How do structural variants shape avian phenotypes?
This is what Maria Recuerda Carrasco learned mainly from chickens.

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(pic by Dennis G. Jarvis - CC BY-SA 2.0)

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I drew the Ibis illustration for this year's Big Day t-shirt! Order yours today, and be sure to donate to our Big Day fundraiser at givelsu.org/bigday to support ornithological research at the LSU Museum of Natural Science!

As the clock strikes midnight, we begin our 2024 Big Day! We have 24 hours to detect as many different species we can throughout the state of Louisiana.
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Honored to receive this recognition for our paper!

A big thank you to BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈, Leica Nature & Birding, and to everyone who enjoyed reading about bird eye color! 🦉👀

Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…

BOOM, #BirdTwitter ! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in nature: doi.org/10.1038/s41586…. From B10K, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves . 🧵

#ornithology #phylogenomics

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Jump into the action this #LSUGivingDay24 ! Your support fuels our researchers and the #ScholarshipFirst agenda. From agriculture to defense, we're paving the way to exciting opportunities and important solutions for our state and nation.
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Pleased to see my Honour's thesis finally published in JEB!

Search for a junior-rank vertebrate curator at the magnificent Illinois Natural History Survey!

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New paper in BioScience (American Institute of Biological Sciences) summarizing the #oVertTCN effort to 3D digitize 6,400 vertebrate genera & counting. This was a huge effort across many museums & institutions led by David C. Blackburn 🐸 & Ed Stanley at Florida Museum

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Scan: Dr. Jaimi Gray

bro please bro let’s try to let the markets save the planet just one more time I swear it will be different this time bro they’ll finally see the economic value of nature bro I promise bro

We are excited to soon welcome the next cohort of scholars into the LAGNiAppE program here at LSU!

This is SUCH a great opportunity for recent graduates interested in exploring a career in scientific research.

Apply today! Deadline is March 3rd.

Our bird eye color paper 🦉👀 has been nominated for best paper by an early-career researcher in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈! Please consider voting for it at bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-best…, and check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…

Birds of a feather select colour together, plumage colour of #cardinals & #grosbeaks is affected by selection pressures, investigated here from the avian visual perspective! Check it out below👇🐦🖤
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The Linnean Society of London Oxford Journals Kevin Burns
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Birds of the World will be open access all week - today through Feb 20th. Maybe you'd like to browse the world's vulture species? Here's a splendid start (toggle the species carousel back and forth). Share!
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A group of @lsu @lsu_mns students and I wanted to study so-called ‘unexplored’ places - we mapped specimen collections data from around the world - we realized lack of digitization may explain many ‘biodiversity blind spots’

Preprint here:
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🌟 Calling recent grads or about to graduate! Passionate about Evolution? Join LSU's Louisiana Graduate Network in Applied Evolution! Paid research program @lsubiosci 🔬 Gain hands-on experience, enhance your STEM career! Apply by March 3, 2024! 📅 Info: shorturl.at/gLNOP

Our review on Amazonian avian biogeography is out! doi.org/10.1093/ornith…. This work was written by many many hands, and I want to thank all coauthors that made it possible! Gregory Thom Lukas Musher Alex Lees Vanessa Luzuriaga mateus ferreira +

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The wonderful natural history museum where I work , the LSU Museum of NatSci, is looking for an Outreach Coordinator - details here lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119-M…