One of my dissertation chapters came out in Ecology Letters this week! We used a decade of radar data to look at whether the relative importance of predictors in bird migration forecasts change within a given night. TLDR: they do, but not how we expected. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Within‐Night Variation in Predictor Importance Highlights Dynamic Nature of Bird Migration

Bar chart summarising median percent of gain contributed by each predictor type (atmospheric, sampling and terrestrial) for each timestep after sunset for spring (left) and fall (right) bird migratio...

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It's always a pleasure being on, but this @aba.org ep def was extra fun. All the folks agreeing makes it that much better. Love talking #birds with those guys (@brodiecasstalbott.bsky.social, @mikkojimenez.bsky.social & @n8swick.bsky.social ) so much! Good birding all! www.aba.org/this-month-i...

This Month in Birding - May 2026 - American Birding Association

It's time for another episode of "This Month in Birding"—a friendly and relatable roundup of the ornithological science behind so much of our experience as birders. Mikko Jimenez, Jordan Rutter, and B...

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jpeg is short for Jorts in Winnipeg

It happened to me: I agreed to do a review and now I have to do said review 😮

FOY chimney swift fkn HITS

Idk who needs to hear this but don’t say yes to doing the new thing. It will not be quick, nor easy, and you’ll end up with too many things.

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

Barred Owls Anthony Bourdain 🤝 “Who cooks for you?”

The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "If all of this theft were stopped, it would be enough to balance the budget. The extraction of wealth from American taxpayers to people who don't belong here is the primary cause of the national debt."

This whole line of thinking is just insane to me. If you don’t want to participate in educating and mentoring the next generation of scientists and thinkers you are welcome to choose a different profession.

“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.” That’s because it is. www.science.org/content/arti...

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes

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If you - like myself - are scrapped for time to dig into papers these days, I discuss my recent urban stopover paper on this episode (which I learned was a first for TMIB)!

American Birding Association@aba.org · 5mo ago

New American Birding Podcast episode! In this episode, guests Jason Hall, Mikko Jimenez, and Sarah Swanson join host Nate Swick for the ever-popular "This Month in Birding" roundtable. Listen here: www.aba.org/10-08-this-m...

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million. The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program. www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing

The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

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The irony of cognitive neuroscientists, many of which deride my research on bird brains, finding that birding might help mitigate cognitive decline is not lost on me. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroskyence #birding

The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan

Neuroplasticity is a defining property of the brain. Structural and functional brain changes arise soon after learning and are particularly evident following years of practice that underpin expert per...

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A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday! We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Migratory bird stopover patterns linked to urbanization and social landscapes - Nature Cities

Urban ecology traditionally focuses on single cities, yet cities play key roles in ecological processes such as migration. Radar analysis across the continental USA reveals that nearly half of stopove...

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Motion to add “Performative male” as an eBird breeding code

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says

Martinez plans to pursue a Federal Torts Claim Act complaint against Homeland Security and the agent who shot her.

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Apparently it’s #DarwinDay, so I’m sharing the most relatable quote by any scientist ever

Where is the syllabus to go along with bad bunny performance? This is going to generate a lot of intellectual interest in historie.

I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo

Wedge LIVE!™@wedge.live · 6mo ago

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Never beating the “birds aren’t real” allegations if American wigeons keep sounding like that

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'

In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

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"One bad year could kill one of our favorite scientific societies." In my latest story for @science.org, I explored how U.S. conferences fared over the last year amid concerns about an attendance slump. www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump slump? Attendance plummets at some science meetings, but others hold steady

Amid travel bans, a government shutdown, and funding crunches, 2025 was a turbulent year for U.S. scientific societies

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Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

BREAKING: Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has been carried away by a small Minnesota owl, reportedly used to patch tiny hole in nest

“All you’re doing is terrorizing us, scaring people. There’s little kids,” one person shouted at Bovino and other agents, blocks from where the arrest happened.”

Bovino’s back: Border Patrol commander leads fresh round of immigration raids in Chicago area

Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among Chicago’s immi...

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