Nick Mason

Ornithology, evolution, ecology. Assistant Professor and Curator of Birds at LSUMNS. I also enjoy rugby, rap, house music, art, and food. He/him. Views my own.

[American Ornithological Society @AmOrnith]

Reminder: #AOS26 meeting planners invite you to submit abstracts for oral presentations & posters at our annual meeting in Amherst, Mass., 3-7 August 2026.
https://t.co/oiao60oKH4
#ornithology #ornithologicalmeeting

[Nick Mason @Nick_mas0n]

@LSU_MNS is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠

Review begins February 15th, please share!

https://t.co/REsIfGQheB

[no context memes @nocontextmemes]

I know that was the most embarrassing moment in his life

[Nick Mason @Nick_mas0n]

@lsuscience Congrats Juhee!!

[American Ornithological Society @AmOrnith]

Call for Volunteers for #AOS25! Join us in St. Louis for our annual meeting from 11-15 August. Volunteers receive $120 discount on registration fee in exchange for a minimum of 10 volunteer hours. Learn more: https://t.co/s9JAvlMJVq

[LSU College of Science @lsuscience]

Calling all young science enthusiasts in grades 4-6! Join us for Geaux Science Explorations: Kids' Day at the Museum.

LSU Museum of Natural Science
Saturday, February 15, 2025
10:30 AM - 2:45 PM

Applications are due by Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
Apply: https://t.co/9HBtYUhJYV

[LAGNiAppE Network @evo_lagniappe]

🚨 Recent grads or about-to-be: Apply to this opportunity, a paid year-long evolutionary biology research program @lsu! 🧪🌿

✨ Explore your potential in research
🧪 Work with expert at @lsubiosci
📈 Gain hands-on experience

Apply by 3/16/25: https://t.co/IjnSIDyMLh

[Field Palaeobiology Research Group @fieldpalaeo]

Huge congrats to @gnavalon—it’s brilliant to see our new 80-million-year-old bird on the cover of @nature! Navaornis hestiae provides the clearest insight yet into how and when the distinctive brains of modern birds evolved. Paper open access: https://t.co/h363E5fYSt

[Daniel Marc Hooper @DanielM_Hooper]

So excited to have our paper “Spread of yellow-bill-color alleles favored by selection in the long-tailed finch hybrid system” out now in @CurrentBiology ! Check it out: https://t.co/jcYghCyH9a

[Samantha Rutledge @slrutledge27]

First time being featured on a podcast - thanks @researchfloww for the invite! #AcademicTwitter #phd

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

#Curator Job!

Department of Integrative Biology at @michiganstateu and the Michigan State University Museum are conducting a search for an Assistant/Associate Professor(s) and Curator of Vertebrate Collections. The advertisement can be viewed here:

https://t.co/dGOMfE5i2V

[Nick Mason @Nick_mas0n]

@evornithology Sorry, our b

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

Alongside many splits, this year's Taxonomy Update also includes notable lumps!

Due to new evidence of a "supergene" that causes variance in appearance, the Common, Hoary, and Lesser Redpolls are now considered the mononymous Redpoll!

Learn more at BOW!
https://t.co/wrLyVJwU3k

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

🚨 COOL JOB ALERT! 🚨

Come work with me and the wonderful faculty and students at @sunyoswego! We need a tenure-track Botanist! This is a pretty broad search, but we'd like someone who can teach systematics/taxonomy. Please spread the word! DMs open. https://t.co/CzljqyHTJt

[Ashish Jha आशीष 🇮🇳 @ashishdurg]

Excited to join @Nick_mas0n lab at @LSU_MNS, funded by the @FulbrightPrgrm via @USIEF. Looking forward to learning the Ecology of Nearctic birds during my 9-month stay at @LSU #GeauxTigers
https://t.co/Nua8eGig3g

[Prosanta Chakrabarty @PREAUX_FISH]

The @NHMLA (National History Museum of Los Angeles County) is looking for a full-time Curator (associate or full) to lead the growth and development of an innovative Community Science program ...

#scicomm

[Amanda Harvey (she/her) @harveyyamanda]

I had a great time presenting about the LSUMNS and my research at the Southeastern Museum Conference 2024!

[Ethan Linck @ethanblinck]

my department @montanastate is hiring a landscape ecologist. it's a great place to work and a particularly nice geographic location for this discipline—please reach out if you have any questions about the position: https://t.co/Is8rWDUkXI

[Nick Mason @Nick_mas0n]

@fieldomics @DenverMuseumNS Fantastic! Congratulations

[Nick Mason @Nick_mas0n]

Check out posters at Wednesday’s session from Mason Lab at #AOS24 including Common Nighthawk isotope ecology @harveyyamanda (poster 101) and the evolution of Sturnidae plumage @slrutledge27 (poster 171)