted by Andrés CuervoLizzy Steell @lizzysteell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨 New bird paper! 🚨 Take a look at our review paper that Juan Benito and I put together about avian systematics and the bird fossil record along with what we think are important future directions in the field 🐦 🦴 🦜🦅🦤 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA bird’s eye view of the fossil record: perspectives on avian systematicsRecent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,... 15825
Reposted by Andrés CuervoJournal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New paper: what shapes diversification across the Andean foothills? In the white-tipped sicklebill, repeated isolation and reconnection appear to have contributed to population divergence. ➡️ vist.ly/5iyqa #ornithology #birds #climate 0188
Reposted by Andrés CuervobioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Song divergence and a gleaming white iris reveal four species in a widespread Neotropical understory bird (Clibanornis rubiginosus, Furnariidae) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 032
Reposted by Andrés CuervoJoachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Silent but dramatic loss of genetic diversity unveiled using museum specimens #consgen 12015
Reposted by Andrés CuervoDr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026SOO excited to share this news!!!! @devonderaad.bsky.social is an amazing scientist and is going to build a stellar lab at AMNH!! 0176
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAndrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's 2026, and you still carry that parachute? Key practices for ethical research during scientific expeditions. By @nelsyninor.bsky.social et al. in @conservationsp.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #expeditions #science #museums 01911
Reposted by Andrés CuervoXeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026... looks like an update may be necessary: xeno-canto.org/species/Clib... 061
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's 2026, and you still carry that parachute? Key practices for ethical research during scientific expeditions. By @nelsyninor.bsky.social et al. in @conservationsp.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #expeditions #science #museums 01911
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026can you point out The Beast in this photo? #birds #ornithology Introducing "Piedemonte Llanero Foliage-gleaner" 0104
Reposted by Andrés CuervoKevin Bennett @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social · 26/05/2026📢New warbler research!📢 A phylogeny of Myioborus (the youngest genus of warblers) plus a hypothesis for how they diversified in South America and a gene causing a color difference between hybridizing species. It was great co-leading this with Laura Céspedes Arias. doi.org/10.1093/evol...doi.orgDiversification and divergence in Myioborus warblers: insights into evolutionary relationships and plumage geneticsAbstract. Genomic data can provide valuable insights into the evolutionary history of rapidly diversifying groups and the genetic basis of phenotypic trait 33723
Reposted by Andrés CuervoARAA @araa.at · 21/08/2026#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Exploring Andean foothill connectivity: insights from population divergence in the white-tipped sicklebill”⛰️ Journal of Avian Biology. L. Rosado-Llerena, A. Perkins, @davidocampo.bsky.social, @jeffgarcialoor.bsky.social, @amcuervo.bsky.social, D.A. Prieto-Torres & E. Bonaccorsodoi.orgExploring Andean foothill connectivity: insights from population divergence in the white‐tipped sicklebill, <i>Eutoxeres aquila</i>The Northern Andes, acting both as barrier and corridor, exert strong influence in Neotropical biodiversity. Still, the diversification of foothill taxa inhabiting ecotonal zones between lowland rain.... 074
Reposted by Andrés CuervoRoyal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/01/2026A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy 12314
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Really looking forward to #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge and catch up with folks at LSU @systbiol.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Andrés CuervoPablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2025High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...cell.comHigh-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr... 06825
Reposted by Andrés CuervoDr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 24/12/2025This is news that makes me happy. It really feels most of the time that taxonomy is in a bad place. But in reality, it seems that in the last decades, the rate of species description has been the highest it ever was! 🧪 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 46220
Reposted by Andrés CuervoProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 01/12/2025New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... 13597208
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAndrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We have successfully used immersion fixation for heads of Cathartes and Coragyps with the rest of the body used for skins, skeletons, and spirit specimens. I will add that for most comparative neuroanatomy an n of 3-6 is fine. Big series are only needed for sex or seasonal variation within species 131
Reposted by Andrés CuervoSushma Reddy @sushred.bsky.social · 18/11/20251/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology 13116
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology 0162
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025John McCormack: insights from the Mexican Bird Resurvey Project #BOUasm #ornithology 0101
Reposted by Andrés CuervoNatalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social · 18/11/20251/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology 2205
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025century long shifts in neotropical birds's morphology comparing collections from the 1910' and 2020's @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social #BOUasm #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk 171
Reposted by Andrés CuervoGlen Hancocks @gleneth93.bsky.social · 18/11/20251/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans 1/6 1146
Reposted by Andrés CuervoYaHsin @cindy841123.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Natural history collections are a time stamp of now. In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential. #BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6 1146
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025We move to finish session 2 with keynote speaker JC Buckner, discussing “Ducking & diving: the role of adaptation in waterfowl macroevolution” 🦆 #BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks 0111
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAndrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025All aspects of bird behaviour are a product of the anatomy and physiology of their brains. Brain anatomy can therefore provide new insights into bird behaviour. Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains. #ornithology #neuroskyence 1/6 13010
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025We join Shriya Uday in-person, for “The global palette: the role of colour in the wildlife trade” 🎨 @shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife 091
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful: "sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections" #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk 0175
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025We’re back! 😄 We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺 Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair. #BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs 0132
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡 @aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology 0102
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025We now move on to join Andrés M. Cuervo for his presentation “Century-spanning collections reveal ecological change and phenotypic shifts in Neotropical birds” 🐦 @amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology 0121
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“From specimens to solutions: the evolving role and current challenges of natural history collections” Great keynote talk from Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social - I was impressed hearing about the mummy birds 😮 @nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums 0111
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAmerican Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....journals.uchicago.eduUniversity of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent 064
Reposted by Andrés CuervoClimate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 10/11/2025Hybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birds ->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ainature.comHybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birdsScheffers, B. R. et al. The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. Science 354, aaf7671 (2016). Aitken, S. N. & Whitlock, M. C. Assisted gene flow to facilitate local adaptation to climate change. Annu. Rev... 001
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAna V. Leitão @anavleitao.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov. 01911
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025It’s been a long wait for this fantastic @bou.org.uk event: “A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world” #BOUasm25 051
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 02/09/2025🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Mary Caswell Stoddard Princeton University, USA Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world Keynote abstracts: bou.org.uk/conferenc... #ornithology 🪶 073
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/01/2025🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social Natural History Museum, UK Natural history collections in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities Submit your abstract: bou.org.uk/event/a-d... #ornithology 🪶 2123
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 09/09/2025🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Sushma Reddy @sushred.bsky.social University of Minnesota, USA Using natural history collections to build community Keynote abstracts: bou.org.uk/conferenc... #ornithology 🪶 121
Reposted by Andrés CuervoBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/01/2025🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE John McCormack Occidental College, USA Using habitat occupancy modelling and genomics to understand a century of change to the birds of Mexico Submit your abstract: bou.org.uk/event/a-d... #ornithology 🪶 111
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025New paper out about elevational shifts in European birds lead by @josephinecouet.bsky.social: "Solar Radiation Affects Bird Distributions but Not Elevational Shifts in European Mountains" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @ebcc.info 01410
Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Evaluating the roles of signaling and camouflage in the evolution of iris color in Tyranni passerines. Evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...doi.orgEvaluating the roles of signaling and camouflage in the evolution of iris color in Tyranni passerinesAbstract. Iris color is a conspicuous and diverse trait across animals, but its evolutionary drivers are poorly understood. In over 1000 species of Tyranni 072
Reposted by Andrés CuervoSantiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Our synthesis on patterns of bird diversity and diversification dynamics in South America is available online: books.google.com/books?id=lyi...books.google.comNew Perspectives in OrnithologyPeople have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology. Research q... 0104
Reposted by Andrés CuervoAndrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024continuous lower montane, tropical pluvial forests, 1600-1800 meter above sea level a series of bird expeditions to one of the few really unexplored regions of the Nothern Andes #ornithology #icn #unal 🇨🇴🧬🐦⛰️ 2364