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Nov 4, 2021

Working through my 5th set of paper revisions in 2 months and I'm feeling a bit tired of keeping a stiff upper lip. Thought it was time to revisit my own emotional & logistical tips for responding to peer review. Maybe it'll help you too. 1/n

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Barbara Frei

@barbalink

Jan 27

🎉🎉 New funded position announcement🎉🎉 We are looking for a MSc or PhD candidate to join a dynamic group of researchers from

@mcgillu

@ECCCWildlifeSci

. Research will be on #urban 🐦movements in the non-breeding season (winter fieldwork!) in Mtl. 1/4 csee-scee.ca/winter-bird-mo

Wouter Vansteelant

@WMGVs

Jan 26

Yet in this emptiness lies perhaps the world's greatest theatre of bird migration. doi.org/10.1093/ornith

Global Flyway Network

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Amazing Astronomy

@MAstronomers

Jan 25

The Sheer Size of the Pacific

Jan 24

Do you study probability of detection? Seeking folks to present detectability theory & application for a symposium series at

@AmOrnith

2023 in London ON Aug 8-12 All are welcome, the goal is to showcase the diversity of ways to account for imperfect detection! DM with interest

Probability of an individual bird singing at least once over a survey duration, given presence (a), probability of detecting an individual within
a given point-count radius, given singing (b). From Sólymos et al. 2013 in MEE.

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BOU

@IBIS_journal

Jan 23

CALL FOR KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS #BOUsci23 | Global flyways: a synthesis of bird migration research | 21 - 22 November 2023 Nominate keynote speakers here: bou.org.uk/event/bousci23 Nominations deadline: 3 February | #ornithology |

Camila Gómez

Global Flyways will be really neat! 3 consecutive 8h sessions organized by flyway: -Africa-Eurasia -Americas -Asia Pacific Submit your nominations now for keynote speakers to address major research within and between those flyways!

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BOU

@IBIS_journal

ANNOUNCING #BOUsci23 | Global flyways: a synthesis of bird migration research 21 - 22 November 2023 | Zoom & Twitter Call for keynote nominations open: bou.org.uk/event/bousci23 #ornithology @_JoseAAlves_ @WMGVs @ellycknight Camila Gómez

Barbara Frei

@barbalink

meeting.americanornithology.org

I am very, very pleased to see that

@AmOrnith

@SCO_SOC

have a Caregiver grant for #AOS_SCO23. Additional costs are a HUGE barrier for #womeninscience with little ones to attend conferences. #welldone #attendanceequity

Caregiver Grants - AOS & SCO-SOC 2023

We are pleased to provide Caregiver Grants to help attendees of the AOS & SCO–SOC 2023 meeting to accommodate their various dependent-care needs.

Jeff Doser

@jeffdoser18

🚨Preprint alert🚨 Using spOccupancy, we give guidelines for fitting spatially-varying coefficient models to explore nonstationary relationships and estimated spatially-varying occurrence trends in forest birds from 2000-2019.

@ZipkinLab

@SarahPSaunders

arxiv.org/abs/2301.05645

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Great job alert! Come join us :) The Boreal Avian Modelling project is a wonderful group of people doing really great applied modelling work with an awesome dataset 😍 I'm happy to chat if anyone has an questions about what it's like to work in BAM Please RT!

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BAM Project

@borealbirds

Jan 18

We are hiring! @borealbirds based @UAlberta is looking for a full-time Program Leader to facilitate project management and research delivery. Please RT. More info

bit.ly/ProgramLeaderB

Natalie V. Sánchez

@Nati_SanchezU

Jan 18

When are there too many in the neighbourhood? The effects of neighbours on vocal behaviour in birds Nearby animals modify the social context of communication. When density is high, animals may change their behaviour. We explore the effect of density on bird song #AnimBehav2023

Dan Mennill

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Dr. Elizabeth Gow

@GowElizabeth

Jan 16

See any colour banded birds in Richmond, Vancouver, Delta, or Surrey report them here: forms.gle/Nbs9oS8TDQDyZ7 They are part of a winter ecology study on birds in Metro Vancouver

@ECCCSciTech

Nature Alberta

@NatureAlberta

Jan 13

#Nighthawks attract mates by completing incredible dives that they pull out of at the very last second. As they use their wings to slow their speed, the air rushing past their feathers creates the signature boom. Learn more at naturealberta.ca/jaw-dropping-b 📸Romanchuk #Nature #Birds

Autumn stopover hotspots and multiscale habitat associations of migratory landbirds in the eastern...

Freda Guo

@fyguo

Jan 9

Where do landbirds stopover during autumn migration? How does weather radar help with the on-the-ground conservation of migration? Check out our new study

@PNASNews

on the stopover hotspots and key habitats for migratory landbirds in the eastern US. 🧵1/8

pnas.org

Halting the global decline of migratory birds requires a better understanding of migration ecology. Stopover sites are a crucial yet understudied a...

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Carleton Biology and 3 others

Carleton Science

@CarletonScience

Jan 10

A $2M collaboration w/

@NCC_CNC

has spawned a new digital tool...👀 ➡️newsroom.carleton.ca/story/ncc-site Using AI and algorithms, it takes the guesswork out of the complex conservation process, and it's FREE to use for orgs and gov't agencies involved in conservation.🏞️ #TechForGood

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Predictive Ecology

@PredictiveEcol

Dec 21, 2022

Our latest paper just hit the web! This one is about how we have used SpaDES to build in seamless validation for complex models. We witnessed Occam's Razor in action -- simpler is better, but only when we need simple outputs!

@PFC_CFS

@CeresBarros

Empowering ecological modellers with a PERFICT workflow: Seamlessly linking data, parameterisation,...

Modelling is widely used in ecology and its utility continues to increase as scientists, managers and policy-makers face pressure to effectively manage ecosystems and meet conservation goals with ...

Sarab Sethi

@sarabssethi

Dec 20, 2022

Soundscape monitoring is exciting, but there are challenges around generalisability of analyses. We explored this issue using data from over 8,000 avifaunal point counts from India, USA, Malaysia, and Taiwan. In short - ground truth data is essential! biorxiv.org/content/10.110

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Daniella Teixeira @daniellateixeira@ecoevo.social

@daniteixeira___

Dec 15, 2022

Hey #Bioacoustics #Ecoacoustics people, do you use any online citizen science platforms for viewing and annotating sound snippets and spectrograms? Lots of options for camera trap images but not so many for sound files? Looking for recommendations, please and thank you! :D

Great blog from

about our metabarcoding work on #nightjar diet! Our nightjars ate lots of things, but preferred big moths - they have a limited time to feed so makes time v energy expenditure sense.

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BOU

@IBIS_journal

Dec 15, 2022

An inordinate fondness for moths ow.ly/xggs50M38na On #theBOUblog science writer @Jente_O explains more about the diet of Eurasian Nightjars in the UK. Based on this recent @IBIS_journal paper ow.ly/GCvy50M38nc by @lucyjayneryan et al. | #ornithology

Bryant C. Dossman, PhD

@BryantDossman

Dec 6, 2022

Really excited that our new paper on how delays in migration can influence migratory behavior and survival has finally come out. Check it out! In the meantime, here’s a short thread highlighting the paper. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10

Peter Marra and 3 others

Environment Canada

@environmentca

Official

We are supporting

@BirdsCanada

citizen science programs for monitoring and conserving #MigratoryBirds, including #SpeciesAtRisk, through 2025. For more information: ow.ly/sEnN50LStOO #Biodiversity #CitizenScientist #ProtectNature

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Alberta Bats

@albertabats

Major changes are happening to the protection of #bats in #Alberta. In case you missed it, all bats in the province are now finally protected under the Wildlife Act—we no longer have non-license bat species. Killing any bat in AB is now...

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Alberta Bats

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Dr. Ashley Dayer

@DayerLab

American Ornithological Society and 4 others

NEW PAPER: "6 principles for working effectively with landowners to advance bird conservation", now #OA in Ornithological Applications. Our social-ecological evidenced-based principles should be valuable to all biodiversity conservation on private lands.

*cough* nighthawk *cough cough*

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Dan Baldassarre

@evornithology

Currently listening in to Peter Pyle's @InstBirdPop webinar on his updated identification guide. Get ready to lose a ton of subspecies. He's found a bunch of clines of morphological variation that don't break neatly into subspecies and is proposing a more conservative taxonomy.

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andy royle

@andyroyle_pwrc

Integrated distance sampling models for simple point counts

New paper just posted: Integrated Distance Sampling Models ... combining point counts, presence/absence and distance sampling. (w/ Marc Kery, Ken Kellner, Doug Robinson, Tyler Hallman, Nicolas Strebel). arxiv.org/abs/2211.17229 1/n

arxiv.org

Point counts (PCs) are widely used in biodiversity surveys, but despite numerous advantages, simple PCs suffer from several problems: detectability, and therefore abundance, is unknown; systematic...

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Kiirsti Owen

@KiirstiO

Here it is! The #ggplotadventcalendaR 🎁🎀🎄 I hope that by Christmas you will never again be tempted to use base R for graphics 🙃 Enjoy 25 days of learning the basics of #ggplot! github.com/kiirsti/ggplot #Rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #25daysofR

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Andy Boyce

@AndyJBoyce

Nov 28, 2022

🚨MS Position🚨 Using #Bioacoustics to Assess Avian Response to Large-scale #Grassland #Restoration.

@smithsonian

@UofNorthDakota

. $22K stipend. 1 week left to apply! #ornithology wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/ms-assist

Eliza Grames

@ElizaGrames

Nov 28, 2022

This Wednesday, there is a webinar on insect decline and the newly formed Status of Insects Research Coordination Network. Join us for a presentation by David Wagner and an open group discussion. Register at s.uconn.edu/RCNwebinar #InsectDecline #InsectConservation

White and blue poster for a webinar. On the right is a picture of an entomologist in a red shirt holding a net. Text reads:

Webinar: November 30, 2022
17:00 - 18:00 UTC

Register at s.uconn.edu/rcnwebinar

Insect Decline and the Status of Insects RCN
Dr. David Wagner
University of Connecticut

https://statusofinsects.github.io/news

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Elora R. M. Grahame

@elora_grahame

Nov 18, 2022

This meeting was SO GOOD. Talk recordings will be available soon! (I will share the link here assuming Twitter still exists) You can support future nightjar grant(s) by buying nightjar swag featuring the Global Nightjar Network logo here: redbubble.com/people/GlobalN

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Get ready! The 2022 Global #Nightjar Network conference 2 weeks away on Nov 16-18! Check out this amazing line up with appearances from some other nocturnal

#AerialInsectivore taxa

Participant registration is free & open until November 9 forms.gle/yrAHEzTbp3MT3b

Péter Sólymos

@psolymos

Nov 18, 2022

Let's go bananas with #Shiny! The next #rstats #YEGRUG meetup on Nov 24 will be a hybrid event, in-person & online. We'll build a classifier, use Plotly graphs (with no ggplotly equivalents), build and deploy and app. RSVP here: meetup.com/edmonton-r-use

Lucy Mitchell

@lucyjayneryan

Nov 18, 2022

WOW. The Global #Nightjar Network conference for 2022 is OVER. What a ride. We had participants from North and South America, Europe and several countries in Asia; Students, postdocs and professors. 1/4

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Get ready! The 2022 Global #Nightjar Network conference 2 weeks away on Nov 16-18! Check out this amazing line up with appearances from some other nocturnal

#AerialInsectivore taxa

Participant registration is free & open until November 9 forms.gle/yrAHEzTbp3MT3b

Briana Zaffiro

@brizaffi

Nov 17, 2022

First conference presentation done! Thank you so much GNN for putting together a wonderful conference! As well as

@FishGuyDave

and

@ChrisBlanar

for the amazing advising! Looking forward to tomorrow as well! #nightjars

Iraida

@papavientos

Nov 16, 2022

Looking forward to the Global Nightjar Network Meeting today 😍🥰

@elora_grahame

#Nightjars

Mike Akresh, Ph.D.

@MikeAkresh

Nov 15, 2022

Looking forward to seeing JT Larkin present "Go Big or Go Home: The Use of ARUs to Evaluate Whip-poor-will Response to Forest Management Across Large Spatial Extents" at the upcoming virtual Global #Nightjar Network Meeting 2022 tomorrow! #ornithology #birds

Péter Sólymos

@psolymos

Nov 5, 2021

There are many #rstats #shiny hosting options out there, but how do you pick the right hosting option for your Shiny app? Here is a 3-steps process to make the best decision

@AdamClarkSmith@fediscience.org

@AdamClarkSmith

Nov 10, 2022

The new

@eBird

trends are Wonderful!!! science.ebird.org/en/status-and- So many patterns to explore, and such a neat complement to some of our long-standing population monitoring programs. I've been comparing the patterns and listening to colleagues discussing them all day!

science.ebird.org

Trends maps - eBird Science

A new generation of eBird Trends maps, released in November 2022, provides an unprecedented fine-scale view of where bird species are increasing or decreasing. Identifying such trends is the crucial...

Fire severity and pre-fire forest composition affect Northern Hawk Owl presence in burned forests...

Kevin Hannah

@zonotrick

Nov 10, 2022

The Northern Hawk Owl is one of the most iconic species in the boreal forest and is also one of the least known. Check out our recent paper, coauthored by

@juliaeput

and

@JuliaShonfield

, that sheds some light on their post-fire habitat use in western N.A.

sciencedirect.com

Wildfire is an important natural disturbance shaping the boreal forests of North America. Not surprisingly, many species have adapted to benefit from …

Elora R. M. Grahame and Yohay Wasserlauf

Get ready! The 2022 Global #Nightjar Network conference 2 weeks away on Nov 16-18! Check out this amazing line up with appearances from some other nocturnal 🌙⭐️ #AerialInsectivore taxa 🦇🦋🪰 Participant registration is free & open until November 9 forms.gle/yrAHEzTbp3MT3b

Dr Alex Bond

@TheLabAndField

A brief return to let you all in on a secret. I have a kids book (ages 7-9) coming out in March! It was so much fun to write and seeing it “in the flesh” last week was absolutely fantastic neonsquidbooks.com/uk/books/birds

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Neon Squid

@neonsquidbooks

Nov 2, 2022

The book cover of Birds against some green foliage. The cover features a red background and many birds: an owl, a flamingo, penguins, an eagle, and a bowerbird, among others.

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What do flamingos, owls, and penguins get up to all day? Join @TheLabAndField, the curator in charge of birds at @NHM_London and soar through the skies with the coolest birds in the world in our new book! Get ready to meet penguin robbers and dancing flamingos!

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Benjamin Van Doren and 3 others

Join our team

and use our new #BirdFlow models to study migratory movements and connectivity using

@Team_eBird

data! Apply by Nov 28 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23502

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Ruben Evens

@RevNJ

Oct 27, 2022

WORLD PREMIERE: "Licht Aus", a documentary about the effects of light pollution on the natural world. Last summer, I was fortunate to be interviewed by the wonderful

about my

project. Light pollution & #nightjar ... 1/3