Gary Burness

This 'Clock' Could Warn of Hidden Stresses to Animals, Offering a Long-Sought Signal That a Population Is Nearing Collapse The epigenetic clock measures biological age and could help scientists assess the health of polar bears, dolphins, baboons and other threatened creatures "while recovery is still possible"

The epigenetic clock measures biological age and could help scientists assess the health of polar bears, dolphins, baboons and other threatened creatures “while recovery is still possible”
#conservation #endangeredspecies

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Another useful reminder to not divide metabolic rate by body mass!

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

Sharing this one last time: we're looking for a tenure track ecologist at UW-Green Bay. Applications close on Oct 19 🧪🌍🪶

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A circular graph in teal and another graph in teal and tan. A Circular heatmap (Log2fold-change) of protract-identified total piRNA clusters (B) Heatmap displaying the relative expression of the differentially expressed piRNA clusters across all biological replicates (each biological replicate contains RNA pooled from 3 animals; n = 5 CON, n = 4 SARS). C MA (Bland-Altman) plot of the Log2(average expression + 1) for each piRNA cluster vs. Log2 fold-change relative to control values for each cluster (MA plot shows differences in expression between control and SARS-CoV-2 treatment groups for each gene)

In mice, prior COVID infection in males can affect anxiety in offspring by passing on altered RNA in sperm which reprograms gene expression in the hippocampus of the offspring’s brains. buff.ly/hUz5dIh

#medsky #reprosky 🛟😷🧪

Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

museum job alert 🇨🇦
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🧪🪶🌍🕊 25 Critically Endangered Birds
All of these species are on the brink of extinction.
A poster to raise awareness and inspire action. Every effort counts. ✨

Investigating the relationship between heat-mediated cognitive impairment and antipredator response in a wild bird | Royal Society Open Science Increasingly frequent heatwaves require animals to spend more time thermoregulating at the expense of other fitness-related behaviours. Emerging evidence also indicates that high temperatures can impa...

Our new paper is out! @camillasoravia.bsky.social leads this research, which looks into the relationship between heat- mediated cognitive impairment and the antipredator response in wild pied babblers. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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/

#SICB job share- an opening for

Assistant #Professor of #Vertebrate #Physiology

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Email Dr. Vonnie Shields
vshields@towson.edu with any questions

#biology #physiology #anatomy #research #PhD

Application deadline approaching.

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RIP Jane Goodall. She was such an inspiration & role model. May her memory be a blessing 🧪👩‍🔬 #HPS

Excited about a new preprint from PhD candidate Megan Heft, showing that nestling provisioning rates in male tree swallows are not limited by the male's risk of overheating (in contrast with previous studies of females) 🧪 #ornithology #science
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

All About the Tylenol-Autism Brouhaha At an unhinged press conference last Monday, Donald Trump and his medical acolytes revealed an actionable cause of autism at long last: Tylenol. In what felt like a social media post come to life, Tru...

I read close to 50 papers in order to give an evidence-based, accurate response to Monday's press conference.

There's a lot to unpack here. I hope you find this informative.

Cc: @mcgilloss.bsky.social

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. They’ll only do this once in their entire lives.

Looking for enthusiastic candidates with training in behavioural ecology and experience in bird fieldwork. MSc also required!

This is definitely one of those papers that goes in the, 'hm, I never really thought of it that way' category. I love these 'simple' but somehow mind shifting papers. And it's probably more relevant to my own niches than I had previously considered. Cool!

Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

DM me for questions!

The image depicts the University of Lethbridge, located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The prominent building shown in the image is the Science Commons, which is situated on the university campus within the coulee landscape.

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

Pufflings navigating the lit night Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...

New post at ecolightsforseabirds website!
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds

New publication: Safe haven-type shelters mitigate light-induced mortality Strandings of procellariiform (tube-nosed) seabirds can be greatly reduced by decreasing emissions of artificial light at night, but in many affected locations (e.g., cities, industrial sites) it is.....

Thanks @airamrodriguez.bsky.social for featuring our study on ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/new-pub...!
Storm-petrels avoid light after stranding - and we can develop post-stranding mortality mitigation strategies that take advantage of this. Ta-da... Hide boxes!
@garyburness.bsky.social

You forgot to fill in the following: "please submit a 1-page budget and justification for the new laptop, highlighting benefits to the long-term strategic direction of the university"

If you don't mind, I would like to provide a link to your blog for my students this term. There are some nice examples of how to cite these AI models via Laurier's embedded links