We're hiring! Birds of the World seeks a postdoc interested in exploring how avian life history data can best expand the utility of the BOW from a research and conservation perspective and fill these gaps. Please share!
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A few photos from our Union Break/Birthday Party yesterday! Hundreds of grad workers took a 30 minute break from their work to celebrate our union, talk about the state of contract negotiations, and connect with their coworkers! (Oh, and there was cake. A lot of cake.)

Delighted to see these two papers come out. They build on my earlier PhD work where we (1) showed that #hybrid songbirds take intermediate routes to pure forms on #migration and (2) mapped migratory orientation to a region on chromosome 4. (1/3)🐦🧬

🚨Canadian academics/trainees, your advocacy paid off. Finally a welcome increase in scholarships and fellowship amounts.
MSc ($27k), PhD ($40k), and PDF ($70k). Today feels like a small win, tomorrow we continue to build a resilient future for our young scientists. #Budget2024

Excited to share that our new paper on the link between experience and independence for a collective migrant is now out in Current Biology ! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social Elham Nourani Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

📣New paper alert 📢
Super Excited to see our new paper out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution w John Fieberg David Wolfson Dongmin (Dennis) Kim on modelling individual variability using step-selection
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#animalmovement #ecology BES Movement Ecology U of MN FWCB University of Minnesota
A small thread...

Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not.

These steps can begin to counteract this inequity go.nature.com/3Jl5xx8

Beyond thrilled to share the new Urban Wildlife Information Network paper out today in PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We do not accept the narrative of ‘regrettable incidents'.

We do not accept it, because what has happened to MSF International’s convoys and shelters, is part of a deliberate pattern of attacks on humanitarians, health workers, journalists, United Nations personnel, schools, and homes.

Al Jazeera English

A Guardian investigation finds evidence Israeli snipers have been deliberately targeting children. Among their findings:

There was nothing 'inadvertent' about that strike. You mean to tell me IDF by happenstance hit a civilian aid convoy providing food and amenities to people in Gaza was accidentally hit with an airstrike?

Wait a minute, free snacks and a yoga hour aren't as good as a living wage and better working conditions?

Postdoctoral Research Scientist Position.
Cornell University. Fisher population modeling/decision science/spatial capture-recapture. $57k/yr + benefits. Prefer candidate to work at Cornell, but remote work option is possible. Details here: blogs.cornell.edu/fullerlab/news/
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A new road was built in the Northwest Territories starting in 2019. Researchers tracked boreal #caribou movement before, during and after construction to see how it affected their behavior. Nilanjan Chatterjee John Fieberg hubs.li/Q02pvB440

New avian vagrancy hypothesis just dropped: cell.com/trends/parasit… 'we propose that haemosporidian parasites may contribute to the vagrant phenotype by distorting either the compass sense or the inherited migration direction' #Ornithology

OPEN PHD POSITION: Revealing the Dynamics of Soaring Environments. Come work with me and WildDrone to use high-res GPS and #drones to explore soaring conditions of white storks at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/d70…

Good news animals: all that teenage dare-devilry pays off...at least in migration.
Adolescent exploration helps storks to learn straighter + shorter migration routes✈️
Paper PNASNews by Ellen Aikens UWyo News Andrea Flack @anflack.bsky.social and the team Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz 1/2
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So excited to host a new postdoc at the Lab of Ornithology working on Pinyon Jay conservation using data from eBird! Interested in the position? Get in touch!

Happy to share a new publication Biological Invasions using genomic data to reveal the sources of introduced white-eye populations in Hawaii and southern California. We show that these introduced pops are totally independent, with no evidence of admixture link.springer.com/article/10.100…