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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 34 days ago • 2539 comments

Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous. Why care? 🧵

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

Last month's total #Arctic sea ice volume averaged the 3rd lowest on record for the month of November... Data using PIOMAS: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro... 🌊

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

"The greatest trick the fossil fuel industry ever played was convincing us that the climate crisis is a suicide, rather than a homicide." - @nathanielstinnett.bsky.social #agu24

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

Just had an idea

submitted 78 days ago • 31 comments

‼️📝 New paper! 1st undergrad honor thesis from the lab! Hannah Owen looked at thousands of #spottedlanternfly @inaturalist.bsky.social images to study spatio-temporal & phenology patterns of the invasion, and to understand the role of #urban environments in their spread www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Saw/heard 104 bird species in Florida over Thanksgiving... crossing 100 was a goal I slowly become obsessed with, made tougher with all the best spots being closed due to hurricane. Here's a prairie warbler ebird.org/tripreport/2... 🪶 #birds

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Wait, do I want cool science to drown out all of the politics?! Yes. Yes, I do. 🧪

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Recently discovered a fun webpage called Probability Playground where you can interactively explore probability distributions. It’s helpful especially for distributions with parameters that are not immediately intuitive. Very cool! www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 NOW ONLINE- global ecol & biogeog As global change accelerates, accurate predictions are critical to limit biodiversity loss. With many continental predictions at coarse grain, it's unclear how grain-size biases vary across space/time, giving poor predictions for some regions, seasons, species 🧪

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Hello Bluesky, it's my first post, here's some Little Auks ! 🙂 #birding #northumberland #beadnell

submitted 96 days ago • 19 comments

"Congratulations! You didn’t die of measles." @laurahelmuth.bsky.social on the miracle of vaccines are, and the dangers of RFK Jr. slate.com/_pages/cm3qc...

submitted 97 days ago • 11 comments

American woodcock appreciation- hanging out by the side of a back road in central Connecticut in May #birds 🪶

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Literally the best bird

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Incredible job by my colleagues at Map of Life! advancing tech in biodiversity monitoring

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Temperatures in October 2024: Red 🟥 - warmer than average Blue 🟦 - colder than average Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 using their own 1971-2000 baseline: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

[Recapping research since I left Xitter: June '24] We explored how dynamic winter min temps influence short-distance migration & survival in white-tailed deer using decades of archival telemetry data 🧪 My first pub as a formal grad mentor- of an awesome MS student at UW-Madison shorturl.at/eUc7B

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

#birds of southern California earlier this year 🪶 roadrunner, avocet, threatened California gnatcatcher, endangered California condor

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well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

submitted 100 days ago • 42 comments

I recently wrote up this research highlight of the nest parasite community science program run by @sarahknutie.bsky.social

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[Recapping our research since I quit Xitter - Apr '24] Continental-scale experiment and global analysis show local amphibian-fungal interactions result in high pathogen prevalence, growth, and host mortality, but novel interactions led to some virulent combinations🧪 Led by @eronhubbard.bsky.social

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Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Merlin with a snack (goldfinch?) in coastal Connecticut this week #birds 🪶 #nikon

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

One my bangers from Twitter. #ExxonKnew

submitted 104 days ago • 9 comments

No, it’s not just you. As a product of the Great Lakes region (Youngstown → SE MI → Lansing → Columbus → Cincinnati → Lansing → Cincinnati), the patterns, temperatures, and rhythms of the season feel unmistakably altered. Graphic via @climatecentral.bsky.social #climatesky #energysky

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Washington state #birds from a trip earlier this year 🪶 Varied thrush, American and Eurasian wigeons, Anna's hummingbird, Canada jay

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A frustrating thing for me right now is the media narrative that RFK Jr is just an “anti-vaxxer” when he has said so many crazy things about other stuff over the years. We compiled 10 nutty clips on various topics, which still barely scratches the surface. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 102 days ago • 2170 comments

[My research recap: June '24]: The presence of fixed geographical survey locations (eg eBird hotspots) reduces the opportunistic nature of citizen science data, allowing for more reliable trend estimation. We estimated the survey completeness of richness at 300,500 eBird hotspots during 2002–2022 🧪

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

“For science to be effective, it simply cannot be efficient.” (This is true and also what I’m now telling myself every time I have to re-run an analysis from scratch.)

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Birds from spring migration in Arkansas this year (summer tanager, painted bunting, white-eyed vireo, scissor-tailed flycatcher) 🪶#birds .

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[May '24] Meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease. Biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, climate change and introduced species are associated with increases in disease endpoints- consistent for human & non-human diseases. 🧪https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07380-6

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Swiss and Italian #birds I photo'd this past summer 🪶

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