Tim O'Connell
@tinosaurs.bsky.social
wildlife; birds; landscapes; 322 ppm; dad vibes; science; critical thinking; woke = compliment; views mine; don't care if you call them "seagulls".
Assoc. Prof. in NREM, OKState.
Past-President, Wilson Ornithological Society
https://timoconnell.wordpress.
Assoc. Prof. in NREM, OKState.
Past-President, Wilson Ornithological Society
https://timoconnell.wordpress.
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Tim O'Connell
@tinosaurs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
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#wildlife #birds #landscapes #DadVibes #science #CriticalThinking #Nellie #Magic #NativePlants #ecology #conservation #academia #mentoring #ornithology
Woke is a compliment; I don't care if you call them "seagulls".
#wildlife #birds #landscapes #DadVibes #science #CriticalThinking #Nellie #Magic #NativePlants #ecology #conservation #academia #mentoring #ornithology
Woke is a compliment; I don't care if you call them "seagulls".
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"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"y'all still hating on generative AI over here?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
"yep, y'all still paying the world's most powerful racist for clout over there?"
New global #peace #rankings just dropped: www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/u...
Here are top 10, bottom 10, and the 5 countries ranked above and below the USA. We clock in at #128 out of 163, and I find that embarrassing and obscene.
Here are top 10, bottom 10, and the 5 countries ranked above and below the USA. We clock in at #128 out of 163, and I find that embarrassing and obscene.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New global #peace #rankings just dropped: www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/u...
Here are top 10, bottom 10, and the 5 countries ranked above and below the USA. We clock in at #128 out of 163, and I find that embarrassing and obscene.
Here are top 10, bottom 10, and the 5 countries ranked above and below the USA. We clock in at #128 out of 163, and I find that embarrassing and obscene.
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Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
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This is a devastating indictment. Musk's DOGE project was a lethal vanity show, projecting 14 million needless deaths by 2030 while slashing 211,000 jobs. A catastrophic failure of libertarian fantasy governing.
Elon Musk's DOGE leaves a deadly legacy
DOGE's final tallies include millions of deaths projected by 2030 and over 200,000 job cuts
www.salon.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is a devastating indictment. Musk's DOGE project was a lethal vanity show, projecting 14 million needless deaths by 2030 while slashing 211,000 jobs. A catastrophic failure of libertarian fantasy governing.
Back in July of 2014, I met this jaunty #SavannahSparrow in #Wolfville, #NovaScotia, #Canada.
Now you've met him, too.
#ornithology #birding #WilsonOrnithologicalSociety #AssociationOfFieldOrnithologists #ArcadiaUniversity
Now you've met him, too.
#ornithology #birding #WilsonOrnithologicalSociety #AssociationOfFieldOrnithologists #ArcadiaUniversity
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Back in July of 2014, I met this jaunty #SavannahSparrow in #Wolfville, #NovaScotia, #Canada.
Now you've met him, too.
#ornithology #birding #WilsonOrnithologicalSociety #AssociationOfFieldOrnithologists #ArcadiaUniversity
Now you've met him, too.
#ornithology #birding #WilsonOrnithologicalSociety #AssociationOfFieldOrnithologists #ArcadiaUniversity
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We are deep into word-by-word censorship. Not only are universities purging/rewriting their websites based on centralized edicts, they are sending lists of forbidden words to guest speakers...
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
We are deep into word-by-word censorship. Not only are universities purging/rewriting their websites based on centralized edicts, they are sending lists of forbidden words to guest speakers...
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It was a fun little paper though, once it was done and off my plate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Ground nesting by arboreal American robins (Turdus migratorius)
Mobile organisms often construct breeding structures in set locations, but American Robins that typically nest in trees or on human structures construct ground nests in predator-rich tree-filled arbo....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It was a fun little paper though, once it was done and off my plate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
EPIC!!
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
EPIC!!
Legendary stuff incoming!
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 7:30 PM
Legendary stuff incoming!
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Understanding bird diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests: The role of landscape anthropization and chronic disturbance | www.sciencedirect.co... | Forest Ecology and Management | #ornithology 🪶
Understanding bird diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests: The role of landscape anthropization and chronic disturbance
Understanding how species respond to human-induced habitat modification is essential for effective conservation and management. Among these modificati…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Understanding bird diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests: The role of landscape anthropization and chronic disturbance | www.sciencedirect.co... | Forest Ecology and Management | #ornithology 🪶
Alex rolling up on us with 81(!) lifers from #CostaRica, including this spectacular #trogon clearly showing the unique #toe #arrangement in this #order of birds: Most have 3 toes forward and 1 in opposition, but some e.g., woodpeckers, cuckoos, parrots, have 2 toes pointing forward and 2 aft...
56. Gartered Violaceous Trogon
Legit one of my favourite photos I've ever taken.
Legit one of my favourite photos I've ever taken.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Alex rolling up on us with 81(!) lifers from #CostaRica, including this spectacular #trogon clearly showing the unique #toe #arrangement in this #order of birds: Most have 3 toes forward and 1 in opposition, but some e.g., woodpeckers, cuckoos, parrots, have 2 toes pointing forward and 2 aft...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew - BMC Biology
Background Almost all mammals rely on the thymus and bone marrow to generate and differentiate B and T cells essential for adaptive immunity. A few members of the family Soricidae, or true shrews with...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
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NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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And I state again...WE NEED A SEPARATE ARTISTS ALLEY (like the ones at anime/sci-fi cons) AT SCIENCE CONFERENCES. LET ME BUY PLUSHIES AND COOL PRINTS FFS.
I suspect people don’t know that most scientific conferences charge many thousands of dollars to set up a sales booth, which is why the vending areas are full of boring corporate bullshit and none of the fun wacky artists you’d actually want to see there.
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And I state again...WE NEED A SEPARATE ARTISTS ALLEY (like the ones at anime/sci-fi cons) AT SCIENCE CONFERENCES. LET ME BUY PLUSHIES AND COOL PRINTS FFS.
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🐞🧬🦅 join us for a PhD position researching how birds evolve resistance to prey toxins. If you’re excited about wild chemical arms races, we’d love to hear from you. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🐞🧬🦅 join us for a PhD position researching how birds evolve resistance to prey toxins. If you’re excited about wild chemical arms races, we’d love to hear from you. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
😁 #Twitter is full of #chemtrail nutters today –– anything to distract from additional #EpsteinTrump stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
😁 #Twitter is full of #chemtrail nutters today –– anything to distract from additional #EpsteinTrump stuff.
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I don't mean to brag, but...
I'm in the top 10 for both number of #observations and #species of prey items #cached by #LoggerheadShrike in the @inaturalist.bsky.social #project, #LarderLocker!
#biodiversity #oklahoma #wildlife #grasslands #birds #butcherbird #shrike #larder
I'm in the top 10 for both number of #observations and #species of prey items #cached by #LoggerheadShrike in the @inaturalist.bsky.social #project, #LarderLocker!
#biodiversity #oklahoma #wildlife #grasslands #birds #butcherbird #shrike #larder
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I don't mean to brag, but...
I'm in the top 10 for both number of #observations and #species of prey items #cached by #LoggerheadShrike in the @inaturalist.bsky.social #project, #LarderLocker!
#biodiversity #oklahoma #wildlife #grasslands #birds #butcherbird #shrike #larder
I'm in the top 10 for both number of #observations and #species of prey items #cached by #LoggerheadShrike in the @inaturalist.bsky.social #project, #LarderLocker!
#biodiversity #oklahoma #wildlife #grasslands #birds #butcherbird #shrike #larder
I am also like this in afternoon seminars.
Unlike this hypocritical creep however, I don't mock other people who get sleepy.
Unlike this hypocritical creep however, I don't mock other people who get sleepy.
During an event on Thursday, Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly struggle to keep his eyes open.
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent roughly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open.
New video w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent roughly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open.
New video w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I am also like this in afternoon seminars.
Unlike this hypocritical creep however, I don't mock other people who get sleepy.
Unlike this hypocritical creep however, I don't mock other people who get sleepy.
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Loud, shouty people on digital forums give the impression that climate is a minor, even fringe concern, despite the overwhelming evidence of harm.
But vast majorities in every country are smarter than that
leahy.substack.com/p/the-89-cli...
But vast majorities in every country are smarter than that
leahy.substack.com/p/the-89-cli...
November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Loud, shouty people on digital forums give the impression that climate is a minor, even fringe concern, despite the overwhelming evidence of harm.
But vast majorities in every country are smarter than that
leahy.substack.com/p/the-89-cli...
But vast majorities in every country are smarter than that
leahy.substack.com/p/the-89-cli...