Brett Hodinka, PhD
@bretthodinka.bsky.social
Biology Dept., Western Washington Univ.
Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology
Birds and life-history trade-offs
https://bretthodinka.weebly.com
Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology
Birds and life-history trade-offs
https://bretthodinka.weebly.com
The RFID-enabled bird feeder is successfully reading and logging PIT tag numbers.
Can’t wait to get these out into the field!
Can’t wait to get these out into the field!
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The RFID-enabled bird feeder is successfully reading and logging PIT tag numbers.
Can’t wait to get these out into the field!
Can’t wait to get these out into the field!
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Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "
ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
The RFID-enabled automated bird feeders are coming along!
September 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The RFID-enabled automated bird feeders are coming along!
Excited to announce that I just started my first postdoc position at Western Washington University in the Templeton lab! I'll be investigating the effects of traffic noise on avian cognition.
Stay tuned for lots of posts as I start data collection in the Fall!
Stay tuned for lots of posts as I start data collection in the Fall!
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Excited to announce that I just started my first postdoc position at Western Washington University in the Templeton lab! I'll be investigating the effects of traffic noise on avian cognition.
Stay tuned for lots of posts as I start data collection in the Fall!
Stay tuned for lots of posts as I start data collection in the Fall!
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Congratulations to @sfubiosciences.bsky.social Dean's Convocation Medal recipient Brett Hodinka. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction ow.ly/lWqx50W5PNw #MySFUGrad
Dr. Brett Hodinka receives Dean’s Convocation Medal
2025 recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medal from Faculty of Science. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction
ow.ly
June 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Congratulations to @sfubiosciences.bsky.social Dean's Convocation Medal recipient Brett Hodinka. Thesis Title: Inactivity, adaptive mass regulation, and the physiological basis of costs of reproduction ow.ly/lWqx50W5PNw #MySFUGrad
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I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//GeorgiaTech.Speciation
The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech is seeking a postdoctoral researcher
interested in the process of speciation. The expected focus of the
successful candidate's work will be questions related to evolut...
evol.mcmaster.ca
April 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!
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Wow this is a game changer. PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships are now open to non-Canadians.
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Wow this is a game changer. PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships are now open to non-Canadians.
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We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We are inviting submissions to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Exercise.
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Philadelphia will burn to the ground tonight i fear
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Philadelphia will burn to the ground tonight i fear
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Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
www.evolutionsociety.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
As a Philadelphian, I approve these messages
seen in Philadelphia:
FUCK ICE
FUCK TRUMP + MUSK
GO BIRDS
FUCK ICE
FUCK TRUMP + MUSK
GO BIRDS
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
As a Philadelphian, I approve these messages
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This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
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- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
- Reviews due by 5 p.m. today
- They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
scim.ag
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
November 10, 2024 at 7:47 AM
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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I'm a journalist looking for new/soon-to-be-published studies on animal ecology and biology to write about. DM me!
January 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm a journalist looking for new/soon-to-be-published studies on animal ecology and biology to write about. DM me!
The ‘Inside JEB’ article for our most recent paper made it into the 2024 @jexpbiol.bsky.social highlights book!
Found at #SICB2025
Found at #SICB2025
January 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The ‘Inside JEB’ article for our most recent paper made it into the 2024 @jexpbiol.bsky.social highlights book!
Found at #SICB2025
Found at #SICB2025
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Over 1000 of birds died due to stress from fireworks during New Year in a Bulgarian town, Green Balkans wildlife rescue center said. The necropsy shows that the death of the mountain finches was caused by stress. Massive haemorrhaging was found in the birds' abdomens/skulls bnr.bg/en/post/1020...
Dead Bird Count in Koprivshtitsa Surpasses 1,000
One thousand seven dead and 31 injured birds is the result of the New Year's Eve fireworks in the town of Koprivshtitsa, Dr Hristina Klisurova of the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Centre told BNR. Hal...
bnr.bg
January 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Over 1000 of birds died due to stress from fireworks during New Year in a Bulgarian town, Green Balkans wildlife rescue center said. The necropsy shows that the death of the mountain finches was caused by stress. Massive haemorrhaging was found in the birds' abdomens/skulls bnr.bg/en/post/1020...
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From only 200 piping plover breeding pairs in Massachusetts back in 1986, to nearly 1200 last year! 🌎
phys.org/news/2024-12...
phys.org/news/2024-12...
Massachusetts beaches hit record-high for piping plovers: 'A species recovering at an encouraging rate'
Piping plovers are continuing their comeback story.
phys.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
From only 200 piping plover breeding pairs in Massachusetts back in 1986, to nearly 1200 last year! 🌎
phys.org/news/2024-12...
phys.org/news/2024-12...
I made it to Atlanta for this year's #SICB2025 conference. I'll be presenting my work on avian mass regulation tomorrow in the @sicb-dab.bsky.social Marlene Zuk BSP session!
January 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I made it to Atlanta for this year's #SICB2025 conference. I'll be presenting my work on avian mass regulation tomorrow in the @sicb-dab.bsky.social Marlene Zuk BSP session!
Me: *opens the nest box lid*
The nestlings:
The nestlings:
December 20, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Me: *opens the nest box lid*
The nestlings:
The nestlings:
Is it pronounced corticosterone or corticosterone?
December 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Is it pronounced corticosterone or corticosterone?