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Don’t think any team in world football can win games in as many different ways as this Liverpool team

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holy smokes I freaking cursed myself 🙈🙉🙊

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man in maga hat in a Boston restaurant: "the food here sucks everything tastes like spit"

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@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

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Our guy walks into a totally unfamiliar environment with the craziest possible shit happening all around him and still somehow manages to make the correct moral choice like 85 times in a row.

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Vultures on the Brink of Extirpation: Massive Decline in Plateau State, North-Central Nigeria | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2468 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

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hot take gulls have the reputation that turnstones should have

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Scottish seabirds are in trouble. Overfishing and invasive species have severely impacted their colonies. Climate change, avian influenza, and the expansion of offshore wind turbines are placing further stress. Article @SeabirdCentre CEO Harry Huyton. https://buff.ly/3QfiDzw

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A phylogeny of warbler flight calls! During a guest lecture to our Speciation class, I showed off the acoustic phylogeny Zach Gayk & I published in Evolution. We showed that warblers with similar migratory journeys produce similar flight calls, beyond what is explained by genetics. [📷: N. Emerick] .

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Sincere question - Are there any examples of rejoinders to "Response to:" articles, by the original set of authors, that do anything other than restate the arguments of the original paper?

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🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪

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I'm standing here in the rain, a non-binary ornithologist wearing sparkle eye makeup and a Liverpool jersey to their own office hours

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re: naturalistic fallacy, I'm no philosopher but it seems like the truth of the claim "A existing does not entail A being good" does not entail "A does not exist"

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I'm usually really pessimistic about my discipline but some days I'm reminded that the best people doing the job are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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In gulls, by the way, sex is best described along multiple axes (M/F/Y/O). This occurs because they live in a society, a nesting colony, that articulates social and developmental processes. That gulls have such obvious diversity only strengthens their hunger as I feed them the blog.

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Every day I print out Jerry Coyne's blog posts, single sided, crumple em up and dip em in gristle and feed em to the gulls in the parking lot. It's not the best use of resources but it brings me some joy.

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I am deeply saddened to have learned of the death, on Feb 5, 2025, of Elisabeth Vrba—a fantastically creative scientist and a warm, wonderful human being. She leaves us a legacy of original macroevolutionary thinking that is still fresh and illuminating.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ca...

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New job posting for a 3-year postdoctoral fellow to work on the breeding ecology and migration of shorebirds with Prof. Tamas Szekely at Univ. Debrecen in Hungary. Application deadline 28 Feb 2025. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

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Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? New competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)

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the depths of Dawkins' misunderstandings about organismal biology are rivalled only by the inappropriate confidence with which he built a conceptual sandbox for him and his dismissive, Feynman-schtick buddies to play around

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New paper in Conservation Evidence Journal: Sampling of red grouse carcasses in Britain indicates no progress during an intended five-year voluntary transition from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition conservationevidencejournal.com/reference/pd...

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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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I'm happy to share that the spatial component of my dissertation work on 'lost years' sea turtles is out now! If you're attending #SERSTM2025 this week, I'll be presenting the highlights in the #MovementEcology session this afternoon. 🌊🐢🗺️ #seaturtle #telemetry #OpenAccess

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This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

the fact that we have a bajillion biographies of e.g., Audubon and Mayr but not really any of e.g., Skutch and Goldschmidt is a sign that we're major losers

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Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

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snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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I'm going to help all my trans friends and students survive & when they do, & when these other guys age and die, as everyone does & will, & will, & will, in the brief lull between this era's terror and the next, we’ll get together & cook a great big breakfast with all the eggs they had at the store.

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Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history. The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean). I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊

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BREAKING: Vital, nationally-representative data has been removed from the CDC website. "Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now,” @albeccia.bsky.social told me. Read: www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

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Our new paper is out in Hormones & Behavior: "Corticosterone predicts double-brooding in female Savannah Sparrows." Led by Dr. Hayley Spina @hayleyspina.bsky.social we show that double-brooding is negatively related to cort. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.yh... Check out Hayley's summary thread below...

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