Interesting social science study here on attitudes toward the proposed renaming of eponymous bird species by @amornith.bsky.social. They surveyed 1,063 birders across 42 states and found 48% felt positively about renaming. 29% were neutral. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Birds of many feathers? Examining perceptions among US birders following the American Ornithological Society's eponymous renaming decision

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Swimming buddy from Cabo this summer! Likely a Brandt's cormorant, plus a diving brown pelican in the background

Two acoustic integration #postdoc positions at @cornellbirds.bsky.social: Statistical integration of eBird and acoustic data academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32523 Acoustic abundance estimation with eBird data academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32728 Please share and reach out with any questions!

Got back from a trip to the Baltics a few days ago! Uncomfortably close to Russia and friends, but so much fantastic food (taters! fish! fermented stuff!), architecture, and history. Trakai Castle, Lithuania House of the Blackheads, Latvia Kemeri Bog, Latvia KGB museum, Estonia

And so it begins.

Ryan J Hollister@phaneritic.bsky.social · 3w ago

What, and I mean *what*, TF??? Let the memes ensue. (Hopefully everyone is OK. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A few weeks old, but a good overview of the latest push to rustle up outrage over US voter fraud: www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n... #uspolitics

Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on noncitizen voting

A Trump-aligned think tank has ties to a highly unusual Census Bureau report that the president is using to renew false claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020, NPR has learned.

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I was part of a workshop about communicating uncertainty and we shared our findings. Check out the write-up here: theconversation.com/communicatin...

Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for

Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.

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🪶Cool new research on female Passerines by @joannaxwu.bsky.social and colleagues at IBP and UCLA. Read more about it here-> bit.ly/4zfjbdY

New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This semester I'm designing a freshman seminar I've titled "Evolution and Society". Post-defense I'm now working on course planning details, & have both too many ideas & worry what I'm neglecting.. What would you consider an essential topic(s) or reading(s) for a class like this? Please do share!

As a reminder, I am starting a new lab at UNC Charlotte in 2027—and I am eager to apply these new tools, along with others, to diverse systems. Get in touch if you have ideas. bsky.app/profile/jake...

Jake Berv@jakeberv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

Apollo 11 Moon landing, July 20, 1969. The view out the lunar lander window as it approached, maneuvered & then landed on on the lunar surface. You can see the craters and boulders, and then the shadow of one of the legs and its contact sensor as it got closer. Holding my breath the whole time!

I love the stories you can glean from zooming into chunks of big wildlife datasets. For example, judging by the band numbers and recorded times, on June 8th 2019 somewhere in the Great Basin a bird bander netted and banded an entire flock of cedar waxwings all at once 😅

Recently discovered that Macaulay Library has a field notes/sketch filter, containing everything from flower photos to handwritten notes to R plots to bird sketches of various quality search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?tag=...

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line

Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.

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I am happy to announce that the latest USGS analysis of North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data, incorporating data through 2025, has now been released. Metadata and csv files can be downloaded at doi.org/10.5066/P1OS....

Skunked again trying to see our resident worm-eating warbler

The perks of having middle schoolers design your district's voter stickers

So powerful

Elliott of North American Waterfowler was kind enough to have me on his podcast to ramble about American white pelicans! Go give it a listen and hear me talk about pelicans snacking on pigeons and the incredible flight capabilities of this extremely weird species open.spotify.com/episode/5FqT...

Episode #278 The Secret Life of American White Pelicans

The North American Waterfowler · Episode

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Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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Our Bartels Science Illustration Program is calling for applicants! This is a full-time, paid, in-person appointment. Residency begins in the fall and spans 6–12 months. Please note, Visa sponsorship is not available. Deadline for applications is May 29, 2026. www.birds.cornell.edu/illustrators/

3-yr #postdoc @ Cornell Lab of O! Novel project exploring wildfire smoke impacts on birds, working w/ eBird S&T + Project FeederWatch data Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32072 Ping me if you have questions!

Stable ecology jobs are few and far between at the moment, but the team I'm on is actually hiring! Come coordinate the third Ohio Bird Atlas! This'll be a 5+ year role, based at Ohio State. Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred). Please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Ohio Bird Atlas 3 Outreach Specialist

Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

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#Postdoc opportunity at Michigan State, working with eBird status & trends data! careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Michigan Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University seeks a postdoctoral scholar to work on a project to ...

careers.msu.edu

Today is Red Dress day, a time for us to reflect on the fact that: -3 in 4 Indigenous women experience violence in their life, and that although we make up 2% of the population -40% of trafficking victims are Indigenous women. -murder is the 3rd leading cause of death for Native ♀️ #MMIW #MMIWG

Another data center planned, this time near the severely water-stressed Colorado River and Navajo communities Sign or donate if you can: nodatacenterpageaz.wordpress.com

No Data Center in Page, Arizona

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Such an important piece from @drhigginsmd.bsky.social. I had similar conclusions when I looked at the Politico poll in question, but Dr. Higgins expressed it more eloquently than I ever could. Vaccine hesitancy is not mainstream and we should not present it as such.

Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread

Despite some headlines, a new poll does not show that most Americans no longer trust vaccines.

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My PhD student will be finishing soon and is looking for a postdoc position to start in the fall semester. If you have a postdoc ad or opening and are looking for someone experienced especially in population/evolutionary genomics with a knack for coding and bioinformatics, let me know.