Please RT: I’ll be recruiting in Fall 2024! Fieldwork in Chile, Peru, & the Tetons. Potential grad students (MS & PhD), undergrads, & postdocs, please reach out. Por favor RT: Pronto buscaré estudiantes (MS, PhD) y postdocs para el lab—ponte en contacto si estás interesado/a!

I am hiring! Postdoctoral Scientist position studying mechanisms of maternal age effects at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Starting salary well above NIH scale. Position description here: tinyurl.com/postdocMBL Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) American Aging Association #aging #rotifers #postdoc

Stoked to be apart of this effort in collaboration with Adam Duarte (Pacific NW Research) and Matt Weldy (OSU Dept Forest Ecosystems and Society)

Passive acoustic monitoring and convolutional neural networks facilitate high-resolution and broadscale monitoring of a threatened species | Ecological Indicators | sciencedirect.com/science/articl… | #ornithology

I’m excited to share my first dissertation chapter and first, first-authored article “Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone” being published with Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evolut… (1/4)

Field Ornithologists Retiring and cleaning out my office! Any chance of an AFO member being interested in hard copies of Journal of Field Ornithology, 1989-2019??

Awesome article (and photos of manakins!) just released today, written by Shelby Lawson on my recent paper with Angel G. Rivera-Colón, Kevin Bennett, Julian Catchen, Jeff Brawn and Mike Braun in Evolution Journal Check it out: buff.ly/3L3sar0 #ornithology #manakin #TeamManacus

Interested in urban bird ecology or land stewardship. My team is recruiting 3 graduate students (see thread for ads). If you have applicable bird experience and want to live and work in British Columbia. Get your application(s) in. Deadlines are fast approaching.

How long do tropical forest birds live? I was lucky enough to be able to use a 45-year avian mark-recapture dataset from central Panama to explore this question. The answer: check out the link to the paper and PDF (open-access below)! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Only a few days left to register for #AOS24 at early-bird registration rates! Register early & save! meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/re…

🚨Job Post: The Baiz lab is hiring a full-time research technician! The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree (minimum) and wet lab experience in the area of ecology & evolutionary biology. Feel free to DM me with questions. baizlab.weebly.com

Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today. Not gonna lie, it made me cry.

Are you or someone you know looking for a funded MS or PhD position in freshwater ecology starting August 2025? Consider applying to work with me & collaborate on a project linking river oxygen dynamics with freshwater biodiversity. More info/how to apply: hotchkisslab.com/opportunities/…

Out in ME! New work by Ben Vernasco, Kira Long, Braun, & Brawn establishes links between telomere dynamics, heterozygosity, and hybrid status in a #manakin hybrid zone. Whitman College U of I School of Integrative Biology U Idaho CNR Smithsonian NMNH Smithsonian Panama Wiley Ecology & Evolution buff.ly/476DKM6 📷: Kira Long

Ben Vernasco and I are excited to share our latest work on the #manacus hybrid zone “Genetic and telomeric variability: Insights from a tropical avian hybrid zone” out now Molecular Ecology! Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… (1/6)

I am accepting applications for fully-funded PhD & MSc students (Sept 2025 start) International applicants welcome to apply! Application open now, closes 01 Dec 2024. Apply bit.ly/3PBHwWy My team bit.ly/ACRG_UofA Eligibility bit.ly/3XBsq7J

Especially stoked on this one, the paper got featured on the cover of the issue!

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 Ben Vernasco Taylor Fossett, M.S. Kendra Sewall Isaac VanDiest

Aggressive behavior as a predictor of home range size: findings from both range-restricted and widespread Darwin’s finch species | link.springer.com/article/10.100… | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology

Excited to share that my first dissertation chapter has been published in Biology Letters! "Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system" Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Society Publishing FCAT