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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler. Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ... www.psu.edu/news/eberly-... 🦉🧪

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Warblers borrow color-related genes from evolutionary neighbors, study finds | Penn State University

A new study has uncovered several instances of wood warblers — some of the most colorful birds in North America — passing color-related genes to other wood warbler species, including those that are no...

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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I mean, the title says it all: Genetic confirmation of an “uncommon mourningthroat” (Geothlypis philadelphia × G. trichas): A rare but persistent hybrid warbler. Fun stuff with @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social and Kurt Gielow, OA in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social! 🦉 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A five panel figure, with four showing photographs of a putative hybrid warbler between a mourning warbler and a common yellowthroat. The final panel shows an illustration of the bird by David Sibley

A three panel figure showing the genetic composition of the hybrid and the putative parental species. Two panels show points on a principal components analysis, with the hybrid falling intermediate. The final panel shows bars illustrating genome-wide admixture, with the hybrid having intermediate ancestry between the two.

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TropBioLab @tropbiolab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦‍⬛

Comparative genomics reveal positive selection underlying mating signal diversification across bowerbirds
Lan-Nhi Phung, Gerald Borgia, J. Albert C. Uy
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

#AOS2025 don't miss @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social's talk at 11:15am on Wednesday in the Genomics 2 session (Ballroom C). We're cooking up some cool stuff with @mbtoomey.bsky.social on warbler carotenoid processing enzymes! 🦉🧪

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Steph Szarmach @stephszarmach.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Some good news for a Friday morning: it's been a long road, but this work from my M.S. is now published! Using RAD-seq data, we assessed genetic diversity and the demographic history of the world's second largest migratory wildebeest population in Zambia's Greater Liuwa Ecosystem

An image of a blue wildebeest grazing with a graph of effective population size over time below

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

As a comic relief I present to you the worst name ever for an R package

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William Jones @jacanajones.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.

A male Collared Flycatcher caught at one of the field sites. A small black and white bird being held in a hand. There is an open woodland background.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thank you so much—and I’m looking forward to see your work as well!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

Washington Post news items:

National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals

NIH stops new research as part of health communications pause

Researchers funded by Education Department told they need agency permission to publish results.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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USAspending.gov

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Seeing and hearing that NSF panels & reviews shut down. Again, for the love of science, this is not the time for scientists to be quiet..speak up if you can and push Uni administrators to do so as well.

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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hey #SICB2025 - interested in adaptive radiation? Morphological evolution? Cool birds? Just trying to figure out where to start tomorrow morning? I’ll be presenting the results of my first dissertation chapter, looking at diversification in Malagasy vangas, in A601 at 8:45am!

An image of my title slide. The title of the talk is “Tempo and mode of trait evolution in the adaptive radiation of Malagady vangas”. The authors are Anya Auerbach, Euan Lim, and Sushma Reddy, who are affiliated with the University of Minnesota and Bell Museum of Natural History. The text is surrounded by five photographs of different species of vangas, which look impressively different from one another.

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

conclusions and tidbits: - there might be a Vancouver-only Townsend’s warbler dialect - vireos are still complicated - the Rockies boundary holds very well - clustering methods are still cool - the Macaulay Library rules

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

something coming from me, watch this space tomorrow 👀🐦🎶

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Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska @krynadachowska.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New warbler paper /w Anna María Calderón & Zachary Szpiech. Kirtland's warblers were ESA delisted in part because of 👍 management. What wasn't known at the time—and we show here—is that they have a striking footprint of inbreeding in their DNA🦉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 📸 Nathan Cooper

Male Kirtland's warbler perched in a Jack Pine

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BWEEMS @official-bweems.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Are you a Black woman in any subfield of Ecology, Evolution or marine science? Come join BWEEMS, learn about our community and all of the programs we offer! Spread the word, Black women supporting Black women! #BlackSky #BlackinSTEM #BlackSTEM #WomeninSTEM #BlackinAcademia

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/11/2024

One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

I passed my defense! Officially a bird doctor 🧪🐦🎓

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Hi friends (or foe, idk how y’all feel about me)! I’m defending my dissertation in exactly three weeks!! There’s gonna be a whole lot of big talk about vocalization—check the word cloud for deeds. DM me if you wanted a zoom link 🐦 May 6, 2024 @ 1PM EDT

A powerpoint title slide in blue and white, with a Penn State shield on top right.
Text:
May 6th, 2024
Dissertation Defense
The Biogeography and Genomics of Vocalizations in North American Passerines
Lan-Nhi Phung
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Biology
Advisor: David Toews, Ph.D.

A word cloud. Some of the words are:
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acoustic
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individuals
variation
calls
spectrum
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frequency
distance
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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

currently accepting suggestions of cheesy evolution quotes to end my dissertation with thank u sm!!!! 🐦

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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Share your science at #AOS24 in Estes Park, CO! Our call for Abstracts for Oral Presentations & Posters for closes on 3/17 (firm deadline). Details are on our meeting website! meeting.americanornithology.org/aos-2024-cal...

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Happy Send your abstracts to coauthors Weekend to @amornith.bsky.social members who celebrate 🐦 reminder that it’s due on Sunday, you’re welcome

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

By 30, your face should be a knife. By 30, you should have a barbed tongue longer than your arm. By 30, you should be able to slam your head into a tree 20 times per second. By 30, you should be able to withstand an acceleration of 1,400 g’s. By 30, you should be a woodpecker.

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

omg a dissertation is just three sorta-publishable manuscripts in a trench coat

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Lan Nhi /ˈlanniː/ @lannhiphung.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

#BirdsNamesforBirds because it’s very annoying trying to write possessive nouns with some dudes’ names already attached to it

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