Hello world, nice to meet you. Here you’ll find birds, insects, plants, and other things I like. Working on weevils. #LowCarbonBirding#LGBTStem 🏳️🌈 he/him
Pittas are one of my favourite things. Bouncy and bright, they lighten up any dull winter day. Here are nine of them arranged, controversially, in approximate order of splendidness.
African birds colonising Europe. This is one of the most interesting things I have read this year, in @ArdeolaJournal by Ernest Garcia. https://t.co/0WeTAaOwee
🚨Really excited to share our new preprint on the multi-dimensionality of climate-driven shifts! Species have many nested spatial and temporal thermal gradients along which they could shift, but which will they choose? Big thanks to a great team! #SOTM https://t.co/oPGg6VD2hU
New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30
The most remarkable story I have covered: the origin of oak mildews is astonishing. Also fascinated by how they make mature trees more susceptible to drought and hinder woodland regeneration. More videos: https://t.co/qXegaJOJzl
seems like the proposal for a new name to the northern giant hummingbird (Patagona chaski) was unnecessary, and is now been 'synonymized' by a century-old name: peruviana
The late Ecuadorian ornithologist Fernando Ortiz Crespo was right (I highly recommend his 1974 paper)
If, like me, you find it fascinating that small migratory birds reach altitudes of 5,000 or 6,000m when crossing ecological barriers, check out our new preprint. We equipped 16 nocturnal migratory species with multi-sensor loggers to study their migration: https://t.co/ZygJlXD7iQ
As an ecologist specialising in species' responses to climate change, I am deeply troubled by growing calls pushing for assisted colonisation. Whilst well meaning, this concept is built on a very outdated understanding of how species interact with climate. https://t.co/4GW26us6s4
Bat Detector is now live on the App Store! Free forever, no ads. Connect an inexpensive USB microphone and your iPhone / iPad device becomes a full-featured bat detector and ultrasonic recorder with real-time time-expansion. @_BCT_
"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings."
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Empirical results show dispersal proxies fail to predict actual dispersal. Greater progress may lie in employing innovative measurement of actual dispersal in the field. These words COULD be about seed dispersal, but are from a new aquatic insect paper👉 https://t.co/pPCkKj1rBa
A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21