Taylor Brown

The Puffin Conundrum: Young Atlantic Puffins Need Darkness, But Are Attracted to Light New research by Environmental & Life Sciences Ph.D. graduate offers key insight for helping Newfoundland’s beloved provincial bird avoid the risks of getting stranded

A nice write-up on the research of former PhD student @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on light attraction in Atlantic puffins fledglings (pufflings!)

www.trentu.ca/news/story/2...

Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

Thank you Nadiah!

Brightened nights, altered earth: Artificial light reshapes activity rhythms in an earthworm and soil processes Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a global environmental disruptor, impacting natural dark-light cycles, with effects reported on the activity rhyth…

Paper no. 9 by Jiaqing Cai et al. investigates the impacts of ALAN on earthworm behaviour. This work shows how ALAN decreases surface activity of earthworms, and leads to a marked shift in litter accumulation zones in the soil under ALAN, compared to unlit soils
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdoctoral fellow

🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!

Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.

📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme

More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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Where do my scientist friends find writing contracts to pursue? Just looking for options / opportunities to make a little extra money writing about science, whether for a lay audience (magazines, websites, etc.) or actual scientific papers / reports.

Thanks 😁

Ohhh lovely! Thank you for sending these along Donna. I'll see what my co-authors think 😁

Gorgeous! Hand-held or not, it's a beautiful profile. Thanks! I'll show it to my co-authors along with the others to see what they think!

Oh wow, these are fantastic!! I'll run them by my co-authors 😁 thanks for sharing!!

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Does anyone have a good-quality photo of a Common Yellowthroat in the field, which they would be willing to submit (without monetary compensation) as cover photo accompanying a paper in Canadian Field-Naturalist? You would receive credit for the photo of course.
Let me know! 😄

The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐

Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀

Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au

#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thank you Claire!

Taylor stands with her back to a pebble beach with calm waves. She is holding a young puffin in front of her, toward the camera, with both hands. She is smiling and looking down at the puffin.

I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...

Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text reads 'we're hiring, graduate research assistant and postdoctoral research associate. Logo are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines the graduate research assistant position, which is part time (14 hours), fixed term until 0ct 2028, based at the university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines postdoctoral research associate position, which is full-time fixed term until 31st oct 2028, starting salary £34.6k, location is university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york

Fancy working with killer whales?

We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team.

👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka
👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4

Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct.

🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

Selection on metabolism and memory in a moving Chickadee hybrid zone Genetic study confirms experimental work on black-capped and Carolina chickadee.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

Selection on metabolism and memory in a moving Chickadee hybrid zone
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/s...

#ornithology

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest

New publication: Safe haven-type shelters mitigate light-induced mortality Strandings of procellariiform (tube-nosed) seabirds can be greatly reduced by decreasing emissions of artificial light at night, but in many affected locations (e.g., cities, industrial sites) it is.....

Thanks @airamrodriguez.bsky.social for featuring our study on ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/new-pub...!
Storm-petrels avoid light after stranding - and we can develop post-stranding mortality mitigation strategies that take advantage of this. Ta-da... Hide boxes!
@garyburness.bsky.social

Pufflings navigating the lit night Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...

New post at ecolightsforseabirds website!
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds

Thank you!

#JobAlert!
Resource Conservation Manager II with Parks Canada in #Yukon. PM-05. Indeterminate, full time.
$96-104k/year + isolated post allowance. A degree and/OR recent and significant experience req'd.
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Closes Sep 2, 2025.
#biology #conservation #jobs

#JobAlert!
Manager of Resource Conservation with Parks Canada in Fort Smith, NT. PM-06.
Term Sept 2025 to Nov 2026. $113-129k + isolated post allowance. Some education and/OR experience req'd.
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Closes Sept 1 2025.
#jobs #biology #conservation #wildlife

#JobAlert!
Resource Conservation Manager II position with Parks Canada in Inuvik, NT. Indeterminate! $113-129k/year + isolated post allowance.
"A degree" + experience required.
Closes Sept 7. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

#jobs #conservation #canada #arctic #biology #ecology

A screenshot of an ad for a master's position at Dalhousie university. Contact Glenn Crossin glenn.crossin@dal.ca

Please check out the attached advertisement for a #masters project at @dalhousieu.bsky.social on Leach's storm-petrels! #MSc #biology #gradstudies #gradschool #birds #seabirds #research

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Thanks Anne!!

A little late but better than never - I am finally #PhDone!! I defended at the end of May, submitted my final thesis at the beginning of June, and am now just working full-time at LGL Limited and enjoying summer 😁 I'm always open to research collaborations though!! #PhD #gradschool #academia

What scientists need to know about sharing—and protecting—their published work With research papers becoming increasingly free to read and use, understanding open-access licenses is key

What scientists need to know about sharing—and protecting—their published work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #OpenScience

Just putting this out there since I want to increase my side hustling... I've created and revamped several websites for labs and individuals and businesses, and I can do so for you and your lab too! Get in touch if you need help with your lab or personal website 🙂 mine is taylorbrown.org!