Excited to be at my first #ESA2026 at the lovely Salt Lake City, UT! Looking forward to share my science, learn a lot, and enjoy the experience. I will be at COS 062 - Communities: Spatial Patterns & Env Gradients1 (251F) and also representing a colleague at PS 11: Modeling

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · last wk.

What a day! Pre-meeting courses, field trips and meetings are in the books, and now it’s almost time to kick off #ESA2026! Opening Plenary, First-Timers Welcome Reception, and Opening Networking Reception are up next. Onsite? Head to registration, grab your badge, and let’s get this week started!

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback, including multiple reviewers and editors, and to #Alberto, #CarlosAndrés, and @oacevedocharry.bsky.social for allowing us to use their photos or recordings, to Kathryn for promoting it (news.ufl.edu/2026/06/coqu...), and to Katie for editing the piece.

Young frogs

New research from the University of Florida shows that young frogs prioritize growing quickly even when infected with a deadly pathogen, shifting energy toward immune defense only when infections beco...

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Young frogs “play it safe”; when disease strikes, UF researchers find news.clas.ufl.edu/young-frogs-... @zuaniacolon.bsky.social @miguelacevedo.bsky.social

Young frogs "play it safe" when disease strikes, UF researchers find - News

UF research reveals how early-life decisions about energy use, shapes survival, development and population health.

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Hace dos fines de semana estuve hablando sobre mi camino en #ciencia con El Consorcio de Historia Natural de #PuertoRico (elconsorcio.org) en español. Puedes verla en www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pZ.... El sábado 23 de mayo, le toca a @oacevedocharry.bsky.social. Stay tuned; vienen con #podcasts.

Experimental design to test range expansion theory of secondary forests… intraspecific trait variation is relevant to understand early succession dynamics of animals (lizards in this case). @miguelacevedo.bsky.social team!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experimental recolonization of secondary forests by a Caribbean anole follows predictions from range expansion theory

Recovery dynamics are a defining feature of the Anthropocene landscape. These processes, shaped by ecological and evolutionary mechanisms, can be inve…

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🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

In case you missed it: Applications for our Mentoring Program, which includes full funding to attend #AOSWOS2026, are open now thru 2/28! We also need volunteer *mentors*, so please consider this if you're past the early-career stage & will be at the meeting. wilsonsociety.org/students-and...

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

Morphological change of lowland rainforest birds in Colombia!! A long-term fan of all these authors in #ornithology 🙇🙇 @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social Ph.D. Results from the Colombian Resurvey Project!!!

Monte Neate-Clegg@mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Great to be part of this paper led by Natalia Pérez-Amaya quantifying a century of morphological change in lowland rainforest birds! @birdmapper.bsky.social @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @julisoto.bsky.social @amcuervo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Extended specimens (permanent chewing louse) provide another perspective of the long-term *enigma* of evolutionary and biogeographic history of _Sapayoa aenigma_… parasite linage revealed consistent extra-Neotropical origins! 🤯 #follow @julisoto.bsky.social for cool research on #ornithology

Juliana Soto Patiño@julisoto.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨Paper alert🚨 We studied the permanent chewing louse genus Myrsidea to revisit the long-debated evolutionary and biogeographic history of Sapayoa aenigma, finding signals consistent with an extra-Neotropical origin of the parasite lineage. 📄 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Online now: Matching climate to biological scales

#ornithology Wait, birds as truffle dispersers? What a cool research! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi

Caiafa et al. explore the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi. Metagenomic analyses of fecal samples show that birds consume a wide diversity of truffles and other mycorrhiz...

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Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite. I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...

Orlando Acevedo-Charry@oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@swamplily.bsky.social terrific talk! Many butterflies at risk but not enlisted in the Endangered Species Act need more research! To help them: 1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard 2) leave the leafs (they hibernate) 3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social

It went well!!!

Orlando Acevedo-Charry@oacevedocharry.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today is #SNRE Research Symposium!!! Honored to belong to this program and share some of my dissertation. Leveraging community science data we found similar patterns of estimates of probability of persistence than those from standardized monitoring! @uf-ifas.bsky.social @ufcalsdean.bsky.social @

@swamplily.bsky.social terrific talk! Many butterflies at risk but not enlisted in the Endangered Species Act need more research! To help them: 1) maintain a pollinator friendly backyard 2) leave the leafs (they hibernate) 3) engage with conservation initiatives like @xercessociety.bsky.social

Today is #SNRE Research Symposium!!! Honored to belong to this program and share some of my dissertation. Leveraging community science data we found similar patterns of estimates of probability of persistence than those from standardized monitoring! @uf-ifas.bsky.social @ufcalsdean.bsky.social @

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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@floridamuseum.bsky.social PI Dr. Glaucia del Rio contributing to natural history information of a magnificent nocturnal bird in the Neotropics

Wilson Ornithological Society@wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest articles at the WJO: Insect richness in the stomach of a Nacunda Nighthawk. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Latest articles at the WJO: Insect richness in the stomach of a Nacunda Nighthawk. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement

Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

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Could we use community/citizen/participatory science data to estimate population extinction risk? Our results comparing the estimates from eBird and from a standardized survey suggest we can!! #ornithology #ecology #conservation See our detailed tutorial oaccolombia.github.io/vpm_eBird/vp...

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · last yr.

Monitoring population extinction risk with community science data 💬🌎 Leveraging 'the power of people' allows estimating local persistence probability as a risk-based population viability, closely aligning estimation from standardized, systematic monitoring 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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@miguelacevedo.bsky.social, English as my second language must be the reason to don’t know how to say no!!! 🤭 Hehehe

Bette Loiselle@betteloiselle.bsky.social · last yr.

Love this exit seminar intro by Miguel Acevedo for Orlando Acevedo-Charry!! Congratulations Orlando!!

Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!

Not great photos from my old phone, but here is @julisoto.bsky.social at #TheNat last night inspiring us all with her story of mystery, research, and intrepid women #nattalk #SanDiegoBirdAlliance

Huge Shark@hugeshark.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted that #TheNat #nattalk #SanDiegoBirdAlliance is not afraid to host a great talk on inclusion in ornithology by Juliana Soto-Patiño nor to mention DEI in their intros. ❤️ nature and birds are for everyone ❤️

NEW PAPER: investigating uropygial gland microbiome in African hornbills. Microbiomes were similar among species but with slight differences by body region. Nest sharing influenced microbiota, suggesting that nest environment is key shaping them. ➡️ https://vist.ly/3mvuzd4

Apply by Sept 15, 2025 for this Fulbright Scholar Award 🇺🇸-🇨🇴 We house the world's largest and growing collection of Colombian birds, with rich field opportunities and an incredibly talented student community at ICN - National University of Colombia 🇨🇴🐦 @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology #AcademicSky

Planning a sabbatical or between postdocs? Join us at the National Bird Collection (ICN-UNAL) for 3-6 months through Fulbright 🇨🇴 We'd host researchers studying avian speciation / HZ, biogeography, phylogenomics, mountain diversification, Choco-Amazon, resurveys fulbrightscholars.org/award/all-di...