Samuel Bressler

Master's Student in UCLA EEB Department. Focal species: Juncos. #Ornithology

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem @lyndonbajohnson Even to concede your point (and I don’t; clear but ideologically incoherent left-wing authoritarian populism is what it is and isn’t what it isn’t), there’s also Brother Earl, along with Big Jim Folsom in AL, among others who don’t fit your description.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem @lyndonbajohnson Pretty sure it was Hobsbawm who said that anyone who’s slogan was “every man a king” couldn’t possibly be a fascist

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem @lyndonbajohnson Only if you strip “conservatively inclined” of any historical meaning, and use it to refer to anyone who wasn’t a bog-standard New Deal Liberal.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem @lyndonbajohnson Even this doesn’t hold up across the region. Huey Long may have been many things but “conservatively inclined” was not one of them!

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem But fair point, I’ve renamed it.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@souljagoytellem After three weeks of doomscrolling it was finally necessary to follow Events and hot takes without encountering another Noah Kulwin tweet.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

@terrordroma Who is this guy???

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Last night i dreamed i found a leucistic red-bellied woodpecker in a giant eucalyptus at a local park. I live in California.

Heres a vermilion flycatcher for your troubles

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Remember the simpler times, when Carlson got kicked off tv because Jon Stewart epically owned him on Crossfire?

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Been thinking about "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" a lot recently. Fundamentally it depicts of the replacement of the minds and souls of humans with a base, homogenous, primal evil and amorality. Is there a cure? The ending's ambiguous.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Junk country folks!

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Reminder

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

Cops are taking selfies with the terrorists.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Yard bird #52(?). Possibly one of the most confiding HUVIs that I've ever seen, and one of very few I've seen so close to the ground. If you look closely, you can see that the feet are gray-black, unlike the trickily similar Ruby-crowned Kinglet which has yellow legs.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

What it looks like: Hutton's Vireo checking out the front yard plants. What it actually is: Hutton's Vireo ruthlessly disembowling a hapless grasshopper).

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

I'll add: why is this important? Understanding how urban adapters like juncos use the urban matrix to their advantage (e.g. nesting above ground on buildings), and understanding the predictability of these shifts, we can better design and manage our cities for biodiversity.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

My very first published paper, "Nests in the cities: adaptive and non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and convergence in an urban bird" is officially out in the new issue of Proceedings B! https://t.co/HLhQWsaR3b

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

Huge thanks to my coauthors, including my advisor Dr. Pamela Yeh, as well as @19ellie93 @mwtingley for their help creating this manuscript, as well as to @RSocPublishing for making the publishing process so straightforward for a first-timer like me.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

A cactus wren hanging around in the one corner of my city where they still persist, the West Coyote Hills. Part of the property still threatened by development.

[Samuel Bressler @BresslerSamuel]

My very... very overdue first Green-tailed Towhee for Orange County. Just incredible colors and markings