Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not in the title, but Mueller's 1974 prey selection experiments with American Kestrels suggest he was a fan www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4... 000
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ENTMOOT: A framework for optimization over ensemble tree models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 100
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not all who wander are lost: Trail bias in community science journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgNot all who wander are lost: Trail bias in community scienceThe exponential growth and interest in community science programs is producing staggering amounts of biodiversity data across broad temporal and spatial scales. Large community science datasets such a... 100
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As well as the (Northern Hemisphere) autumnal equinox, today is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins's birthday, a.k.a. Hobbit Day! Here are some of my favorite Tolkien-inspired paper titles. Have you come across any others? There and back again: Migration in freshwater fishes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...cdnsciencepub.comCanadian Science Publishing 150
Reposted by Claire NemesAnonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.net 2026-27 1176210
Reposted by Claire NemesNeil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities 13135
Reposted by Claire NemesJenny McKee @jennymckee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Come be my (remote) work colleague! Dr. Ellen Aikens and Dr. @wyokauffman.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to lead analyses on a new migration ecology and climate resilience project with 152 mule deer herds and >44 million GPS points! Apply by July 15th! eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.comPost Doc Res Assoc - Aikens LabPostdoctoral Researcher — Migration Ecology and Climate Resilience in Mule Deer 0127
Reposted by Claire NemesBen Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 15/03/2026This weekend’s Wall St Journal 1191477265
Reposted by Claire NemesJacob Drucker @prosobonia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴 🧵1/10 33321
Reposted by Claire NemesBenjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change? I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out. but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible" new paper here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 612035
Reposted by Claire NemesPaul Cuchot @paulcuchot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🐣 Excited to share our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1125
Reposted by Claire NemesKaitlyn Gaynor @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...grc.org2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRCThe 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot. 064
Reposted by Claire NemesJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2025I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgTotal solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community scienceOn 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ... 8483138
Reposted by Claire NemesKim Rosvall @rosvall-lab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)media.tenor.comtwo men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorwayALT: two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway 2288
Reposted by Claire NemesDr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim... Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 281
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 09/10/2025On the eve of World Migratory Bird Day #WMBD2025, it's another record night of autumn bird migration with over a billion birds aloft over the US! 🤯 Looking at the moon thru my scope, I saw (and heard) dozens of migrants zipping by. birdcast.info/migration-to... Lights out, cats in to keep them safe!birdcast.infoLive bird migration maps - BirdCastSee real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology curr... 020
Reposted by Claire NemesBirder K @birderk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Not even peak part of night yet, but we’ve hit over ONE BILLION BIRDS in flight!!! #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds 419972
Reposted by Claire NemesCamille Thomas-Bulle @camillethomasbulle.bsky.social · 19/08/2025#ESEB25 2 for 1! Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about : how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?) or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏 1143
Reposted by Claire NemesBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 01/08/2025💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰 Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries. Find out more now: Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c... DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛ #ornithology 🪶bou.org.ukSmall ornithological research grantsClosing date for applications (for 2026 awards): 31 October 2025The BOU Small Ornithological Research Grants scheme offers awards of up to £2,000 to support small projects on any aspect of ornithology.The scheme is open to BOU members only. An exception is made for those 01715
Reposted by Claire NemesAvery Shawler, PhD @averyshawler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Excited to share the first publication from my PhD research about wolves using diverse movement tactics, including migrating and moving young pups, to track the partially migratory Cody elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/01/p...news.berkeley.eduPups in tow, Yellowstone-area wolves trek long distances to stay near prey - Berkeley NewsFor the first time, a UC Berkeley-led research team has observed gray wolves outside of the Arctic migrating during pup-rearing season. 1126
Reposted by Claire NemesGates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · 31/07/2025🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgNorth American bird declines are driven by reductions in common speciesDeclines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species. 316387
Reposted by Claire NemesRobert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 29/07/2025When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem: 7500174
Reposted by Claire NemesJakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 16/07/2025🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover 17928
Reposted by Claire NemesKara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)nv1.orgStations » Native Voice OneAlaska Alabama Arizona Arkansas Australia California Canada Colorado Guam Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Montana Nebraska Ne... 15676662
Reposted by Claire NemesDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Hey, KOTZ in my hometown could use some support. This one radio station serves an area the size of Indiana, as in, it's the only radio station in the entire area. The area is also primarily Inupiaq. kotz.org/index.htmlkotz.orgKOTZEBUE BROADCASTING INC.Site for Kotzebue Broadcasting Inc. 712182
Reposted by Claire NemesJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Needed this reminder today. 125252069671
Reposted by Claire NemesElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 04/07/2025We are so far over the guardrails here.nytimes.comE.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump 421561
Reposted by Claire NemesCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/07/2025The bill republicans passed will raise your electricity bill. It will raise how much you pay at the pump. It will make our grid less reliable. Every time you fill up your tank or pay your utility bill for the next 10 years, when you notice how much more it is, think back to this bill, today. 410535
Reposted by Claire Nemesmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The bill has passed. Republicans are going to push insane lies. Talk to people about what this legislation does. Post. Be a nuisance. Don't let the lies dominate. We will make sure this vote sticks to their foreheads, is all anyone sees of them, the cruelty and evil they're drenched in. 11687222
Reposted by Claire NemesAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/06/2025US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social ) 1411149408291
Reposted by Claire NemesJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... 704077849
Reposted by Claire NemesSociety for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · 05/06/2025New on European conservation science: Free-ranging domestic cats occur deep in the forests, with >10% occupancy even 1 km from homes. Their presence near edges suggests persistent risks to biodiversity well beyond suburbs. Nyheim et al. in Conservation Science and Practice doi.org/10.1111/csp2... 1106
Reposted by Claire NemesPaige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology 5833321122
Reposted by Claire NemesFengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/20251. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 12216
Reposted by Claire NemesRobert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Turns out birds are facilitating a tick superhighway between north and south america?? Thanks to @cenemes.bsky.social and @emlbcohen.bsky.social for this one pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26431964/ 1163
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Amazing! @emlbcohen.bsky.social has done some really cool research on this topic: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26431964/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govAvian migrants facilitate invasions of neotropical ticks and tick-borne pathogens into the United States - PubMedMigratory birds have the potential to transport exotic vectors and pathogens of human and animal health importance across vast distances. We systematically examined birds that recently migrated to the... 110
Reposted by Claire NemesRebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Pls 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 46062
Reposted by Claire NemesJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/05/2025cannot overstate how bad this will be for universities at every level, from the financial (intl students pay $$$), logistical (intl grad students teach many courses), productivity (they also do a bunch of research), to more nebulous but still imp things like making campus life vibrant + diverse 717282
Reposted by Claire NemesJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025REMINDER.....REMINDER......REMINDER 3 DAYS LEFT TO COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1/nmedia.tenor.comgumball and anais from the amazing world of gumball are sitting at a tableALT: gumball and anais from the amazing world of gumball are sitting at a table 38886
Reposted by Claire NemesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comTrump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more. 381160803
Reposted by Claire NemesDesirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · 21/05/2025New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... 724081
Reposted by Claire NemesSusana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025There are only 14,393 comments submitted as of this moment! That's waaaay too few, considering the number of people who are affected by or rely on NIH/NSF funding. 23541
Reposted by Claire NemesElizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Like tens of thousands of years after he leaves office... 417645
Reposted by Claire NemesAssociation of Field Ornithologists @fieldornith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025EXTENDIMOS LA FECHA LÍMITE de aplicación a las becas Skutch Research Grants hasta el 1 de julio. ¡No te pierdas esta oportunidad! 011
Reposted by Claire NemesAssociation of Field Ornithologists @fieldornith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025We have EXTENDED the deadline for applications for the Skutch Research Grants to July 1. Don't miss this opportunity! 088
Claire Nemes @cenemes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025🚨 Hey folks, SUPER important 🚨 The administration is trying to weaken the Endangered Species Act, one of the most successful pieces of legislation protecting wildlife & their habitats in the US. Please submit comments BY MONDAY 5/19 (11:59pm ET) opposing the proposed changes! esa.org/esablog/2025...esa.orgESA Action Alert: Comment on proposed rescission of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm” – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science 010
Reposted by Claire NemesDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪federalregister.govRescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species ActThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ... 19323264