Wild horses reintroduced to the steppe grasslands of Kazakhstan after an absence of 200 years! 👏 ⁦Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative⁩ altyndala.org/press-release-…

On Tuesday, we discovered #Iceland has again sanctioned the death of 128 fin #whales. A decision that has shamed a nation. Why is Iceland, Norway & Japan committed to whale slaughter when we know how vital they are to our ocean? Article: blueplanetsociety.org/whales-are-vit… #stopthehunt

Amazon on fire Active fires 4,388 New fires 343 Alongside mega deforestation amzfire.servirglobal.net/dashboard/

Ok this is actually pretty cool. Comment or DM if you’re not sure what creature this is.

Further confirmation of Spinosaurus as history’s largest heron!

I was shocked to discover, in the magazine aisle of a grocery store in backwoods Ely, MN, that “Natural History” (the magazine that Steven J. Gould used to have a column in) still exists in print! Please become a paying subscriber so they will keep publishing this!

Life rewarded us again after a wonderful hike to the Mbwindi swamp in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest 🌳 where we found these two forest elephants 🐘. A first for me and such an exciting moment! I love birds above all, but mammals fill my heart too 💜

We can accept this along with millions of dead humans and extinct species. Or we can inject a small quantity of sulfur into the stratosphere and prevent all of this warming for a relatively modest sum. But we’re not even allowed to study it.

What an incredible trip! Thanks for bringing me along!

spectacular new paper providing experimental evidence of high climate change vulnerability of tropical montane sp authors did massive # of reciprocal transplants of cloud forest epiphytes, sp suffer elevated mortality when moved even short elev distances nature.com/articles/s4146…

Kamala Harris says she will bring back The Auk and The Condor, if elected

Check out my latest for Mongabay: the story of how the ATBC grew from colonial roots into a diverse & global force for tropical biology and conservation, and the role their conferences play in advancing science in the Global South: news.mongabay.com/2024/09/associ…

I am once again asking, what is good enough for Nature? These folks built an AI out of bacteria and they still got bumped 😂

Must read for all PhD advisers: likelihood of getting prescribed psychiatric medication peaks in the 5th year of a PhD!!!!!

Standing room only for Monte Neate-Clegg talk on this cool paper about latitudinal, elevational and phenological shifts in birds in response to climate change American Ornithological Society #AOS24

Thrilled to give my second talk at American Ornithological Society #AOS24 on multidimensional shifts in North American birds! Morgan Tingley *find me on BlueSky*

If you are a mentor, check in on your mentees today.

My response to this and most things about AI: 1) makes sense, and 2) who cares?