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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 28/09/2026

Incorrect information provided by a Google AI overview caused a Kodiak woman to hunt snipe illegally, according to a citation filed this week at the Kodiak district court. (Via Alaska Beacon)

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Misleading Google AI instructions cause Kodiak woman to be cited for illegal snipe hunt

“I expect we’ll see more of this type of thing in the future,” said a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety,

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Cellular Tracking Technologies @celltracktech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Northern Waterthrush tagged in Cape May, NJ left after sunset on Sep 11. Two weeks later it was over Colombia! Jamaica -> Colombia included ~800 km of open Caribbean. 3,082 km so far! @birdscanada.bsky.social @originalstu.bsky.social #MotusWTS #BirdMigration #ornithology @nature.org

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're submitting a reference letter for a PRFB, I was surprised to not see any option for deleting and reuploading, which contradicts the info provided in the email requesting it. In fact, as soon as you select the file it is uploaded and you can't change it. Was fine for me, but beware.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The WHO adopted the pandemic agreement over a year ago, but it's still not in effect because countries can't agree on the most contentious part — how to share pathogen data, and the fruits of those data like vaccines. My deep dive into the negotiations: www.npr.org/2026/09/25/g...

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There's a global pandemic treaty that's signed -- and in 'limbo.' What's the holdup?

The treaty aims to help the countries of the world prepare for — and defeat — any future pandemic. Why hasn't it gone into effect?

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/While everyone is focused on Whimbrel 😊, I am excited to share the latest from Maina Handmaker. She found that Whimbrel that commute longer distances from a nocturnal roost spend 1.5 more hours each daily in dangerous habitat and depart on migration 3-6 days later. academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

A graph showing that Whimbrel commuting longer distances spend more time commuting and foraging, but less time resting.

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Important Whimbrel paper summarised as WaderTales blog #160. wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/w... #ornithology

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is one of many replies to a post about Wiley's new 'let AI summarise this paper for you!' thing, but I think it's a really, *really* important point. Realising that you're allowed to disagree with papers is a key part of your scientific education.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Of the 223 lead authors in the IPCC working group III (mitigation of climate change), an investigation found 20 with strong conflict of interest concerns. "Authors’ conflict of interest declarations are not made public, & the conflict of interest committee provides no detail about its deliberation."

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UMass Amherst @umassamherst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Relatively few people have seen a Hudsonian godwit, but UMass Prof. Nathan Senner is researching how the migratory shorebirds respond to environmental change. bit.ly/4xyfDl8

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The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of the shorebirds’ marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thrilled that the @newyorker.com highlights the cool science, but big conservation issues facing extreme migratory shorebirds in this week's issue! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Teaser: Might shorebirds use 'torpor' while migrating? Teaser #2: Where did the title 'guts don't fly' come from?

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The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of the shorebirds’ marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A really great piece by Rivka Galchen — shorebirds really are so amazing, but in need of our help! Such an honor to be able to Rivka see godwits up close in Alaska this summer.

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A really great piece by Rivka Galchen — shorebirds really are so amazing, but in need of our help! Such an honor to be able to Rivka see godwits up close in Alaska this summer.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2026

More than 300 million birds are expected to soar across the U.S. on Saturday during their annual fall migration, prompting requests for residents to turn off or dim lights to help ensure their safe flight.

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As Millions of Birds Migrate, Residents Are Asked to Turn Off the Lights

Birds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said.

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Renjie Zhang @renjiezhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Congrats Jack!! 🦗🧬 So excited to see this one out—fantastic work! This work investigates how cricket populations have adapted at the genomic level following the introduction of the parasitoid fly and show how this novel selective pressure has shaped both population structure and genetic variation.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Is plastic pollution getting worse?" It's the question we get asked more than any other. After 15 years of data from Lord Howe Island, we finally have a straight answer. 🧵 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A hand holding a plastic fork piece in the foreground. In the background, another hand lays out plastics on a sheet of paper towel. The plastic was in a shearwater chick's stomach.

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 10/09/2026

Long-distance navigation is no easy feat, but for some seabirds it can involve traversing hundreds of kilometres of open ocean New research led by @plewin.bsky.social shows that even if Manx shearwaters can sense the earth’s magnetism, they don't rely on it to get home 👇

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Homing shearwaters don’t need magnetic sense to navigate

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From the current WJO issue: Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) migration and breeding phenologies and nest survival in response to climate change. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Study area for examining climate variation, nest initiation, and nest survival of Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) nests from 2008 to 2024 in the lower Platte River system, Nebraska, USA.

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Natalia (Nat) Zielonka @natbzielonka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New paper 👇 (my last PhD chapter!) 🍇🐦🧪🌍️ Bird damage in English vineyards is modest & mostly at field edges — and doesn't affect yield. Management & weather matter more. Biodiversity ≠ production trade-off. @simon-butler.bsky.social et al. @ueaceec.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social #Ornithology

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Conserving forest and enhancing shade coffee are complementary–not interchangeable–strategies: landscape forest cover shapes the conditions under which farm-scale habitat management can sustain diverse bird communities 🦜 🌲 ☕️ 👉️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As great snipe migrate between Europe & sub-Saharan Africa, the intrepid birds can reach great heights, ascending and descending several thousand meters, but it turns out that these extraordinary altitude changes don't cost the birds any additional effort doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

A great snipe (Gallinago media) flying over central Sweden. Photo credit: Åke Lindström.

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Benedetta Catitti @bcatitti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...

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daniel cadena @cdanielcadena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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In Memoriam: Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) is now accepting applications, with a deadline of 15 October. This includes the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

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Will Oestreich @will-oestreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How do blue whales search for and locate feeding opportunities in their vast, fluid 3D foraging habitat? Check out our new paper, led by John Ryan, which provides a high-resolution answer to this question using a remarkable confluence of bio-logging and oceanographic data tinyurl.com/wa4usbpp

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High-precision localized feeding by blue whales

Ryan et al. use biologging and satellite remote sensing to show how blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) can precisely and persistently localize feeding within a favorable foraging habitat by sensing a...

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Alex Gunderson @agunderson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ever wonder why high latitude ectotherms don’t consistently evolve greater thermal plasticity than those in the tropics? @ggcostoya.bsky.social, Mike Logan and I have an idea why, and we explore it in this theoretical analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Climate variability and the paradox of plasticity

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is expected to evolve when environmental conditions change predictably over time. This has led to the hypothesis that ectotherms in environments with low temperature sea...

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Ryan Germain @ryangermain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a really exciting piece of work with some fantastic analysis by @lbliard.bsky.social. Very excited to see it coming out!

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remember the summer heatwaves in the UK in 2026? The late May heatwave was exceptional: an event +4.3 sd above mean - likely to occur only once every few decades under normal conditions. It was also unusual in being early and coinciding with tit breeding season. What consequences did it have? 🧵1/n

Temperature fluctuations in Wytham Woods between 15 May and June 15 for 2023-2026. Orange and green lines represent mean hourly temperatures from 218 temperature loggers in 2026 (orange) and 2023-2025 (green). The grey line and ribbon represent the mean daily temperature ± mean daily temperature range from the Central England Temperature dataset (CET; 1772-2025)

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📊🦅Different demographic drivers of recovery in two adjacent populations of a long-lived bird of prey vist.ly/5gv52 #HaliaeetusAlbicilla #IntegratedPopulationModel #PopulationDynamics #Raptor #TotalPopulationSize

Grid maps of Northern Europe from 1970 to 2022 showing climate data changes.

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Revisiting the Sandwich Tern outbreaks - mortality biased towards older individuals (40% mortality) vs young individuals (5-10%). = removed most experienced individuals from the population. No sex bias observed. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rona Learmonth @rona-learmonth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to share this joint first-author paper with @andreaestandia.bsky.social, now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We combined translocations, common garden experiments and genomic analyses to test for local adaptation to individual tree phenology in winter moths 🌳🐛 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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No evidence of fine-scale local adaptation of winter moths to variable tree phenology | Proceedings B | The Royal Society

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Elize Ng @elizeyxng.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📢 New paper! More ice-free land ≠ more Antarctic seabirds. 🐧 Using climate analogs from 10 million years ago, we found seabirds tended to thrive during cooler periods and declined during warmer ones. More breeding land can't compensate for a disappearing food supply. 🧊🌊 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

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Responses of Antarctic seabird populations to past climate change

Higher-order predators such as Antarctic seabirds serve as ecological indicators of environmental change and provide a crucial trophic link between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their pr...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026

How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?

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Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 27/08/2026

as rising seas drown their nests along the US east coast, saltmarsh sparrows have declined by ≥90% this century. now, trump's interior department is gutting the endangered species act, and extinction looms for this long-overlooked songbird today in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

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This Little Bird Is in Big Trouble—and Trump Is Making Things Worse

The Saltmarsh Sparrow’s numbers are cratering. Why isn’t the government doing something about it?

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Hengxing Zou @hengxingzou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You might have seen the paper @science.org last week on the solar panels decreasing bird biodiversity. Our reanalysis, led by the talented Yangkang Chen, found fundamental, retraction-worthy flaws in their results, especially from the citizen science data and their models… (1/6)

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Andrea Fuller @andreafuller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Come join us at the Third Biannual Lund Thermal Biology Symposium on 27-29 October in Sweden. @conphysjournal.bsky.social is sponsoring travel grants to help students and ECRs attend. www.biology.lu.se/lundthermal2...

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Animal health, reproduction and survival in the age of humans 27–29 October 2026

Lund University.

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Point Blue Conservation Science @pointblue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🦉🧪🌎 The #BirdReturns summer wetland habitat program just wrapped, and the results are in! This year, we provided habitat for dozens of species of breeding and migratory birds, including secretive species like bitterns and rails. Pictured: Least Bittern emerging from the marsh for a quick snapshot!

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I agree with Luke, come join us! Tons of really great work happening here that is being done by a lot of really great people.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great new book from my friend and colleague Pim Edelaar: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Interior has reassigned ~30 of its most senior career staffers. Among those losing their longtime positions? The woman who directed the National Wildlife Refuge System for the last 10 years, and the man who ran the migratory bird program for the last 15.

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‘They Want Us All To Leave’: Interior Reassigns Dozens of Senior Staff

Around 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise.

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 25/08/2026

Scientists published today the world’s first climate attribution study to link major fossil fuel emitters’ emissions to water loss in the Western U.S. Almost half of decreased snowpack and streamflow in the region, they found, is attributable to 122 oil, gas and cement producers.

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The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says - Inside Climate News

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.

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Julie Lockwood @lockwoodlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New paper out! 📢 We synthesized evidence on offshore wind and birds. The biggest takeaway: we know a lot about which species may be vulnerable, but surprisingly little about how impacts accumulate across multiple wind farms and how much mortality populations can sustain. doi.org/10.1007/s002...

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