Out now in General and Comparative Endocrinology: Unexpected long-term retention of subcutaneous beeswax implants and additional notes on dose and composition from four testosterone implant studies sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/3

My department is hiring! 🐍🦎🐸 Eco and Evo Biology is looking for a herpetologist working in any of a number of subdisciplines, ideally incorporating collections in their work. Job ad here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23424

So excited to finally share our exciting news! Stay tuned for videos showing the full arc of our dramatic month-long search for this elusive species. For now, enjoy the first ever photo and video of the long lost Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon.

I'm looking for a Field Research Coordinator to work on our urban starling project in metro-Atlanta! If you have experience with avian fieldwork and are available Feb-July I would love to hear from you! Pay is $20-$30/hr with benefits. Details: tinyurl.com/yue83u97

Good start to 2023 🤩. Mache Chindul Ecological Reserve, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Today we caught all these birds in the same locality. What lies behind the phenotype of the Flame and Lemon rumps? Stay tuned to know more 🤯 @TropBioLab daniel cadena

In a new career milestone, today I received the mythical "accepted with minor revisions" decision for my manuscript. Happy Friday, and keep your eyes out for some new carotenoid coloration work in fairywrens coming very soon!!

In summary: Tom Iredale coined the name “fairy-wren” back in 1924 because he thought these little fluffballs deserved a name befitting their nature. He also thought red-backed fairy-wrens [pictured] should be called “elfin wrens”, but that one never took off.

Love these little weirdos

This #WomensHistoryMonth, meet National Geographic Explorer and hummingbird energy expert Anusha Shankar (Anusha Shankar). By studying how hummingbirds burn energy, Anusha hopes to better understand how animals can survive in a changing world. #WomenInSTEM audubon.org/news/why-anush…

I still can’t believe it, but I’ll begin January 2024 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN! This job is a dream come true, and I’m grateful for so many people in my journey that helped me get to this place in my career:⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Someone call Lucia the seamstress to fix this. I believe in her

These birds were pretty in pink long before Barbie! The male Pink Robin is pink due to pigments absorbed in its diet. The Galah-and all other parrots, design their pink in-house through a pigment found nowhere else in nature! 📸 Galah by Deepak Kumar, Pink Robin by David Adam

Please RT! If you enjoy undergrad research mentoring and teaching, come join me in the Biology Department at Rhodes College ! There are two TT Asst. Prof positions open - Evolution tinyurl.com/rcbio-evo and also Organismal Bio tinyurl.com/rcbio-org

I have just heard the voice of my mum for the first time in two days. She started crying when she heard my voice. She told me “I swear when they cut all connections and I couldn’t talk to you or Feras (my brother) it was worse than cutting off water. I was suffocating, thank god

🎉🎉🎉 I’m SO EXCITED: In Fall 2025, I will join the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology & Physiology! UWyo Zoology & Physiology UWyo College of Agriculture Life Sci & Nat Res UWyo News

the student reporters at WKCR asking “who is going to document this if we don’t stay?” is so…gosh. this is so brave of them. Ian, McKenna, Leon, Georgia, everyone else: you all have my whole heart. stay safe, young journalists.

unbelievable that I'm supposed to give Columbia/Barnard students an exam on political theories of freedom after this