Kristen M. Covino, PhD
@kristencovino.bsky.social
PI of the PHAB Lab (Physiology Hormones & Avian Biology) | Loves to study songbirds & gulls | Parent of 3 awesome humans | Associate Prof at a research-focused PUI Posts=Mine | LGBTQ+ she/they🌈
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Birds are awesome, and research keeps proving so.
@kristencovino.bsky.social et. al. published their paper in our Journal of Field Ornithology a while back.
JFO is open-access, meaning all articles can be read for free! 👇
journal.afonet.org/vol94/iss4/a...
#JournalofFieldOrnithology
@kristencovino.bsky.social et. al. published their paper in our Journal of Field Ornithology a while back.
JFO is open-access, meaning all articles can be read for free! 👇
journal.afonet.org/vol94/iss4/a...
#JournalofFieldOrnithology
April 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Birds are awesome, and research keeps proving so.
@kristencovino.bsky.social et. al. published their paper in our Journal of Field Ornithology a while back.
JFO is open-access, meaning all articles can be read for free! 👇
journal.afonet.org/vol94/iss4/a...
#JournalofFieldOrnithology
@kristencovino.bsky.social et. al. published their paper in our Journal of Field Ornithology a while back.
JFO is open-access, meaning all articles can be read for free! 👇
journal.afonet.org/vol94/iss4/a...
#JournalofFieldOrnithology
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The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being.
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
March 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The 2025 U.S. #StateOfTheBirds report was released today. The report finds that birds continue to decline unabated across most habitats—habitats that are also vital to human well-being.
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
Read the report & take action! www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
#bringbirdsback
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Due to the Musk/Trump Administration’s draconian cuts, the National Science Foundation is significantly scaling back its program to provide college students with paid summer research internships. Many of my colleagues attribute their start in science to this program.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Due to the Musk/Trump Administration’s draconian cuts, the National Science Foundation is significantly scaling back its program to provide college students with paid summer research internships. Many of my colleagues attribute their start in science to this program.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Looking for a summer learning opportunity? Come take Field #Ornithology and learn how to study songbirds, gulls, terns, and more. I can promise lots of birds and beautiful settings 🐦🐤🐧
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looking for a summer learning opportunity? Come take Field #Ornithology and learn how to study songbirds, gulls, terns, and more. I can promise lots of birds and beautiful settings 🐦🐤🐧
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Already removed- but a powerful visual protest at NSF of the lost scientists from the recent round of doge douchery
February 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Already removed- but a powerful visual protest at NSF of the lost scientists from the recent round of doge douchery
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I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
www.chemistryworld.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
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This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨🔬🧬🖥️
Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨🔬🧬🖥️
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Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
www.gofundme.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
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Help our Flocks Project take flight! We all need a space to feel we belong & are supported. This is what our Flocks Project—our joint effort with Wilson Ornithological Society & Association of Field Ornithologists—aims to do for ornithologists. Donate today!
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
February 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Help our Flocks Project take flight! We all need a space to feel we belong & are supported. This is what our Flocks Project—our joint effort with Wilson Ornithological Society & Association of Field Ornithologists—aims to do for ornithologists. Donate today!
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
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Reminder: For you planners out there, registration and lodging costs are now available on the #WOS2025 website. (Early bird registration opens next month!)
Registration & Lodging
More details will be available in February, but for planning purposes, here are the anticipated costs for meeting registration and on-campus lodging. Please note: If you are a minor attending our c…
wos2025.org
February 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reminder: For you planners out there, registration and lodging costs are now available on the #WOS2025 website. (Early bird registration opens next month!)
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There is a lot going on, and in the face of this uncertainty @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social , AOS and AFO are working to keep our Flocks going to support ornithologists in affinity groups. And we need help raising the funds to make it happen. Can you help us? 🧪🪶🌎
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
www.gofundme.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There is a lot going on, and in the face of this uncertainty @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social , AOS and AFO are working to keep our Flocks going to support ornithologists in affinity groups. And we need help raising the funds to make it happen. Can you help us? 🧪🪶🌎
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
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February 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
www.gofundme.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
www.gofundme.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Help us continue this project to increase access and belonging in #ornithology
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
February 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it?
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
February 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it?
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
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Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Kristen M. Covino, PhD
Can I offer you some squid street art I saw today in Moss Landing in these trying times?
February 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Can I offer you some squid street art I saw today in Moss Landing in these trying times?
Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it?
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
February 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Who wants to learn to band songbirds, Study breeding gulls, Learn about Tern restoration colonies, Go on a seabird cruise, & Live on an island while doing it?
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
If you do, check out my Field #Ornithology course!!
www.shoalsmarinelaboratory.org/academics/un...
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Regardless of what party your reps are, LIGHT UP THEIR PHONES. Elected officials are always looking for cover for their votes and citing the number of calls their office got is the easiest talking point. ⚡️📞⚡️
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Regardless of what party your reps are, LIGHT UP THEIR PHONES. Elected officials are always looking for cover for their votes and citing the number of calls their office got is the easiest talking point. ⚡️📞⚡️
Reposted by Kristen M. Covino, PhD
Are you someone who likes to plan ahead? #WOS2025 registration won't open until March, but anticipated costs for registration and on-campus lodging are available on the meeting website now.
Registration & Lodging
More details will be available in February, but for planning purposes, here are the anticipated costs for meeting registration and on-campus lodging. Registration Early Bird Regular Registration: $…
wos2025.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are you someone who likes to plan ahead? #WOS2025 registration won't open until March, but anticipated costs for registration and on-campus lodging are available on the meeting website now.
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If you want to read the full text of the memo pausing federal grants it's available here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
static01.nyt.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you want to read the full text of the memo pausing federal grants it's available here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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Federal grants are your tax dollars, put into projects that improve and enrich your community and your life. It is not okay for all those projects and the livelihoods of all the people who work to make them happen to be held hostage over some ideological gripe.
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Find and contact elected officials | USAGov
Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.
www.usa.gov
January 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Federal grants are your tax dollars, put into projects that improve and enrich your community and your life. It is not okay for all those projects and the livelihoods of all the people who work to make them happen to be held hostage over some ideological gripe.
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
USAspending.gov
www.usaspending.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.