Dark-eyed Juncos in a spring storm 🪶🇨🇦

#birds #birding #Saskatchewan #NatureTherapy

Mountain Bluebirds are back in Saskatchewan 🪶🇨🇦

#birds #birding #Nature #NatureTherapy

This is figure 1, which shows the global ALAN change product (2014–2022).

Artificial light emissions at night increased by around 16% globally between 2014 and 2022, according to research in Nature. The study presents maps of night-time light changes, which help to reveal the intricacies in human light footprint across the globe. go.nature.com/3PZ2DVx 🌍🧪

Ha! I had a wee binge last night and am now finished S5E2. There are some real heavy hitters in there, and I managed to forget some very wild stuff since my last watch! Tears were shed! Cats were cuddled!

Very big on the conspiracy angle (which I do love)!

‘Muzzling the process’: Ontario didn’t participate in Ring of Fire assessment | The Narwhal A report on the impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire, produced by First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, reveals Ontario was absent

First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada are studying the cumulative impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire — but Ontario isn’t at the table. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fede...

Yessss I have been doing a rewatch and am midway through s4! 👽

RIP the environment 🙃

Just brutal. Many of my ECCC colleagues are losing their jobs

Every day there are new announcements from the Canadian federal government gutting science programs. I was just notified that the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC) is dead.

Terrible shame to do this at time when boreal caribou are in real trouble.

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

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Congrats on your position also!!

As a person who was postdocing at 40, I see you and maaaaan ohhhh man does it feel good to finally have job and financial security in my 41st trip around the sun

Pretty sure your vote is already in this poll!!

For the #FieldBiologist s out there, I present to you the top rubber boot recommendations fr a survey i once ran on 🐦 (RIP). It is almost time for #FieldWork!

#FieldGear #RubberBoots #Footwear

@evornithology.bsky.social @bethmacshack.bsky.social

Stuffed skin of a duck from a museum collection.

New species of steamer duck, the Chiloe steamer duck (Tachyeres ketru), distinguished on the basis of bill color and vocalizations: audiornis.org/journal/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷López-Lanús & Costa)

That is - excuse me - f’n bonkers

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

Maybe we should bring back lead in paint

Javier Lazaro | finches Scientific and wildlife illustration

New gallery in my portfolio! #sciart #birds
Take a look 👇👇👇
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A little trip into the boreal forest today. Northern Hawk Owl, Grey (Canada) Jay 🪶🇨🇦

#birds #birding #BorealBirds #Saskatchewan

I had the privilege of meeting Kirsty Duncan back in 2017. She was warm and sincere. She was our first and only 🇨🇦 Minister of Science who was a trained scientist. She consistently worked for positive meaningful change in all her government roles. Condolences to her family and friends.

My annual "DO IT!" encouragement post!

Selfishly, my time on CSEE council was the highlight of my PhD, it opened doors and opportunities that research alone did not. And I think we accomplished some good things for the society! 🧪🌎

What could go wrong?

Trump imposes new NIH funding ban on human fetal tissue research Agency may also be moving toward restricting use of embryonic stem cells

The National Institutes of Health has announced it will no longer fund research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions. https://scim.ag/49D4Zkj

Beautiful prairie winter days in Saskatoon 🇨🇦

#saskatchewan #winter #beauty

Snowy Owls in Saskatchewan 🪶🇨🇦

#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birding

Crested pigeons. Credit: Patrick_K59, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In at no. 7 of our most popular papers of the year, we have a #BiologyLetters study that discovered up to 6% of individuals in five wild #bird species naturally switch sex, with genetically male birds developing female traits and vice versa: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Sounds like it could be Crossfire…

Sadly cannot afford to buy 40 pairs of Razors! 😅