Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚

recordings of each individual streaming event can be published and archived (like a youtube video). it can be a great science communication tool that allows both live interaction with the audience at the time of broadcast as well as production of videos for folks to watch later.

there are several channels that share wildlife content like live videos of bird feeders, owl nest boxes, etc. people often form communities around the streamer based on shared interests and inside jokes, etc.

a streamer can share their screen or use cameras to share an activity while they talk. viewers can “lurk” and just watch or they can type in chat to interact with the streamer and each other. typically used for video games, content topics are expanding including art, crafts, talk shows, etc.

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#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️

1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

sound up for a rainy waterfall

I was vaccinated in June so I’m not eligible for another shot for several
months. here’s hoping they are still available then.

we have a large family wedding in mid September and I am immunocompromised from long Covid so he wants to get vaccinated to keep me safe. this is such an unnecessary and life threatening shitshow.

my partner has been waiting for CVS in MA to let him schedule his vaccine. their website kept saying they were waiting for the new version. now we are hearing CVS won’t carry the Covid vaccine in MA this fall. he has been waiting and checking the website daily for weeks…

OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution

Pretty sure I accidentally posted a pic of a katydid ballsack tonight so SORRY about that everybody I thought it was EGGS I didn’t think insects had fuckin ballz like that good lord.

love this for you! kitty time 😎

illustrations of an awake common myna with lights of a city in the background, and of a sleeping common myna with trees and a dark sky in the background.

New article out:
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology

the methods section for parts of the research they’ve been doing, then have a discussion together about what folks included & why, & what additional info would be needed? other tasks could include developing a system for taking notes on papers relevant to the work etc, more of those skills maybe?

not sure if you’re looking for advice, but I often feel like finding and reading literature and writing are overlooked as skills bc students want the “hands-on” experience when reading and writing are part of a well-rounded research experience. maybe for 1 week everyone could practice writing up…

thank you!

thank you!!!!

two green birds are standing in a hole with the words time to party written above them Alt: two green parrots are standing in a hole and they appear to be “dancing” with the words time to party written below them

cross out party, insert sleep 😂

thank you!

Two people standing under a colorful banner that reads “Dr. Kit Straley congratulations!” The banner has a bird with a graduation style cap.

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A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

Schematic of the structure of the paper. We looked at dietary differences between ages and sexes, seasons and habitat types. We looked at the identity of prey in the diet and the number of dietary items.

New publication! 🚨

If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦

We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types.
@ucc.ie

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

we learn about the food web early on in school, but it’s another thing to witness the spectacular growth of herbivores, all through the power of native plants! insects are declining, and one way we can help is by providing them with their native host plants. 🐛🌿💚

suffering is happening right now and I’m sitting on my couch formatting ggplots. I’ve never felt more useless.

I keep being told to ignore it and focus but ignoring it doesn’t stop it from happening, and in fact if everyone ignores it to focus on their own little piece of capitalism it will just continue and escalate.

I know almost everyone hates their dissertation at the end, and I don’t hate mine, but wow is it hard to focus on writing this thing very few people will ever read or care about so I can earn my piece of paper while we freefall into fascism 🤦🏻‍♀️

beautiful! I also loveeee spicebush it smells so lovely.

yes! Promethea moth caterpillars go through 5 growth stages called instars before they cocoon. the lil guy is a 1st instar and the big one is a 5th instar. it’s amazing how much they change not just in terms of size but also colors!

A fifth instar Promethea caterpillar on sassafras leaves. The camera is focused on its posterior, where a pattern of 3 black marks looks like a cartoon face.

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I have no idea why my fingers look sunburnt 🤷🏻‍♀️ they aren’t.