Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy
#EcoEvo #evolution

1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds.

rdcu.be/e7aUy

Join me at Colby College in beautiful Maine! Our Biology Dept. is hiring an Assistant Professor of #Immunology with a research program addressing fundamental immunology or #biomedical applications. Colby is a #SLAC #PUI with strong support for #undergraduate research! apply.interfolio.com/173466

The Colby Commitment: Jocelyn Guel ’25 YouTube video by Colby College

Grateful for the bright spots in the darkness

a line of thunder-storm clouds bear down on a wide-open tallgrass prairie where a 2-track disappears into the distance.

Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years)
careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...

Consequences of “zombie-making” and generalist fungal pathogens on carpenter ant microbiota The bacterial microbiome of the ant Camponotus floridanus has been well characterized across body regions and maturation levels. However, potential ef…

New paper alert! #microbiome, #ants, #zombiefungus, #ColbyBiology, #WildSymbiosesLab

I'm here, people!! I totally didn't realize that Bluesky was a thing 🤦‍♀️ I have missed my online research community so much since the previous dumpster fire went down. I can't wait to reconnect with you all! #ecoimmunology #ornithology #birds #immunology #microbiome #microbes