Meg Daly

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Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first two articles of Volume 5 of the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists are now published at ssbbulletin.org.

it would be entirely within modern naming conventions to name a girl Kingdom and a boy Clade and I think the life sciences need to get ahead of this

Finally, all these awards for students don’t simply appear out of thin air. Enormous thanks to our Awards Director, Dr. Rebecca Chong.

Want to help give awards for great science? Consider reviewing applications! Instructions here: www.systbio.org/reviewing-aw...

Graduate Student Research Awards The Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) Graduate Student Research Awards assist graduate students conducting research in systematics. These grants are for collection of preliminary data or to...

🚨Awards Alert 🚨

Its award season here at SSB!

First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members

Apply here:
www.systbio.org/graduate-stu...

Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.

More info:

www.systbio.org/early-career...

Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

Proposals due March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO

Great opportunity for small grants for systematic research!

A keeper!!

Cand of flavored milk. The peach milk has a cow with a peach for its butt. It's really disturbing

Today in things where I can't decide if it's brilliant or horrifying 🍑🐄

text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

A thread (with audio) that reminds us that curiosity and creativity are fundamental to science and The human experience.

So proud of @lsu.bsky.social 's CURE program - allows our undergrads to get a real taste of research. Plus our grad students get practice leading a research team. @lsuscience.bsky.social

Your labbies are wonderful.

Logo for MANUS AI, with lowercase lettering and a pointing finger.

This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.

Frog and Toad look out over Toad's garden. Nothing yet is growing in the dirt. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”

Snowy, gray skies and bare trees on Ohio State's West campus.

#Ohio

What a great name!! This was such a fun campaign 🎊

Not emphasized in this story: OSU has seen more (and more competitive) undergraduate & graduate applicants, better retention and graduation rates, increased research output and federal funding, and higher ranking concomitant with this more diverse faculty.

The Alt text here both does its job as description and adds to the experience. Wonderful.

Tempting you over into the invertebrate side of the house!! 🤪 🐙

Love to see nature when it's so❄️❄️ here

Really great new paper & 🧵diving into taxonomic disparity of scientific attention.

"Focusing intensely on only a few species to act as exemplars may have significant impacts on our conservation efforts, as well as our general understanding of the anatomy and physiology of taxa"

This is great work! Thank you for sharing it and providing the 🧵! 🐟🐚🪸

7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.

So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

A meme featuring Senator Bernie Sanders, in a brown parka, with text saying "I am once again asking" with a fill-in-the-blank completion of this statement to "for you to review a manuscript."

Me, this week.

That exodus…represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds