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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · 8d

The RFID-enabled bird feeder is successfully reading and logging PIT tag numbers.

Can’t wait to get these out into the field!

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 16d

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just a small servomotor and some 3D printed parts

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Sep 9

The RFID-enabled automated bird feeders are coming along!

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to announce that I just started my first postdoc position at Western Washington University in the Templeton lab! I'll be investigating the effects of traffic noise on avian cognition.

Stay tuned for lots of posts as I start data collection in the Fall!

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SFU Faculty of Science @sfuscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations to @sfubiosciences.bsky.social Dean's Convocation Medal recipient Brett Hodinka. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction ow.ly/lWqx50W5PNw #MySFUGrad

Dr. Brett Hodinka receives Dean’s Convocation Medal

2025 recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal from Faculty of Science. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · Apr 12

I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!

https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//GeorgiaTech.Speciation

The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech is seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in the process of speciation. The expected focus of the successful candidate's work will be questions related to evolut...

evol.mcmaster.ca

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · Mar 16

Wow this is a game changer. PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships are now open to non-Canadians.

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Mar 14

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Feb 20

We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/ex...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Feb 10

Philadelphia will burn to the ground tonight i fear

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Feb 7

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh. My. God.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Feb 7

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender

President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

www.evolutionsociety.org

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Feb 5

As a Philadelphian, I approve these messages

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Feb 4

seen in Philadelphia:

FUCK ICE
FUCK TRUMP + MUSK
GO BIRDS

Graffiti at Philly’s schukyll river walk reading:

FUCK ICE
FUCK TRUMP & MUSK
GO BIRDS

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Feb 4

Good luck!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Feb 4

This is how you do it.

Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members:

The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Feb 3

- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors

- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today

- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Feb 3

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

www.nature.com

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Jan 31

oof, same 😔

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 30

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 30

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · Jan 30

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 10

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 23

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

www.kcur.org

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Annie Roth @annieroth.bsky.social · Jan 6

I'm a journalist looking for new/soon-to-be-published studies on animal ecology and biology to write about. DM me!

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Brett Hodinka, PhD @bretthodinka.bsky.social · Jan 15

The ‘Inside JEB’ article for our most recent paper made it into the 2024 @jexpbiol.bsky.social highlights book!

Found at #SICB2025

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La DraculessaⓋ🦘🎗🦈#🟦 @ladraculessa.bsky.social · Jan 4

Over 1000 of birds died due to stress from fireworks during New Year in a Bulgarian town, Green Balkans wildlife rescue center said. The necropsy shows that the death of the mountain finches was caused by stress. Massive haemorrhaging was found in the birds' abdomens/skulls bnr.bg/en/post/1020...

Dead Bird Count in Koprivshtitsa Surpasses 1,000

One thousand seven dead and 31 injured birds is the result of the New Year's Eve fireworks in the town of Koprivshtitsa, Dr Hristina Klisurova of the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Centre told BNR. Hal...

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · Jan 3

From only 200 piping plover breeding pairs in Massachusetts back in 1986, to nearly 1200 last year! 🌎

phys.org/news/2024-12...

Massachusetts beaches hit record-high for piping plovers: 'A species recovering at an encouraging rate'

Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story.

phys.org

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