I bring a “I think using chatgpt and similar programs is morally wrong” vibe to my workplace that my coworkers don’t really like.

NEW PAPER: Host nest design affects cuckoo parasitism likelihood and cuckoo laying success. ➡️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ja… Bird Ecology & Migration Lab Robert L Thomson #ornithology #birds #broodparasitism Nordic Society Oikos

New job at Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ.! Zoology (T&R). It’s one of the best zoology places in the country. Critical mass of both staff and students. Etc. Apply! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php.en…

Why do birds have whiskers? Long a mystery, phylogenetic analysis of these facial bristles in Old World passerines found the number & length was associated with various functions related to insect capture & tactile sensing! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art… The Linnean Society of London Batmunkh Davaasuren

It’s basically impossible to understand how expensive climate change is and is going to be.

BirdWingData: Wingspan and wing area data of birds compiled from multiple literature sources and original measurements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The fecundity costs of building domed nests in birds academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

Meet Martha Muñoz (@MunozLabYale), an evolutionary biologist and 2024 #MacFellow exploring the factors that influence rates and patterns of evolution. Learn more about Martha ⬇️ macfound.org/fellows/class-…

🇩🇪🇷🇼 UPDATE: Two suspected of Marburg infection are a medical student and his girlfriend who returned from Rwanda, where there was a known Marburg outbreak. He treated a patient in the country and later developed symptoms on a train to Frankfurt.

New research on the Global Impacts of Bird Extinctions 🌍🦜🦤 "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions" led by Tom Mathews and published in Science Magazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)

JOB! Would you like to join the Palaeontology team here at UCC? We are now hiring a short-term Lecturer in Palaeontology. Full details below - feel free to get in touch if you have questions! ucc.ie/en/futures/sus… The PalAss The Paleontological Society

JOB ALERT. I’ve have been waiting to offer this for ~10 years. We’re hiring an Expeditionary Botanist to lead our expeditions, enrich our collections, support our conservation collaborations, and inspire through teaching and engagement. Please RT! 1/6 botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/j…

It is not even dark, and auroras are already visible in Maine. Notice the pink tinge to the whole sky. The whole U.S. is likely in for a huge show tonight. Get out, and look up! theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams

Conservatives would really like to believe that cities are mooching off of prosperous rural areas, but it’s just not true. Urban counties are pretty consistently the least dependent on government programs for their income.

Amazing study! 79.1% of the 621 publications on coral cover in Indonesia (home to 15% of the world's coral area) were in Bahasa Indonesia. Nevertheless, most global reviews on coral reef science have relied on English-language sources. #languagebarriers

AVOTREX: A global dataset of extinct birds and their traits. 🦤🌍 The dataset includes 610 extinct birds from last 130k years. This dataset includes details on species traits, mirroring the morphological data available for extant species in AVONET (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat? Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast! findaphd.com/phds/project/s…

How do birds fly without getting overheated? They slough off lots of heat from their wings - bird wings are longer in warmer climates for >1500 species. Allen's Rule, likely driven by heat dissipation demand. With Joe Tobias Dr. Catherine Sheard and others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… U-M SEAS