Given that most signs in Canada are English message // French message, I assumed that in Quebec it would be similar (French // English). But no. Quebec, sir, where’s the English?
Chris Clark
@selasphorus1.bsky.social
I study hummingbirds and owls, and the sounds they make, or not, with their wings.
Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...
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I'm pretty uncompromising on most first amendment issues but goddamn it posting fake AI nature videos ought to be a felony.
Global Museum@globalmuseum.bsky.social · last mo.Vogelkop Super Paradise, found in the rainforests of Papua, is only found in Indonesia's Papua province. Its clove-black feathers absorb 99.5% of light, which makes its blue eyes and chest appear like a digital illusion. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/new-vog... #globalmuseum #birds
@emilytaylorscience.com my daughter (12) was given your book and today has learned about lizard nooses.
Our recent paper on nightjar sonations has been picked up by more science news media www.sciencenews.org/article/nigh...
These birds clack their wing bones together to woo mates at night
During courtship, male scissor-tailed nightjars crack their wings together to make a sharp snapping sound. It's the result of colliding arm bones.
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Woohoo! New paper!! Nightjars bang their wings together to make sound! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.
I'm not sure what's going on with my university's schedule of classes... they seem to be planning classes for the afterlife? But when I click through, the BIOL major is no more... #UCR
Photos from my recent trip to Manitoba. The owls really like perching ON the microphones..
Myiarchus flycatchers ordered by size and intensity of yellow underparts. When it comes to flycatchers, differences between species tend to be very subtle. Impressions of size and color in the field can be quite subjective, but the differences are real.
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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Got the first one! Juvie that got measured and got some bling (band). No GPS tag cause the mortality is too high for this age so just some bling… #GoldenEagle #WomeninRaptorResearch #RaptorResearch 🪶
Volle et al. Lifetime evolution of vocal repertoires in a songbird, the black redstart: a longitudinal field approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology
Lifetime evolution of vocal repertoires in a songbird, the black redstart: a longitudinal field approach
Oscine songbirds learn to sing mainly by imitating conspecific adults. Song learning programs are diverse, ranging from species that can only learn du…
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Withdrew my 1st scientific paper today. I submitted a paper with a weird result a couple months ago. Got a citation alert on monday, citing paper said nice things abt my paper and had a paragraph on a concept I had not heard of w/ intriguing citations. 1/
Caught a bunch of birds to show to my Vertebrate Natural History class this weekend, including this gremlin
Our latest paper is out: Sean Wilcox measured the 3D kinematics of Black-chinned Hummingbirds performing one of their courtship displays. Lots of evidence of flight performance tradeoffs! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Flight performance during courtship in male black-chinned hummingbirds, Archilochus alexandri
Elaborate male display behaviours that require high locomotor performance have been hypothesized to honestly signal male quality to choosy females. Al…
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Dear student, please do not put broken supplies stuff onto the shelf alongside working stuff. Sincerely, your PI
Quite possibly the easiest thing I’ve ever skinned, and now our teaching collection has a new genus of mammal
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Postdoc advertisement! Hi all, I'm looking to hire a Postdoc in BIOACOUSTICS for work on Owls. Your job would be to collect & analyze bioacoustics data, and write papers. 🦉🦉🦅🐦🦜🦉🦉
