When you’re teaching Ornithology and the birds literally overshadow you (Song Sparrow)

This is fcking wild. Hawks don’t even need these air sacs to help them breathe, they actually help with flight muscle biomechanics instead. And this evolved separately seven times! 🤯

ONCE AGAIN HERE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT CANADA GEESE ARE PERFECT THEY HAVE AN EMPATHETIC COMMUNITY SYSTEM IF YOU HAVE SUFFERED VIOLENCE FROM A GOOSE, JUST KNOW, AT ONE POINT, YOU DESERVED IT

THIS IS MY FAVORITE VIDEO ON THE WHOLE PLANET

me after writing and deleting one sentence in a manuscript

NEW PAPER: Are urbanization and brood parasitism associated with differences in telomere lengths in song sparrows? ➡️ vist.ly/3mgs8bw Nordic Society Oikos #ornithology #telomeres #parasites #urbanization Samuel J Lane @verntasco Taylor Fossett, M.S. Kendra Sewall Isaac VanDiest

Me loading both dplyr and tidyverse cause I forget which package does what:

I will die on this one: pay is the single largest gatekeeper we have in academia. This crap isn’t viable. It’s hurting people, and limiting the pool of talented folks that think it’s a good idea to do science or have the resources to do so.

Using non-invasive MRI, we found a pathway in dog brains that predicts receptive vocabulary size. It’s left-lateralized & connects regions that produce and perceive vocal communication. A convergently evolved arcuate fasciculis? Read at Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Umm if the department of education doesn’t exist then neither do my student loans

another of the little dinosaur that is the groove-billed ani!

the super bowl isn’t about football, it’s about eating chips and dip and bringing up taylor swift

Last week, I may have DEI’d too close to the sun and attracted anti-NIH folks to my profile who then claimed that my research is useless and a waste of time and money. I beg to differ! Allow me to explain in lay terms how my research in mice is relevant to human health: 🧵

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and

Happy to share our recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, with Kim Rosvall, Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler, and many more! nature.com/articles/s4155…

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Now the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.

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I've been waiting SIX WEEKS for my health insurance to approve oncotype test for my breast tumor. This test determines if I need chemo. BCBS - FEP has repeatedly said they don't have info we sent, forced us to resubmit the request, and won't meet today's deadline to respond.

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