Definitely adding this one to my Avian Origins lecture! Very cool visuals, including videos at the end of modern birds hopping to take off.

Alberta Claw@albertonykus.bsky.social · 1h ago

Potential for take-off in Archaeopteryx using a multiple leaping mechanism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Meilak et al.)

Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11

Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4w ago

The comment count as of Sunday July 11, 2026 1:05pm ET.

I’ve been sitting on some good news - yesterday marked the official start of my promotion to full professor. Grateful to have made it this far. What a ride.

Going through old files, some of which I inherited from my predecessor, and came across a folder labeled "Whooping Crane." Opened it to find a single, large white feather. Probably >50% chance it's actually from a Whooping Crane. Can't make this stuff up.

Congratulations @rosvall-lab.bsky.social!!!! Very well deserved.

American Ornithological Society@amornith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Drs. Daniel Cadena and Kimberly Rosvall for winning AOS 2026 William Brewster Memorial Awards for the most meritorious body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere published during the past 10 years. americanornithology.org/aos-announce... #AOSAwards

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Ruffed grouse drumming

Final Exam on Star Wars Day means that I'm wearing my most menacing Darth Vader shirt to proctor the exam.

My department is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year to teach in our Intro Sequence! The deadline (May 15) is getting close. The job would be excellent for someone interested in teaching at a small college. Please RT! www.owu.edu/about/office...

Sunbirds don’t drink nectar like hummingbirds. They use intralingual suction: the tongue acts like a straw, moving nectar via pressure differences rather than capillarity. A clear case of biomechanical divergence despite ecological convergence. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... @CurrentBiology #ornithology

Last bird class of the semester, love this student haiku Ornithology Walked in not a bird person Pleasantly surprised

Please share! I'm hiring a new NSF-funded Lab Technician, ideally to start in June at the Claremont Colleges. We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a highly social cichlid fish 🐠🧠🧪 +info TessaSolomonLane.com/Hiring

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

She took a year off from nesting on our feeder, but she’s back and sitting on 4 eggs! 🪺 🐦‍⬛🦉

Mixed up Cave and Cliff Swallows in this morning's Ornithology lab, but don't worry, the eBird police pointed out my error in less than 30 minutes. Phew!

Migration speed, timing, and long-term shifts in age structure in North American passerines during fall migration vist.ly/4y22b #AvianConservation #Migration #Demography

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

An early view of this accepted manuscript is now available! I'll share it again once it is typeset and everything, of course. This is the first robin paper out from my dissertation! With coauthors T.J. Benson, Ryan Paitz, Kevin McGraw, & @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

Laying order predicts avian maternal investment in egg yolk hormones and nutrients but not embryo size in the asynchronously hatching Turdus migratorius (American robin)

Abstract. Parental investment can shape offspring growth, with consequences for sibling–sibling competition and survival. Altricial birds often face severe

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am upping my game as I draw my next graphical abstract, as you can see (still using the "freeform scribble" tool in PowerPoint with a mouse, of course)

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Saw Project Hail Mary (fun!). Minor spoilers...Centrifuges play a major role in the movie - it's how they generate gravity in space. However, when they use a tabletop centrifuge to spin their precious samples THEY DON'T BALANCE IT. 🤦‍♂️

Our new paper is out: "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." A study of noise and bird song, by me and Hans Slabbekoorn, in Ornithological Applications @amornith.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

For my bird conservation lecture in orni, i wanna present 2-3 case studies, incl conservation successes and conservation “fails”. Also want to include both tropical and N American examples, and i want the bottom line to be that cons is as much or more about ppl than ab nature. What should i include?

My department at OWU is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year! The job would be perfect for anyone interested in working at a small liberal arts college. Please share broadly (repost!). More details to follow... www.owu.edu/about/office...

My department at OWU is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year! The job would be perfect for anyone interested in working at a small liberal arts college. Please share broadly (repost!). More details to follow... www.owu.edu/about/office...

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

Here is the Cornell Chronicle article about our PNAS paper on the evolution of milkweed toxins (N,S-cardenolides), to which the monarch butterfly is sensitive, despite being co-evolved with milkweeds! @cornellentomology.bsky.social news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Milkweed evolves ‘mind-blowing’ tactic to fight monarchs | Cornell Chronicle

Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: structurally upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver monarchs' resistance.

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Today’s Migrant: Pine Warbler! One of the earliest returning warblers, Pine Warblers often show up weeks before peak migration. Have you seen a Pine Warbler yet this spring?

We're hiring a post doc! Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and @jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things please share widely!