The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species. Now out in PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/

Conirostrum binghami Birds of the World account V2.0 is live! My first time working on a BoW account, and it was a pleasure! C. binghami, aka the Giant Conebill or Pájaro de los Queñuales, is a truly remarkable bird, and a focus of my PhD dissertation. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/gi…

Super thrilled to announce that I have received the Fulbright fellowship to work at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science LSU LSU Department of Biological Sciences Nick Mason The Fulbright Program USIEF Wildlife Institute of India

We are looking for a Curatorial Assistant to support the NSF-funded CSBR grant "Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ." This person will primarily subsample tissues and cryo-preserve primary types hosted in MCZ collections. Appy at bit.ly/3zdK4ob

In this week's Summer Series, we feature Darwin Morales-Martínez (Esselstyn Lab), who is after shrews in Colombia. Check it out! LSU College of Science Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund N. H. Laboratory: IZBD

The Field Museum is establishing a CT scanning facility and is looking for a lab manager to run it. fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…

📣 Davidson College is seeking a tenure-track evolutionary biologist with genetic and/or genomic expertise 📣 Please pass this on to anyone with a passion for teaching, mentorship, and research. I'm happy to answer questions! #Evolution2024 #SMBE2024 …ci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

65th supplement to the AOS Checklist is out! Among the many changes, NACC has voted that redpolls constitute a single species. academic.oup.com/auk/advance-ar… #birds #taxonomy #ornithology

A short write up on the NACC’s recent decision to lump the Hoary and Common Redpoll. This collaboration with Scott Taylor Erik Funk and others started over 10 years ago! Thanks to LSU Department of Biological Sciences for the write up! LSU Museum of NatSci #bird #taxonomy

Great news! We are thrilled to announce that Sebastian Pérez-Peña is the new LSU Museum of Natural Science ornithology collections manager! Welcome to the team, Sebastian!

I'm excited to be presenting some preliminary results from my PhD at #Evol2024 tomorrow in the first poster session. Swing by poster board D17 and chat with me about Polylepis forest birds!

Hi all! If anyone is interested in preliminary data from my first chapter on iridescence in Sturnidae, come check out my poster at tonight's session #Evol2024 !

Come check out Mason Lab grad students present their posters this evening: Samantha Rutledge on ecogeography of starling iridescence (D16) Quinn McCallum on comparative phylogeography of high Andean birds #Evol2024 #Evolution2024

Poster tonight from Roberta on blue feathers in Lepidothrix. Followed by a poster on limbless squamates from Sashoya S. Dougan tomorrow and a talk by Eamon C. Corbett on grackles Tuesday evening. check them all out!! LSU #evolution2024

Exciting news! Toni Androski has joined us as the new Mammalogy collections manager! Welcome to the LSU MNS, Toni!

This summer, I mentored Victoria Nguyen through the LSU Gulf Scholars program. As an incoming sophomore, she conducted a pop gen project, and she killed it! Pictured at the end is a painting she made for our lab space. I am so proud of what she’s accomplished in 9 short weeks!

Good news keep on coming! A warm welcome to our new Genetic Resources Collection Manager, Eryn Woernley!

New in @sciencemagazine, we show that spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching Mountain Chickadees. And Vladimir Pravosudov’s photo was selected for the cover! #ScienceResearch. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

Graduate student David Vander Pluym recently published his the first chapter of his dissertation. Check out our viewpoint article in Wiley Ecology & Evolution about a comparative framework for studying altitudinal migration!