Kyana N. Montoya

MS graduate student with @UNMornithology in the Land of Enchantment 🌵🪺

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

Today I prepped my 50th bird! Welcome to the Museum of Southwestern Biology, KNM050. #CollectionsAreEssential #MuseumScience

[Allison Fitzgerald, MD, PhD @allisonoconn]

Tough day to be a physician in America.

Tough day to be a scientist in America.

Tough day to be a woman in America.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Kafka, the patron saint of PhDs

[Jessie Williamson @jl_williamson]

The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species.

Now out in @PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇

https://t.co/rVYRpWvGR3

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[Alberta Claw @albertonykus]

Giant hummingbird split into two cryptic species, with the larger, high-elevation resident described as a new species, Patagona chaski: https://t.co/MvcLmaYlSu #birds #dinosaurs

[Jessie Williamson @jl_williamson]

Please RT: I’ll be recruiting in Fall 2024! Fieldwork in Chile, Peru, & the Tetons. Potential grad students (MS & PhD), undergrads, & postdocs, please reach out.

Por favor RT: Pronto buscaré estudiantes (MS, PhD) y postdocs para el lab—ponte en contacto si estás interesado/a!

[Jessie Williamson @jl_williamson]

🎉🎉🎉 I’m SO EXCITED: In Fall 2025, I will join the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology & Physiology! @uwzoophys @uwyoag @UWyonews

[Bryce W. Robinson @BW_Robinson]

Last week in Oklahoma, our team (including some keen @Cornell undergrads) captured this white Red-tailed Hawk!

Learn more: https://t.co/XGJRkLnp3K

Photos by Nicole Richardson, deposited in @MacaulayLibrary through @Team_eBird checklist https://t.co/AfvJUwnzqV

@CornellBirds

[Christopher Witt @MSBbirds]

'Forever chemicals' (PFAS) are everywhere and can be chronically toxic at just ~1 part per billion (ppb).

How is biodiversity affected?

In birds & rodents at a New Mexico wetland, we found absurd levels — averaging >10,000 ppb.

Check out our new paper: https://t.co/eI9hvRnIbg

[J'orge with a why @yorickgarcia]

📢 Field Technician Position - Avian Physiology - New Mexico (April – July 2024) https://t.co/UMUF66n7bs

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

This thread 🫶🏼

[Alex Champagne @ChampagneLabUSI]

With 1989 Taylor's Version announced yesterday, it's worth breaking down the changes we see in the ubiquitous Laughing Gulls on the album cover. 🧵

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

I was supposed to be at #AOS_SCO23 but instead I’m on day 5 of covid with a band still as bold as day 1. Sad to be missing out on all the science and fun in London ☹️

[Nicole M. Andre @Microbe_Diva]

Extremely proud of @brendarvil, a @cihmid REU in @DongreAnushka lab. Her #CancerResearch on CD73 driven cross protection in heterogenous #breastcancer tumors was amazing! @cornellvet @CornellCVG @CornellCFI #DiversityMatters #latinxcellence #WomenInSTEM

[Jessie Williamson @jl_williamson]

Just returned from a fantastic month of fieldwork in Peru w/ the best team + the Congreso Peruano de Ornitología @XIIICPO in Huaraz. Andean birds, amazing colleagues, cool new data = YES!!! Stay tuned for our work on comparative ecophysiology & evolution of giant hummingbirds…

[Fer Machado Stredel @FerMachado55]

Hey folks in #Evol2023 join me tomorrow at 11:45 at Pop. Gen VIII (Room 115). I'll talk about the genetics of neat birds with social monogamy and female defense polygyny!

📷 Nick Athanas

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

@natyricote Muchas gracias Naty 😊

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

#evol2023 I had SO MUCH FUN presenting my first ever poster at a conference! Lots of great questions and new ideas to think about. I also still have some Audubon’s Warbler museum specimen stickers! If you want one, find me and ask 😊

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

I’ll also be at the Night at the Museum event tomorrow evening with some of the actual Audubon’s Warbler specimens from @UNM_MSB that I used in this project. Come check it out and enjoy a drink from my *favorite* local brewery (Bosque Brewing) while you’re there!

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

The Specimens Behind the Science event at MSB was amazing!!! If you missed it, I’ll be at poster 91 Thursday evening talking about how I used Audubon’s Warbler museum specimens to understand a cryptic mitochondrial contact zone occurring right here in the Southwest 🌵#Evol2023

[Kyana N. Montoya @kyananina]

I’m getting much better at bin pics and slightly better at finding nests 🥳