A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy

Really looking forward to #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge and catch up with folks at LSU @systbiol.bsky.social

Jeremy M. Brown@jembrown.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026! ssb2026.github.io/talks.html For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly. @systbiol.bsky.social

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100

Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

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This is news that makes me happy. It really feels most of the time that taxonomy is in a bad place. But in reality, it seems that in the last decades, the rate of species description has been the highest it ever was! 🧪 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

We have successfully used immersion fixation for heads of Cathartes and Coragyps with the rest of the body used for skins, skeletons, and spirit specimens. I will add that for most comparative neuroanatomy an n of 3-6 is fine. Big series are only needed for sex or seasonal variation within species

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology

John McCormack: insights from the Mexican Bird Resurvey Project #BOUasm #ornithology

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 9mo ago

Kicking off session 3, we join John McCormack online for “Using habitat occupancy modelling and genomics to understand a century of change to the birds of Mexico” 🇲🇽🐦‍⬛ Catriona Morrison joins us as Chair for this session. #BOUasm25 #ornithology #modelling

heads up! #BOUasm

Island bird Research@islandbirdproject.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/8 Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦 At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits. Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge... #IslandBirds #Ornithology

1/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology

century long shifts in neotropical birds's morphology comparing collections from the 1910' and 2020's @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social #BOUasm #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk

Natalia Pérez-Amaya@nataliaperez-a.bsky.social · 10mo ago

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

1/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans 1/6

Natural history collections are a time stamp of now. In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential. #BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6

We move to finish session 2 with keynote speaker JC Buckner, discussing “Ducking & diving: the role of adaptation in waterfowl macroevolution” 🦆 #BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks

All aspects of bird behaviour are a product of the anatomy and physiology of their brains. Brain anatomy can therefore provide new insights into bird behaviour. Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains. #ornithology #neuroskyence 1/6

We join Shriya Uday in-person, for “The global palette: the role of colour in the wildlife trade” 🎨 @shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife

Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful: "sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections" #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk

We’re back! 😄 We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺 Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair. #BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs

Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡 @aukwardlucia.bsky.social  #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology

We now move on to join Andrés M. Cuervo for his presentation “Century-spanning collections reveal ecological change and phenotypic shifts in Neotropical birds” 🐦 @amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology

“From specimens to solutions: the evolving role and current challenges of natural history collections” Great keynote talk from Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social - I was impressed hearing about the mummy birds 😮 @nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums

Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Hybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birds ->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Hybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birds

Scheffers, B. R. et al. The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. Science 354, aaf7671 (2016). Aitken, S. N. & Whitlock, M. C. Assisted gene flow to facilitate local adaptation to climate change. Annu. Rev...

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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 9mo ago

Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

It’s been a long wait for this fantastic @bou.org.uk event: “A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world” #BOUasm25

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · last yr.

🔊 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED & REGISTRATION OPEN #BOUasm25 | A day at the museum | 18 November 2025 | Natural History Museum, London & online & Bluesky Check out the line-up and registration options now! bou.org.uk/event/a-d... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Mary Caswell Stoddard Princeton University, USA Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world Keynote abstracts: bou.org.uk/conferenc... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social Natural History Museum, UK Natural history collections in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities Submit your abstract: bou.org.uk/event/a-d... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Sushma Reddy @sushred.bsky.social University of Minnesota, USA Using natural history collections to build community Keynote abstracts: bou.org.uk/conferenc... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE John McCormack Occidental College, USA Using habitat occupancy modelling and genomics to understand a century of change to the birds of Mexico Submit your abstract: bou.org.uk/event/a-d... #ornithology 🪶