In 2019, I signed a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. 5 years later, I haven't played in a single MLB game. Here's how the Minor Leagues work (and what it's like to be one):

Looks like a must read from the UWIN team!

The Urban Ecology Center at Cal State LA is hosting the Perez-Silverman Symposium on Wednesday, April 24, featuring research and discussion on Water and Food Security in L.A. Please visit the link, register, and join! calstatela.edu/events/2024-pe…

INSTANTLY one of the best most legendary eBird lists ever HOLYYYY ebird.org/checklist/S170…

Lots of amazing people and buds in this group. Congrats to you all!

Check out our Bear Divide bird migration research on NPR! 🐤 npr.org/2024/05/13/125…

The Best Spot To See A Big Migratory Bird Show Is 30 Minutes From LA laist.com/news/climate-e…

Check out our new piece on the history of statistical ecology and the role that Ecology has played This was a fun (and challenging!) paper to write - we learned a lot! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species. Now out in PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/

Paper alert: bio-loggers reveal Amazonian birds' unique thermoregulation strategies, with some lessons for conservation. 🌳🦗🐦‍⬛ Details rb.gy/9rkhfp, doi.org/10.1111/oik.10… #ClimateAction #Biodiversity Oikos

Hot off the digital press! #Urban planning decisions from decades ago still influence the species we see in cities today! We digitized historical #maps of three US cities and compared historical park metrics against Christmas Bird Count data. Check out our findings below!

Attention all LA Birders, my friend Clara and I will be leading an Los Angeles Audubon bird walk September 22nd Saturday 7am-9am at the CSU LA campus! Join us! We’ll show how birdy our campus is and hear about some of the work in the Eric M. Wood lab! laaudubon.org/calendar/calst…

New bird🐦‍⬛research🚨! So excited to share our new study in NatureEcoEvo! In it, we examine shifts in the breeding latitude, elevation, and phenology of North American #birds in relation to #climatechange! The last paper of my UCLA EEB postdoc with Morgan Tingley *find me on BlueSky*🥲 A🧵...

New in @sciencemagazine, we show that spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching Mountain Chickadees. And Vladimir Pravosudov’s photo was selected for the cover! #ScienceResearch. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

Our paper on eclipse plumage in hummingbirds is finally out: "Citizen science data reveal molt into drab nonbreeding plumage in five woodstar species (Mellisuginae, Trochilidae)" bioone.org/journals/the-w…

An amazingly great conference. Going to AOS is always a win. See you all in St. Louis next summer.

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Ever since the OG, Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been puzzled by the potential benefits females get by choosing "attractive" males. Well, good news Chuck, my grad school buddy Doug Barron and I figured it out today in @ASNAmNat! 😜 🧵 1/8