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Mikko Jimenez @mikkojimenez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Shouts to Georgia Good for CRUSHING this article covering some of my research, love how this turned out :)

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Have you checked out our free Guide to Graduate Studies recently? It's a great starting point for anyone considering a graduate degree related to #ornithology.

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Guide to Graduate Studies in Ornithology in the United States and Canada

Information for undergraduates about graduate degree programs in ornithology.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The people outraged over the academic freedom of Cofnas (which is apparently the freedom to harass & drive a man to suicide) I dont recall your outrage for the profs who got harassed & fired for speaking on Palestine I'm just a silly gal, I guess I dont understand what I'm free to do as an academic

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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

[JOB!] I'm hiring for a really exciting postdoc position. A combination of breeding experiments, conservation genomics, and student mentorship. Room/board at the @amnh.org Southwestern Research Station each summer, 40 months of support, new science building at BSU. Share broadly! ad: bit.ly/4hKaUIL

A human hand holds a medium sized green frog with distinct gray spots and yellow eyes. This is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog, a threatened species native to the southwest US and Mexico.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was told in a meeting of seabird luminaries in 2016 to "work on something that actually mattered" and that "plastic doesn't affect populations; stop wasting your time". Well guess what. Open access paper in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #PlasticPollution

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is the result of 15 years of work. None of it supported by a big grant. Each field season happened on a shoestring (especially the early years) because we knew (we KNEW) something was happening. And the shearwaters' story had to be told.

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The Wildlife Society @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Applications for the Native Student Professional Development program are closing on August 15th! To apply, visit forms.gle/bQoh91r7PXPcKC78A

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Devon DeRaad @devonderaad.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs to start as soon as Fall 2027. Please share with any great early career folks you know who are interested in genomics, birds, and NYC! I will also be at the upcoming AOS meeting this August and would love to connect in Amherst.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/08/2026

Most researchers have nothing on Larry Richardson. Racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years, he seemed like a scientific superstar in the making. Except the studies were gibberish—and Larry is a cat. Learn more on #InternationalCatDay: scim.ag/3SjaUoJ

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 08/08/2026

New research from #ProcB: Female North American passerine birds have lower apparent survival than males doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Ecology #Aves

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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The AOS has launched a Bridge/Completion Grant program to support AOS members who recently lost previously awarded funding as a result of U.S. federal policy changes and grant cuts. Applications due by 15 May 2026. americanornithology.org/awards-grant... 1/3🧵

The text in the image matches the text in the posts exactly.

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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Bird friends: This is a longshot, but does anyone have extra plastic color leg bands for size 0-band birds? Avinet has been out of many colors (e.g. yellow!!) for months and I need more colors to mark Cerulean Warblers in May-June! 🐦 🧪

Strings of plastic color leg bands for birds. From top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, white, gray, brown, black.

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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New paper! @dlfwiley.bsky.social et al. investigated elevational replacement patterns in haemosporidian🩸infections in 🐦 3 vireo species—out now in Oecologia! Excellent to finally see it published after yrs in the works! @barrowevobio.bsky.social @jlwilliamson.bsky.social @msbbirds.bsky.social

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

An early view of this accepted manuscript is now available! I'll share it again once it is typeset and everything, of course. This is the first robin paper out from my dissertation! With coauthors T.J. Benson, Ryan Paitz, Kevin McGraw, & @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

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Laying order predicts avian maternal investment in egg yolk hormones and nutrients but not embryo size in the asynchronously hatching Turdus migratorius (American robin)

Abstract. Parental investment can shape offspring growth, with consequences for sibling–sibling competition and survival. Altricial birds often face severe

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

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Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities

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leland c. graber @bug4bug.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Trans in Natural History Survey 2026

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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege? 💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846 We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Our IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group FrogLog article is now online: www.iucn-amphibians.org/wp-content/u.... We (@kruthsatz.bsky.social , @patricepottier.bsky.social) discuss the importance of life stage-specific 🐸 vulnerability to climate change based on our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

📣 NOW OPEN: Applications for WOS Research Grants! These annual grants support research projects in all areas of #ornithology. The deadline is February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/resea...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/12/2025

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

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Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why

A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…

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Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...

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Housing proximity and vegetation cover affect diel activity patterns of domestic cats (Felis catus) in regionally protected shorelines

Abstract. Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are among the most impactful non-native species globally, causing the extinction of 63 endemic vertebrat

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Add this to your to-do list if you work with undergraduates interested in #ornithology: Applications for our Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grants, which support research projects by undergraduate-mentor collaborations, are open until February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-b...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

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swan 🍃 @pandersera.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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Consider Sharing Health Challenges With Colleagues (opinion)

Being open with my colleagues about my cancer diagnosis has allowed me to access an enormous source of support and comfort.

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!! Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today! The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/

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The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal

Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Please share! Folks at CSU and USDA-APHIS are looking for a #postdoc to predict avian-aircraft collisions around airports. Preferred skills include #avian movement modeling, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, machine learning, and radar #ecology. Apply here: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166... #boost

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Postdoctoral Associate - Predictive Modeler

We are looking for a highly skilled postdoctoral scientist (postdoc) to lead the development of models for predicting wild bird strikes in and around an airport’s airspace in space and time. The objec...

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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
Jennifer L. Lavers b c d
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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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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🦉 Yours truly in the new TWS podcast promo photo! Adam Janke and I were recently interviewed about Out in the Field, the LGBTQIA+ initiative within TWS which I co-organize (wildlife.org/out-in-the-f...) — stay tuned for our episode release! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology? I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social! research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

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The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌 I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters. Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... #Aeroecology #AvianEcology

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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Anyone else here going to TWS this year? 👀

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Natalia Pérez-Amaya @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

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dr. ye$enia @yesenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

hi everyone!! popping back into this space briefly to share the fundraiser for my long-awaited top surgery! eek! we are SO close to reaching my goal! any form of interaction helps, even if you can't donate! thank you, i love you, and keep taking care of each other! #transrights! gofund.me/60c167de1

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Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!, organized by Yesenia Garcia

Hello friends and loved ones of the internet! I'm posting this fund… Yesenia Garcia needs your support for Donate to Dr. Yesenia's top surgery fundraiser!

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Silas E. Fischer, Ph.D. @silasfischer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🐦 Never got around to posting about our paper on Gray Vireo #migration in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social (1 of my MS chapters), but better late than never! We used light-level geolocators to track migration ecology of ♀ and ♂ Gray Vireos from 3 breeding sites in New Mexico and Utah USA… 👇 short🧵 1/

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

ICB Hotter Nights, Hidden Consequences: An Overlooked Dimension of #ClimateChange Amanda W Carter, J Morgan Fleming doi.org/10.1093/icb/... "Global temperatures are shifting in complex ways due to climate change..." #science #biodiversity #temperatures #research #warming

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Reminder: We continue to seek presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, and Methods papers for The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology! We can offer a limited number of Open Access fee waivers each year for these types of papers.

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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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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Science is rarely a linear path from hypotheses to published papers. Here, I tell the story of our many ups and downs during the discovery of pollinator recognition. Hope you enjoy it! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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