Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniLiam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026there is nothing - I mean this, nothing - as biologically cool to me as the fact that bird produce coherent plumage patches on their wings by overlapping portions of different feathers 211130
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniWilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Do you illustrate birds? We are seeking new artists to contribute frontispiece illustrations for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, and would especially like to highlight artwork made by members of the WOS and our colleagues. Details here!wilsonsociety.orgCall for Bird Illustrators for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology!Do you illustrate birds? We are looking for frontispiece illustrators for our journal! 14756
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience. 20885460
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New paper in @bou.org.uk's Ibis: there is still no comprehensive database of bird type specimens. Many major collections have no published type catalogue at all. Where they exist, they're often print-only, partial, or decades out of date. 🧵 16527
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We propose a unified, publicly accessible database of avian type specimens, modelled on existing portals for spiders, flies and orthopterans. Better findability = better science, especially for researchers in the Global South. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithologyonlinelibrary.wiley.comTowards a unified publicly accessible database of avian type specimensType specimens represent the crucial physical reference for any scientific bird name, but type material is scattered widely across the globe, and there is still no one comprehensive source documentin.... 1346
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniKeith Bayless @thekeithing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sustained investment in specimen-based taxonomic research is key to moving towards effective conservation. iucn.org/news/202607/...iucn.orgFrom collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museumsThe IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,... 12418
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Tá cada vez mais difícil agradar os alunos da universidade. Ao menos to tentando direcioná-los para uma vida mais saudável 🤷♂️ 😁 120
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAlexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10rdcu.beCitizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AINature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI 5218143
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniRafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Madonna was RIGHT THERE IN THE STADIUM!!!! What a missed opportunityyoutu.beMadonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Official Video)YouTube video by Madonna 031
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniWilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026📣 We are hiring a new Communications Specialist! This is a remote, flexible independent contractor role. We're seeking candidates with experience in science communication and familiarity with WordPress, social media tools, etc. Please share widely!wilsonsociety.orgJob Opening: Communications Specialist (Contract)Are you a science communicator interested in a flexible, remote, part-time role with an ornithological society? Read on! 069
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniBiodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪bit.lyBHL User ExperienceBHL is beginning a major modernisation of its platform. We’d like users to help shape what comes next. This 3–5 minute survey asks about how you use BHL and the improvements you’d like to see. Your r... 01915
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026My perfectionism does not align totally with dr. Maddison’s (as predicted in the text itself). But this piece is a very good one. Fully recommended. 😁 010
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniPaul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 06/07/2026🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share! 17258
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniRafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Excited to share the (modest) results of our monitoring of bird-building collisions at Rice University, along with the hot and probably ill-informed takes of an evolutionary biologist dabbling into conservation for the first time!!! With huge thanks to... ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...ecoevorxiv.orgNatural history models of bird–building collisions 11310
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Nice work. And the authors included Wikiaves — great! ❤️ 042
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniHumberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026An Ecuadorian biologist is accused of scientific misconduct, inflating species counts, mishandling animals, entering reserves without permission and potentially complicating the development of lifesaving snake antivenoms. For more than a year, I investigated him for @science.org:science.orgDid this scientist go too far trying to save Ecuador’s wildlife?Alejandro Arteaga’s efforts to identify and protect tropical reptiles and amphibians have entangled him in controversy 12111
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniLiam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee.... 57627
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniThe Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off. 4545661269
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAlberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark) 06223
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19/04/2026🧵 1/3 @adriftlab.bsky.social has never had government funding. What we have had - for nearly two decades - is a small group of deeply committed people, long-term datasets, and a community who makes it possible. Our website now celebrates that out loud. 🔗 adriftlab.orgadriftlab.orgMarine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift LabAdrift Lab is a research group focused on seabirds and marine plastics research. Our mission is to use insights gathered from our long-term research to inform marine and waste policy, and to drive pos... 1199
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAlberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by Stanley Somogyi, we suggest that ancestrally variable characters stabilized independently in different bird lineages, causing distantly related groups to retain similar traits and creating headaches for bird systematists. www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪 16225
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniEmily V Griffith @e-v-griffith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8c.orgHave you seen this petition yet?The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support! 02328
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniKevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRNc.orgThe Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? 1913
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Funny fact: most people ignore that every photo/video of an ET with 4 members, 2 eyes etc. is a proof in itself that it is fake. We have four 3-part limbs etc. because we are tetrapods. Believing in such ETs means Tiktaalik & allies could travel to other planets ~400 mya! 000
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 24/03/2026We need to correct (and further improve) the maps for two sister South American thrushes: Hauxwell’s and Cocoa. Dear bird recordists: please pay attention to calls, too - they allow species recognition way better than songs in this case (and in thrushes and maybe Oscines in general?) #ornithology 054
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 24/03/2026🚨New paper alert🚨 Proud to share the first paper by my student Nathália Victória. We show that plumage pattern of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus converge in central Amazonia, but that is not intergradation. Voice allows clear segregation between the 2 spp. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comTaxonomic signal in the calls of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus (Passeriformes: Turdidae) challenges the intergradation hypothesis and refines their distribution - Ornithology ResearchOrnithology Research - Diagnosing cryptic species has long posed a challenge in ornithology. However, advances in vocal and molecular analyses have significantly enhanced species recognition. In... 131
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniCamila Seslaf @camseslaf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Bolsonaro jamais mandaria Bolsonaro cumprir pena em casa. Bolsonaro chamaria os atendimentos médicos recebidos por Bolsonaro de regalia e desperdício de dinheiro público. Bolsonaro debocharia com gosto de Bolsonaro. 5304116
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniWilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Check out the amazing lineup of workshops for #AFOWOS2026! Join us in Newport this summer to learn about bird tracking technologies for beginners, visualizing and analyzing bird movement data in R, and training sound into discovery with bioacoustics. #ornithologyafowos2026.orgWorkshopsWorkshops The goal of a workshop is to provide participants the opportunity to gain experience with a specific skill, field or analytical technique. Workshops will take place the day before the sta… 073
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniJessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! 🎶 In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearly—making sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field. 35515
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniJente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Presenting my newest #ornithology game: Ratite Runner! 😀 jenteottie.github.io/RatiteRunner/ Pick your favorite flightless bird, use the power-ups wisely and avoid the obstacles. Enjoy! 12010
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Maybe our dear friends from UK can help? @alexanderlees.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social I believe good UK libraries should have both journals. Thanks in advance! 110
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Very interesting use of BirdNET. I believe such tools will be increasingly useful for taxonomy from now on. Nonetheless, to be fair, I must say Bret Whitney was the first to point out the distinct song of the new C. raucisona, almost 20 years ago! 🙂 110
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Dear fellows from the outer worlds… Anyone with access to the following works that could provide a copy/scan/pics? Boles W. 1990 Glowing parrots—need for a study of hidden colours. Birds Int., 3, 76–79. Boles W. 1991 Black light signature for birds. Aust. Nat. Hist., 23, 752. Deeply grateful! 025
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniWilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.wilsonsociety.orgCall for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees WaivedThe Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces… 067
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAlexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Our new paper led by Madson Freitas shows that global demand for Açaí, a dietary staple for Amazonian people, now marketed as a superfood, is driving widespread estuarine forest degradation leading to impoverishment of their bird communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology 🌎🍴🪶🌴 04627
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniMario R. Moura / LaBEC @mariormoura.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Check out our latest study on how biological, geographic, and historical factors influence the robustness of mammal species descriptions, published in @journalsysevo.bsky.social 🐒🦥🦇🐁. Follow the thread 🧵(1/7). @mmoroti.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social t.co/F9mzkWjq0z 187
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 12/01/2026🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology 🪶 075
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniJuliana Soto Patiño @julisoto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026🚨Paper alert🚨 We studied the permanent chewing louse genus Myrsidea to revisit the long-debated evolutionary and biogeographic history of Sapayoa aenigma, finding signals consistent with an extra-Neotropical origin of the parasite lineage. 📄 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 1117
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniIan MacGregor-Fors @macgregorfors.bsky.social · 25/12/2025📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2 21010
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 23/12/2025This may interest folks who work with bird roadkills. The many years working with museum specimens helped hugely in identifying some spp. based on (sometimes) scarce visible traits. You can read the full text here: rdcu.be/eV0Jp #ornithologyrdcu.beSeasonal Patterns of Vertebrate Roadkill in the Transitional Zone Between Cerrado Savannas and Northern Pantanal, Brazil 053
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 23/12/20252025 hasn’t closed yet: happy to share a “last-minute”paper I had the pleasured to help. It was a challenge to ID some bird “pancakes” 😕, but it is a good detective work based on details of bird plumage + anatomy. Overall, a sad picture of roadkills. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comSeasonal Patterns of Vertebrate Roadkill in the Transitional Zone Between Cerrado Savannas and Northern Pantanal, Brazil - WetlandsWe evaluate when and which vertebrate species are affected by roadkill on two roads between the Cerrado savannas and the Brazilian Pantanal floodplain. During 36 months, we recorded 2,972 carcasses of... 210
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 15/12/2025🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology 🪶 01514
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAtila Iamarino @atila.bsky.social · 28/11/2025“Congresso vota por menos água, mais incêndios, mais poluição, comida mais cara e mais desastres ambientais ao derrubar vetos.” Deveria ser a chamada.g1.globo.comCongresso ignora especialistas e derruba vetos de Lula a novo licenciamento ambiental | G1Entre os trechos retomados, está o que prevê licenças simplificadas para atividades de baixo potencial poluidor. Governo apelou pela manutenção de vetos, mas foi derrotado. 8400115
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniXeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · 04/11/2025... as of yesterday 1000000+ recordings in XC. Incredible. Thanks for sharing everyone!! #bioacoustics 0143
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniNotas Não Aleatórias @notasnaoaleatorias.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Um texto incrível do @marcosaur3.bsky.social para a Ciência Hoje! cienciahoje.org.br/artigo/a-geo...cienciahoje.org.brA geopolítica das terras-rarasO Brasil tem a segunda reserva mundial de um grupo de elementos químicos estratégicos: as terras-raras. E isso impõe ao país grandes desafios: não só explorá-los comercialmente, mas também fazer isso ... 12112
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 28/10/2025Gradual variation in vocalizations does not support multiple species within the White-shouldered Antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶link.springer.comGradual variation in vocalizations does not support multiple species within the White-shouldered Antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops)Journal of Ornithology - The White-shouldered Antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops) is a widespread Amazonian suboscine bird with ten plumage-based subspecies showing deep mitochondrial genetic... 074
Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Of course, Pterodroma neglecta had to be among the understudied seabird species. 😜 On the other hand, everybody got surprised to see P. inexpectata there! (Hope I do not get banned from NHMUK for this 😂) 182
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 210237
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAndrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025museum job alert 🇨🇦 royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...royalontariomuseum.applytojob.comCurator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career PageApply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada. 01519
Reposted by Vitor PiacentiniAlessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... 19148