Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

a man with a beard is holding a towel and says `` count me in '' while standing in a room . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a towel and says `` count me in '' while standing in a room .

Now you're speaking my language!

Reintroduction time! I’m Joel - a professor, researcher, and bird enthusiast 🐦 🦚🦉. I study ecoimmunology in birds, and I teach ecology, evolution, and immunology. I was here before but drifted away for a bit. Happy to be back and excited to connect again!
#Science #AcademicLife #Birds

I don’t think my local one has this capacity, but maybe the broader society does.

I will be applying for sabbatical the same time as tenure this year. It can only be a semester-long tenure. My ultimate goal is to be a master bander, or at least get permission to mistnet. I saw @instbirdpop.bsky.social offers courses, which is a possibility. Does anyone have ideas?

this is #whysciencematters

I am looking for a MS student to take on a project. We have samples already collected, and there is opportunity for more field work. California resident is preferred (fees for non-resident and international students are too high IMO). Repost please.

#ecology #physiology #ornithology #grad

Two articles just published this week very closely resembling the paper my grad student is ready to submit 🙃

It’s scoopin’ season! 🥲

NSF by the numbers $9.06B NSF's Fiscal Year 2024 enacted budget 93% Percent of budget supporting research, education and related activities 1,900+ Organizations supported by NSF across every state and U.S. territory 350,000+ Researchers, entrepreneurs, students and teachers supported by NSF

From NSF’s website: ‘Our investments account for about 25% of federal support to America's colleges and universities for basic research: research driven by curiosity and discovery.’

More than 95% of NSF’s budget goes back out the door to fund science. Cutting staff won’t save much tax payer money.

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. Funding for stipend and travel support.

One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction - IUCN Red List - Shoal One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction – IUCN Red List The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of...

❌ BREAKING NEWS ❌
1/4 of freshwater animals are at risk of #extinction‼️
The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date has revealed that 24% are at high risk of extinction, according to analysis published in Nature today.
👇
shoalconservation.org/global-fresh...

New paper out in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social! Research from our group shows that males of the polygynous ruff visit many potential breeding sites within a breeding season, travelling up to 9000 km and visiting up to 23 different sites! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 1/7

Sucks. Didn’t Louisiana recently pass a bill that doctors and other health care professionals cannot promote vaccinations? I feel bad for the family and I hope this is a one-off.

This has me thinking it’s time to swab some birds.

America’s first bird flu death reported in Louisiana | CNN The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has died, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.

The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the US has died, Louisiana's health department said: www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/h...

Shrinking wings, bigger beaks: birds are reshaping themselves in a warming world Beak sizes increase, and body sizes decrease - but why? How we are slowly unravelling the mystery behind changing body shapes in Australian birds.

Are you familiar with the growing body of research on how climate change is reshaping birds' bodies? Here's a great overview of how this trend is playing out in Australia. #ornithology

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

“Can you bump my C to an A?”

A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

The Chimney Swift Restoration Fund (the Chimney Swift Fund) helps maintain nesting and roosting sites for the Chimney Swift by providing financial support for the restoration of anthropogenic structures (i.e., chimneys, barns, etc.) known to be important for the species in Canada. #birds

First severe case of bird flu reported Just days after the CDC reassured people that the risk of contracting bird flu remains low among humans, the agency reported the first case of severe illness caused by an infection in the United State...

Well, shit…
It was a matter of time, but one case isn’t a cause for panic yet.

www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...

Page charges? Gone!
Publication date = date published online!

THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology.

Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!

You know why you should never ask a goose for directions?

They always anserinae honk 🪿

We know that immune genes often show stronger signatures of selection than the genomic average. But what about immune cell types?
In a new preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we merge single-cell RNAseq (defining stickleback cell types) and population genomic measures of selection...

Wonder how long it will last this year?

A painting of a bird beside the text "is this shit really worth my time?"

I’m Joel. I study avian ecoimmunology. Mainly work on songbirds, and understanding the evolution of their immune system. Glad to see the community grow on here! #scicomm

Me with a shark

Me on my book tour with backup dancers

Dress for the job you want

There are now over 14,000,000 people here!

Science and conservation friends, reply and reintroduce/reintroduce yourselves-

I’m David. I study shark conservation, and post about that as well as marine biology and the environment in general. I’m in the Washington, DC area.

🌎🦑🧪🦈🐠 #SciComm