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Super excited about this work coming out! Something that we've dreamed about and worked on for years. Excellent team, and thanks to Megan Kobiela PhD for helping kick this off!

Excited to be using PacBio HiFi technology to get a reference genome for the Galapagos Vermilion Flycatchers - and unlock the DNA in our 100+ year old specimens... #HiFiExhibit California Academy of Sciences Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin

Much of conservation depends upon our perceptions and emotions. Colleagues who study owls are conducting a survey to understand how people think and feel about owls! Please take a minute to fill out their questionnaire... you-and-the-owls.webnode.com @RoulinRoulin

If you're a birder, here is a rare opportunity to birdwatch Tom's Point in Tomales Bay: goldengateaudubon.org/blog-posts/tom… It is a great time of year, and you're supporting @GGAudubon

Evidence that toxin resistance in poison birds and frogs is not rooted in sodium channel mutations and may rely on "toxin sponge" proteins. A new study from Fayal Abderemane-Ali, Dan Minor, Megan Kobiela PhD, Jack Dumbacher et al. bit.ly/37mau5Z #MolecularPhysiology

The San Cristóbal Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus dubius) hasn't been seen in many years and may be extinct. But with Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin biologists from Galápagos Islands, we are sequencing their genomes from 100+ year old specimens California Academy of Sciences! #HispanicHeritageMonth

Gotta love poisonous birds! Nice article by Eldon Greij BirdWatchingMagazine about toxic pitohui birds of New Guinea! birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/s…

Happy to see our new paper on the phylogeography of the 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 doves out and fully formatted. This share link provides free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1d-PP3m3nN2c…

Excellent work led by Devon DeRaad in Rob Moyle's lab at the University of Kansas sorting out the relationships of Chalophaps doves! Cool story of how birds diversified across these islands... authors.elsevier.com/c/1d-PP3m3nN2c… #ornithology

Penang Hill was recently made a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve! It was soo cool working with everyone on that BioBlitz, and great to see the results! scmp.com/lifestyle/trav… Nice work Meg Lowman California Academy of Sciences

New paper out in Nature Communications! We show population differentiation in Wallacean & New Guinean birds is consistently & positively correlated with barrier strength and a species’ altitudinal floor: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Great hike to the highest point on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Plus a new life bird for me - Galapagos Rail, with Jaime A. Chaves who studies them….

That’s a wrap! Galápagos field season completed. Happy students (sugar high), samples collected, and great memories made. A treat to share this time with Jack Dumbacher Pooneh Kalhori Ezra Mendales. Galapagos Science Center @SFStateBIO California Academy of Sciences USFQ COCIBA FundaciónJocotoco

Katharine Brandagee gave up her position for Alice Eastwood to come to California Academy of Sciences ! Happy to say this spirit of women supporting women is alive at CAS today 💜Rayna Bell @alisonkestrel Michelle Trautwein Rebekah Kim Lauren Esposito Sarah Jacobs Dr. Rebecca F. Johnson 💜

Goodbye Galapagos! What an amazing research trip, working with Jaime A. Chaves, Ezra Mendales and Pooneh Kalhori on island birds. Thanks for the fantastic data, Galapagos! California Academy of Sciences Galapagos Science Center

Another rare beauty from Maldives #mesophotic ecosystems, Plectranthias winniensis. This one is very cryptic, and this is the first good picture I take of it in situ at about 105m depth. #hopeforreefs #perpetualplanet

Yes! We will be teaching our Master Birding Course in 2022! This is a great class for advanced birders who wish to really hone their birding and environmental leadership skills. For more information, click here: calacademy.org/events/science… California Academy of Sciences @GGAudubon

Amazing work by Google AI engineers creating automatic classifiers to identify birds in recordings. Significant improvements to the algorithms bring us closer to having functional tools for science. ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/separa… #ornithology Google AI California Academy of Sciences

WHAT flower blossoms in the cold of winter, is mostly blackish (and white)? And WHO thought to name it "Fetid adder's tongue"? Blooming in our front yard...

Do you code? Want to help #Ornithology with an AI challenge for identifying birds by sound? Checkout the BirdCLEF_2022 competition, put together by Cornell Lab, the Google Bioacoustics group, and others: kaggle.com/c/birdclef-2022