
Gavin M. Leighton
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Evolutionary Biologist & Behavioral Ecologist, Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo State.
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If you wake up in the morning thinking about birds, have a Ph.D. and want to live in Miami, check out our search for the new Robert E. Maytag Chair of Ornithology! It just posted to Science science.org/cms/asset/33ca… Gavin M. Leighton @kevinwinker Mark E. Hauber American Ornithological Society



Come work with us! We are searching for a TT Herpetologist Asst. Prof. with strengths in specimen collections and innovative research on herps in Eco and Evo Biology. Apply by Nov 28th: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23424


NEWS: A Trump-appointed federal judge has struck down Biden's student loan forgiveness program. As The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein reports, one of the two plaintiffs in the case is a small business owner who had a PPP loan worth $48,000 forgiven in 2022. interc.pt/3TsAPEU

Lovely new paper by Jasmine Hardie and Chris Cooney on brain size evolution in birds, finding that brains are linked to developmental mode, foraging niche, and social bonding / territoriality (but not in support of the Social Brain Hypothesis) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…


Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher Chad Loder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro…


Breaking News: Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Elon Musk took over, researchers found. Musk “sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” the head of one of the research groups said. nyti.ms/3H5BCJC






