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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚
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#ornithology #ecology, bird nerd, Mothra, she/they, #NeuroDiverseSquad, profile photo by Peter Muka 📸, banner by James Smith 📸, @erlynerdgetbird from twitter
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Kit Straley, PhD 🐦🤓💚 @earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social · May 30
a brief moment of serenity with the moths
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drruth.bsky.social
What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM!

West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX

New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN

Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
person with bandaid on arm and making a thumbs up sign, wearing a teal blue shirt
September 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️

1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
sound up for a rainy waterfall
September 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
my partner has been waiting for CVS in MA to let him schedule his vaccine. their website kept saying they were waiting for the new version. now we are hearing CVS won’t carry the Covid vaccine in MA this fall. he has been waiting and checking the website daily for weeks…
August 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution
sarahmackattack.bsky.social Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 23
Like Jesus bro we’re in a park there are kids here come on
A katydid’s genitalia I’m so sorry I’m so sorry
August 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Pretty sure I accidentally posted a pic of a katydid ballsack tonight so SORRY about that everybody I thought it was EGGS I didn’t think insects had fuckin ballz like that good lord.
August 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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jgmussoi.bsky.social
New article out:
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
illustrations of an awake common myna with lights of a city in the background, and of a sleeping common myna with trees and a dark sky in the background.
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
PhDone
Two people standing under a colorful banner that reads “Dr. Kit Straley congratulations!” The banner has a bird with a graduation style cap.
August 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Bird sounds.
A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.
July 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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jaycee161.bsky.social
New publication! 🚨

If you're looking for a paper on what great tits eat then this is for you! 🦋🐛🐞🪲🐦

We looked at variation in diet using DNA metabarcoding and found lots of differences between adult and young birds and between habitat types.
@ucc.ie

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Schematic of the structure of the paper. We looked at dietary differences between ages and sexes, seasons and habitat types. We looked at the identity of prey in the diet and the number of dietary items.
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
we learn about the food web early on in school, but it’s another thing to witness the spectacular growth of herbivores, all through the power of native plants! insects are declining, and one way we can help is by providing them with their native host plants. 🐛🌿💚
July 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
I know almost everyone hates their dissertation at the end, and I don’t hate mine, but wow is it hard to focus on writing this thing very few people will ever read or care about so I can earn my piece of paper while we freefall into fascism 🤦🏻‍♀️
July 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
caterpillars will never cease to amaze me. this is happening every day all around us. in the woods. in the parks. in your yard, especially if you have native plants!
July 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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madelinebodin.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy
Will habitat loss, insecticides and light pollution bring us another silent spring? Birds need insects. (By me, with photos by Melissa Groo.) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-shared-fate-180986805/

#birds #conservation #insects #animals
Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
my results might by negative in not so exciting ways, but at least I can still make a nice color coded ggplot 🤷🏻‍♀️
June 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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ejwillingham.bsky.social
Nothing abt this is quiet&people have been talking&posting& calling their electeds about it all week. It's been widely covered in the press, esp in the West. The Wilderness Society has an entire interactive built for people to see the lands affected in their area. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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natecoevo.nature.com
Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🧬Airborne eDNA
💰Costs of biological invasions
🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation

Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"
June 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
for your consideration - another moth! this is a female Promethea moth who is getting released today. 🍃🐛🦋
A female Promethea moth rests with her wings open. She is standing on the green fabric bottom of a mesh cube. Her body is dark raspberry red and fluffy. Her antennae are feathery and dark yellow. Her wings have complex patterns and many colors - dark red, burnt orange, raspberry pinks, tan, black, and cream. Her forewings have a dramatic black spot near the tips. All of her wings have a thick tan border, and the hindwings have extra raspberry splotches in the border. There is a scallop-edged white line in the middle of her wings, and on the side of that line closest to her body her wings have more contrasting and vibrant colors.
June 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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oshuwilson.bsky.social
bluecorridors.org is live!

Watch whales doing their thing as they mooch and migrate throughout the year.

It is an honour to be involved in processing the data for this amazing living initiative. Looking forward to expanding it further!
June 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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envirosyment.bsky.social
Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.
May 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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esajournals.bsky.social
The June issue cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a shot from @dlnarango.bsky.social & Straley's study of the value of native vs near-native vs non-native plants for insect wildlife

Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Cover of the June 2025 issue of Ecosphere
June 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Oh and here's one with my handle on there if you're sharing as your own post instead of reposting one of my posts.

(good looking out @danielb1609.bsky.social)
An infographic labeled "Should I buy this plant? a bug-approved guide" It takes you through the following line of questioning "1. Is it native: Look at the name of the plant here and see if it's native to your region, with a QR to look that up) If no, Is it good at feeding bugs? Some non-native make lots of nectar. You can google if unsure. If yes, Are there better options available? if yes, don't buy it. If no, buy it. Ok, let's go back to the top. If it IS native, is it a cultivar? Does it have a goofy name like "Daisies jubilee" or "Pink Flamingo Hibiscus" It's a cultivar. If it's a cultivar, it'll send you to are there better options available? If it's not, on to question 3, which is "Was it grown with pesticides? This can be hard to tell. Check with the origin nursery. If yes, are there better options. If no, "Hell yeah". There are little flowers on a bunch of the boxes. The Hell Yeah box has a swallowtail butterfly with sunglasses giving a thumbs up. The no has a sassy bee looking over its sunglasses at you judgementally with its hand on its hips. On the bottom is says "Need help? Text questions to 9-RUNG-SQUID, the handle @SarahMackAttack is also on there
June 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
earlynerdgetbird.bsky.social
so much is stressful right now, and coping is really hard. I’m trying to find joy where I can, so look at this moth I raised I am obsessed.
A male Polyphemus moth rests with its wings open upon my hand. In the background there is white fabric and a pile of giant silk moth cocoons. The moth’s wings are a beautiful red-brown. There are 2 dramatic “eyespots” on the hindwings that are black with yellow centers and blue edging. The leading edge of the front wings is a thick salt and pepper gray line. The antennae are large and feathery. Each wing has a very special small oval “window” that you can see through, in those sections they are missing the scales that give them gorgeous colors everywhere else.
June 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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rheisman.bsky.social
This essay by a recently-fired Forest Service employee is worth a read. www.hcn.org/issues/57-5/...
Losing more than a Forest Service job - High Country News
Trail work, though underappreciated, made for a life well-lived in the woods.
www.hcn.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM