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wake up babe new bird just dropped

Fig. 1 from the article. Overview of the selective and non-selective forces influencing the expression of same-sex partnerships in birds, adapted from the framework for understanding same-sex sexual behaviour in Clive et al. (2020). Illustration: Bertille Mohring

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data.

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#ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social

Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social

puffins today :-)

a digital drawing of a loggerhead shrike surrounded by spikey cotton plants and copper barbed wire.

loggerhead shrike <3

What you are detecting are not questions or concerns; its anger. Using generative AI, a resource intensive and exploitative technology, is hypocritical and immoral for any organization interested in nature.

Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM

We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

gatitos

my first time using a camera trap! we got lots of visitors :-)

Same‐sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data Same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB), encompassing actions such as courtship, pair bonding, and parenting between individuals of the same sex, has been observed across numerous taxa, including birds. Yet ...

Out this week: a short review co-authored with @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social on same-sex partnerships in birds! 🐦🌈 Borne out of a shared frustration: why are these partnerships often ignored or actively removed from our datasets? 1/n

doi.org/10.1002/jav....

It rules being a tranny because you tune into the news on a random day and find yourself confronted with some new story like "New budget specifically says 'we wont cover healthcare for trannies. specifically those people'" and then i have to go back to work like everything is normal for 8 hours

facebook post with a collection of photos and video of a huge clutch of robin eggs and two adult robins squished together in the same nest: "I’ve had robins on my porch every year. This year has been quite interesting! On Sunday I found two eggs in the nest and by Tuesday afternoon there were 8 eggs! I had never seen that many. So I did a little bit of research and found out that 8 eggs means they were likely laid by two different females. So I set up a camera to see what would happen. And much to my surprise there are two females caring for the eggs. They are NOT happy to be sharing the nest. But they are stubborn and neither mother is willing to leave her eggs. I read that usually the robins are so territorial that one mother will leave. During the day they kick each other out of the nest taking turns sitting on the eggs. Then at night they both have such a strong instinct to sit on the eggs all night that they BOTH sit on the nest. One bird sits on the other. They fight and peck at each other constantly! Although they seem to have come to some sort of understanding and tolerate each other much better now. Here are some pictures and videos of these very stubborn and devoted mother robins. I can tell them apart by their markings by their eyes. And I can tell they are both females by the way the mothers settle onto the eggs and cover them with their brood patch. Have you ever seen two females sit on the nest at the same time!? St Thomas, Ontario Canada May 4, 2025"

one mother robin sits on top of the other mother robin in the same nest

the two robins face off in the nest at night

help I'm obsessed with the warring mother robins who unhappily share a nest

An emperor scorpion carrying its young on its back. It is surrounded by an array of flowers.

A little late for mother's day but...!

newt city this week

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

A striking Oystercatcher strolls along wet, rocky mudflats, its vivid orange bill tipped with a tiny morsel of food. The bird’s black and white plumage glows in the low sunlight, and a small silver leg ring is visible, marking it as part of a long-term study.

Big news from the mudflats!

The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash.

That’s three times their species’ average lifespan!

Legends wade amongst us... 😎

A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg

the gulls have become catholic

twite at last :-)

oh brotherrrrrr

why is the campus transphobe sending out emails to try and ship off students to maga boot camp 😭😭😭

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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pineapple allergic to pineapple

saw my first spoonbill today! very exciting

on it boss 🫡

can i share this with fellow undergrads?

screenshot of open letter page 1 - full google doc available via link in post

screenshot of open letter page 2 - full google doc available via link in post

tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia
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im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department

myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management

please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.

If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

i’m always on the lookout for more inclusive birding pins, patches and stickers if anyone has recommendations :-)

my feminist bird club patches arrived! gonna keep them on my rucksack along with my gay bird club pin (2025 design by @alextomlinson.com )