Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsAmerican Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It’s not you, it’s your song. In a new study, Luo et al. show that song and morphological differences may reduce gene flow between white-crowned sparrow subspecies. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 074
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/01/2026"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.nytimes.comHe Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males 10578182
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 12/08/2025WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorOnline applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -... 12236
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 28/05/2025If you live in or near the company town of Starbase, TX - let me know what it’s like around launch times? DM’s open here lmk how to get in touch off social or email or ping me on signal. <lora dot kolodny at nbcuni dot com> 14815
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsDaniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project. 10389109
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsTammie Visintainer @proftv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025If you, like me, had you NSF granted terminated, here’s what I learned from a hopeful meeting with my VP of research: 1. We have 30 days to act! Meet with your admin asap 2. APPEAL: Everyone can appeal! It must go through your institution, there’s a template, sent registered mail. My VP told me ⬇️ 7241153
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Given that habitat loss is demonstrably the single biggest threat to endangered species, this move effectively ends protection for most species, and a lot of things will go extinct. 12408244
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsBob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 12/04/20251. We have enough information to act on the climate crisis NOW, even if every single measurement stops. 2. We need to know how bad it's going to get, and if our mitigation efforts are working. These can be true at the same time.insideclimatenews.orgAs NOAA Cuts Continue, Ocean Researchers Worry About Monitoring Programs - Inside Climate NewsPolitical storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five week... 010836
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Intriguing paper by Brandi Pessman and Eileen Hebits, where urban spiders faced with high noise levels build more soundproofed webs: www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comWeb transmission properties vary with a spider’s past and current noise exposurePessman and Hebets show that the funnel-weaving spider’s past and current exposure to environmental noise shapes web vibration transmission. Under loud noise, rural webs retained energy in longer-rang... 010
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsAmerican Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being. Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/ #bringbirdsback 27846
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 26/02/2025apple.news/ABzuEFuVjS6i...apple.newsThis animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it. — VoxIn the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret. 002
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 26/02/2025 A partial preliminary injunction is granted on parts of anti-DEI executive orders. The judge noted that the lawsuit is likely to succeed, as the EO is "textbook viewpoint-based discrimination;the provision expressly targets...the expression of views supportive of DEI." www.aaup.org/news/win-aau...aaup.orgA Win for the AAUP, Higher Ed, and Our CommunitiesLast night, in a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair of executive orders issue... 031
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The U.S. Department of Labor is organizing a protest. Elon Musk’s staff will be present at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., today at 4 p.m. It was mentioned that staff should plan to stay late after the 4 p.m. meeting to assist with setting up Elon Musk staffers into their systems. 27188182262
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 25/01/2025If you work in the federal government (particularly civil rights at DOJ) or state or local agencies that get federal funding, and have info about new anti-DEI and anti-civil rights mandates, please reach out to me on signal at nhannahjones.67. 172359785
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsJacks. Yup! That Damn SOB. 🪶🦬 🐺 🦅 🌎 ⚖️ @palehorse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🪶 Less than a month after those dams have come down in the largest dam removal project in US history, salmon are once more returning to spawn in creeks that have been cut off to them for generations.Video shows that hundreds of salmon have made it to tributaries. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comSalmon are ‘coming home’ to spawn in Klamath River after dams are removedYears long fight by local tribes has paid off after four dams, which had blocked passage for fish for decades, came down 15822
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A reminder from the past to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself: the Cuyahoga River caught fire over a dozen times, leading to change in 1969. Here is an overview of Trump’s reduction in clean water protections during his last term: (1/2) 523729759
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 15/11/2024"In this climate, public intellectuals play an essential role as guardians of engaged citizenship and intellectual integrity, equipping students and the public to see that democracy cannot sustain itself passively; it demands an active, vigilant defense." www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/u...counterpunch.orgUniversities in Dark Times: Beyond the Plague of Neoliberal FascismIn an era marked by unprecedented threats to democracy from rising authoritarian forces, universities—once celebrated citadels of democratic learning and public service—now find themselves caught in a... 48333
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 06/02/2024The Phillips lab at WSU is busy this winter with undergrads working on habitat mapping of nest sites in Texas and New Mexico! Today we had this red-tailed hawk join the fun! 000
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsUTEProadsramp.bsky.social @uteproadsramp.bsky.social · 01/02/2024We are now accepting applications for the UTEP ROADS Post-baccalaureate program! Applications are due March 1st, 2024. See our website for more info! utep.edu/science/ramp/ #RaMP #NSF #UTEProads_ramp #STEM 062
Reposted by Jennifer N. PhillipsSara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 01/12/2023My awesome collaborator Dr. Jennifer Phillips is looking for a postdoc to join our songbird sensory pollution project in New Mexico this spring! ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/p... 054
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 02/12/2023Know any recent PHD’s in bioacoustics, animal behavior, or ornithology? I am looking for a postdoc to start this winter to work on our project understanding sensory pollution effects across biological scales! ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/p...ornithologyexchange.orgAvian Sensory Ecology Postdoctoral FellowAvian Sensory Ecology Postdoctoral Fellow Opening at WSU POSITION DESCRIPTION Position Title: Sensory Ecology Postdoctoral Fellow Department: School of the Environment Location: Pullman, WA with possi... 000
Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 20/09/2023New paper out! We found resident bird have smaller eyes in the bright urban core of San Antonio compared to urban edge habitat, while migratory species do not. Bonus find-younger, smaller painted buntings are left to set up on sensory polluted territories www.eurekalert.org/news-release...eurekalert.orgUrban light pollution linked to smaller eyes in birdsThe bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates. Researchers found that two common songbirds, the Northern Cardinal an... 011