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Joanna Wu
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PhD candidate @UCLA | @NSF GRF | Galbatross Project | Birds | #FemaleBirds | Running | R🏃🏻‍♀️🐦 she/her #ornithology #conservation #birdingwhilerunning

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The winners of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards were just announced, of which I had a small but very enjoyable role in judging the female bird prize. Which are your favorite photos? 📸🦜https://www.audubon.org/magazine/2025-audubon-photography-awards-winners
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Love the poetic energy of this alt text about a capybara.
Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

Thank you.
June 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposted by Joanna Wu
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Really great writing by @bittelmethis.bsky.social blending birds, human health, and the administration. Give it a read! #FemaleBirds #GalbatrossProject
Science has historically overlooked female birds, leading to a partial view of these species' biology, ecology, and contributing to real-world conservation consequences.

Important new 🦉🧪 by @joannaxwu.bsky.social Et al.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Bird science has a bro-bias
Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them.
www.nationalgeographic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Joanna Wu
Science has historically overlooked female birds, leading to a partial view of these species' biology, ecology, and contributing to real-world conservation consequences.

Important new 🦉🧪 by @joannaxwu.bsky.social Et al.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Bird science has a bro-bias
Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them.
www.nationalgeographic.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Feeling very nerdy (and accomplished, too) because I used terminal to install some back-end C++ tools to run some STAN code 🤓👩‍💻 Thanks ChatGPT! #RStats
March 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Joanna Wu
Job alert! We’ve got a great opportunity for a full time, permanent Senior Programme Lead to oversee the Bird Atlas 2027–31. For the full job description and to apply visit ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Joanna Wu
DEIA For Birds Could Help Avian Conservation, a study out of UCLA & Audubon Society, published by IBIS journal

by @GrrlScientist

#DEI #ornithology🦉 #birds🪶 #SexBias #ecology🌎 #conservation #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
DEIA For Birds Could Help Avian Conservation
A new study finds that overlooking the lives of female birds could have severe conservation consequences.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I love when a scientist turned reporter writes about your work 🤓 Check out this great piece from @grrlscientist.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
DEIA For Birds Could Improve Avian Conservation
A new study finds that overlooking the lives of female birds could have severe conservation consequences.
www.forbes.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Joanna Wu
I gave an interview to the BBC at midnight while the #LAfires were raging outside and I couldn't sleep. Turned into one of the most thorough and well-researched articles on wildlife and wildfire I've had the pleasure of contributing to.
How wildlife survives after wildfires
The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by others.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Great paper! Immediately going into our proposal!

We have a current project working on female Bicknell’s Thrush across the annual cycle. It’s hasn’t escaped me that this is one of my first projects as the only female conservation scientist at my org 🤔
January 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay
In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding
A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.
www.audubon.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This is the news you need today 🤠
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hi! 👋🏻 I'm attempting to get back on my scicomm after X irrevocably ruined everything. Nice to see you here!🙃
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM