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Vitor Piacentini

@piacentini.bsky.social
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Biólogo, ornitólogo, professor @UFMT. Perfil pessoal - Português | English | (tal vez) español (ele/dele) piacentinilab.com

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
there 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
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Do 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!
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Call for Bird Illustrators for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology!
Do you illustrate birds? We are looking for frontispiece illustrators for our journal!
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So 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.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New 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 Where they exist, they're often print-only, partial, or decades out of date. 🧵
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We 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/... #ornithology
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Towards a unified publicly accessible database of avian type specimens
Type 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....
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Keith Bayless @thekeithing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sustained investment in specimen-based taxonomic research is key to moving towards effective conservation. iucn.org/news/202607/...
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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The 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,...
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tá cada vez mais difícil agradar os alunos da universidade. Ao menos to tentando direcioná-los para uma vida mais saudável 🤷‍♂️ 😁
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our 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 🧵 1/10
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Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Madonna was RIGHT THERE IN THE STADIUM!!!! What a missed opportunity
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Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Official Video)
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Wilson 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!
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Job Opening: Communications Specialist (Contract)
Are you a science communicator interested in a flexible, remote, part-time role with an ornithological society? Read on!
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Help 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 🧪
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BHL User Experience
BHL 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...
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My 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. 😁
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Paul 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!
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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Excited 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...
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Natural history models of bird–building collisions
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Nice work. And the authors included Wikiaves — great! ❤️
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Humberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
An 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:
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Did 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
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Colony 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....
PHOTO CREDIT FRANCESCO VENTURA. (One of the best seabird researchers working now -- check out Francesco's work!). In front center left, a prebreeding Black-Browed Albatross visits the breeding colony on Steeple Jason.
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I 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.
David Attenborough and one of his creations.
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)
Diagram showing hypothesized life history and ecological relationships of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
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Dr 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.org
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Marine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift Lab
Adrift 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...
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A 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... 🪶🧪
A diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among modern birds. The branches are color coded by the estimated likelihood of retaining ancestral character variability, with higher likelihoods in red.
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Emily V Griffith @e-v-griffith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As 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/Db5WKdZSQ8
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Have you seen this petition yet?
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The 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/Rkpyfx9HRN
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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Funny 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!
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We 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
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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...
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Taxonomic signal in the calls of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus (Passeriformes: Turdidae) challenges the intergradation hypothesis and refines their distribution - Ornithology Research
Ornithology Research - Diagnosing cryptic species has long posed a challenge in ornithology. However, advances in vocal and molecular analyses have significantly enhanced species recognition. In...
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Camila Seslaf @camseslaf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Bolsonaro 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.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Check 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. #ornithology
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Workshops
Workshops 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…
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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Want 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.
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Presenting 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!
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Maybe 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!
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Very 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! 🙂
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Dear 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!
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This 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.
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Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived
The 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…
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our 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 🌎🍴🪶🌴
Blackish-grey Antshrike (Thamnophilus nigrocinereus) a specialist negatively impacted by acai densification (Alex Lees)açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) density is being rapidly increased by removing other tree species (Alex Lees)berries of the açaí palm  (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in situ (Alex Lees)
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Mario R. Moura / LaBEC @mariormoura.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Check 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
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British 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 🪶
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Juliana 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...
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Ian 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
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This 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 #ornithology
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Seasonal Patterns of Vertebrate Roadkill in the Transitional Zone Between Cerrado Savannas and Northern Pantanal, Brazil
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
2025 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...
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Seasonal Patterns of Vertebrate Roadkill in the Transitional Zone Between Cerrado Savannas and Northern Pantanal, Brazil - Wetlands
We 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...
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British 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 🪶
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Atila 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.
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Congresso ignora especialistas e derruba vetos de Lula a novo licenciamento ambiental | G1
Entre os trechos retomados, está o que prevê licenças simplificadas para atividades de baixo potencial poluidor. Governo apelou pela manutenção de vetos, mas foi derrotado.
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Xeno-canto @xeno-canto.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
... as of yesterday 1000000+ recordings in XC. Incredible. Thanks for sharing everyone!! #bioacoustics
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Notas Não Aleatórias @notasnaoaleatorias.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Um texto incrível do @marcosaur3.bsky.social para a Ciência Hoje! cienciahoje.org.br/artigo/a-geo...
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A geopolítica das terras-raras
O 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 ...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 28/10/2025
Gradual variation in vocalizations does not support multiple species within the White-shouldered Antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
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Gradual 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...
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Vitor Piacentini @piacentini.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Of 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 😂)
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Hey 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...
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Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences
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Alexander L. Bond b c
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• Decade-long review of >2,950 seabird conference abstracts.
• Over 30% of seabird species are rarely or never featured at scientific conferences
• Several seabirds listed as Critically Endangered have received little or no attention.
• 16 seabird species are over-represented in conferences.
• Southern Hemisphere seabirds require greater research attention.
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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
museum job alert 🇨🇦 royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
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Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Out 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...
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