Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair for Ornithology in Dept. Environmental Conservation at UMass Amherst. Fan of all things godwits. Oh, and other birds, and ecology, and evolution, and just cool science generally.
Nathan Senner
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Lesser black-backed gulls avoid offshore wind farms - but not because they are attracted by the fishing boats outside of those windfarms
New article on #seabirds #ornithology
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@robvanbemmelen.bsky.social, @judyshamounb.bsky.social
I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
Gift link
Between 1985--2023, MIT's faculty grew 9%. Administrative staff grew 189%. 📈 Why? In new @pnas.org paper, we use dynamical system model to show administrative bloat can emerge without empire-building--just from well-intentioned problem-solving gone awry
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In a rapidly changing world, site fidelity can be a trap. In our new paper in Movement Ecology, however, we find that stopover site fidelity by Whimbrel is associated with high flexibility in their local-scale habitat use. Awesome work by Maina Handmaker & folks at South Carolina DNR! rdcu.be/fn1EE
@dunlin.bsky.social is such a deserving winner! He has been a huge force in the conservation of birds along the Pacific Coast for decades. Not to mention being a great mentor to many, many people. Congrats, Nils!!
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity?
I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University).
I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat!
Link below
Fishing is not allowed within wind farms; therefore, discard-feeding seabirds may appear to avoid wind farm areas. We found that most Lesser Black-backed Gulls avoided the wind farm area, but not eac....
Some federal positions coming back online, Smithsonian is hiring for a "supervisory biologist" curator!
Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐
I'm recruiting a master's student for Fall 2026 to join my lab at The University of Arizona, to work on a project investigating the population genomics and hybridization dynamics of native and invasive leopard frogs in central Arizona! 🐸 🧬 Ad with details is posted below.
Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎
Alex Fraik
Markus Eichhorn
The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in This position is located in Smithsonian's N...
Congratulations to Drs Jeffery L Larkin & Nils Warnock for winning AOS 2026 Ralph W Schreiber Conservation Awards for conservation-related contributions to ornithology.
https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/
#AOSAwards
