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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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/...

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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?

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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.

NSF by the numbers

$9.06B
NSF's Fiscal Year 2024 enacted budget
93%
Percent of budget supporting research, education and related activities
1,900+
Organizations supported by NSF across every state and U.S. territory
350,000+
Researchers, entrepreneurs, students and teachers supported by NSF

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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.

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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.

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SHOAL @shoalorg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

❌ 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...

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One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction - IUCN Red List - Shoal

One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction – IUCN Red List The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of...

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Peter Santema @petersantema.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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.

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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...

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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

“Can you bump my C to an A?”

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20/12/2024

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

A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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

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Tim O'Connell @tinosaurs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

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!

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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...

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wonder how long it will last this year?

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

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

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

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

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #426,443, Joel Slade ‪@evoecojoel.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 30, 2023"

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

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Elly is 3 birds in a gardening hat @almost-elly.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

"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 🪶

A fledgling house finch with one stray pin feather poking straight up from the top of its head like an antenna perches on a black metal shepherds hook, tilting its head sideways to look at the black metal finch-shaped finial that caps the feeder pole.

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

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

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

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 🧪

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/05/2024

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.

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Amid roadkill epidemic, California builds world’s largest wildlife bridge

The construction is meant to give threatened animals a path over a 10-lane freeway instead of through it, hopefully extending their lives and their habitat.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

🪶 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.

View from above of the top of a Western Kingbird's head. The bird is being held safely by a permitted bird bander and you can see a streak of orange-red feathers peaking from below the gray feathers on the crown of the bird's head.

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William Jones @jacanajones.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

10 eggs? In this economy??

10, bright blue eggs in a nest of dried grass in a nest box

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

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

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Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 25/05/2024

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

Female Eastern Towhee. Note brown head, breast, and back; male towhees have black feathers instead. The orange flanks in females are also slightly desaturated. Photo by OHFalcon72 on Flickr CC2.0 https://flic.kr/p/2pDTKfq

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Samantha biobabbler @biobabbler.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

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

An outdoor photo of a large area of fresh water, glassy and still, reflecting blue sky and clouds, surrounded by a perimeter of earthen berms and trees.

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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

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

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

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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Joel Slade @evoecojoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

birdie 🦆 #489: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ birdiegame.net

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birdie 🐦 #488: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ birdiegame.net

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