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Jeff Buler

@jbuler.bsky.social
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Aeroecology • Bird migration • Light pollution • HPAI • Professor of Wildlife Ecology at University of Delaware • Be kind

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Jeff Buler @jbuler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
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Opinion | Burnin’ Down the House
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Making America poorer again: each US $1 million invested by the NIH in health research generates about $2.5 million in economic activity. NIH funding produced $94 billion in new economic activity and supported more than 400,000 jobs in 2024 alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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Jeff Buler @jbuler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Think all barriers for migrating birds are natural like deserts and seas? Not so! I helped discover that the man-made Corn Belt is also a barrier to migration for many birds. Check out more about my study here...
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America's Corn Belt acts as barrier for migrating songbirds | Cornell Chronicle
The vast agricultural landscape of the U.S. Midwest known as the Corn Belt acts as a barrier for migrating landbirds, causing them to adjust their flight behaviors similar to when crossing natural bar...
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Fengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Grateful to collaborate with an amazing team on this work. @jbuler.bsky.social, Adriaan Dokter, @kyle-horton.bsky.social, @emlbcohen.bsky.social, Dan Sheldon, Jaclyn Smolinsky, and David Wilcove.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees. These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...
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NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
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Jeff Buler @jbuler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This could also jeopardize access to important climate and weather data for research.
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Judy Shamoun-Baranes @judyshamounb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you @bou.org.uk for nominating me for the award lecture and to a great audience, who had my heart racing for the whole talk! Now time to relax and enjoy talks to come on Frontiers in #ornithology @ #BOU2025. Special shout out to @natbzielonka.bsky.social for the thread below
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Ying-Chi (Ginny) Chan @chanyingchi.github.io · 02/04/2025
How does the migration of Swiss red kites change with age? Check out the blog post about our Elton Prize shortlisted paper! @vogelwarte.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Birds will be arriving soon! This map shows peak migration dates across the US modeled using radar data. Keep in mind, the dates represent peaks, but migration usually plays out across a couple of weeks, so estimate ± 1 week on either side of the dates on the map for max migration activity.
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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So pleased to see this article about the incredible migration of flies on @theconversation.com! Fly migration is so vitally important to humans but massively under-appreciated. I'd love to spread the word further - could anyone help? theconversation.com/flies-are-ma...
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Flies are masters of migration – it’s about time they got some credit
Flies are the most ecologically diverse and important migrant group. We just had no idea.
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Jeff Buler @jbuler.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This does not make America great. We ignore climate change to our detriment.
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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here’s another reason to support bird conservation—Birds contribute $279 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.4 million jobs. 💸 #Birds are big business!
Graphic for State of the Birds Report 2025 featuring a vibrant Blackburnian Warbler perched on a branch, with text emphasizing the importance of investments in healthy habitats for bird populations.  Investments in healthy habitats are investments in what matters most to Americans. Photo by Owen Deutsch.
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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Now this is exciting. Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds! Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Screenshot of the paper front page.
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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · 05/03/2025
Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
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European data on animals aloft now publicly available
Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...
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NPR @npr.org · 04/03/2025
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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ligirl66.bsky.social @ligirl66.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 27/02/2025
Near-absence of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in Little Terns Sternula albifrons across 13 European countries | www.tandfonline.com/... | @birdstudy.bsky.social | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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Ziva Branstetter @zivabranstetter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New from @propublica.org: We studied a massive set of hospital discharge data to see what happened after Texas banned abortion. …
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/02/2025
Radar revelations: insect availability influences parental provisioning in breeding tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor | doi.org/10.1111/jav.... | @avianbiology.bsky.social | #ornithology 🪶
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Radar revelations: insect availability influences parental provisioning in breeding tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor - Simons - 2025 - Journal of Avian Biology - Wiley Online Library
Airspace habitat is essential foraging space for tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor, which rely on flying insects as their main source of food. Insect availability can change quickly from hour-to-ho...
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Jeff Buler @jbuler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Basic science is important for medical discoveries. Thank Gila monsters for Ozempic!
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1
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Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk of catching virus
The majority of the doses will be handed out to provinces and territories, which will decide when and where to deploy the shots
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 21/02/2025
Transmission dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza among multiple waterfowl species and backyard poultry: the impact of the stopover period | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
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Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/02/2025
1/ Within one week of releasing our action alert, almost 10k UCS supporters have sent emails to their members of Congress to support the passing of the Scientific Integrity (SI) Act. Looking for a quick way to add your voice and support for Scientific Integrity? Use the link below!
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Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists
Scientists working for the federal government need safeguards to do evidence-based work and to inform our nation’s policymaking without political interference. Urge Congress to support the Scientific ...
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Mikko Jimenez @mikkojimenez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Excited to write about the first chapter of my dissertation, which was supported by @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social and published awhile back!
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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ornithology folks, here is a VERY cool job opportunity that appears to be relatively independent of the federal $h!t $h0w. Do you just love research and birds and want to get on with saving the world? apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29599
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Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19/02/2025
💥ATTENTION FEDS💥 All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/02/2025
Scientists, doctors and public health professionals at the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, the FDA, and other federal agencies have been fired under President Trump’s effort to shrink the government.
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Help our Flocks Project take flight! We all need a space to feel we belong & are supported. This is what our Flocks Project—our joint effort with Wilson Ornithological Society & Association of Field Ornithologists—aims to do for ornithologists. Donate today! www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Read the latest blog post on Wing Beat, "Using weather radar and automated flight call monitoring to sample migration in the American West" by Dylan M. Osterhaus. Blog post: americanornithology.org/using-weathe... Related paper: academic.oup.com/condor/advan... #ornithology #nocturnalmigration
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Using weather radar and automated flight call monitoring to sample migration in the American West - American Ornithological Society
How to describe something we cannot see? This challenge defines nocturnal bird migration research. Every spring and fall, millions of birds fly through the night, journeying between wintering and bree...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Nocturnal flight call recordings have revealed how different songbird species cooperate during migration. Cool #ornithology research led by WOS member Benjamin Van Doren!
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Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species
Songbirds may socialize across species during nighttime migrations
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our friends at the Ornithological Council are seeking volunteer editors, chapter leads, & chapter authors for a new edition of the Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research. Check out their call for volunteers and get in touch if you're interested! #ornithology ornithologyexchange.org…
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Call for volunteers: New edition of the Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research
The Ornithological Council is planning a new edition of the Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research. This foundational publication provides an in-depth guide to animal welfare considerations…
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 14/01/2025
Integrating multi-scale terrestrial and atmospheric predictors enhance nocturnal bird migration forecasts | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology
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Integrating multi-scale terrestrial and atmospheric predictors enhance nocturnal bird migration forecasts
Abstract. Our ability to forecast the spatial and temporal patterns of ecological processes at continental scales has drastically improved over the past de
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