🪶 New study using data from our MAPS bird monitoring program out now! Read it here: royalsocietypublishi...

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....

I was on a podcast! Talking about bird trends! youtu.be/ZJGXBOkVwCU?...

EP:444 | The Decline of America’s Wild Birds

YouTube video by Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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My sister on the local news, promoting native plants www.fox5dc.com/video/170780...

Maryland's best native plants

Fall leaves are here—but should you rake them? Kristin Hanna from the Maryland Department of Agriculture and Janet Hostetler from Bloom-Wild.com. joined us to share why leaving leaves can actually ben...

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This is so depressing. Ceding the future to other countries while we make our air dirtier and our planet hotter. Gift link, if you dare. Really hope this horrible bill fails completely. wapo.st/44EZL4X

Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’

The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.

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Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out! doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...

New paper out, led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social. There's a disconnect between remote sensing advances and application to ecology (including only 11 UAS papers in Landscape Ecology!). We provide a guide for using drones to answer ecological ?s: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uas #drones

2nd chapter of my PhD just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... Another step towards linking animal migration and population dynamics using integrated modelling! The secret lies in a neat equation relating survival and transition probabilities between migratory regions

An integrative framework to combine migratory connectivity and demographic data

Migratory species experience various conditions and events throughout their annual cycle that influence their spatial and demographic dynamics. To understand these dynamics, it is essential to des...

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I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Research opportunities | GAMbler

If you are interested in joining my research group, or for any other enquiries, please contact me. You can find my most up-to-date contact details on my [University of Queensland page](https://about.u...

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Post-migratory movements in the nonbreeding season are in fact displayed by a surprising number of birds around the world, with diverse resource- or weather-based cues. Two former students in the lab wrote a paper documenting examples of this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Post‐migratory nonbreeding movements of birds: A review and case study

While many migratory birds are conceptualized as using a single wintering site, technological advances that enable detailed tracking of individual birds are uncovering more examples of post-migratory....

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Long-billed Curlew and 'Akikiki may be an ocean apart, but they have at least one thing in common: They both benefit from funds coming from the United States federal budgeting (AKA, appropriations) process. 🪶

Check out our article here!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2y ago

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity 🐦🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

Are you looking to get a graduate degree in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences? This funded MS project at OSU is focused on testing a range of non-invasive method for small mammals (enclosed camera trapping + thermal cameras mounted on drones) against SCR applied to live trapping data.

Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 2y ago

The masters project: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Our article in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on migratory connectivity, data integration, bidirectional data, and more just came out! 🧵 (eventually) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity

Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...

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This would be grand! Of course Zotero would have to guess which articles I actually read and which ones I just skimmed the abstract.

Megan@mobydickcissel.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wish zotero made me a little end of year graph showing me my reading history like storygraph does. How many non bird papers did I read? #goodreads #storygraph

Our article in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on migratory connectivity, data integration, bidirectional data, and more just came out! 🧵 (eventually) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity

Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge! We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation. 3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

Learn how to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale at the Science Museum of Virginia. Sad thing is that enough kids draw these each day to represent the entire population (c. 375) 😔 🦑

In "Consequences of cross-season demographic correlations for population viability," the authors establish positive correlations between population growth rates for three distinct groups of Atlantic puffins. t.co/vFyPXFI3yD

Do you like calendars? I do! Maybe we could like them in the same room sometime. Please buy so I can continue to afford comics: www.calendars.com/shop/Samurai...

Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.

I get that scientists want/need to reach out to as many people as possible and that this involves posting on multiple platforms. But if we want the migration of science to Bluesky to be successful, IMO we shouldn’t keep contributing scientific content to X

Ready to learn how to use LiDAR for research in #forestry and natural resources using #R? This week I am releasing a 7-part series to help you get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Part 1 covers acquiring, & viewing LiDAR data! bit.ly/lidR-module1

Module 1: Getting started with LiDAR processing for forestry and natural resources - The Jones Center at Ichauway Research Labs

If you are interested in learning to use LiDAR for forestry and natural resources, this tutorial can help you get started. You will learn to view large datasets, create raster products, map trees, and...

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Need some cheering up? How about some coati babies :-) from the Central Volcanic Chain of Guatemala. Kudos to my collaborators for picking this cool spot to set up a camera trap.

Was Clements wrong? Resasco et al. revisit the Clements and Gleason debate with plant distributions from Pikes Peak, Clements’s life-long study site. Read this new historical perspective now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I'm a quantitative ecologist, focused on wildlife population ecology, wildlife migration, and conservation biology. I mostly study birds and marine mammals. One of my primary tasks is analyzing data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey. 🐦🦅🐦‍⬛🦆🐳 🧪 🌍

Another advantage of histograms over stacked bar charts is you can easily include error bars if you have a measure of uncertainty

Matthew Kay@mjskay.com · 2y ago

I like this way of presenting ordinal data! I think people are sometimes too quick to use stacked bar charts for ordinal data when histograms can be simpler and easier to read #datavis #rstats

Two snowstorms in 2021 set new records of snow and subfreezing temperatures in southeastern US. Then, people reported massive die-offs in wildlife, including among Eastern Bluebirds. Rolland et al. investigate what allowed some to survive. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Amazing work painting my "egg!"

Ranger Jodi@rangerjodi.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m quite proud of the makeup job we did on @jeffhostecology.bsky.social for his cowbird egg costume! (The nest is meant as a wood thrush nest, and was lots of fun to help build too.)

Preliminary Halloween costume: cowbird egg in a wood thrush nest (not to scale)