Mikko Jimenez

If you - like myself - are scrapped for time to dig into papers these days, I discuss my recent urban stopover paper on this episode (which I learned was a first for TMIB)!

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with players. Players will receive $8 million.

The union will also pay out $9.25 million from revenue generated from its group licensing program.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan Neuroplasticity is a defining property of the brain. Structural and functional brain changes arise soon after learning and are particularly evident following years of practice that underpin expert per...

The irony of cognitive neuroscientists, many of which deride my research on bird brains, finding that birding might help mitigate cognitive decline is not lost on me.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

#neuroskyence #birding

Not sure, we didn’t have funding for open access

Good question - prob both! We couldnt look at this explicitly, but a cool relevant finding: there seems to be a region-specific relationship between stopover density ~ urbanization. That is, in the eastern U.S., more urban = lower stopover. But in the western U.S., more urban = higher stopover 🤯

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Migratory bird stopover patterns linked to urbanization and social landscapes - Nature Cities Urban ecology traditionally focuses on single cities, yet cities play key roles in ecological processes such as migration. Radar analysis across the continental USA reveals that nearly half of stopove...

A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday!

We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Motion to add “Performative male” as an eBird breeding code

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says Martinez plans to pursue a Federal Torts Claim Act complaint against Homeland Security and the agent who shot her.

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Photo of Charles Darwin with the quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.” -Charles Darwin

Apparently it’s #DarwinDay, so I’m sharing the most relatable quote by any scientist ever

Where is the syllabus to go along with bad bunny performance? This is going to generate a lot of intellectual interest in historie.

I just called this place and asked how to donate, they are @leostowingmn on Venmo

Never beating the “birds aren’t real” allegations if American wigeons keep sounding like that

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump slump? Attendance plummets at some science meetings, but others hold steady Amid travel bans, a government shutdown, and funding crunches, 2025 was a turbulent year for U.S. scientific societies

"One bad year could kill one of our favorite scientific societies."

In my latest story for @science.org, I explored how U.S. conferences fared over the last year amid concerns about an attendance slump.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

BREAKING: Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has been carried away by a small Minnesota owl, reportedly used to patch tiny hole in nest

Bovino’s back: Border Patrol commander leads fresh round of immigration raids in Chicago area Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among Chicago’s immi...

“All you’re doing is terrorizing us, scaring people. There’s little kids,” one person shouted at Bovino and other agents, blocks from where the arrest happened.”

Brighton Park Road Upgrades Draw Outrage From Community, Citing Traffic Spikes And Business Woes The project is bringing bike lanes and other pedestrian and cyclist safety upgrades to dangerous stretches of South Archer and Kedzie Avenues in Brighton Park.

“Claudia Zuno, who is staunchly opposed to the street upgrades, said the project felt “unnecessary” and that cyclists should avoid the area due to its heavy truck presence.”

This really captures the opposition to pedestrian upgrades & bike lanes. Drivers feel bikers do not belong on Archer Ave.

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them.

Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Admitted He Lied About Firing Tear Gas, Tackling Protester: Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis is the second federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois to find that federal agents have presented unreliable testimony about their actions and the action...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social

Mistaken rodent identity: The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ wasn’t made by a rat | CNN The “Chicago rat hole” of viral internet fame wasn’t made by a rat at all, researchers say.

Seth Magle was right.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/s...

@sbmagle.bsky.social

Bird Migration Explorer The Bird Migration Explorer is your guide to the heroic annual journeys made by over 450 bird species, and the challenges they face along the way.

If you liked the (excellent) bird migration piece in The Guardian today, I suspect you'll ❤️ spending some time with Audubon's Bird Migration Explorer, which is a full-on interactive data masterpiece:

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ | Biology Letters The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ is a remarkable full body impression ostensibly created by a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) crossing fresh concrete in Chicago’s Roscoe Village that became a viral sensation. Whi...

This crucially important and obviously visionary work makes me feel vindicated for having said the same thing last year, albeit with much less evidence, while being mercilessly mocked by the city and its residents. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.