Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜

Assistant Professor of Biology @FrostburgState | Community Ecology | Trait Evolution | Ornithology | Also now ants?

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

I'm going to be teaching general #ecology next fall with at least some #OneHealth perspective added in. Does anyone have recommendations on open access/open source/otherwise free general ecology textbook options?

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@skwinnicki I can't find it now, but vox ran an article about how "Porg" should be lower case and I very much disagree lol

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@skwinnicki Is-ought arguments are really annoying...

[Sara Lipshutz @jacanamama]

Updated version here! https://t.co/eVZqRNRcwp

[Amanda Cheeseman @AECheeseman]

Please RT!
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Fully funded PhD position helping gather our *FIRST* rangewide abundance estimate for imperiled New England cottontails!

Great project with a great team (and one of my favorite collaborators) behind it!

Start date: Summer/Fall 2025
Review begins NOW!!

[Matt Hack @masked_harrier]

New paper at #JFWM! @cm_kent, @DiannProsser, Jeff Sullivan and I constructed an avian dietary composition database quantifying the diets of 58 Chesapeake Bay waterbirds, which can be used to characterize important forage taxa in this ecosystem.

https://t.co/xwM3M1hCwt

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@evornithology I mean, it's good.... But best parulid?

[Bird Ecology & Migration Lab @AviEcoMig]

DeSimone et al. (2024) Persistent species relationships characterize migrating bird communities across stopover sites and seasons @PNASNews https://t.co/pvDObX2x16 | @AnousBirding @UMCES_AL @LongPointBirdOb @TheMarshWren @BULAbirds | #ornithology #birdmigration

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@BenGFreeman1 @cenemes @jamesTstroud @BirdsCaribbean Yeah, those lizards seem to have been a bit bigger. Of the ~70 stomach samples I had from Jamaica across 5 parulid species, this was the only one with vertebrate remains. We only had 5 samples from black-and-white warblers though.

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@BenGFreeman1 @cenemes @jamesTstroud @BirdsCaribbean This was the black-and-white warbler from Jamaica in that paper. The anole was super tiny - probably just hatched. There are a good number of reports among the larger warblers. I suspect chance encounters while foraging for insects, and if it fits down their throat they'll eat it

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@BenGFreeman1 @cenemes @jamesTstroud @BirdsCaribbean The lizard bones were funny to come across. An undergrad found a claw while sorting stomach contents and called me over. She then didn't say anything more about it. Later when I went to ID the insect pieces I found out there ended up being more than half of a skeleton!

[Abby Thiemkey, M.Sc. (she/her) @abigailthiemkey]

Probably should have waited to do this when I got the flyer! But I’m defending next Tuesday (: please DM me your email so I can send you the link.

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@skwinnicki Yeah, every fall someone would come up to me at Tulane and ask if I knew where building X was, and it was almost always "no" 😂

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@cenewman0 Thanks! It was an interesting bit of work... When I started this at the beginning of my post doc in 2020 we were not expecting to end up having a validation data set by the time I ended two years later........ lol

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

Our new paper is out providing risk maps of avian influenza spillover into domestic poultry populations! 🦆🦠🐔

https://t.co/Afh73D0X3X

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@NicoSGonzalez Then while reading some old lit on birds in Jamaica, I ran into some writings by Philip Gosse saying that Cuvier must be wrong because he had shot one's leg clean off and it didn't even seem to notice..?!

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@NicoSGonzalez Georges Cuvier wrote that these birds must be in constant pain from putting all their weight on these long thin legs 😂

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

Other faculty who don't penalize for attendance:
Do you frequently get negative student comments blaming you for their poor attendance? Or is that just a me thing...?

[Cody M. Kent 🐦🐜 @cm_kent]

@analog_ashley I had to complete "time sheets" but I don't think it was actual hours? I think it was checking that "duties for the day had been performed" which I still need to complete now as faculty?