Sonny Schoenhoft

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

Exploration Behavior Is Consistent and Associated With Foraging Behavior in Island Songbirds We tested the neophobia threshold hypothesis in six landbird species, including four Darwin's finches. Exploration behavior was consistent over time and contexts, with species exhibiting greater fora....

Hi everyone, happy to share with all of you the paper from the second chapter of my PhD, where we show that more exploratory birds use a broader foraging niche, linking consistent behavior with ecological flexibility. I hope you can enjoy it and share it!!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oppression breeds rebellion.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

a very successful weekend 😊

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

I NEED GOOD, THOUGHTFUL LEADERS TO GET WAY BETTER AT USING THE INTERNET LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO

the IMATA conference is off to such an amazing start! I missed Chicago with my whole heart and absolutely adore being back- especially to Brookfield zoo!! I present on my beluga bioacoustics research on Wednesday 😊

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors...

Being silent won't protect you.

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this

looking forward to this

Yes

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

"We present MacaqueNet, a global community of researchers who developed the first database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This database facilitates comparative research into the eco-evolutionary drivers of animal behaviour" @DeMoorDelphine🌏

The anti-Musk protest movement is expected to ramp up with Congress on recess Donald Trump is the president, but billionaire Elon Musk is the focus for thousands of Democratic activists launching a protest campaign this week to fight the Trump administration's push to gut feder...

Be seen
Be heard
Be out there protesting at every opportunity

Encourage others to protest with you.
We can't save our last few wild places without getting political.
They want your social security
They want your medicare
They want your taxes
They want our parks

news.yahoo.com/news/anti-mu...

Only 50 Rice's Whales Are Left. Can We Do Enough to Protect Them Before It's Too Late? In 2021, researchers identified a new whale species and are now scrambling to save their natural habitat

🐋 #whale #riceswhale #cetacean

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Darwin wrote: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.

Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...

So, hang in there, #academicsky!
🧪

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

grad students, researchers, anyone really- how do you cope and stay productive in times of fascism?

Oh you don’t have a valentine for Valentine’s Day?

Lots of people don’t have a shark for Shark Week.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Convergent evolution in whale and human vocal cultures The complex songs of humpback whales conform to fundamental laws of language

how fascinating is this??

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humpback whale song and human language are more similar than you might think. Here’s why Researchers have found a pattern indicating certain ‘words’ are used more often than others – but humans won’t be speaking whale any time soon

A new paper published in Science shows that humpback whale songs show structure similar to human language

I also foster bottle baby kittens regularly! little Junimo is one of those fosters, she just kinda never left 😅😂

realized i never introduced my little family here on bluesky! while being a full time grad student and researcher im also a mom to four amazing critters. Fern (swedish vallhund), Junimo (calico), Augie (american eski mix), and our newest addition Fable (cali kingsnake)

thank you- I hope!!

It has been a LONG, difficult week. What little things brought you joy this week?

here’s to hoping more academics switch over to bluesky instead of twitter 🤞🏼. so many labs post their open opportunities over there but i refuse to go back and can’t help but feel like im missing out

-ms student looking for phd opportunities