Alex Champagne

Birder, physiologist, and reluctant lipid biochemist. 🐦🐕🦇🐊

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

Skin lipids in desert bats suggest wing and tail membranes are important in evaporative cooling!
Excited about this new paper out in @CompBiochPhys in collaboration with @agustimg @EEOB_OSU @osumansfield and @mddeBGU!
🧵Below:
https://t.co/e6FYN9lxXE

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@keccers Looks like it’s a Red-shouldered Hawk, with lots of flexibility!

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

The desire I now have to develop a literal Empidonax multiple choice question the next time I teach Ornithology.

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@adam_kranz @keccers I TAed a class in grad school where one of the big assignments was to debate the merits and validity of Erwin’s classic paper on beetle diversity. Fun to see the conversation extended to wasps!

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

Peregrine Falcons hunting at 10,000 feet 🤝 People going to a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Dice snakes fake their own gory deaths https://t.co/Z1xqwCl8Jm | #HappyHalloween #SpookyScience #BiologyLetters

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@keccers Ugh, they always are. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@keccers You never know who might use those kid pics against you! If memory serves, I was reading a book by Matt Christopher about hockey.

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@keccers I spot my arm!

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

Soon, every individual Herring Gull will be its own species, and gulls will surpass beetles as the most species-rich taxon.

[Birds of The World: The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld]

Sneak peak for our upcoming eBird/Clements Taxonomy update... 😉

The Herring Gull is going to split into four species, leading to the BIGGEST taxonomic revision in eBird history!!

Learn more what to expect on 22 October by visiting our blog!
https://t.co/m1PPto8NNT

[University of Southern Indiana @USIedu]

Here's what the buzz is about—we're now an affiliate of Bee Campus USA! 🐝

Read more about the distinction and how campus will be utilitized here: https://t.co/DpYnMvHjhk.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

You’re telling me there’s a whole company named “Panda Express” and when it’s time to actually transport and deliver pandas another company does it

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

Telling stories about rare bird sightings isn’t something unique to modern birders. Here’s an incredible account from some Cherokee elders in Georgia, circa 1902, who were still talking about the visit of a vagrant scissor-tailed flycatcher from forty years earlier.

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

Seriously, cats can decimate bird populations. Please keep your pet cats indoors. They can join you on the couch while you watch your favorite team, whether their mascot is a bird, a cat, or whatever a Hoosier is.

[Aspen goes birding⛸️ @birdmoder]

So I thought I'd cover some "funny" bird names to explain why they're called what they are.

Starting with tits.

And it's a really simple answer

a "tit" in old english is essentially just something small. So smol birds

[MSU @michiganstateu]

MSU researchers reveal lakes in communities of color receive less water quality monitoring, raising health risks. https://t.co/HG4gJL8Adr

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Woah! New research shows how vital biodiversity is to thriving humanity: In US counties where bats declined from white-nose syndrome, insect numbers surged, leading to a 31% rise in pesticide use and subsequently *an 8% increase in infant mortality*! #Biodiversity #Conservation

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

The Lions have been jinxed for so many years, I’m hoping they’ve developed an immunity to the SI Cover Jinx.

[Brad Galli @BradGalli]

The Lions are on the cover of Sports Illustrated — and SI picked Detroit to win the Super Bowl.

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

@keccers Birding is only 33% less unattractive than online trolling? 😂

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

This must make Christmas Bird Counts so much more fun.

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

Many Americans are baffled by "Right to Roam."

It's a very different approach to the bundle of rights associated with landownership.

In the green countries you can basically walk around anywhere other than someone's yard.

Farms and woods are "owned" but not "private."