Dear #seabird folks! Do you have recordings of #Alcid chick calls you'd be happy to share for a phylogenetic/bioacoustics project? We're looking for collaborators in a sweet little project 💙 Write me!

OH the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award is accepting applicants! applications close October 15th! SHARE mammalsociety.org/form/black-ind….

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Yesterday I managed to get remarkably close to this beautiful Pacific Baza while it hunted for insects, and I learned that they have multiple tomial teeth on their beaks!

“But the problem is that science is cumulative. It builds off past work. Industry research relies heavily on discoveries from academic science, over half of which is funded by the U.S. government. The public pays for academic research, but private corporations reap…the rewards.”

In celebration of Australia’s Threatened Species Day, here is one of the most amazing plants I ever found. Native foxglove (Dasymalla axillaris) is Critically Endangered and known from just 9 populations and less than 300 plants. It occurs on yellow sands in the wheatbelt region

First ever pitta on the front cover of an international research journal? Could be. The Louisiade Pitta as example of a "lost bird" rediscovered with the help of citizen science. Paper by Cameron Rutt and others from eBird and BirdLife International: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

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Our cities are losing the small, colourful songbirds that give us the most joy theconversation.com/our-cities-are… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

I've lost count of the attempts, but this is my latest try to get some mistletoe growing on the yellow gum in my yard. #OzPlants #Mistletoe

The colossal squid has the biggest beak of any living cephalopod. This one in the collections at NIWA is one of the biggest I've ever seen, but was taken from the stomach of a toothfish! Many mysteries left to uncover in the deep sea... #TeamColossal #BestSquid #Squidtember

Did you know that Assassin Bugs (family Reduviidae) are venomous?! Well, many species have anticoagulant ('blood thinning') venom, & colleagues & I *just* published this paper 💃 in iScience journal, uncovering the evolution, mechanisms of action, & various activities of their venom!

Some of the best titles I've ever seen: "Vrba was right..." "..revealed that, as stated by Vrba, the number of climate specialist species increases with historical regional climate fragmentation, whereas climate generalist species richness decreases" 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17…

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New review now online in Functional Ecology: We explore the functional roles of microbes in shaping wild animal health, and highlight some key questions still to be addressed in host-microbiome studies Led by Dr Sarah Worsley and a fantastic team of ECRs. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

This green ant nest is a work of art