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 great summary of our recent warbler introgression paper. Check it out!
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social
will be holding our next meeting in Glen Cove, New York on 8-12 January 2027!
Have an idea for a special symposium? We want to hear it!
#ecology #evolution #behavior 🧪 #popgen 🧬
Applications due Apr 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds.
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writing a song for every single bird species: Gambel’s Quail edition…
A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)
Pam Bondi - How Is The Dow
Who do I talk to about our refund?
a reminder that the live debut of bird rock is coming… at the San Diego bird festival next week!
(and that you can get tickets here, without a ticket to the larger festival: secure.sandiegobirdalliance.org/nx/portal/ne...)
Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel
Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🧪
Woah @davetoews.bsky.social this has got to be the coolest and (IMHO) most important ornithology paper I've read in a good while. Already added it to my class this semester!
doi.org/10.1093/orni...
Light-colored peppered moths right now
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...
congratulations to the Seahawks, who are technically named after the gorgeous Osprey — a great victory for birders everywhere!
below is my rendition of an Osprey soaring to victory, drawn with full attention to detail. and no, this is not a photo!
A warbler makes the news in Nova Scotia? I can also be sustained on only peanut butter, but it's cold my little buddy!
🦉
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A duck with hair?
Why does this duck have hair?! 😭
I firmly believe that Friday class attendance in spring semester is nearly entirely bimodal based on the weather. Too cold? I couldn’t imagine going to class in this! Too warm? It’s too nice out to go to class!
Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...
The way iOS 26 took us from circular sliders to little oval ones is pretty revolutionary, tbh
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
New episode just dropped of Extremely Accurate Bird Songs: the podcast… and it’s a big one. Our song for the Roseate Spoonbill goes full Vampire-Weekend-mode with legendary bird podcaster Ivan Phillipsen as the song judge!
Our quest to write a song for *every* bird species continues….
