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New preprint - phylogenetic analysis of plumage maturation in manakins! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... May be of interest for any of - Lekking birds Social development Plumage & molt Discrete developmental traits Evo-Devo homologies Phylo analysis of graph-like traits

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It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

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Why do gulls stare at their feet?

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What are the largest macroevolutionary impacts of humans? (A) Oncoming extinction of basically all amphibians? (B) Mass extinctions of flightless birds? (C) Destruction of large mammal lineages? (D) Other?

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Inter-annual roost site fidelity of a White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) on the non-breeding grounds | doi.org/10.1080/1559... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

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Spotted this front page in the petrol station while on my way to help survey the Ribble Estuary, which holds a collapsing gull colony: about 10,000 pairs ten years ago, now probably fewer then a thousand #gulls

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If you too enjoy this (excellent) feeling and want it 200 pages in a row check out Pete Coviello's book Long Players

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best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want

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I wrote about how the pandemic forced everyone to be much more online than they used to be, and about how that’s still messing with our glorified ape brains today: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...

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shout out to my downstairs neighbor for waking me up with his 4 AM night shouts

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My students' term papers have titles like "The entire evolutionary history of birds precludes the possibility of viviparity" and "Human-nature dualism and anthropocentrism justified colonization. Now, their legacy hinders our science and understanding of birds." 😍

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The mushroom color atlas is very cool:

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false knees ride or die ever since the bluebird migration comic

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of my innumerable vibes NONE of them have selected for students who want to talk about the Premier League at office hours

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Snakes, being long

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I want a little ant farm with these weird little guys I'd shake it and watch them scurry around

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The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

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Heh, just remembered I made this afterward

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Taxonomic families will continue until morale improves

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Report on an excellent exhibit from Lena Souffrant www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/05...

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At least Konate got to throw a solid shot I'll take it

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people are always being looked at by big white dogs through the woods and frankly I'm sick of it

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I'm always letting everyone down / I'm always letting everyone know I'm down / mhm youtu.be/kCBVvuuY4Jw?...

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Very bad www.science.org/content/arti...

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I see a link to this slow life history marine paper on my feed - immediate block lmao

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this is not meant as a hot take or a unique insight but it's remarkable how a lot of scientific discourse is about methods, data, and findings, whereas what really does most of the heavy lifting happens to be the assumptions

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changing "fewer than three" to "<3" to litter my manuscript with little hearts

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This week in class I told my students that their generation will be uniquely and profoundly burdened with formalizing a conservation ethic that makes no appeals to the concepts of restoration, invasion, or the Natural and they all frowned at me what's up with that

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It's easy, I tell my students, we call them "nine-primaried oscines" because they have ten primaries

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Postdoc alert! 🚨 How do young raptors learn to migrate? 2-year postdoc at Uni. Laussane with @enourani.bsky.social is offered to model evolution of learning strategies for behavioral development. Application deadline is mid-June for a start in Jan 2026: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

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Yakutia: largest breeding ground for migratory birds in Northeastern Siberia. From 2018-23, 1970 cloacal swab samples collected from 56 bird species: 74 AIVs, H3N6, H3N8, H4N6, H5N3, H7N7, H10N3, H11N9 from ducks 👉 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...

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Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

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Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

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Optimal workflow for checking scientific manuscript status: > Log in using web of science > log into web of science > log into web of science via linkedin > log into linkedin via google account > web of science login page hangs > reload manuscript central > log in via web of science (loads)

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