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Guide to Graduate Studies in Ornithology in the United States and Canada Information for undergraduates about graduate degree programs in ornithology.

Looking for opportunities for a graduate degree focused on #ornithology? Check out our free, volunteer-compiled Guide to Graduate Studies!

When is the abstract submission deadline, or has it already passed? I am having trouble finding that information.

🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege?
💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846
We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

Our IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group FrogLog article is now online: www.iucn-amphibians.org/wp-content/u.... We (@kruthsatz.bsky.social , @patricepottier.bsky.social) discuss the importance of life stage-specific 🐸 vulnerability to climate change based on our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

graphic with a photo of a titmouse (a small gray songbird) in snow, WOS logo, and text "WOS Research Grant Applications Now Open!"

📣 NOW OPEN: Applications for WOS Research Grants! These annual grants support research projects in all areas of #ornithology. The deadline is February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/resea...

Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿

lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Housing proximity and vegetation cover affect diel activity patterns of domestic cats (Felis catus) in regionally protected shorelines Abstract. Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are among the most impactful non-native species globally, causing the extinction of 63 endemic vertebrat

Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...

Yay Tyus!!!! Congrats—can’t wait to read it!

Awesome paper! I saw the preprint version a while back, and already have it cited in a population modeling/projection paper I’m working on — now I can update the citation to the paper instead of the preprint!

graphic with photo of juvenile owl, WOS logo, and text "Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant Applications Due February 1!"

Add this to your to-do list if you work with undergraduates interested in #ornithology: Applications for our Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grants, which support research projects by undergraduate-mentor collaborations, are open until February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-b...

Does your starter have a name?

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Gotcha, thanks for the reply. I hope it goes well, thanks for doing it! Hopefully next year it can happen again! I’d love to be involved.

This is awesome! I’m an ecologist and an artist, and am bummed it is open only to Portland-based folks. What if we were able to travel there on our own dime?

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

Consider Sharing Health Challenges With Colleagues (opinion) Being open with my colleagues about my cancer diagnosis has allowed me to access an enormous source of support and comfort.

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest.

I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone
@insidehighered.com

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Let me know when you crack the code—I’m stuck in the same slog 🫠

The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal

Honored and excited to share that I am the winner of Nomis & Science Young Explorer Award!!

Also thrilled to share that my article describing my research is out now in @science.org today!

The normalization of (almost) everything www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hella impressive tbh, and also, keep aiming high !!

Postdoctoral Associate - Predictive Modeler We are looking for a highly skilled postdoctoral scientist (postdoc) to lead the development of models for predicting wild bird strikes in and around an airport’s airspace in space and time. The objec...

Please share!

Folks at CSU and USDA-APHIS are looking for a #postdoc to predict avian-aircraft collisions around airports. Preferred skills include #avian movement modeling, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, machine learning, and radar #ecology.

Apply here: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166...
#boost

Perspective Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences Ingrid L. Pollet a b Alexander L. Bond b c Jennifer L. Lavers b c d Highlights • Decade-long review of >2,950 seabird conference abstracts. • Over 30% of seabird species are rarely or never featured at scientific conferences • Several seabirds listed as Critically Endangered have received little or no attention. • 16 seabird species are over-represented in conferences. • Southern Hemisphere seabirds require greater research attention.

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we.

So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences Seabirds are among the most threatened bird groups globally, yet research effort is unevenly distributed among species, with some taxa receiving exten…

Have you ever wondered about the disparities in #seabirds species at conferences? Are we talking about all the species?
Wonder no more. We (@thelabandfield.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social) have the answer!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I feel this on a spiritual level. This is why I don’t go to the gym on campus (or anywhere right now). Totally sucks. I doubt I’ll ever feel comfortable going into gendered locker rooms as long as I live

🦉 Yours truly in the new TWS podcast promo photo! Adam Janke and I were recently interviewed about Out in the Field, the LGBTQIA+ initiative within TWS which I co-organize (wildlife.org/out-in-the-f...) — stay tuned for our episode release! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌

I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.

Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

One of my favs: bioone.org/journals/the...

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....

“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍

#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience

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