TheCuriousGull

Love birds & research? So do I!
Join me on my adventure to learn about this curious place we call home & our feathered friends!
|PhD|#ecophysiology|#devbio|🐣

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

4/4 #WSTC5 #PopSesh2
#Laughinggull male chicks smaller if laid later
Do males pay higher cost than female chicks due to mom’s timing?#maternaleffect
Are small male #seabirds chicks less likely to survive?
Share your hypothesis below!
#sciencetwitter #biotweeps #birdtwitter

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

@evornithology Happy BDay! A scratch-n-sniff storm petrel was pretty neat.

[Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠 @richdavisphd]

What does a mask do? Blocks respiratory droplets coming from your mouth and throat.

Two simple demos:

First, I sneezed, sang, talked & coughed toward an agar culture plate with or without a mask. Bacteria colonies show where droplets landed. A mask blocks virtually all of them.

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

I love my walk to work! This mallard mom is showing her ducklings how best to dabble and dive #momsrock #ornithology

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

@AquaToya I also usually use anthropogenic for anyone high school and older. But I like the sound of artificial. For younger kids I’ve used “stuff that people (or we) make”

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

A fantastic and creative combination of music, science, and history! Listen on YouTube then head over to @SciMagBooks interview with @DrLucyJones to hear the thoughtful meaning behind the song. https://t.co/jr8xz1z0gT #scicomm #WomenInScience

[Dr. Lucy Jones @DrLucyJones]

The potential for increased weather disasters coming with climate change make the earthquake problem look small. My music on the data of the changing climate: In Nomine Terra Calens: In the name of a warming Earth https://t.co/TeOOoNtjfM via @YouTube

[Wez Smith @WordsFromWez]

Platform pals.

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

“The Forgotten Female” Interesting read from Cornell Labs blog https://t.co/SRs8cV3Awf

[Seabird Ecology Lab @SeabirdEcology]

Check this fantastic foraging trips of common #terns #Sterna hirundo! In collaboration with @CommonTerns we simultaneously deployed 8 @pathtrackltd GPS for 1 week (incubation). At🌜all birds returned to the colony. At🌞some birds showed individual differences @TeMilitao @IRBioUB

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Funny thing was...we didn't see a dang #loon on any of our assigned lakes but saw 4 on a lake we canoed through to get to our lake...#gofigure. #fieldwork #birdtwitter

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

We drove 3 hrs, canoed 5 lakes 1 river, portaged heavy canoe ~2miles, spent ~8hrs looking for #loons, got a zillion bug bites... all in the name of #science & #conservation!
Our #canoeadventure and #volunteering @mndnr #Minnesota Loon Monitoring Program in #SuperiorNationalForest

[Matthew Wheelwright @EntomologyCrazy]

Today's excursion has also allowed me to produce a handy identification guide as well :P

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Albino tree swallow chick spotted in Massachusetts!
https://t.co/d8Bf10AeT2

[Audubon Society @audubonsociety]

Let’s call it “birdsplaining”—that urge to jump in as soon as we hear someone flub a bird name. But at the end of the day, does it really matter? https://t.co/1ghLJQ6WGi

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Driving down the highway and HAD to pull over. No way was I going to pass up this opportunity! #birds

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

You know you’re a #gull biologist when your first thought is: ooooo....you’d make a great pet....how should I trap you...walk-in trap, net, French fry at the end of a rope....

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Recently taught my mom how to #bird and use #Ebird . Made this years #GlobalBigDay a contest...and of course she’s beating me! #MomsAreAwesome

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Happy #GlobalBigDay !! Hope everyone had some good #bird sightings :-) Anything super cool to share, please reply! I’ll share this white breasted nuthatch with you! #GlobalBigDay2019

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Here’s what we’ve found so far....

[Ankita Patil, Ph.D. (she/her) @grouchomunks]

Excuse my shaky-phone-video-taking, but when they say microtubules are the highways of the cell... 😃 Orange mitochondria zooming around

[TheCuriousGull @CuriousGull]

Everyone needs a good dust bath once in a while! #birdtwitter #squeakyclean