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Benjamin Freeman
@benjaminfreeman.bsky.social
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Biologist. Mountain Bird Lab PI. Climate change. Species interactions. Asst Prof @GeorgiaTech. #RapYourAbstract #MountainBirdNetwork
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · Nov 20
why you should write to people when you like their papers / figures

or, how an email from Peter Billman to me in March 2019 led to a collaboration started in August 2020, which eventually produced a fun paper published this week

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients
Globally, many species’ distributions are shifting in response to contemporary climate change. However, the direction and rate of shifts remain difficult to predict, impeding managers’ abilities to o...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12h
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 2d
and less than a page. classic!
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 2d
and a winner of a manuscript title
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 2d
fantastic ideas here!
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 2d
One for the occasional series of #ornithology papers you need in your life but might not have read - Common/Spotted Sandpiper flight style as an antipredator behaviour.
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 7d
My first time appearing in the "Notables" section of a book I eagerly await each year!

For a @quantamagazine.bsky.social story I wrote last fall about LUCA.
jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25
Coming soon! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025
Discover the 2025 Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology, curated by Susan Orlean and featuring exceptional science writing that explores the wonders of our natural world.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 7d
It's off my desk! I've just sent the manuscript for the 3rd edition of 'The Scientist's Guide to Writing' to the publisher (Princeton U. Press).

"It's just a revision. It will be easy!" - and other lies I tell myself...
The Scientist’s Guide to Writing
Note: A third edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is currently in production, for publication in mid- to late 2026. Watch this space for updates.  While running experiments and collec…
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 8d
Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!
Flat, graphic poster of a Whooping Crane standing in the negative space of many Sandhill Cranes. The poster reads "The Great Midwest Crane Fest - Nov. 15-16, 2025 Baraboo, Wisconsin.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 8d
Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say:

At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.

While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 9d
We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 12d
NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 14d
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 14d
New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget
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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 16d
Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!
The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech
my academic website
seanasanderson.github.io
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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 23d
Just finished this. It is so great. Go watch it, you don't need to know or care about birds. Just a perfect window into birder culture.
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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 23d
I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:

slate.com/culture/2025...
One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube
Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.
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this should be a movie @thisshouldbeamovie.bsky.social · 21d
“Listers, which is streaming for free on YouTube, is like Fear and Loathing for birding.”

terrific review
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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 23d
I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:

slate.com/culture/2025...
One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube
Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.
slate.com
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The New Jan Brady @grainnecuuisce.bsky.social · 20d
Everyone should watch this documentary on YouTube, it's so fucking good
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The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 23d
I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:

slate.com/culture/2025...
One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube
Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.
slate.com
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19d
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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 19d
I wrote about the Kimmel situation
The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work
Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business.
www.theringer.com
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19d
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Ryan Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social · 21d
PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 22d
This is true, and funny because it's true, and also an argument for "early writing" - you can write much of your paper, even most of it, well before the work is complete and thus before you're too late for "should have done".
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 22d
Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 26d
The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25d
Georgia Tech, the internet's college football team. welcome to BeeSky
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Andre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · Aug 25
🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

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Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution
The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...
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Samantha L. Rutledge @slrutledge.bsky.social · 27d
For anyone who wants to hear me chat about iridescence to a semi-captive audience, be sure to check it out 👇
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 27d
#AOSMEMBERS: Join us at noon ET on Mondays through mid-December for our Fall 2025 Student Research Grant Seminar Series. Our lunchtime series highlights cutting-edge student research funded by the AOS! See the full lineup: americanornithology.org/professional...
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