BIRD FRIENDS! I need someone who knows Malta and its birds. I am pulling my hair out looking for a reviewer (I think I've tried about a dozen). If that's you (not "someone I know" please), make yourself known! #ornithology

I've got this new crosswalk design where 1 in 10 people will get hit. Let's build it!😎 /s

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d ago

ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”

I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!

Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

drewschreiner.github.io

Following a negative public response, the Carney Liberals are abandoning plans to amend the Species At Risk Act. A federal gov't source told CBC News that upcoming legislation will preserve SARA, including jeopardy tests. However, advocates say the govt can still bypass SARA through other means.

Brock Wilson@brockwilson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Scientists are raising concern over Carney's proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act. More than 600 species are listed under SARA. I spoke to a scientist behind an open letter to the government about why potential Liberal changes to SARA would "stab it to death." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Interested in animals and temperature? 🗻🏜🐦🦭 Join the Third Lund Thermal Biology Symposium 27-29 Oct. Talks range social sciences and medicine to evolutionary biology and physiology. Workshop in conservation physiology on 30 Oct. All free. Travel grants. Register 👇 www.biology.lu.se/lundthermal2026

Looking for a trusted home for your research? At JEB we believe that it is important to make your research available to as wide an audience as possible through press releases to the media and our active presence on social media spreading the news 🔁 tinyurl.com/yc8ah7zh

Alberta's new 'conservation' licence plates are a reminder of how large the horns of bighorn rams could grow if we did not systematically remove rams with fast-growing horns at a young age through a phenotype-based trophy hunt, leading to evolution of smaller horns www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Do you have a guide for students with practical advice for reviewing manuscripts? I would like to provide some advice to students in a 3rd year undergraduate class. 🧪

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers about the use of AI tools in scholarly publishing. Have your say at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZBFC663

I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com

Oxford comma til I fucking die.

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Very sad news www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

World-renowned seabird biologist Bill Montevecchi has died | CBC News

Seabird biologist and Memorial University professor emeritus Bill Montevecchi died over the weekend.

cbc.ca

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Opportunities

********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

kjmathot.wordpress.com

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com

Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!

Really nice memoriam to Robert Ricklefs by Brian McGill: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r... Ricklefs got ecologists to think big: about the role of history, biogeography & macroevolution on ecological patterns. More than anyone, his work shaped the course of my career.

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

dynamicecology.wordpress.com

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No one has ever died because they did not have a curbside parking spot. But countless people on bicycles have been killed because we value parking more than a protected bike lane.

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

theguardian.com

What if graduate school wasn’t just preparation for academia, but a chance to intentionally explore multiple possible futures as a scientist? 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/rpm6EKY

How to Use Graduate School to Prepare for Multiple Career Paths

Why more natural scientists should explore multiple career paths before they need them

thenaturalscientist.substack.com

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Faculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of Victoria

Department: Biology                 &am...

uvic.ca

🛑 thinking that “bike lanes“ are just for “cyclist” Riding or rolling, people use this infrastructure to prioritize their safety as vulnerable road users from drivers. If your current or future elected municipal rep isn’t discussing NOW about expanding THIS, find someone else to VOTE for. #TOPoli

In our recent @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we test how air temperature during development influences the ontogeny of heat and cold tolerance, using our trusted quail population 🐥🐦 We draw four main conclusions 🧵 shorturl.at/JZpSr

Postnatal temperature triggers predictable thermoregulatory shifts in birds without a trade-off between heat and cold tolerance

Summary: Warm or cold developmental temperatures affect heat and cold tolerance at population levels in Japanese quail; but at individual levels, there was no evidence for a trade-off between toleranc...

shorturl.at

Rotary Club of #Ptbo awards $10,000 to four local environmental innovators. Three projects received $3,000 each, with $1,000 awarded to a fourth project, under the Rotary Environmental Innovators Fund (REIF). kawarthanow.com/2026/05/11/r...

Rotary Club of Peterborough awards $10,000 to four local environmental innovators | kawarthaNOW

By kawarthaNOW. Three projects received $3,000 each, with $1,000 awarded to a fourth project, under the Rotary Environmental Innovators Fund (REIF).

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Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.