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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Aug 7

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US vist.ly/32j8j #BetaDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKings

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Jun 14

New paper out led by the awesome @peterw-ecol.bsky.social ! Check out how winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US are becoming phylogenetically and functionally more similar to each other over time (and in such an interesting way!)

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US

Around the world, ecological communities are becoming more similar to one another in a process known as biotic homogenization – an increase in similarity among communities over time. While biotic hom....

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Mar 6

My last trip to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a postdoc 😭 I will truly miss this place! I have the best boss and colleagues and grateful for my 2+ years of growing professionally and personally. Not sure what happens next but forever grateful for this experience ❤️

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Christian John @jepsonnomad.bsky.social · Nov 18

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏

go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Nov 22

Last year I had the opportunity to try a Zeiss DTI 4/50 thermal imaging camera to study nocturnal bird migration. It was awesome! I have hours of footage - can anyone recommend ways I can enhance the videos or darken the background? Also, note the ✈️ taking off from JFK 🤣

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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · Nov 19

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog!

The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪

masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

A gentle introduction to an integrated occupancy model that combines presence-only and detection/non-detection data, and how to fit it in `JAGS`

Species distribution models (SDMs) are useful tools in ecology and conservation biology. As the name implies, SDMs are used to estimate species presence or abundance across geographic space and throug...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Mar 12

As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏

They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift !

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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The publish-or-perish culture in academia has catalysed the development of an unethical publishing system. This system is characterised by the proliferation of journals and publishers unaffiliated with learned societies or universities— that maintain extremely large revenues and profit margins diverting funds away from the academic community. Early career researchers (ECRs) are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of this publishing system because of intersecting factors, including pressure to pursue high impact publications, rising publication costs and job insecurity. Moving towards a more ethical system requires that scientists advocate for structural change by making career choices that come with risks, many of which disproportionately impact ECRs. We illuminate major issues facing ECRs in Ecology and Evolution under the current publishing system, and propose a portfolio of actions to promote systemic change that can be implemented by ECRs and established researchers.

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Nov 13

I like this Tuesday tradition! This is Otto, my feathered son :)

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 1

Excited to share this paper that has been in the works for some time! We demonstrate the homogenization between winter and breeding bird communities across the northeastern United States and highlight individual species/groups contributing to this change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Erosion of Seasonality in Avian Communities

Aim Seasonality governs species composition at a given place and time. However, the effects of climate and land-use change can vary by season, altering species composition. These changes can lead to.....

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Mar 8

This pretty much sums up my adventures in machine learning 🤣

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Mar 4

I mean, yeah, I guess…

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · Mar 1

You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Mar 2

It’s a start!

Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Mar 2

BirdCast is officially back for the spring migration season, yay!!!!!

Live bird migration maps - BirdCast

See real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology curr...

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Dec 2

This is the best day of my life 💚

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Nov 21

Couch potato 🦜

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 20

Ughhh why are SLF such freakin jerks 🤬?! Good thing it is a slow migration night because I have no idea how long it has been on the lens…

Pesky spotted lanternfly on the lens of a thermal imaging camera

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 18

Some super scientific stuff happening here :)

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 16

Go visit! And for the birders out there, please go find all the cool sparrows and waterfowl 🙂 you will not be disappointed!

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 16

Since the first day I stepped into Freshkills Park I knew how incredible it was - I’m so happy that a slice of this amazing place is now open for the public to experience what I have known for all these years ❤️

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 16

So happy to see North Park open to the public! For 8 years I’ve had the opportunity to study the wildlife returning to Freshkills Park. The decades of planning, engineering and construction of this beautiful green space is beyond impressive.

How ‘Mt. Trashmore’ was conquered: Key figures recall landfill fight as Freshkills Park nears op...

“Everything was designed to delay any alternative and to keep the landfill going,” said Borough President Vito Fossella.

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 16

He hates my guts 🤣

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Shannon Curley @shannoncurley.bsky.social · Oct 15

FINALLY got back to Freshkills Park yesterday, and the birding was incredible! Here’s a very photogenic Yellow-billed Cuckoo and a less photogenic Red-headed Woodpecker (only my 3rd for Staten Island)

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Allison Horst @allisonhorst.bsky.social · Aug 23

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

A hexagonal design with the words lterdatasampler at the top. Within the border are plants, animals and weather patterns representing the different datasets currently in the package.

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