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Graham Montgomery

@sierrawormlion.bsky.social
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- Postdoc at the Institute for Bird Populations - he/him - photos my own - grahammontgomery.eco

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about Mona Khalil's life and death, and what it means to do conservation work amid bombs, invasion, and occupation defector.com/mona-khalil-...
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Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike | Defector
For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s, aro...
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
APPLY NOW! Start circa May 1. Candidates need prior birding experience & familiarity with/ songs & calls of western montane birds, a strong desire to learn more, & willingness to face the rigors of fieldwork w/ good humor. Additional training will be provided. More info here: birdpop.org/docs/job...
Photo of a woman standing on an alpine slope with binoculars by Eric Guzman. Text on graphic reads: Field Technicians Needed ASAP for Backcountry Avian Point Counts in Pacific Northwest National Parks. An arrow labeled "This could be you" is pointing at the woman.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Disheartening to learn that after 18 years, founder Ken-ichi Ueda has left iNaturalist, citing irreconcilable differences in the direction of the company. kueda.net/blog/2026/01... He has a Patreon while he figures out his next move: www.patreon.com/cw/kueda
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Why I Left iNaturalist
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and ...
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A bright pink Galah for today's #ArtAdventCalendar! One of the birds that makes me really miss Australia. Waymakers 2023, another oldie. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Galah portrait in front of a burst of pastel colors in the background. The pink and gray cockatoo stretches its neck upright in an alert posture, like it has just seen something that caught its eye.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/12/2025
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
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RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
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Kendall Calhoun @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...
Flyer for the award. Has images of three students interacting with collections materials; text reads:

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Student Collections Study Award
October 1st, 2025 Application Deadline
Application and Details:
https://nhm.org/student-collections-study-award
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Karthik Thrikkadeeri @kartrick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🚨 New paper alert! We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)
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ゲッチョ @gettyo.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
シギゾウムシ
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 30/06/2025
Great article on the rippling effects of ongoing insect declines. "People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun." 🪲🪳🐦 🌎 www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work. I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...! www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
The cover of the book "The Social Wasps of North America". Many wasps of all shapes, sizes, and colors are arranged radially out from the center. The cover of the book "The Cicadas of North America". Many cicadas of all shapes, sizes, and colors are arranged radially out from the center.
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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Congrats to @sierrawormlion.bsky.social for his fantastic Ph.D. work on insect declines and the impact on birds! I'm so pleased to have done this commemorative illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco pondering a tiny world full of bugs and red clover. Species in alt! 🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt #invertebrates 🪶
Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham's work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles).
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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/05/2025
ALPRs are “particularly ripe for abuse in an increasingly authoritarian US, full of lawmakers who want to control women’s bodies.”
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A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas | Arwa Mahdawi
Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion
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Fengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐝🦋🌎🧪 Read more about it here: bit.ly/4jg74V2
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Butterflies And Bees Among The Trees
Long-lasting effects of forestry treatments on bumble bees and butterflies in a Northern California forest.
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
David Wagner's Moths of the World is a marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s moths. Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Pungky Nanda Pratama @pungkynandapratama.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Introduce you Mayer's Coelogyne ( Coelogyne mayeriana ) only native to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Malay peninsula. This species has a bright lime green color with black marking on the lip with a soft citrusy smell. #coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer
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Michael Belitz (he/him) @mikesmothmodels.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Had a fun time writing this perspective with colleagues making a case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Conservation efforts can be directed at multiple ecological scales, from species to ecosystems. This Perspective calls for conservation at the scale of ecological communities or assemblages and discus...
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This nearly decade-old observation was finally identified as fly larva of the genus Rhyncomya thanks to the publication of a new scientific paper and it's our Observation of the Day! Seen in South Africa by peterwebb. Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A pale larva with two red eye spots and 10 appendages.
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Joanna Wu @joannaxwu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay
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In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding
A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
sea slug names for expecting parents: Elysia Doris Calmella Melibe Verconia Pauleo Jorunna Clione Bermudella Cyerce Jason
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 12/08/2024
Here’s that excellent new ad from the United Auto Workers again, from the official UAW channel this time.
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Fight For a Better Life
There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.
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