'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
I’ve only done the orbs with warblers, but I’ve done variations on the blocks with other birds.
#birds #BirdArt
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
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The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...
It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
We're looking for a postdoc to join our group working on long-term dynamics of wading bird colonies in the Everglades with a focus on either cross-scale drivers of wading bird breeding activity and success or automated drone-based monitoring of nest success using aerial imagery and computer vision 🌎
New short paper on how wars like the #Ukraine war are impacting studies of animal movement ecology by interfering with location data for migratory birds @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Just a quick reminder that there’s a beetle with explosive farts and scientists had toads eat them and the beetles exploded in their stomachs then the toads puked them up and the beetles lived 😃
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Registration is now open for #AOS26 from 3-7 August 2026 in Amherst, Mass. Join us! Discounted early-bird registration rates end on 31 May 2026.
Details: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...
Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) for @audubon.org
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#umbrellabird #birds #birdart #illustration #cotinga
📢 Update: We’ve extended our survey deadline! During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system. Help us build a more scalable, sustainable database for your projects. Your feedback will directly shape the future of Movebank. Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8
Photo of a Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus. Source: Wikimedia commons.
Fig. 2 from the article: Incubation behaviour does not differ between nests with untagged and tagged parents.
Fig. 3 from the article: Reproductive outcomes were similar between tagged and untagged groups during the 2023 breeding season.
New paper: do GPS tags affect small shorebirds? In Kentish plovers, solar-powered devices showed no detectable effects on behaviour, reproduction, or short-term survival.
➡️ vist.ly/4xcxr
#ornithology #biologging #birds #survival #reproduction
Start the weekend with some good news (courtesy of Oregon Public Broadcasting): The first condor egg in Northern California in over a century. #ornithology
This is so, so well-articulated.
Are you an early career professional (last two years of PhD or first five years in your job/post PhD?) attending #AOS26 in Amherst MA this summer? We're looking for a diverse range of speakers to be featured in our Early Professionals symposia. DM me for more details!
it’s no contest
Artemis II is headed for the moon!
GOES-19 caught this amazing view of the exhaust plume from the rocket as it launched from Cape Canaveral.
A close up image of the head of a Ring-necked Parakeet showing its bright green plumage and red bill. Wording alongside reads: Origin of the UK’s Ring-necked Parakeets finally revealed!
1/ Forget tales of escapees from the film set of The African Queen. Ignore rumours of Jimi Hendrix’s supposed liberation of a pair on Carnaby Street. Newly declassified documents from the Ministry Of Defence reveal how Ring-necked Parakeets colonised the UK through Operation Norwegian Blue! 😮 🪶
Comparison of maxent and logistic models
Do you like Maxent? You can now use it within SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl 🎉
We have also added a bunch of dataviz functions, including bivariate and value-suppressing maps. Oh, and conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification. And more coming soon.
poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...
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Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "
I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.
Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape.
What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
Genetic diversity matters for species on the move in response to climate change ⬇️
We found that genetic diversity interacts w/ the velocity of climate change to explain the velocity at which species shift their range positions over time
shorturl.at/682E3
A watercolor color image of a dark eyed junco in a huge pair of barrel legged jeans with a studded belt and chain. Text on an orange field reads "Dark Eyed JNCO"
I believe similar studies have found the same thing relating to soccer in both England and Brazil.
