Want a free duck sticker at #AOS26? Feel free to grab one at my poster (#49). I will bring more to the poster session tonight!
Emily V Griffith
@e-v-griffith.bsky.social
PhD Candidate pursuing a Ducktorate in Ecology, Evolution, & Earth Systems at Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University 🐲 Ornithology Department 🦆🦉🐓 She/Her 🏳️🌈 emilyvgriffith.com
this might be relevant as well... ecologyandsociety.org/vol29/iss4/a...
Ecology & Society: Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science
Meaningful action and engagement are needed in a time of rapid planetary change and biodiversity loss. They cannot be achieved through scientific outputs alone, and scientists are increasingly recogni...
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Are you an artist with experience with scientific illustration or translating scientific concepts into art? I would love to ask you some questions and/or promote you for an upcoming blog post on how scientists can work more with artists in their research 🎨
If I pull this off, we're going to have 3 new bug murals up in Philly this fall, all painted by women/nonbinary artists. 1 in a park, which will pair with an October event where we have a moth-themed drag performance & costume contest. 2 in neighborhoods & will come with science libraries.
Prepped for the semester? Want to think through some ideas? Let us help!
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology@sicb.bsky.social · 6d ago#SICB Members! The #Education Council of SICB is hosting a #workshop to get your course into gear! Dana Orbach Amanda Chicoli Ph.D. @billryerson.bsky.social & Stephen Ferguson will be featured. Simply sign up at: tinyurl.com/sicbedcouncil1 #academia #professors #scientists #biologists
Miniature Birds Day 15 - Mandarin Duck The most extra duck ever
Today at Gen Con: Sanibel is in Hall E. Wingspan Pocket is nearby at booth 2909. I am signing at some point each day for the next 3 days (see below). You can bring both games to one signing if you want, I don't think anyone cares!
Elizabeth Hargrave@elizhargrave.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you going to Gen Con? Have any plans? I sure do... I'll post links to my events below. Wish me luck getting through all this! And please come say hi!! 🧵
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I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces
Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in
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For #BirdOfTheDay #MultiColour, one of the card illustrations I did for the board game Birdwatcher! This is the "Lonely Little King", a real-world documented hybrid bird of paradise (King Bird-of-Paradise x Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise). #SciArt #BirdArt 🪶
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...
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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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What's the connection between anti-trans and anti-intersex legislation, the defunding of science, and the scientific study of sex? It's all part of the same playbook. 🧵 Super proud to explore this and encourage creative solutions in my latest published commentary: doi.org/10.1093/icb/... (1/6)
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“Click to open the document” can be an item on your to-do list, if you need the dopamine hit badly enough.
Oystercatchers, known for sharp bills and beady eyes, are making a comeback thanks to conservation news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎🦑
Oystercatchers, known for sharp bills and beady eyes, are making a comeback thanks to conservation
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill and beady eyes is making a comeback in North America thanks to a yearslong conservation effort. The American Oystercatcher…
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Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.
Hemiplasy helps explain high rates of apparent morphological convergence in neoavian birds: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Hemiplasy helps explain high rates of apparent morphological convergence in neoavian birds
Somogyi et al. show that incomplete lineage sorting of morphology helps explain apparent extensive convergent evolution in Neoaves. The clade’s rapid early diversification increased the hemiplasy risk...
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Songbirds such as finches perform a surprisingly skilled task when feeding: they remove the hard husk of seeds using precise movements of the beak and tongue. This #ProcB study examines whether this behaviour is associated with changes in the brain. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #Evolution #Neuroscience
2. Remarkably, given how universally unpopular this would be, the intent seems accept the ruination of US health and medical research as collateral damage.
EARLY VIEW in IBIS iOrnithology: a review of the use of web-sourced photographs and videos in ornithological research | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Connor T. Panter, Arjun Amar | #ornithology
Here is Supplementary Figure 18, which better showcases the beautiful illustrations we commissioned from @umich.edu undergrad Olivia Stein. These illustrated species represent clades where our method identifies significant increases in the rate of body-shape evolution. Also see Supp Table 7.
Jake Berv@jakeberv.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Latest survey reveals that Dotterel have declined by 89% since monitoring began in 1987/88 Dotterel's resilience to climate change could be supported through limiting disturbance by people and dogs, and managing grazing Read a summary: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 🪶 🧪 @naturescot.bsky.social
After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc...
Have you checked out our free Guide to Graduate Studies recently? It's a great starting point for anyone considering a graduate degree related to #ornithology.
Guide to Graduate Studies in Ornithology in the United States and Canada
Information for undergraduates about graduate degree programs in ornithology.
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