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Shannon Curley

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Postdoc at Cornell Lab of Ornithology using radar to study offshore bird migration with the BirdCast Team

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 23/10/2025
A new study looks at bird migration patterns over open ocean in an attempt to assess how much risk offshore wind turbines and other marine infrastructure might pose to them.
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Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds
When songbirds migrate through the Americas, they often cut through sections of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to save energy. A new study looks at their flying patterns in an attempt to…
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US vist.ly/32j8j #BetaDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings
Text reads: No Kings. Okay, maybe this one…

The photo is of a male King Eider, a very fancy sea duck. 

Meme by E Kistler.
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
New paper out led by the awesome @peterw-ecol.bsky.social ! Check out how winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US are becoming phylogenetically and functionally more similar to each other over time (and in such an interesting way!)
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Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US
Around the world, ecological communities are becoming more similar to one another in a process known as biotic homogenization – an increase in similarity among communities over time. While biotic hom....
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My last trip to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a postdoc 😭 I will truly miss this place! I have the best boss and colleagues and grateful for my 2+ years of growing professionally and personally. Not sure what happens next but forever grateful for this experience ❤️
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Christian John @jepsonnomad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏 go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Last year I had the opportunity to try a Zeiss DTI 4/50 thermal imaging camera to study nocturnal bird migration. It was awesome! I have hours of footage - can anyone recommend ways I can enhance the videos or darken the background? Also, note the ✈️ taking off from JFK 🤣
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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...
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A gentle introduction to an integrated occupancy model that combines presence-only and detection/non-detection data, and how to fit it in `JAGS`
Species distribution models (SDMs) are useful tools in ecology and conservation biology. As the name implies, SDMs are used to estimate species presence or abundance across geographic space and throug...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍
The publish-or-perish culture in academia has catalysed the development of an unethical publishing system. This system is characterised by the proliferation of journals and publishers unaffiliated with learned societies or universities— that maintain extremely large revenues and profit margins diverting funds away from the academic community. Early career researchers (ECRs) are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of this publishing system because of intersecting factors, including pressure to pursue high impact publications, rising publication costs and job insecurity. Moving towards a more ethical system requires that scientists advocate for structural change by making career choices that come with risks, many of which disproportionately impact ECRs. We illuminate major issues facing ECRs in Ecology and Evolution under the current publishing system, and propose a portfolio of actions to promote systemic change that can be implemented by ECRs and established researchers.
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Excited to share this paper that has been in the works for some time! We demonstrate the homogenization between winter and breeding bird communities across the northeastern United States and highlight individual species/groups contributing to this change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Erosion of Seasonality in Avian Communities
Aim Seasonality governs species composition at a given place and time. However, the effects of climate and land-use change can vary by season, altering species composition. These changes can lead to.....
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
This pretty much sums up my adventures in machine learning 🤣
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
I mean, yeah, I guess…
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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 01/03/2024
You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
BirdCast is officially back for the spring migration season, yay!!!!!
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Live bird migration maps - BirdCast
See real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology curr...
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
This is the best day of my life 💚
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Couch potato 🦜
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Ughhh why are SLF such freakin jerks 🤬?! Good thing it is a slow migration night because I have no idea how long it has been on the lens…
Pesky spotted lanternfly on the lens of a thermal imaging camera
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Some super scientific stuff happening here :)
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
So happy to see North Park open to the public! For 8 years I’ve had the opportunity to study the wildlife returning to Freshkills Park. The decades of planning, engineering and construction of this beautiful green space is beyond impressive.
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How ‘Mt. Trashmore’ was conquered: Key figures recall landfill fight as Freshkills Park nears op...
“Everything was designed to delay any alternative and to keep the landfill going,” said Borough President Vito Fossella.
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
He hates my guts 🤣
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
FINALLY got back to Freshkills Park yesterday, and the birding was incredible! Here’s a very photogenic Yellow-billed Cuckoo and a less photogenic Red-headed Woodpecker (only my 3rd for Staten Island)
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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...
A hexagonal design with the words lterdatasampler at the top. Within the border are plants, animals and weather patterns representing the different datasets currently in the package.
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
“Pending Decision” is the most stressful status update in the manuscript submission process… I know better but decided to go against my better judgement to check the status anyways 😭
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
After yesterdays mass avian collision/mortality event in Chicago, I have gotten a lot of questions from friends and colleagues about how the public can help. I have a list of suggestions specific to NYC/NYS but if anyone has broader resources to share please let me know!
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Any #news media folks on here want to get the ball rolling? Much of the public remains unaware of events like these without reporters shining a spotlight on the issue. And public awareness is necessary to get building owners to make changes. #birds
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
More information from BirdCast on the mass collision/mortality event in Chicago. Light Out initiatives are important, as is bird safe design as many collisions occur during the day!
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Major collision event in Chicago, 4-5 October 2023 - BirdCast
Reports from the Chicago, Illinois area indicate that large numbers of birds died in collisions while major migration was occurring in the area on the night of 4-5 October 2023. Although details are s...
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
This is just horrific
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
A flock of budgies is not what I had on my backyard bird migration bingo card… currently have FOUR parakeets visiting my bird feeder… been trying to catch all day…
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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Me waiting for the birds to discover that the bird feeder is back out for the season…
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