medhavi ambardar, PhD

Bird of Passage: September 2025 Our backyard has a unique bird-related feature...

I sent out my monthly email newsletter this morning. Random (usually bird-related) musings, book recommendations, and bird news from around the internet. Maybe subscribe if that sounds like it would interest you? buttondown.com/rheisman/arc...

California, Oregon and Washington rebuke Trump’s CDC and form alliance to safeguard vaccines Three Democratic governors create West Coast Health Alliance amid growing turmoil at US health agency under RFK Jr

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

nature is for EVERYONE! 🏳️‍🌈

Lord of the Rings film studies with poster color and acrylic gouache

I still love this movie very much.

I am livid that my student who submitted a diversity F31 and received an outstanding score, near the top of the fundable range, was told to submit again.

Refusing to fund F31s from URMs while funding regular F31s from white/privileged students with worse scores is blatant discrimination.

Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care In the 1990s, pioneers of rewilding described a bold vision of wilderness connected at the continental scale, with thriving populations of large, wild animals. Much of the resulting discourse has emp...

New review on 'Rewilding and Indigenous Community-Led Land Care' dropped recently. Two key principles: "...shifting focus from wilderness to the creative agency of wild beings, and framing restoration as a collaborative endeavor between humans and wildlife" doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Image of an Ortolan Bunting alongside the wording: New study. www.bto.org/protected-areas-migration. BTO logo top right of image. Credit reads: Ortolan Bunting © Philip Croft/BTO.

1/ New #BTOScience highlights that Afro-Palearctic migratory bird species lack consistent protection during their time in Europe. Read more in this thread ⬇️ or visit our website. ➡️ www.bto.org/protected-areas-migration #Ornithology 🌐

Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had | Aeon Ideas Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever

I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.

A study projects how climate change will modify the areas suited for growing 30 major crops under 4 scenarios.

Half of global croplands could see a drop in suitable crops under 2C, with barley, wheat, soybean, lentil and potato being the most affected.

@carbonbrief.org piece here: buff.ly/6AispQI

If you believe that gutting American science makes us great, stop taking your medication, stop going to National Parks, toss your phone in the toilet, turn off your TV, and heck, stop stop eating food, because you wouldn’t want to benefit from all that nasty public science you think is so wasteful.

You can pry my antidepressants from my cold, dead hands A new executive order announced an "assessment" for the use of these meds in children. Adults aren't far behind.

New from me —

“What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

DEI WATCH This guide is broken into three categories: 1) DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts; 2) COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3) FUNDED - organ...

A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong.

www.dei.watch

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

this is the thing not to lose sight of.

yes, the biology of sex is complex and fascinating, with nearly endless diversity.

but also we don't use biology to decide who gets human rights. like, historically speaking that has not led to good places!

This is the last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, walking toward Israeli tanks before being detained by Israeli forces after they destroyed the last hospital in northern Gaza. His current condition is unknown.

Granny Weatherwax, 100%. Zero doubt. Susan, too.

Amnesty International has officially concluded that a genocide is being committed by Israel.

Middle schoolers mocking a Cybertruck never gets old

Illustration of three individual Northern Flickers - heads, underwing colors, and tail pattern for the last bird. These intergrades (mixes between Red- and Yellow-shafted Flickers) are each unique. Top bird, a female, has a mostly gray head with a red nape chevron and orange underwing. Middle bird, a female, has a mostly tan head, red underwing, and no additional markings. Last bird, a male, has a face mostly like a standard Red-shafted male (gray head with a darker crown and red moustache) but a yellow-orange underwing and a tail that is half yellow-orange and half bright yellow.

#Woodpecker Wednesday! And Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar - this winter's cast of characters so far when it comes to the intergrade Northern Flickers that show up in my yard. One returning bird so far (seen since Feb 24) and two newbies. 🎨🪶🐡🧪 #ornithology - and see reply for more info

I want to follow more Asian EEB scientists but I’m drawing blanks. I know there are so many more us out there. Please repost (re-skeet?), make suggestions, or proudly ask to be added!!

🧪 🐟 🦎

go.bsky.app/E1ppJra

I'd love to be added! Thanks so much!

Giant sturgeon coming through by the observation dock at the Wolf Creek Fish Hatchery near Mattawan, MI.
Nov 25, 2022

15 Brilliant Photos That Celebrate the Link Between Birds and Native Plants Feast your eyes on our favorite Plants for Birds entries of the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards.

It's Monday. Start your week off gently with some beautiful photos of birds and native plants, courtesy of the Audubon Society.

What an excellent state bird!