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Jenny Uehling

Thanks to an amazing team of coauthors for making this happen! Very happy to see this out in the world. 😊

Jenny Uehling

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There's a lot to dig into, but here are two of the findings I'm most excited by: 1) Nestlings with more diverse diets have higher fledge success! This means that dietary diversity might be worth more attention moving forward, especially as we consider conservation efforts for aerial insectivores.

I buried a note in my syllabus that students will receive extra credit if they send me a photo of their pet or favorite species of animal sometime during the first week of class. My inbox this week has been filled with dogs, cats, otters, and other adorable animals. 10/10 way to start the semester!

"Giving away that opportunity—to think, reflect, and grow as a scientist—to GenAI is, to me, unconscionable. It is relinquishing our most human gift" -- what a perfect way to put this. If you read anything today, read this!

2) Mosquitoes are very common in tree swallow diets, which suggests that swallows may provide an important ecosystem service via pest control. 🦟

So proud of my student Sophia Hermosillo-Ramirez for her thoughtful review of Co-Intelligence! AI has been on my mind lately as I've planned for spring semester courses, and this is some excellent food for thought. Check it out!

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Check out our research on diet composition in tree swallows, out now in Oecologia! We used DNA metabarcoding of over 400 fecal samples from adult and nestling birds to ID the arthropods they were eating. 💩 link.springer.com/article/10.1...