Who's your indicator species actually indicating for? That's what we set out to answer in our new paper using over 800k hours of #acoustic data! 🧪🦤🔊🌐🌎

Spoiler: Indicator species can be effective #biodiversity surrogates, but spatial scale matters!

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Indiana Dunes Birding Festival Offers Free Events Without Registration Indiana Dunes Birding Festival returns May 15-18, 2025, with birding hikes, family programs, art and free public activities.

One week to the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival…and registration is FREEEEEE, my dudes! Hit up @indianaaudubon.bsky.social and bird your hearts out!

Re-sharing this for #bioacoustics, #ecology, and #wildlife homies on the appropriate threads! DM me if you're stuck behind the paywall and I'll send you a copy!
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Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

This is so evil that it defies understanding. A transplant surgeon on an H1B visa was deported, despite a court injunction. She had committed no crimes.

This must stop. We must stand together to protect immigrants and visitors against state terrorism.

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So good! That's not an easy one with the running water always drowning out the song!

Workshops & Training Opportunities - AOS 2025 Annual Meeting The workshops and training sessions at AOS 2025 offer opportunities both for hands-on learning exercises, where participants engage in a mix of lectures and activities, and for panel discussions on a ...

Bird #bioacoustics folks: @kitzeslab.bsky.social is hosting a hands-on "Advanced topics in bioacoustic monitoring" workshop at AOS 2025!

We'll make custom sound ID models, estimate birds' positions using acoustic localization, and discuss how to use sound ID results to make ecological insights.

Should have mentioned...🌎🧪🦤 #bioacoustics #ecology #conservation #wildliferesearch #fireecology

A Simple, Quantitative Determination of the Appropriate Duration of Site Closure to Improve Occupancy Modelling for Nomadic Species Aim Occupancy models are ubiquitous in ecological and biogeographical applications, but they rely upon an assumption of site closure that is sometimes applied across many weeks or even months. Nomad...

New paper! We demonstrate a simple model comparison method to supplement biological knowledge when choosing the length of the closure period in occupancy models! A fun exercise led by a @cornellbirds.bsky.social undergrad! Check it out @consbiog.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks to many great co-authors and @cornellbirds.bsky.social for support in doing this research!

A mountain quail walks through a burned landscape and looks towards the camera

New paper out today! We demonstrate how incorporating bioacoustics into wildlife monitoring can support management and restoration planning at a bioregional scale in fire-prone forests (but really anywhere).

Read it @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

A sponge, round ball with numerous volcano shaped protuberances on its surface attached via a stalk to the bottom of the sea

Via @oceancensus.bsky.social, a lovely deep-sea sponge for #spongeThursday seen in the Johnston Atoll region by Nautilus Live!

This always has been and always will be Denali.

Two circular enamel pins with the text "It's Dr, actually" in black. The rest of the design is the transgender pride flag on one pin and the non-binary pride flag on the other.

"It's Dr, Actually" - Now available as trans and non-binary pins!

I think a lot of people need a reminder right now that experts know gender isn't binary, and a lot of us need a reminder we're not alone. So please share widely!

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The Once and Future Fish: Assessing a Millennium of Atlantic Herring Exploitation Through Mixed‐Stock Analysis and Ancient DNA Ancient DNA was extracted from archaeological herring bones and used to determine region of origin for ancient samples. We find that SNP panels designed for contemporary mixed-stock analysis identify...

New publication with Lane Atmore, Aurélie Boilard, and Bastiaan Star from @biovitenskap.bsky.social published in Global Change Biology
#AncientDNA #herring
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