Emily V Griffith

There is U2 on here so I think we’re covered!

Excellent choice

I want to hear the list! (And if any of them are on the “TJ MAXX bangers” playlist I listen to)

A quick color sketch of a colorful warbler

Quick Blackburnian warbler sketch in watercolor and Prismacolor
#birdart #natureillustration #coloredpencil #sketchbook

graphic with woodpecker photo, WOS logo, and text "Early Professional Avian Conservation and Impact Award - Nominations Due March 31"

Do you know an early-career professional making a difference in bird conservation, education and outreach, or communications? Nominate them for our Early Professional Impact Award! #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/awards/early...

Female red-breasted merganser with what appears to be fishing line caught in its bill.

Sandwich Tern

Great Black-Backed Gull

Dark-bellied Brent Goose

I very frustratingly missed the forsters tern in Poole Park this afternoon. Some other birds showed themselves very well. It’s only after looking at the photo that I’ve noticed the merganser appears to have fishing line caught in its bill. #Birds #DorsetBirds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife

Evaluating Sources & Fact Checking: Crash Course Scientific Thinking #6 YouTube video by CrashCourse

Are you consuming a credit card’s worth of misinformation every week? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we’ll learn how to check facts and evaluate sources, so we can figure out what science coverage to believe, and what to ignore. youtu.be/Fm0MpfKIs5w

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!

www.ign.com/articles/the...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

#StandUpForScience #Seattle

Rest up! My next big webinar is coming up and you don’t want to miss it!

RSVP here: ABCbirds.org/jersvp

Screenshot from the anime You and I Are Polar Opposites, showing the main characters Suzuki and Tani looking at a taxidermied ptarmigan on display at a natural history museum. Suzuki says while pointing, "Its legs are adorable!"

You and I Are Polar Opposites, showing the main characters Suzuki and Tani holding hands while walking after dark. Suzuki is saying, "But we still didn't manage to get around to everything. The museum is amazing!"

Always a plus to see appreciation for birds and museums in anime. 🪶🧪 #正反対な君と僕

Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Congratulations to my former student Lei Wu who recently published "Parallel divergence with shared barriers and niche
separation between two sympatric avian species groups" (dx.doi.org/10.1111/jse....) (Open Access). Willow Tit Poecile montanus and Marsh Tit P. palustris species groups in China

A playful poster graphic featuring flat illustrations of national postal services around the world that use bird logos. From March 2022

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

Love rivers?! Looking for an exciting PhD opportunity to better understand how to restore rivers at a landscape scale with multiple stakeholders?!
Details below!
@stir.ac.uk

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

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! 🎶 In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearly—making sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field.

Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild

Here's an #ornithology story to send you into the weekend: Wild-born Regent Honeyeaters are "tutoring" captive-bred birds in their songs, part of a plan release captive-bred birds into the wild in hopes of saving this critically endangered species.

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.

rdcu.be/e7aUy

Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...

New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A drawing titled "psst genetic engineers: I have a proposal." It shows ten duck species being combined into one best duck, which has a long-tailed duck's tail plumes, a king eider's wing spikes, a hooded merganser's hood, a white-winged scoter's eye markings, a redhead's eye and red head, a ring-necked duck's bill pattern, a northern shoveler's bill shape, a northern pintail's neck pattern, a harlequin duck's blue, and a ruddy duck's upturned tail.

An oldie about ducks and ignoring scientific ethics.

Reposting for Sarah's power stance.

Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species in mountainous terrain reveals a risk of insect biodiversity loss in tropical lowlands.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

It's Fish Doorbell season again!! I am completely obsessed with this thing. It's an aquatic gate in the Netherlands that lets fish pass through so they can go about their lives despite the dam. Watch the livestream. If you see a fish, ring the doorbell, and the gates open!! 🐟❤️
visdeurbel.nl/en/

Phainopepla nitens

Finland’s updated Important Bird Areas: A new map for bird conservation Climate change and shifting bird distributions are reshaping Finland’s bird conservation landscape

#ornithology
www.birdlife.org/news/2026/03...

btw, this project and projects like it are funded by t-shirts like this one (and you should buy one at SquidFacts.net, they're super cute)