Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela
@birdmapper.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Conservation Ecology @ucsc. #biodiversity #birds #WomeninSTEM #cienciacriolla 🇨🇴. Fulbrighter. Mum. www.nocampopenuela.com
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The balancing act of being an academic and a mother - Nature Human Behaviour
Academia is not a welcoming place for women who want both a family and a career. Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela draws on her own experience to explain how this must change.
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It’s not easy to be a (present) mum and an (effective) academic, but we can manage both if we have supportive teams, welcome flexibility, and lead with kindness.
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In the wake of Jane Goodall’s passing last week, many of our researchers here at UC Santa Cruz shared fond memories of Goodall and appreciation for her role as a champion of the natural world. Hear from a few faculty members who have been and will continue to be inspired by her legacy ⬇️
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the wake of Jane Goodall’s passing last week, many of our researchers here at UC Santa Cruz shared fond memories of Goodall and appreciation for her role as a champion of the natural world. Hear from a few faculty members who have been and will continue to be inspired by her legacy ⬇️
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Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds - Evolutionary Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology - Climate change is having profound impacts on biodiversity, with notable effects on the distribution, and morphology of species. Many studies have documented changes in body...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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@MincienciasCo
@inst_humboldt
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@cdanielcadena.bsky.social
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@julisoto.bsky.social
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Following on from our avitourism paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, you can hear @birdmapper.bsky.social and @rswamper.bsky.social discuss the paper on the @amornith.bsky.social podcast. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2J1J...
09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton
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September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Following on from our avitourism paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, you can hear @birdmapper.bsky.social and @rswamper.bsky.social discuss the paper on the @amornith.bsky.social podcast. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2J1J...
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🐦⬛New Research: Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity➡️ buff.ly/n7EUFbY
"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
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"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
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September 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🐦⬛New Research: Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity➡️ buff.ly/n7EUFbY
"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
@birdmapper.bsky.social
@mhcneateclegg.bsky.social
@rsawmper.bsky.social
"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
@birdmapper.bsky.social
@mhcneateclegg.bsky.social
@rsawmper.bsky.social
New paper 🚨
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New paper 🚨
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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New paper 🚨 with @birdmapper.bsky.social! We mapped various diversity metrics for the colossal avifauna of Colombia! Species and functional richness are tightly linked but range-restricted endemics do not capture functional diversity well conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Range‐restricted species are poor proxies for functional diversity in the world's largest avifauna
We assessed the relationship between avian taxonomic richness (four metrics) and functional diversity (three metrics) across Colombia, the country with the most bird species. We found total species r....
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August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New paper 🚨 with @birdmapper.bsky.social! We mapped various diversity metrics for the colossal avifauna of Colombia! Species and functional richness are tightly linked but range-restricted endemics do not capture functional diversity well conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Glad to share this new publication on the role of scientific diasporas in facilitating global biodiversity research and conservation goals rdcu.be/elSmJ. The result of the Colombian diaspora organizing during COP16 2024 in Cali, Colombia. @juliprieto.bsky.social @birdmapper.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Glad to share this new publication on the role of scientific diasporas in facilitating global biodiversity research and conservation goals rdcu.be/elSmJ. The result of the Colombian diaspora organizing during COP16 2024 in Cali, Colombia. @juliprieto.bsky.social @birdmapper.bsky.social
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New Job Alert! 📢 Join BTO as a Database Developer. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
📝 Salary: £34,578
📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered
🏠 Hybrid working policy
📝 Salary: £34,578
📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered
🏠 Hybrid working policy
March 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New Job Alert! 📢 Join BTO as a Database Developer. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
📝 Salary: £34,578
📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered
🏠 Hybrid working policy
📝 Salary: £34,578
📅 Full time role, part-time will be considered
🏠 Hybrid working policy
Not to miss!
#AOSMembers: Join us for our next #AOS_SRGS seminar, “'The canary in the gold mine': Assessing the impacts of artisanal & small-scale gold mining on bird communities in the Peruvian Amazon" on 3/17 at Noon ET, w/ Chris Sayers, UCLA Ph.D. Candidate
INFO/REG: americanornithology.org/professional...
INFO/REG: americanornithology.org/professional...
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Not to miss!
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I work in amazing place: UNC-Chapel Hill Biology. Our faculty of ~50 includes folks engaged in both basic science & pedagogical research. We have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor to join us in July 2025-happy to answer questions RT
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
Teaching Asst or Teaching Associate Professor
The position calls for teaching three classes per semester, which may include fundamental classes for biology majors such as cell biology and genetics, and biodiversity (ecology, evolution, and organi...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I work in amazing place: UNC-Chapel Hill Biology. Our faculty of ~50 includes folks engaged in both basic science & pedagogical research. We have an opening for a new Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor to join us in July 2025-happy to answer questions RT
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
Si eres guía de Aviturismo en Colombia 🇨🇴, te invitamos a llenar esta encuesta sobre los impactos económicos y sociales del aviturismo para un estudio. Sólo toma 10 mins. Por favor compartir!
tinyurl.com/encuestaaviturismo
tinyurl.com/encuestaaviturismo
March 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Si eres guía de Aviturismo en Colombia 🇨🇴, te invitamos a llenar esta encuesta sobre los impactos económicos y sociales del aviturismo para un estudio. Sólo toma 10 mins. Por favor compartir!
tinyurl.com/encuestaaviturismo
tinyurl.com/encuestaaviturismo
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The Laboratory of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the ETH Zurich is looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral position as part of the fully funded SNSF Consolidator project “Burgeon”.
Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Tectono-Geomorphic Processes and Mountain Biodiversity
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February 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Laboratory of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the ETH Zurich is looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral position as part of the fully funded SNSF Consolidator project “Burgeon”.
Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
It’s not easy to be a (present) mum and an (effective) academic, but we can manage both if we have supportive teams, welcome flexibility, and lead with kindness.
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother - Nature Human Behaviour
Academia is not a welcoming place for women who want both a family and a career. Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela draws on her own experience to explain how this must change.
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s not easy to be a (present) mum and an (effective) academic, but we can manage both if we have supportive teams, welcome flexibility, and lead with kindness.
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here is an editorial I wrote for @nature.com Human Behavior about my experience with this balancing act 🤹🏻♀️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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El Consejo Norteamericano de Anillamiento (NABC) abre la convocatoria a pequeñas becas para apoyar el desarrollo y certificación de anilladores de aves de América Latina y el Caribe.
Aplica aquí: https://shorturl.at/camzZ
#AFOGrantsandAwards #anilladodeaves #NABC
Aplica aquí: https://shorturl.at/camzZ
#AFOGrantsandAwards #anilladodeaves #NABC
February 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
El Consejo Norteamericano de Anillamiento (NABC) abre la convocatoria a pequeñas becas para apoyar el desarrollo y certificación de anilladores de aves de América Latina y el Caribe.
Aplica aquí: https://shorturl.at/camzZ
#AFOGrantsandAwards #anilladodeaves #NABC
Aplica aquí: https://shorturl.at/camzZ
#AFOGrantsandAwards #anilladodeaves #NABC
That’s why we are the bird paradise 🫶🏽🇨🇴🦜
A glimpse of bird diversity from northwestern South America's complex corner, where the Andes bisect the Amazon-Orinoco basins from the Chocó, across a mosaic of sierras, valleys, deserts, and wetlands - a biodiversity hotspot.
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
February 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
That’s why we are the bird paradise 🫶🏽🇨🇴🦜
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We have a cool new job that just opened up at the museum.
Head of Conservation ($50-$88K)
Be the champion for the conservation activities and the related messaging for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
Head of Conservation ($50-$88K)
Be the champion for the conservation activities and the related messaging for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
Job Bulletin
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February 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We have a cool new job that just opened up at the museum.
Head of Conservation ($50-$88K)
Be the champion for the conservation activities and the related messaging for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
Head of Conservation ($50-$88K)
Be the champion for the conservation activities and the related messaging for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...
A nice story about Palomarin Field Station, where I and many others were trained in bird banding. Great times there more than a decade ago now!
Long-term monitoring is so valuable for ecology and conservation 🙌🏽 🪶
localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/19/m...
Long-term monitoring is so valuable for ecology and conservation 🙌🏽 🪶
localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/19/m...
Modern day 'bird seers' track environmental health at longest running avian field station - Local News Matters
IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The right combination of bird
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February 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A nice story about Palomarin Field Station, where I and many others were trained in bird banding. Great times there more than a decade ago now!
Long-term monitoring is so valuable for ecology and conservation 🙌🏽 🪶
localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/19/m...
Long-term monitoring is so valuable for ecology and conservation 🙌🏽 🪶
localnewsmatters.org/2025/02/19/m...
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Come work with us! We're hiring a Senior Manager, Quantitative Science on National Audubon Society's Science Team (1/2)
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Senior Manager, Quantitative Science
Position Summary: The Senior Manager, Quantitative Science will be responsible for leading and executing analyses that measure the biological impacts of Audubon's initiatives. This will include develo...
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February 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Come work with us! We're hiring a Senior Manager, Quantitative Science on National Audubon Society's Science Team (1/2)
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Brett Scheffers and I are seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to join the 2025-2027 Future of Species Range Shifts cohort as part of the Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows Program.
The postdoc would be hosted here at UF.
More here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
The postdoc would be hosted here at UF.
More here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Post-Doc - Future of Species Range Shifts | Natural Resources Job Board
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Brett Scheffers and I are seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to join the 2025-2027 Future of Species Range Shifts cohort as part of the Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows Program.
The postdoc would be hosted here at UF.
More here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
The postdoc would be hosted here at UF.
More here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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Reposted by Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela
I wrote a feature about birdwatching in Colombia, which turns out to be about much more than staring at some (very beautiful) birds.
Reporting on wildlife is usually bleak but this story gave me some actual hope. Hope! I do know her!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Reporting on wildlife is usually bleak but this story gave me some actual hope. Hope! I do know her!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Why thousands of people are traveling to one country to see these birds
An unexpected industry is booming in Colombia. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
www.vox.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I wrote a feature about birdwatching in Colombia, which turns out to be about much more than staring at some (very beautiful) birds.
Reporting on wildlife is usually bleak but this story gave me some actual hope. Hope! I do know her!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Reporting on wildlife is usually bleak but this story gave me some actual hope. Hope! I do know her!
www.vox.com/down-to-eart...