oh yeah my field notes totally look like this too ebird.org/checklist/S3...

actually I am a single issue voter for the AOS presidency and that issue is renaming "ornithology" to "bird science" and "ornithological applications" to "bird science applications"

shared that "accidental aRt" tumblr with a student and noticed it was last updated 6 years ago...feeling old

our samples are safe, but the thing has literally not functioned properly since we purchased it and now needs to be shut off for some unknown amount of time to replace a part! VWR: Not Even Once

when people tell you not to buy a -80 freezer from VWR you should listen to them 🫠

Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI Click on the article title to read more.

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own.

Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think.

We must not give away that gift.

doi.org/10.1002/fee....

We're hiring a post doc!

Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and
@jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things

please share widely!

there is no greater grift than edutech software

20) Loera et al. 2026. A Dominant Founder Lineage Has Possible Fitness Costs for the Endangered Mexican Grey Wolf. Molecular Ecology (doi.org/10.1111/mec....)

Shout out to @elinck.bsky.social for putting me on to this album. Farewell Transmission in particular is in my personal pantheon

(in addition to describing the new resource, we show how default PSMC settings reproduce the false N_e peak pattern shown by Hilgers et al. 2025 Current Biology)

A chromosome-scale genome assembly for Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) Abstract. Focal and intelligent passerine songbirds, corvids (Aves: Corvidae) have served as models for research on the genomics of hybridization and cogni

get your fresh hot highly contiguous Clark's Nutcracker genome here: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... (lead by @peterinnes1.bsky.social & feat. @mdcarling.bsky.social)

"They lead very different lives than us" — @jasongregg.bsky.social on seabirds

student, to me: "has anyone ever told you that you have a wonderfully whimsical walk" (??)

Climate drives genetic diversity loss in American Pika (Ochotona princeps) populations in the Great Basin Genetic diversity and structure among populations of American pikas is described, with emphasis on the Sierra Nevada lineage. Genetic diversity is positive

19) Kulig et al. 2025. Climate drives genetic diversity loss in American Pika (Ochotona princeps) populations in the Great Basin. Journal of Mammalogy (doi.org/10.1093/jmam...)

Repeated, irreversible evolution of ant-following behavior across Neotropical avian families Abstract. Ecological specialization is a result of the interplay between ecological and evolutionary processes. One iconic ecological specialization of the

18) Sweet et al. 2025. Repeated, irreversible evolution of ant-following behavior across Neotropical avian families. Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/evol...)

grant rejected! currently 0 for 2 at NSF. onward 🫡

me!

Reconsidering cytonuclear discordance in the genomic age Abstract. Historically, phylogenetic datasets had relatively few loci but were over-represented for cytoplasmic sequences (mitochondria and chloroplast) be

17) Larson et al. 2025. Reconsidering cytonuclear discordance in the genomic age. Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/evol...)

not saying English bird names aren't a mess, but it's good to remember that someone decided to call a fish "Dolly Varden"

The party told you to reject evidence that mouth pipetting is fun and cool and safe. It was their final, most essential command.

Post‐release settlement and resource selection by reintroduced Swift fox Monitoring post-release dispersal of reintroduced wildlife informs management strategies to improve outcomes. In previous Swift fox (Vulpes velox) reintroductions, post-release movements corresponded...

16) Nelson et al. 2025. Post-release settlement and resource selection by reintroduced Swift fox. Restoration Ecology (doi.org/10.1111/rec....)

An Optimised Method to Identify Reintroduced Swift Foxes (Vulpes velox) Through SNP Genotyping of Non‐Invasively Collected Scat Samples Using In‐Solution Hybridisation Capture Genomic methods have become increasingly common in wildlife population studies over the past two decades. While noninvasive genetic sampling has been prevalent since the 1990s, the field has lagged i...

15) Parker et al. 2025. An Optimised Method to Identify Reintroduced Swift Foxes (Vulpes velox) Through SNP Genotyping of Non-Invasively Collected Scat Samples Using In-Solution Hybridisation Capture. Molecular Ecology Resources (doi.org/10.1111/1755...)

14) Baisre 2013. Shifting Baselines and The Extinction of The Caribbean Monk Seal. Conservation Biology (doi.org/10.1111/cobi...)

Genomic Evidence for Elevational Segregation and Adaptive Introgression in Prunellidae Radiation Heterogeneous mountainous environments and climate fluctuations during glacial periods can accelerate speciation and adaptive evolution in mountainous species. However, the interplay between these pr...

13) Wu et al. 2025. Genomic Evidence for Elevational Segregation and Adaptive Introgression in Prunellidae Radiation. Molecular Ecology (doi.org/10.1111/mec....)

Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia Abstract. Suture zones are geographic regions encompassing multiple phylogeographic breaks and contact zones involving pairs of closely related taxa (anima

12) Rego et al. 2026. Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia. Ornithology (doi.org/10.1093/orni...)

wouldn't be a paper announcement tweet without some sort of innovative typo

Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps) Click on the article title to read more.

my Ph.D. student Lizzy & I contributed to this perspective on range-wide signatures of local adaptation in American Pika—her first coauthuored paper: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

11) @peterinnes1.bsky.social et al. 2025. Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants. New Phytologist (doi.org/10.1111/nph....)

Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity Humans have drastically reduced avian diversity, with the majority of extinctions occurring on islands. Previous studies have quantified various aspects of this decline, including both taxonomic and ....

10) Faurby et al. 2026. Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography (doi.org/10.1002/ecog...)