Well, we've decided to call our Big Day complete. Our last species of the day were Barn Owl and Great Horned Owl. We're heading back to Baton Rouge now for some much-needed rest.
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Despite the bad luck, we've still managed to surpass 100 species! Now we're off to the coast for the rest of the day.
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Big Day team check in: we had bad luck in Rice Country, where we spent far too long looking for shorebird fields. The perfect shorebird field is a rare thing, the water level has to be just right to support a variety of different foraging depths. Today all were too deep or dry.
Dawn found us in Kisatchie National Forest, where we saw pine specialists like Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Brown-headed Nuthatch alongside breeding warblers and others. Added 23 species at this spot.
Meet our 2026 Big Day team! We have Brett Kincade and Quinn McCallum from the Mason Lab, and Phoebe Gordon and Gustavo Martins from the Thom lab
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Today is the Big Day! Four LSUMNS Ornithology students are traveling across the state of Louisiana today to see how many species they can see in a single day. They're taking over our social media, so expect updates throughout the day!
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My kids are 13 and now big enough to help at #kidsdayatthemuseum - they will show kids how to make clay specimens and put specimen tags like we do with real museum specimens!
Plus Mr. Blobby is here.
@lsu.bsky.social @lsumns.bsky.social
Lattin Lab PhD student Marquise Henry uses arm wrestling to show nerve impulses in an active muscle via electromyography
Lattin Lab PhD student Katie Stewart shows how electrical impulses can be converted into sound waves using a small device
A few of my lab members & I helped out at Kids' Day at the Museum at the @lsumns.bsky.social a few weeks back, teaching local 4th-6th graders about neurobiology and the kinds of research we do in our lab @lsubiosci.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social ❤️💪🧪
NOTE! Few days left for applying to this postbacc opportunity @tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social @clattin.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsumns.bsky.social
If you look closely you can see the Fish Collection of @lsumns.bsky.social !!
A fish scientist (Solomon David) shows an angler (and host of Last of the Giants) an Alligator Gar skull at the LSU Museum of Natural Science. The curator of fishes is Prosanta Chakrabarty, who lent his lab space to Solomon and the film crew for the shoot. Solomon and Prosanta went to grad school together, and still confuse some people to this day when it comes to “Indian dudes who study fishes”. They aren’t often in the same place at the same time…
GARgantuan thanks @prosanta.bsky.social for hosting the GarLab team at his lab @lsumns.bsky.social! ALSO @thegarfather.bsky.social, K.Kimmel (and USFWS team), T.Winter,
Texas Parks & Wildlife, and Bubba Bedre!
Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data
Paper here peerj.com/articles/185...
Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao
Looking for a postdoc to do molecular work on vertebrates?
The @lsumns.bsky.social is looking for a lab manager/museum postdoc (LSU Museum of Natural Science)
Come work with us! #GeauxTigers
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LSU Professor Sophie Warny in the lab wearing a white labcoat working with materials in test tubes.
Sophie Warny is an @lsugeology.bsky.social professor and the curator and director of education at the @lsumns.bsky.social. She studies pollen to prove or disprove relationships between objects, people, and places, which can be critical in criminal investigations (🧵 3/6)
For #museumselfieday I'm here with the skulls of an adult Spotted Gar (top) and an Alligator Gar (bottom), belonging to two different genera separated by over 100 million years of evolution
Yay for #museumselfieday here I am in my collection of fishes @lsu.bsky.social @lsumns.bsky.social - more than 50 countries represented here and 400k specimens from much of the diversity of fishes and specimens from the last 50 years.