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. 🌏🧪🌐
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Markus Eichhorn
Some federal positions coming back online, Smithsonian is hiring for a "supervisory biologist" curator!
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
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I traveled to Senegal to see how aid cuts are imperiling efforts to bring malnutrition treatment to kids.
Mothers whose kids had been improving told me of relapsing, as clinics often have nothing to give.
"Whenever your child is suffering, you suffer with them."
www.npr.org/2026/06/13/n...
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
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@robvanbemmelen.bsky.social, @judyshamounb.bsky.social
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!
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Through an innovative program, parents in Senegal had easy access to a therapeutic food that's a boon for malnourished kids. Now there are shortages. Health specialists say U.S. aid cuts are to blame.
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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....
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.
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@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!!
Jonathan Lambert
One of my dissertation chapters came out in Ecology Letters this week!
We used a decade of radar data to look at whether the relative importance of predictors in bird migration forecasts change within a given night. TLDR: they do, but not how we expected.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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]
Nathan Senner
Carl T. Bergstrom
Mikko Jimenez
Santiago Claramunt
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
American Ornithological Society
Bar chart summarising median percent of gain contributed by each predictor type (atmospheric, sampling and terrestrial) for each timestep after sunset for spring (left) and fall (right) bird migratio...
