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Neil Gilbert
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assistant professor @ oklahoma state university | global change ecology, stats, birds, mammals | https://www.gilbertecology.com/

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Sep 8
Hey prospective PhD students 👋

happy to work with students interested in developing a proposal

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5
We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!!

doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations
Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....
doi.org

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Sep 3
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com

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Matt Gonnerman @mattgonnerman.bsky.social · Aug 27
New pub alert! Very excited to share work providing actionable insights into how we can better implement biosecurity and plan surveillance for avian influenza in the US. This virus doesn’t look to be going away so best to adjust accordingly.
Avian influenza spillover into poultry: environmental influences and biosecurity protections
With the continued spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), understanding the complex dynamics of virus transfer at the wild – agriculture …
www.sciencedirect.com

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Aug 27
Sample size considerations for species co-occurrence models #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social

'While occupancy patterns are often robust to limited sample size, reliable inference about co-occurrence demands substantially larger datasets than many studies currently achieve'

doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
In the simplest scenario, there is high bias in the interaction parameter (used for co-occurrence inference) with less than 100 sites at high detection, and 400–1000 sites at low detection, depending on interaction strength. Strong co-occurrence is detected consistently above 200 sites with high detection probabilities, but weak co-occurrence is never consistently detected even with 2980 sites. We demonstrate that the mean predictive ability of the co-occurrence model is less affected by sample size

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 27
😍 congrats, well deserved!

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 26
All hail Anonymous Potato 🫡
anonymouspotato.bsky.social Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · Aug 11
New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs!

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 26
🙏

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 26
😊🥹 aw shucks you're too kind!!!

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Cody Limber @codylimber.bsky.social · Aug 26
My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!
Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity
We used single cell sequencing to investigate the cell types of developing chicken feathers. From these data, we are able to describe the transcriptional profile of feather cell types, look at their ....
doi.org

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Sébastien Roques @sebroques.bsky.social · Aug 26
🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩
Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS
Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...
www.pnas.org

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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

Please share!
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...
www.moncriefflab.org

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 25
best kind of post

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 25
🙏☺️

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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · Aug 25
nice scientific writing alert -- check out the first line from this new Science paper by @gilbert-lab.bsky.social & Brent Pease

"in many parts of the world, the night is no longer dark"

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

Reposted by Anthony Ricciardi, Neil A. Gilbert

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 24
Jim was an incredible ecologist. I own several of his books, and cite his research reguarly. www.butlernature.com/2025/08/20/j...
Jim Estes, biologist who revealed how sea otters shape entire ecosystems, died on May 20, aged 79
When Jim Estes first arrived in the Aleutian Islands in 1970, he expected a routine wildlife survey. What he found was the outline of a scientific revelation. In places where sea otters thrived, the…
www.butlernature.com

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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Aug 23
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 22
PSA: all y'all should hire Joel for your scientific illustrating needs. He's an up-and-coming artist and is great to work with!!
poppbirdart.bsky.social Joel Popp @poppbirdart.bsky.social · Aug 22
Hooray! Congrats to you both. It was fun illustrating for this.

Hope we will be working together again!

#sciart #science #scicomm
gilbert-lab.bsky.social Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

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

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Joel Popp @poppbirdart.bsky.social · Aug 22
Hooray! Congrats to you both. It was fun illustrating for this.

Hope we will be working together again!

#sciart #science #scicomm
gilbert-lab.bsky.social Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

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

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 22
🙏

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Aug 21
Hey bird postdocs!

Open now: a three-year PI position with @cornellbirds.bsky.social overseeing the longterm Hubbard Brook avian monitoring program. Looking for people w/ a strong research & field background

(FYI the due date is wrong—should be fixed soon)

Reach out w/ questions & please share!
Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Job #AJO29599, WDR-00050928 Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · Aug 21
Online now: Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution
Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution
Animals exert control over biogeochemical processes within their ecosystems – the study of which is called zoogeochemistry. However, most zoogeochemical research stops short of examining how animal-driven biogeochemical processes feed back to influence the fitness and population dynamics of organisms. We outline how to use niche construction theory to investigate these feedbacks, introducing zoogeochemical niche construction to explicitly link zoogeochemistry with fitness and evolution trajectories. We specifically highlight how this framework reveals the capacity of animals to influence their own nutritional landscapes, creating closed zoogeochemical loops. To identify and test instances of zoogeochemical niche construction, we present experimental, correlative, and comparative tools. The novel application of niche construction theory provides alternative and complementary explanations for animal trait evolution.
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Smith Fellowship @smithfellows.bsky.social · Aug 19
Thinking about applying for the Smith Fellowship? Watch the recording of our FAQ Webinar for answers to common questions and insights to strengthen your application here: vimeo.com/1111487510?s...
Applicant FAQ Webinar 2026
An overview of the fellowship, application process, and selection process, followed by common questions and answers, and an open Q&A session hosted by Smith…
vimeo.com

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Lauren Whitenack @laurenwhitenack.bsky.social · Aug 19
My 4th chapter was published today! Using 11 years of data on mountain chickadees, we showed that lay dates and clutch sizes were repeatable. We found variation among individual females in how much they shifted their lay dates year to year based on climate. 🪶

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Phenological plasticity involves the ability of organisms to adjust the timing of life history events such as reproduction in response to different environmental conditions. Global climate change can ...
link.springer.com

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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · Aug 18
Thrilled to announce that next year I will be joining @DukeBiology as an assistant professor!

I am excited to recruit postdocs and PhD students to start as early as Fall 2026. If you are interested in plant community dynamics, global change, and/or wildfire, please see details below.

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 17
dont question it embrace it

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 11
Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions

@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ‪
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
www.nature.com

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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · Aug 11
New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs!

ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
ecoevojobs.net

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 8
like I still think on a nigh daily basis about the one about the bon iver song title being smash your face on the keyboard