Dan Baldassarre

Induced airflow cools hovering bumble bees Abstract. Understanding how flying insects manage heat exchange is critical for predicting their survival in dynamic thermal environments. To fly, insects

This is cool research (see what I did there?)

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Interesting to see a take from a social scientist. Seems to me easier to generate an entire research workflow using AI when you don't have to actually collect new data in the field. Perhaps ecology will be more AI-proof because we still need people to go out in the field and collect the data?

This is a common reply to concerns about GenAI research as if it were just another computational tool that saves us times from tedious tasks and whose accuracy can be rigorously quantified.

It is not.

GenAI research poses at least 2 serious problems... /n

eBird Checklist - 17 Mar 2025 - Salamat, TD (10,701, 19,852) Quealea Roost 2025 - 4 species Submitted by Fraser Gear.

Sorry that's not true! 10M TRES is most in western hemisphere. Globally, there's a 12M Red-billed Quelea checklist from last year. ebird.org/checklist/S2...

If it’s one of the best spots in the state then it’s one of the best spots in the world! Incredible.

Should be warming up in next week or so!

Van Remsen had 10M Tree Swallows on Louisiana coast, which has the top spot

I don't believe the human mind is equipped to process 2.75 million Snow Geese. I've seen about 250k before and it nearly broke me. ebird.org/checklist/S2...

📷 Karl Bardon, eBird

When does the academic bubble burst? How much time do we have left?

Ornithologist, peering into museum drawer: "Ah shit, what am I gonna name this yellow bird with the long bill?"

Wildlife group sues to protect rare bird in coastal Virginia, North Carolina The population of Wayne’s warblers, which rely on wetland forests, has precipitously declined in recent years.

Based on genetic work from our lab .. let’s go! 🦉🧪

Albert’s Lyrebird encounter there changed my life

I merely beckon and the birds come to me. I whisper and they answer.

Lamington National Park, ca. 2012

We need a woman as president so desperately. In fact, we need an entirely matriarchal government for at least a few generations. Men have been running wild for a bit too long.

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

lmao what

Dolly Parton Is 'So Excited' That East Tennessee Children's Hospital Is Being Renamed in Her Honor Dolly Parton's philanthropic efforts are taking another huge step as the singer announced on Thursday, Feb. 26, that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton...

Musical genius and humanitarian Dolly Parton announces that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has officially been renamed the Dolly Parton Children's Hospital 🦋 people.com/dolly-parton...

Banding cardinals

Fcking GOAT really

I relentlessly curate my feed

Cat was really in his bag here damn

I regret to inform you that the evolutionary psychologists are at it again

Unconscionable. How do they sleep at night?

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

This is why Democrats rightly didn't stand in response to Stephen Miller's gross pledge of mindless nationalism at the State of the Union last night. When these crimes are being perpetrated by the state, the citizenship status of the victims is irrelevant. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Would it void my security deposit if I applied decals to all the windows?

I like your EAKI but not the AMKE

What species are these? From a paper using AI to detect birds at solar panel sites. Unsure of location, but USA somewhere.

playing 8D chess

I enjoyed Heated Rivalry as much as the next straight housewife, but all I could think about was how many bird window strikes there must be at Shane's cottage 😩

Laced up the ol ankle brace and dropped a casual hat trick on the swim team in intramural soccer tonight