Nathan Senner
@drgodwit.bsky.social
Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair for Ornithology in Dept. Environmental Conservation at UMass Amherst. Fan of all things godwits. Oh, and other birds, and ecology, and evolution, and just cool science generally.
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🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?
📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!!
Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!!
Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
Read @hbrappap.bsky.social thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky #protistsonsky 🧪 #evobio
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Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
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Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Nominations for the Distinguished Naturalist Award
<p>The ASN Distinguished Naturalist Award is given to an active investigator in mid-career who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. Nom...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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New OA paper today! This one is very important to me as is the culmination of over a decade of incredibly intensive field work in KS prairies. I will walk you through the take-homes...
1/n
#Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
1/n
#Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Climatic Variability Threatens Population Growth and Persistence of a Declining Grassland Songbird
Determining the factors responsible for population change in threatened populations and the degree to which changing climates might put those populations at risk is one of the most pressing roles of ...
dx.doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
New OA paper today! This one is very important to me as is the culmination of over a decade of incredibly intensive field work in KS prairies. I will walk you through the take-homes...
1/n
#Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
1/n
#Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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✨🌊Marine Science research opportunity for undergraduates🌊✨
Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided.
More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns...
@disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch
Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided.
More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns...
@disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
✨🌊Marine Science research opportunity for undergraduates🌊✨
Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided.
More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns...
@disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch
Join us summer 2026 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, located on the beautiful Gulf coast of Alabama. Housing & stipend provided.
More at www.disl.edu/univ-prog/ns...
@disealab.bsky.social #NSF #REU #UndergraduateResearch
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NEW PAPER: Post-arrival and pre-migratory Hudsonian godwits showed similar baseline immunity, but pre-migratory birds displayed higher agglutination and bacterial killing, indicating immune upregulation before long-distance migration.
➡️ vist.ly/4fkdq
#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4fkdq
#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
NEW PAPER: Post-arrival and pre-migratory Hudsonian godwits showed similar baseline immunity, but pre-migratory birds displayed higher agglutination and bacterial killing, indicating immune upregulation before long-distance migration.
➡️ vist.ly/4fkdq
#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4fkdq
#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
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We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look at that adorable deer mouse with the Rocky Mountains in the background. Nice job @jpvelotta.bsky.social and team on nabbing the image! #fieldwins
Read the latest issue of Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/issue...
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Look at that adorable deer mouse with the Rocky Mountains in the background. Nice job @jpvelotta.bsky.social and team on nabbing the image! #fieldwins
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Conflict between humans and wildlife—and especially, carnivores—may increase during times of drought, a new #ScienceAdvances analysis of droughts in California suggests. https://scim.ag/47PutKx
Human-wildlife conflict is amplified during periods of drought
Public reports of conflict with wildlife increase during extended periods of lower precipitation.
scim.ag
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Conflict between humans and wildlife—and especially, carnivores—may increase during times of drought, a new #ScienceAdvances analysis of droughts in California suggests. https://scim.ag/47PutKx
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The first doses of the blockbuster HIV prevention drug lenacapavir have arrived in Africa.
The doses came remarkably fast, just 5 months after approval in the US. But they're entering a system upended by Trump administration aid cuts.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The doses came remarkably fast, just 5 months after approval in the US. But they're entering a system upended by Trump administration aid cuts.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
A 'breakthrough' drug to prevent HIV, an 'unprecedented' rollout
The drug lenacapavir will be distributed to Eswatini and Zambia — the first step toward providing at least 2 million doses to the countries with the highest HIV burden, largely in Africa, by 2028.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The first doses of the blockbuster HIV prevention drug lenacapavir have arrived in Africa.
The doses came remarkably fast, just 5 months after approval in the US. But they're entering a system upended by Trump administration aid cuts.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The doses came remarkably fast, just 5 months after approval in the US. But they're entering a system upended by Trump administration aid cuts.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Podcast Trailer — Okay, But Birds…
Okay, But Birds… is a weekly science-meets-storytelling podcast hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor. Each episode dives into one weird-but-true bird question through smart, funny…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
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Happy to share new research, just out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social, led by Meghan Beatty.
We interrogate source-sink dynamics over a 28-year period for the endangered snail kite, testing how an invasion of novel prey alters dynamics...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We interrogate source-sink dynamics over a 28-year period for the endangered snail kite, testing how an invasion of novel prey alters dynamics...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Happy to share new research, just out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social, led by Meghan Beatty.
We interrogate source-sink dynamics over a 28-year period for the endangered snail kite, testing how an invasion of novel prey alters dynamics...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We interrogate source-sink dynamics over a 28-year period for the endangered snail kite, testing how an invasion of novel prey alters dynamics...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Burden of a failed error culture in biologging
Driven by technological advancement and low cost, biologging has rapidly transformed the study of animal behaviour and ecology, providing unprecedente…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
For your consideration, our paper about how we can build a better error culture around biologging is now out in Animal Behavio(u)r. A collaborative effort between researchers the veterinarians at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Going to be a big month for warbler science! First out of the gates is @lannhiphung.bsky.social, with song & genomics of Nashville warblers. Eastern and western subspecies: non-overlapping and super distinct. Keep an eye on your life list 😉
🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
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🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Going to be a big month for warbler science! First out of the gates is @lannhiphung.bsky.social, with song & genomics of Nashville warblers. Eastern and western subspecies: non-overlapping and super distinct. Keep an eye on your life list 😉
🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
🦉🧪@journal-evo.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Trends in nonbreeding shorebirds along the Pacific Americas Flyway | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Trends in nonbreeding shorebirds along the Pacific Americas Flyway | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶
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A couple takeaways from this story:
1. In the tropics, the proportion of non-migrant colliders is higher
2. Structures close to forests tend to kill inter-forest dispersers in the tropics
3. There are a lot of "Dr Tan"s studying birds in Singapore.
1. In the tropics, the proportion of non-migrant colliders is higher
2. Structures close to forests tend to kill inter-forest dispersers in the tropics
3. There are a lot of "Dr Tan"s studying birds in Singapore.
Sigh....
"A bus stop in Dairy Farm Road, which is located near Singapore’s green “heart”, recently claimed several avian victims as multiple birds were seen flying into its clear panels."
#Singapore #Birds #Collisions
@mangrovepitta.bsky.social
"A bus stop in Dairy Farm Road, which is located near Singapore’s green “heart”, recently claimed several avian victims as multiple birds were seen flying into its clear panels."
#Singapore #Birds #Collisions
@mangrovepitta.bsky.social
At least five birds spotted crashing into clear panels at Dairy Farm bus stop within 24 hours
Experts say such collisions could happen as birds may not be able to perceive glass as a barrier. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A couple takeaways from this story:
1. In the tropics, the proportion of non-migrant colliders is higher
2. Structures close to forests tend to kill inter-forest dispersers in the tropics
3. There are a lot of "Dr Tan"s studying birds in Singapore.
1. In the tropics, the proportion of non-migrant colliders is higher
2. Structures close to forests tend to kill inter-forest dispersers in the tropics
3. There are a lot of "Dr Tan"s studying birds in Singapore.
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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‘Endowed Chair of Ornithology’ jobs don’t come along too often, but here’s one: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFacu...
College of A&S - Biology - FAC - Robert E. Maytag Chair of Ornithology - Associate Professor to Professor
Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
‘Endowed Chair of Ornithology’ jobs don’t come along too often, but here’s one: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFacu...
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How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy.
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy.
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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🦢 What a swan’s 570km U-turn could tell us about water, wetlands, and a changing climate.... www.linkedin.com/posts/kane-b...
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🦢 What a swan’s 570km U-turn could tell us about water, wetlands, and a changing climate.... www.linkedin.com/posts/kane-b...
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I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️