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I’ve decided to pursue my LLC full time after my postdoc ends July 2026! If you need a #dataanalyst for anything related to #statisics, #wildlife or #ecology, keep me in mind. Fast results and years of stats experience all for reasonable rates and the knowledge you’re helping a small business!

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When a young George Gershwin sought to study composition in Paris, Maurice Ravel declined, writing to Gershwin "Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?" I often think of that. Why would I want to be a second-rate Ravel when I could be a first-rate me.

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

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By @ember-energy.org 's estimate, US solar generation this May exceeded US coal generation in either March or April of last year. Despite the recent uptick of US coal, seems like by next spring we may see the first full month in which solar provides more electricity than coal. 🔌💡

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I guess I should note, in the interest of self-promotion, that my free monthly email newsletter went out this week! It's got fun bird news from around the web, book recommendations, and musings on birds, birding, and life (more heavy on the "life" side this month). buttondown.com/rheisman/arc...

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After a lot of time spent in the darkness of the wind tunnel, the results finally see the light. I'm very excited to share what will become the first chapter of my thesis. Energy conversion efficiency peaks at intermediate flight speed in a migratory songbird www.cell.com/current-biol...

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I’ve never had a photo selected for a journal cover before 💜 So glad my first was a caterpillar! 🐛 many thanks to @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social for her beautiful photography!

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A really effective visualization of the scope of medical research grants that have been cancelled by the Trump administration from @irenatfh.bsky.social et al. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement." Karl Popper "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Richard Feynman

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It was a mistake to standardize bird names, I wish I could say “look that’s a chunk duck” to my friend from Arkansas and she’d say “oh you mean a bumble-bee-buzzer”

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I’m a new subject-matter editor at Ecology - send your animal physiology research my way!

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Yeah, Georgia Tech nailed this (h/t @urbanizeatl.bsky.social) atlanta.urbanize.city/post/georgia...

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One legged partially leucistic junco mom successfully fledges nestlings. Wonders what sort of world her children are flying off to.

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“All of science is underfunded—and now we really mean it.” Former NSF Director France Córdova on the future of American science. My piece for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.

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The presidents budget ends FS research and closes research stations

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Great piece here featuring Scott Weidensaul discussing the very real possibility of losing the Bird Banding Lab

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Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

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Re-upping this: If you are an ornithologist (ideally U.S.-based) who uses bird banding or BBS data in your work, I'd love to hear from you! You could comment as something like "a scientist from a state university" (for example) if you don't want to use your name.

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🚨🔊Our new paper is out @commsbio.nature.com! 🔥We explore the global variation in speciation rates across >7,000 amphibian species-& the environmental factors that might drive it 🌎⛰️🌡️ Dive into what we found: rdcu.be/eogmd 🙏 @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @juvelas.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social

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My friend is trying to get the most bird species for her state this year on eBird, so I whipped up a little ShinyApp that downloads checklists from the state from the past 5 days and then tells her where to go to find birds she still needs on her list! I gotta find a way to market this haha

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I like to think Phil is a snail

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cool paper alert sea turtles nesting at a Malaysian beach are getting smaller over time, mostly because population is increasing so there are more young & small first-time breeders super interesting addition to literature on recent body size changes

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Global Decline in the Size of Sea Turtles 🔗 buff.ly/QKx3Sm8

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Pls share: I'm seeking ornithologists willing to comment about how the Bird Banding Lab &/or Breeding Bird Survey are crucial to their research & conservation efforts, for a piece for @therevelator.org defending these programs. Reply, DM, or email me at rebecca dot heisman at gmail. #ornithology

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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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cool vignette! similar things from Brazil, where Bates talks about how everyone tried to convince him that hawkmoths could change into hummingbirds and vice versa

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great eco-eco position working with @martinbulla.bsky.social in Prague - check it out! www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_...

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I commented. You should too!

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It will surprise nobody that the President of the University of Sydney is not, in fact, "Andrew T. T. D. B. D. K. F. K. H. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z....." Remember, LLMs do not know things, but are excellent at making things up!

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@jameststroud.bsky.social

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NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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For #BiodiversityDay, check out some of the mammals that “should” be in Southern California today (species that went extinct since the last interglacial are greyed out). From our paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Illustrated by coauthor @ohsanisidro.bsky.social

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NEWS: Sen. Ossoff and Sen. Mark Kelly reintroduced their Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act. Repost if you agree it's time to BAN stock trading by members of Congress.

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New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

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New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston @newcastleuni.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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203 years now. RIP Pfeilstorch.

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There are only 14,393 comments submitted as of this moment! That's waaaay too few, considering the number of people who are affected by or rely on NIH/NSF funding.

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The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Make America Uncompetitive Again

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done as well. easy & fast to do

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Pleased to contribute some long(ish..) term data from Honduras as part of BioTIME 2.0: a terrific dataset ripe for all sorts of questions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Also another wake up call as to the massive biological data gaps across equatorial Africa (and the tropics in general)..

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