Over 18,000 people are under evacuation orders due to a wildfire in British Columbia, Canada, local officials said. The Bald Range fire has burned more than 23,000 acres near the Districts of Summerland and Peachland, officials said. nyti.ms/4wf74uE
David Toews
@davetoews.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University. Studies evolutionary genomics, mostly in birds. https://www.davetoews.com.
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
The Extremely Accurate Birds band KILLED IT at the closing of #aos26! Thanks for coming out—come back again! @tommysiegel.bsky.social, given the interest, I’m glad to see that the art of *wildly* accurate illustrations and songs isn’t being lost!
I'm looking for PhD student to join my lab at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Fall 2027)! If you're interested in evolutionary genomics, conservation genetics, or biogeography, please reach out. I'll also be at #AOS2026 this week talking about sexual selection in small populations.
This is so awesome and why I love working with science illustrators. Here's my rendering compared to the final product in a recent paper - www.cell.com/current-biol...
David Toews@davetoews.bsky.social · 2w agoJust appreciating natural science illustrators, like Jillian Ditner, who turned this "sketch" (a dog's breakfast would be generous) into a clear, beautiful illustration of gene introgression among warblers... www.allaboutbirds.org/news/when-ev...
Just appreciating natural science illustrators, like Jillian Ditner, who turned this "sketch" (a dog's breakfast would be generous) into a clear, beautiful illustration of gene introgression among warblers... www.allaboutbirds.org/news/when-ev...
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Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!
🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵
Tour de force by @pauldufour80.bsky.social and colleagues using multi-sensor geolocator tags to measure which bird species migrate at night versus the day. 411 individuals from 56 different species 🤯! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 🦉🧪
Multi-sensor tracking reveals the extent of nocturnal migration in landbirds
Most bird species are diurnal but drastically change their diel cycle of activity to migrate at night. Nocturnal migration has been documented using d…
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Our target sites and the RFWA distribution. In gray, the spots I visited last year with my postdoc supervisor, Dave Toews @davetoews.bsky.social. In blue, this year's sites. Chosen because these populations are well-represented among museum collections so we can observe decade-scale changes.
Column by Philip Kennicott: The one thing strangely absent at the Great American State Fair, a celebration on the National Mall of America’s 250th birthday organized by a group aligned with the Trump administration, is nostalgia.
Column | The Great American State Fair feels rushed, simulated and oddly sterile
The administration’s signature 250th celebration is strangely short on nostalgia — and long on defense contractors and “Fox & Friends.”
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So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
Do I spy a warbler paint by numbers?! 😍🦉🧪
Kevin Bennett@kevinfpbennett.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy paper with @davetoews.bsky.social was featured in the cover story for the latest issue of Living Bird magazine @cornellbirds.bsky.social. Check out the lovely accompanying artwork, too. Well-told by @rheisman.bsky.social.
NSF's grantmaking is miserly when compared to recent years, but when compared it to the historical record, we see it's a radical break from the long-term consensus of investing in scientific innovation. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness
Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.
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Short-tailed Albatross passes 11,000 after near-extinction Once feared lost, the North Pacific seabird has continued its long recovery, with the latest Japanese count recording more than 11,000 birds in 2026. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...
Short-tailed Albatross passes 11,000 after near-extinction
Once feared lost, the North Pacific seabird has continued its long recovery, with the latest Japanese count recording more than 11,000 birds in 2026
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Gustav Klimt, Field of Flowers Look for flowers in your world today.🏵️
reason #135 of 462 you are an elder millennial: tourists ask you to take their photo and *god forbid* you do it in landscape
As we enter conference season in the AI era, two observations...
David Toews@davetoews.bsky.social · 5mo agoHeading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
I mean, good on them. The less McClatchy AI slop the better! www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-...
The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI tool
The local Pennsylvania outlet is the first newsroom under The NewsGuild-CWA to unionize in response to AI adoption.
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Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐
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Historically Small Population Size Limits Purging of Deleterious Mutations in a Conservation-Reliant Species, the Kirtland’s Warbler www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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