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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 9h

Re-sharing this, with about a week left to apply. UW-Green Bay is hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 13d

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Assistant Professor - Biology

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 13d

Friendly dept with emphasis on conservation/restoration, great students, affordable city/good place to raise kids, near some nice forests, reasonable teaching load, lots of local funding/research opportunities on Great Lakes ecosystems.

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · 13d

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring an ecologist with a strong statistical background. 🧪🌍🪶

Assistant Professor - Biology

Current Employees and Students: If you are currently employed or enrolled as a student at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Pos...

wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 28

There are more scientists on here, but there are more people elsewhere. I think that @weatherwest.bsky.social found an easy way to post the same messages across multiple platforms to reach a broader audience.

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sorry to hear that. Keep up the good work, wherever you can.

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Lars Bejder @lbejder1971.bsky.social · Aug 19

Impressive work by Cam Nemeth (not on BlueSky). We hypothesized that the significant lift force produced by the humpback whale’s large pectoral flippers result in them being the only species executing tight, high-speed, sustained turns characteristic of bubble-net feeding doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 11

New paper on scaling of field metabolic rate in baleen whales! By the big whale lab at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social and friends. 🐋

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Life in the slowest lane: Feeding allometry lowers metabolic rate scaling in the largest whales

Rorqual whales use “lunge-and-filter” gait to maintain low metabolic rates during foraging despite high-cost feeding strategy.

www.science.org

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 1

With collaborators from UBC and Carleton University, and a cover photo provided by S. Rivero Beneitez.

A short paper with a simple takeaway, but one I'm really proud of!

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our new paper is out in @jzoology.bsky.social! Turning trade-offs: hummingbird power reserves are used to decrease turning radius or increase turning velocity. 🪶🌍

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Jun 9

We banded these fluffballs a few days ago. Here is hoping for a few more weeks in the nest and then three successful fledglings. #UWGB #falcons 🪶

Follow along here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0R...

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Apr 25

A two-year post doc at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Napoli, working on biologging in Mediterranean fin whales. The announcement is in Italian, but it is open to foreign researchers, and the working language at the station is English 🐳🧪🌍:

www.szn.it/images/bandi...

www.szn.it

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Apr 14

Really excited that our Peregrine Falcons are back and nesting, after an unsuccessful year. #UWGB 🪶. Follow along here: www.youtube.com/@uw-greenbay...

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Apr 13

An exciting sequence of camera trap images taken by students in my mammalogy class! #uwgb 🦊

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Apr 3

Oop, and the first pelicans of the year have arrived as well.

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Apr 3

Office window birding is going-off today. Notable sightings include a bald eagle, the resident peregrines, cooper's hawk, a kettle of migrating turkey vultures, a handful of turkeys, and some very spooked pigeons.

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Aaron Tremper @aarontremper.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨 It's finally here! 🚨 I’m excited to share my latest for @snexplores.bsky.social.

1.5 years in the making, this feature dives into the discoveries that helped show why birds are our last remaining dinosaurs. Twiggy the Barred Owl & I are sure you'll learn a thing or two about birds! 🦉

Dinosaurs are still alive. Today, we call them birds

Birds don’t look like the scaly giants of Jurassic World. But fossils are revealing how these modern-day dinosaurs descended from ancient reptiles.

www.snexplores.org

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Mar 10

Late winter Lake Michigan hike. Not really #backcountry, (more like sidecountry) but I do want this to get picked up by my customized Outdoor Adventure feed.

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Mar 4

!!! You can still see it :)

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Feb 20

A short but beautiful line just outside city limits and a few minutes from the UWGB campus.

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Feb 20

Ice climbing in Green Bay, WI #iceclimbing #uwgb

Ice climbers climbing a frozen waterfall

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Feb 16

Masked tytra; Gamboa, Panama. 🪶

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Feb 6

Dassie (rock hyrax) 🦊

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Feb 6

African oystercatcher 🪶

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Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Jan 29

The NASA climate change site is a fantastic resource for the general public, from a trusted source. I use it in a lot of my classes. I'd imagine it will be taken down soon. Are there any archives of this site? Any comparable sites from other trusted sources? 🧪🌍

science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

Climate Change - NASA Science

NASA is a global leader in studying Earth’s changing climate.

science.nasa.gov

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Aaron Tremper @aarontremper.bsky.social · Dec 5

As a lifelong Sonic fan, I had loads of fun writing this for @snexplores.bsky.social's 'Technically Fiction' series! Many thanks to @paolosegre.bsky.social and Dr. Hassanalian for their insights.

www.snexplores.org/article/soni...

To clear loops, Sonic the Hedgehog must hit the right speed

Most animals don’t run through loops. Sonic would need the physics behind roller coasters and race cars to clear one.

www.snexplores.org

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