Birds are awesome, and research keeps proving so. @kristencovino.bsky.social et. al. published their paper in our Journal of Field Ornithology a while back. JFO is open-access, meaning all articles can be read for free! 👇 journal.afonet.org/vol94/iss4/a... #JournalofFieldOrnithology

The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being. Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/ #bringbirdsback

Due to the Musk/Trump Administration’s draconian cuts, the National Science Foundation is significantly scaling back its program to provide college students with paid summer research internships. Many of my colleagues attribute their start in science to this program. www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

science.org

Looking for a summer learning opportunity? Come take Field #Ornithology and learn how to study songbirds, gulls, terns, and more. I can promise lots of birds and beautiful settings 🐦🐤🐧

Already removed- but a powerful visual protest at NSF of the lost scientists from the recent round of doge douchery

Dr. Wendy Bohon@drwendyrocks.bsky.social · last yr.

Inside the lobby at NSF…

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

chemistryworld.com

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

Sex redefined - Nature

The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

nature.com

Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer

We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!

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Help our Flocks Project take flight! We all need a space to feel we belong & are supported. This is what our Flocks Project—our joint effort with Wilson Ornithological Society & Association of Field Ornithologists—aims to do for ornithologists. Donate today! www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

Reminder: For you planners out there, registration and lodging costs are now available on the #WOS2025 website. (Early bird registration opens next month!)

Registration & Lodging

More details will be available in February, but for planning purposes, here are the anticipated costs for meeting registration and on-campus lodging. Please note: If you are a minor attending our c…

wos2025.org

There is a lot going on, and in the face of this uncertainty @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social , AOS and AFO are working to keep our Flocks going to support ornithologists in affinity groups. And we need help raising the funds to make it happen. Can you help us? 🧪🪶🌎 www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer

We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!

gofundme.com

Scholarship deadlines begin 2/20! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Kristen M. Covino, PhD@kristencovino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it? If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer

We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!

gofundme.com

Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer

We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!

gofundme.com

Scholarship deadlines begin 2/20! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Kristen M. Covino, PhD@kristencovino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it? If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it? If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’

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Need a laugh? Here are this week's best research and academia memes! 1/ 🧪 #AcademicSky

Can I offer you some squid street art I saw today in Moss Landing in these trying times?

Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it? If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!! www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...

Regardless of what party your reps are, LIGHT UP THEIR PHONES. Elected officials are always looking for cover for their votes and citing the number of calls their office got is the easiest talking point. ⚡️📞⚡️

Are you someone who likes to plan ahead? #WOS2025 registration won't open until March, but anticipated costs for registration and on-campus lodging are available on the meeting website now.

Registration & Lodging

More details will be available in February, but for planning purposes, here are the anticipated costs for meeting registration and on-campus lodging. Registration Early Bird Regular Registration: $…

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If you want to read the full text of the memo pausing federal grants it's available here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Federal grants are your tax dollars, put into projects that improve and enrich your community and your life. It is not okay for all those projects and the livelihoods of all the people who work to make them happen to be held hostage over some ideological gripe. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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"It's Dr, Actually" - Now available as trans and non-binary pins! I think a lot of people need a reminder right now that experts know gender isn't binary, and a lot of us need a reminder we're not alone. So please share widely! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

Before it is all taken down, a good reminder that the NIH has (or maybe had) an expansive definition of what constitutes diversity. So this means less participation by #womeninSTEM, #URMinSTEM, #disabledinSTEM, plus those that grew up rural, #firstgen, unhoused, or low-income. #academicSky 🧪👩‍🔬 2/n

FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f... via @statnews.com

FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban

Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.

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Women who stand up to fascism. #BishopMariannBudde @aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @muellershewrote.bsky.social