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Doherty Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology - Bowdoin College, Maine - BSS Kent Island | Evolutionary Ecology | Social Behavior | Phylogenetics | Seabirds | Manakins | HPAI | YNWA | they/them
simple country seagull doctor
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Also take a peek if you are interested in the evolution of traits that iteratively regenerate over the course of an organism's life -
Not just plumage, but also instars, antlers, flowers, etc.!
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Includes a supplement detailing some of the pitfalls/possibilities of compressing a biological graph into a character vector for phylogenetic analysis.
But you can also just read it for the little birdies. 🐤🐤
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"The egg, in this sense, becomes both a physical and regulatory unit of independence." ahhhhhhhhhhhh 🤩
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Ideally if also submitted to the inimitable citsci.org/projects/gul... !
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Gulls!
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Rather than just asking students to "pick a research topic" (☹️), I gave them 6 impossible questions to answer, and they had to pick one to answer it.
The conceptually quality of these papers suggests this is a good strategy!
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Another (different J.T.) dove into the story of guano islands, which I'm now convinced should be taught in every Ornithology class.
Yet another (T.B.) argued that many traits viewed as evolutionary "causes" of flightlessness, like long legs and big bodies, are much better seen as "consequences"
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Another (J.T.) made me actually gasp when he taught me something that now seems so obvious -
Even setting aside critiques of the *methods* of western science, one very real consequence of global imperialism is that it kills birds - making it impossible to have anything to study in the first place
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Best of all, they are making me think entirely new thoughts!
One student (S.K.) wrote a rock-solid argument that the best prevention strategy for HPAI is wetland habitat management.
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I am always impressed by the diversity in size, shape and colour of gulls eggs.
These are all lesser black backed gulls nests, visited under license.
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I love bird science and phylogenetic and developmental evolutionary structuralism and avian influenza and queer theory and all my students' amazing fieldwork poems but I also want to profess on
Arne Slot's bald head sunburn
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To be sure, this will be noted in my teaching statement as an important route to improvement
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will this help me theorize my FPS friends and their desk-sized mousepads
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My biggest personal growth of the last 10 years is that this will be my last post about this 😭😭😭
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PS do marine ectotherms next bb
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The amount of work people have put into critiquing a singular fast-slow continuum since literally responses to literally Pianka
at some point this is just spitting in people's faces
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looks like the DOI isn't live yet, use this link for now! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...