@evoneuro.bsky.social
neurobiologist, ornithologist, scruffy looking nerfherder, social distancing since 1974, Canadian in Alberta, Treaty 7 lands
🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🧪🪶🧠 stuff
open access link for our book: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6000/Bird-Brains-and-BehaviorA-Synthesis
@evoneuro.bsky.socialOk, I definitely need to look into conferences in Western Australia.
@fisherspeaks.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialGo ahead and count all the Whooping Cranes in this one field.
@evoneuro.bsky.socialAnd it is a female faculty member 😐 Same person claims that our ER is busy because too many people go there for minor issues and should just go to their GP. I have tried explaining that isn’t always an option but it’s like trying to explain the concept of Norway to my dogs.
@evoneuro.bsky.socialThat’s a better option than me wanting to slap faculty! My favourite: wear a dirty cloth mask everywhere to “stay safe” while refusing to get any vaccinations for over 3 years. And from someone who teaches virus evolution
@evoneuro.bsky.socialThe 2020s will be best known for widespread cognitive dissonance. Holding two contradictory views is widespread even within the “woke academy” of university faculty.
@lindsaytedds.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialI depend on free expression protections. I’ve used them. That’s why UCalgary’s handling of a residential school denial table on the eve of Truth and Reconciliation Day troubles me.
The principles didn’t require silence. They required work nobody did.
deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/c...
@evoneuro.bsky.socialOr funded schools. Or provided some money back to struggling post-secondaries. Or a recruitment campaign for foreign doctors. So many options, yet all the money pissed away.
@kruthsatz.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialInterested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫
Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social !
Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫
Please spread!
Apply here 👇:
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@evoneuro.bsky.socialMy odd perspective is that I can’t be bothered applying (so at least I’m not adding to the application surge). I have a hell of a time attracting any graduate students here, post docs are expensive, and I get little to no support for my research, so I don’t even try (👋 to any admin reading this)
@teamswiftparrot.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialImportant reminder of why these are called beautiful firetails 🥰
@mongabay.comReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialHong Kong hosts, 200 yellow-crested cockatoos, roughly 10% of the critically endangered species' global population.
To overcome a shortage of natural nesting spaces, researchers are installing camera-equipped artificial nest boxes to protect and study the birds.
@yennikwok.bsky.social reports.
@evoneuro.bsky.socialKnowing that other birds swivel their eyes so that they are more binocular at landing, that make sense. But it does leave the question open as to how they capture prey, a behaviour that is also meant to be dependent on binocular vision in raptors.
@evoneuro.bsky.socialI suspect that’s what’s happening: Baza are scanning with their lateral views to detect/track inverts and herps. We noticed this divergence in museum skulls but would be good to measure visual fields in live birds (or retina from dead ones)
@doktrnick.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.social
@evoneuro.bsky.socialI still think they have weird heads. Baza eyes really stick out in the sides and are not as frontally oriented as other hawks. I love the goggle eyed freaks but it is weird and I have yet to work out the advantage to that for a predatory bird.
@pec-exeter.bsky.socialReposted by @evoneuro.bsky.socialFunded 3.5 year PhD🎺
The effects of gamebird release and management on the lowland ecosystems of S England
Lots of fieldwork. A robust and resilient student is required. Focus on reptiles and ecto-parasites
Any Qs, please DM or email me
Please RT
@evoneuro.bsky.socialA sad finding from one of our students: a dead long-eared owl snagged on barbed wire. Although barbed wire is the default for many ranchers, it is a source of mortality for owls worldwide. Another sad reminder of our impacts on wildlife.
(*warning dead bird)
#ornithology #wildlife #Alberta #Canada
May contain graphic violence
@evoneuro.bsky.socialI can’t remember what journal it was. But I definitely remember it and thought that it was about time that someone made this clear for the capital P psychologists
@evoneuro.bsky.socialI know, I reviewed at one stage and gave it a very positive review!
@evoneuro.bsky.socialBehold, the UCP’s plans for education in Alberta…
#abpoli
