Paul Macklin

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

None of this would have been possible without the over 1,700 community scientists that used SolarBird. From Mexico to Canada, those observations formed the foundation of this project and turned it into a continental-scale collaboration!

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Looks terrific!!

15x30” nebula oil painting on easel that resembles a leviathan or dragon skull

5 days left to grab a print of my latest oil painting! This is a region in the Eagle Nebula near the Pillars of Creation originally imaged by Hubble Telescope 🐡🔭🧪

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National Press Club water for speakers.

Honestly, speaking on a panel at the National Press Club is a bucket list item for me. What a thrill!

My inner NPR nerd self is geeking out.

Thanks, Sandy! I'm getting spoiled being at the same meetings with you!!

Paul @mathcancer.bsky.social was rocking the stage at #NFCR as part of the second panel discussion on ‘AI in cancer diagnosis and management’.
It’s cool to see the important role of #MathOnco folks in these types of discussions.

NFCR session on AI i cancer detection and prevention

And now my heart friends and collaborators @fertiglab.bsky.social and Lisa Coussens are up! #NFCR 🧪

Panel 1 on AI and cancer care at the NFCR summit.

Really thrilled to be at the National Press Club today for the NFCR Summit on Cancer Care.

My great friend @sandyanderson.bsky.social is on the first panel on AI and cancer care. I'll be on the next panel. :-) 🧪

Alexander Anderson presenting model-guided adaptive therapy at JKTGF meeting

Always a thrill to see my dear friend @sandyanderson.bsky.social present his groundbreaking work in model-guided adaptive cancer therapy at this year's @jktgfoundation.bsky.social breast cancer symposium. 🧪

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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As a physicist, teacher, and sci communicator with a genuine love for astrophysics & particle physics, I really connect with the insights shared in this thread about the importance of fundamental research.

In addition to the great points already made, I’d like to emphasize

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🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #cosmology

Welcome to BlueSky!

Helluva first 1st author paper!

Nature cover next 1st author? :-)

I can’t think of a better reason to finally join Bluesky - my first first-authored paper is out! It being published in @science.org is surreal. This was a community effort in every sense, led by an incredible team with @rosvall-lab.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @juncowren.bsky.social

Solarbird: Community Bird Science for the 2024 Eclipse

Liz worked with Luddy prof @mathcancer.bsky.social &co to create SolarBird, a free app that used GPS & time stamps to match 30 sec public observations with the % obscuration of the sun, clicking boxes to say what the bird they were watching was doing ☀️ luddyeclipse2024.org/solarbird.html (6/x)

two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway ALT: two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway

I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds like these rock pigeons (Columba livia) took note.

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.

Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL

So proud of this multidisciplinary project, showing in particular the power of community science when enabled by user-friendly design, bolstering deep expertise.

In the 2024 solar eclipse, 11k observations from 1700 laypeople via a jointly developed, user-friendly smartphone app.🔭🧪

So once they identified today's Nobel prize recipients, they couldn't quite track them down.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics Haverford College invites applications for our full-time (37.5 hours per week), fixed-term (2 year appointment), exempt, benefits-eligible Postdoctoral Research in Extragalactic Astrophysics opportuni...

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

I hadn't heard the good news congratulations!!

You might well see it with a 3x drizzle integration. Good luck!!

That's impressively clear!!

A once every 15 years thing… Titan is transiting in front of Saturn. In a few minutes I’m hoping to catch the shadow as well. #astrophotography #saturn

Watching Nebraska on a 59-yard touchdown run with one shoe on was a fun play to watch! :-)

Found it (for now) on Instagram

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We're hiring several tenure-track biomedical engineering faculty (at open rank) at IU Bloomington! Come join me in a very multidisciplinary, forward-focused culture that integrates cutting-edge engineering, computing, and artificial intelligence. 🧪

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30517

Learn more about the program here:

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12 IU Bloomington faculty selected for Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership programs The faculty members will participate in the alliance’s Departmental Executive Officer Program, Academic Leadership Program and Deans Leadership Program.

I'm grateful to represent IU Bloomington at
@bigtenacademic.bsky.social's Academic Leadership Program (ALP). ALP is a wonderful opportunity to learn about academic leadership from amazing peers and current leaders. Excited to grow as an associate dean and explore!

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S3 Ep1: SMB 2025 Podcast Episode · Biology in Numbers · 09/29/2025 · 53m

And listen to the whole podcast here!

Many greats in this podcast with far better answers, like @adamlmaclean.bsky.social, @amyhurford.bsky.social, @gosiaweh.bsky.social, @thomasewoolley.bsky.social !

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S3 Ep1: SMB 2025 Podcast Episode · Biology in Numbers · 09/29/2025 · 53m

Also had the thrill of interviewing @parmvir.com, at 41:01.

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