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Alice Boyle

@birdfiddler.bsky.social

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birds~rain, prairies, wet tropical forests, conservation, migration & dispersal; equity & social justice; Kansas State-> U Western (2025); also fiddle player, contra dance musician www.aliceboyle.net www.dancetosteam.com

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ah-shi-sle-pah

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Feeling lots of FOMO right now about missing all my ornithology peeps at #AOS2025. 3 of my current/former lab sent me this photo… miss them and hearing about their science so much!

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 5

Direct impact of research—in the field communication and hands-on demonstration of how virtual fence creates the heterogeneity that grassland birds need.

Post-doc Theo Michaels discusses structural differences between areas cattle grazed with areas we excluded cattle from using virtual fence

NRCS agent tried out robel pole measures

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you so much Mike! I hope my grassland studies are not over!

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ahem… that would be *t* shirts, not y shirts!

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is the last regular day of fieldwork for my Kansas team. I miss them and wish I could be there! Plus, check out their crew y-shirts! Sparrows & music, what’s not to love?

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congratulations!!!

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 25

Was feeling stressed so took the time to notice beauty on my walk to work

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 24

We have become the caretakers of an AMAZING garden. Very wild right now due to a gap year in maintenance, but the daily discoveries make me very happy.

Large monarch caterpillar on butterfly milkweed

False indigo growing by the front door stoop

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 21

For me, it is the longest distance that I have walked in a single direction/trail—800 miles

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 19

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Western University launches program to capitalize on shrinking U.S. research funding | CBC News

Western University is looking to capitalize on massive shifts in the academic landscape of the United States with a new initiative designed to turn a difficult situation into a brain gain for both the...

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social · May 15

After a mass bird collision in Oct 2023, Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside took action, installing bird-friendly dots on nearly 2 football fields of glass. Collisions have dropped dramatically. Real change is possible. Learn more: bit.ly/stopbirdcoll...
#StopBirdCollisions #BirdSafeStructures

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 18

Loving my new bike commute!

Sunny blue sky, meadow with path winding across, row of trees in distance

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 14

I feel so welcome and so happy to be at my new workplace!

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jul 4

I got to fly over the flint hills today including my 2 main study sites! What an amazing goodbye present!

Woody encroachment ends at the fenceline of the Mushrush Ranch

Three lone experimental cedars on a grasshopper sparrow territory —part of the MS research of Logan Anderson

Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · Jun 20

Love my awesome students! Here Logan and AH fitting a Grasshopper Sparrow with a #Motus tag at one of our spectacular #NationalParks yesterday.
Yay public land & science!