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Back from #BOUasm25. I can’t praise the organisation enough? An amazing line-up of speakers! I’ve come back feeling inspired! I can now also check "seeing Cook and Darwin specimens" from my bucket list thanks to the amazing team at Tring.

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Thank you to @thelabandfield.bsky.social @nhm.org and @bou.org.uk for the opportunity to talk about bird brains and participate in a great meeting!
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I was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>

This was such a great conference not only to get so many folks who care about collections together, but to cover everything from ancient pelicans to modern honeyguides and everything in between. Such amazing talks/speakers! #BOUasm25

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A great day at #BOUasm25. Its interesting attending events not directly related to your project so you can learn about new topics, meet new people and get new ideas. From feather iridescents to parasitic birds, today highlighted the importance of our museum collections and how they benefit Science.

We're so proud of Bell Curator of Birds Dr. Sushma Reddy, featured at the British Ornithologists' Union conference this year. Check out her thread! #BOUasm25

Had a fab time at #BOUasm25 learning about how we can use avian museum collections in research and engagement 🐦‍⬛🧬🌱
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Our speakers at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum @nhm.org for #BOUasm25 !!

That’s a wrap for #BOUasm25, but don’t go just yet! 👋

You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5

We’re now joined by Ken Norris who is closing the conference for us.

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Slide that states: Who has access to collections? Who is being left out?

Fantastic keynote by @sushred.bsky.social on decolonizing collections research and building community. Action items for scientists: extend collaborators, explore novel research directions, build resources, expand networks of collections contributors

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Sushma Reddy brings us to a close with her keynote, and our last presentation of the day, “Using natural history collections to build community”

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1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community.
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology

Our penultimate presentation for the day, Arianna Salili-James gives us some insight into AI with their presentation “Utilising artificial intelligence for the automatic extraction of valuable ecological data from avian record cards” 🖥️🧪

#BOUasm25 #ornithology #ai #artificialintelligence #ecology

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Huge thanks to @bou.org.uk and @nhm.org for hosting such an inspiring day of collections-based ornithological research #BOUasm25 #ornithology

We turn our focus back online, for Maggie Mwale’s presentation “Have birds' eggs become paler as the climate warms?” 🐣

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We’re kicking off session 4, our final session for the day, with Claire Spottiswoode for her keynote presentation “A Zambian ornithological collection as a window into brood parasite-host coevolution”

Shane Dubay joins us as Chair for this session.
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Nisha Bhakat’s presentation; “The fall of a florican: what the history of Bengal Florican says about its future”

@nickel-salt.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology #conservation

1/🧵What question do you ask of the #ecology of a #bird so #endangered you'd be lucky to get a glimpse?
At #BOUasm25 I question the knowledge itself that forms the basis of #conservation programs of #BengalFlorican
Join me BTS in #ornithology #archives going beyond #specimens & into their stories

Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬

@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology

Zhifan Xu now brings us “Tracking bill morphology in endangered island-endemic crows using museum and field images” 🐦‍⬛

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Joining Allen Chochinov for his presentation, “Using museum specimens to uncover contemporary evolution in urban tolerant birds” 🚧

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We’re moving onto our next speaker of session 3, Heather Skeen, bringing us “Temporal dynamics of avian haemosporidians in Nearctic-Neotropical migratory birds” 🪶

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Kicking off session 3, we join John McCormack online for “Using habitat occupancy modelling and genomics to understand a century of change to the birds of Mexico” 🇲🇽🐦‍⬛

Catriona Morrison joins us as Chair for this session.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #modelling

Ana V. Leitão brings us “Morphological evolution in island birds is associated with more terrestrial lifestyles and a lower number of raptors and intra-family competitors” 🏝️🦅

@islandbirdproject.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution

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Work by our team: @raquelponti.bsky.social, @anavleitao.bsky.social, @claire-doutrelant.bsky.social, Rita Covas.

We thank Pepijn Kamminga @naturalis.bsky.social, Paul Sweet @amnh.org, & Robert Prys-Jones @nhm-london.bsky.social who kindly supported our visits to the museums.

TY! #BOUasm25

Lunchbreak at the museum! 🥪🍎🧃
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