We're going to need a better generic term for climate change-driven range shifts than "invasive".

Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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The National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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Ok, stats people, any advice? If I had several traps in primary forest, and several traps in disturbed forest, and want to compare which forest type got more wasps... what's a sensible way to write a model for a GLM in R?

Neural correlates of seed-eating in songbirds royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Our new paper showing that songbirds that dehusk seeds with the beak and tongue have an enlarged trigeminal nucleus in the brainstem, particularly the part where the tongue is represented.

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Diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, an owl researcher kept working till the end

David Johnson, who has died at 69, was a leading owl researcher and conservationist. “I didn’t pick owls,” he said, “they picked me.”

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📣 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE 📣 Special issue - Call for papers FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/55veu Guest editors: #JanO.Engler, #JennFoote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social #SimonThorn #ornithology #birds #bioacoustics 🪶🧪

This December (2026) I'll be starting my own research lab as a curator of ornithology at @amnh.org. We will seek to understand global avian biodiversity using evolutionary and conservation genetics, with the backing of the incredible AMNH ornithology collection. devonderaad.github.io

As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44sFvTg

ALERT #SICB members The Office of Management and Budget (#OMB) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... The public comment period closes July 13, 2026. Submit your comment directly www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... Strong, individualized comments carry far more weight than form letters.

Hey friends! My latest feature for the @cornellbirds.bsky.social magazine dropped yesterday, about some really cool research into how a long history of cross-genus hybridization may have influenced the cheerful yellow colors of today's warblers. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/when-ev...

When Evolution Painted Warblers Yellow

Millions of years ago, rare hybridization events ignited the genetic sparks that contributed to the bright yellow colors of some birds in the modern wood-warbler family.

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My paper with @davetoews.bsky.social was featured in the cover story for the latest issue of Living Bird magazine @cornellbirds.bsky.social. Check out the lovely accompanying artwork, too. Well-told by @rheisman.bsky.social.

When Evolution Painted Warblers Yellow

Millions of years ago, rare hybridization events ignited the genetic sparks that contributed to the bright yellow colors of some birds in the modern wood-warbler family.

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New funding opportunity! The Cornell Lab’s NestWatch program is offering small grants for research and community projects on nesting birds in Latin America & the Caribbean. Learn more & apply: nestwatch.org/explore-data... #Conservation #Research

NestWatch Grant Program: Nesting in the Neotropics - NestWatch

This grant program will fund research and conservation projects focused on nesting biology throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Robert Ricklefs - in memoriam dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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The flagship paper from the amazing Manakin Research Coordination Network is finally published! The time I spent with these people was the most rewarding part of my PhD.

Alice Boyle@birdfiddler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link 1/n

📢New warbler research!📢 A phylogeny of Myioborus (the youngest genus of warblers) plus a hypothesis for how they diversified in South America and a gene causing a color difference between hybridizing species. It was great co-leading this with Laura Céspedes Arias. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Diversification and divergence in Myioborus warblers: insights into evolutionary relationships and plumage genetics

Abstract. Genomic data can provide valuable insights into the evolutionary history of rapidly diversifying groups and the genetic basis of phenotypic trait

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Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging www.npr.org/2026/05/24/n...

Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging

The Trump administration is set to repeal a decades-old conservation mandate known as the Roadless Rule, opening up millions of acres of national forests for more logging.

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Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

The future of Western forests depends on professional pinecone collectors. They’re slowly being starved out of existence.

The plight of the pinecone cowboy - High Country News

As specialized forestry staff at the USFS vanish and pinecone cowboys—the highly skilled contractors sent out in the field to collect cones—face a collapsing industry, entire ecosystems are…

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📣 The second issue of 2026 is now complete! Showcasing new cutting-edge #ornithology research ⬇️ vist.ly/537eq Cover featuring the article by Paprocki et al on how disease outbreaks may reshape the cost of migration ➡️ vist.ly/537em 📷 Neil Paprocki #birds #openaccess 🪶

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As Wildfire Risks Rise, Forest Service Shutters Labs That Study Them

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The 2026 Lance-tailed Manakin webcam is live! Pro tip: click 'watch on you-tube' and scroll back in time to find the action, (today, see 8:23am). Or just enjoy the sounds of the tropical forest and see what's going on NOW in the world of the manakins. www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-t...

Lance-tailed Manakins

Watch the Lance-tailed Manakin cam

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Solid and accurate reporting on our current situation.

Jessica McKenzie@jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡🦆🦅 . 🗓️ Deadline within next 7 weeks (~25th of May). 🔗link: lnkd.in/eKgPNX2m info below!! 👇 #ornithology #biologging #birds #birdresearch #birdtracking

¡Descubre las últimas novedades en materia de ornitología! Ya salió el Volumen 97, Número 1 del #JournalofFieldOrnithology, con nuevas publicaciones de investigadores de todo el mundo. La revista es de acceso abierto. ¡Accede gratis al volumen completo journal.afonet.org/vol97/iss1/!

This would fund entire US Forest Service for 20 years and USFS Research and Devlopment branch for 666 years 😈

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo ago

The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran, according to a military official and an administration official, a significant sum adding to the costs of an already divisive campaign.

This issue includes my first paper wherein my thesis student is the first author, stoked to see the study species (WHWO) featured!

Association of Field Ornithologists@fieldornith.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Discover the latest advancements in avian research! Volume 97, Issue 1 of our #JournalofFieldOrnithology is out. This edition features many great papers from researchers all over the world. Our journal is open access. Visit journal.afonet.org/vol97/iss1/ to explore this issue for free!

thinned stand on the left, with its unthinned neighbor on the right 🤌

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...

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/a... Based on the PLoS Biology paper by Kevin Bennett and his colleagues | #ornithology

A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny

Featured image: Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) © Cephas | Wikimedia Commons

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