Graham Montgomery
@sierrawormlion.bsky.social
- Postdoc at the Institute for Bird Populations
- he/him
- photos my own
- https://grahammontgomery.eco/
- he/him
- photos my own
- https://grahammontgomery.eco/
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Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...
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🚨 New paper alert!
We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)
We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)
State of India's Birds 2023 report, developed by a consortium of leading research institutions and conservation organisations, assesses the status of 942 bird species using data contributed by thousands of birdwatchers through the eBird.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
July 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 New paper alert!
We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)
We detail the MAMMOTH @stateofindiasbirds.in effort, hoping that our analytical framework (and #OpenSource codebase), serves as a blueprint for similar #StateofBirds assessments in other #GlobalSouth regions. (1/n)
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Great article on the rippling effects of ongoing insect declines.
"People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun."
🪲🪳🐦 🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
"People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun."
🪲🪳🐦 🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Great article on the rippling effects of ongoing insect declines.
"People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun."
🪲🪳🐦 🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
"People may not be motivated to save the insects for their own sake, but a world without insects is a world without birds. It’s a world where nature offers no song to the rising sun."
🪲🪳🐦 🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work.
I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!
www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!
www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
June 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've been told that it's #InsectWeek and that I should plug my work.
I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!
www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
I'm so bad at marketing... Uhhhhh... Buy my books...!
www.owlflyllc.com/publishing
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Congrats to @sierrawormlion.bsky.social for his fantastic Ph.D. work on insect declines and the impact on birds! I'm so pleased to have done this commemorative illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco pondering a tiny world full of bugs and red clover. Species in alt! 🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt #invertebrates 🪶
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Congrats to @sierrawormlion.bsky.social for his fantastic Ph.D. work on insect declines and the impact on birds! I'm so pleased to have done this commemorative illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco pondering a tiny world full of bugs and red clover. Species in alt! 🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt #invertebrates 🪶
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the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵
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ALPRs are “particularly ripe for abuse in an increasingly authoritarian US, full of lawmakers who want to control women’s bodies.”
A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas | Arwa Mahdawi
Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
ALPRs are “particularly ripe for abuse in an increasingly authoritarian US, full of lawmakers who want to control women’s bodies.”
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1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🐝🦋🌎🧪 Read more about it here: bit.ly/4jg74V2
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🐝🦋🌎🧪 Read more about it here: bit.ly/4jg74V2
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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David Wagner's Moths of the World is a marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s moths.
Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
David Wagner's Moths of the World is a marvelously illustrated guide to the world’s moths.
Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now! Learn more and explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Introduce you Mayer's Coelogyne ( Coelogyne mayeriana ) only native to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Malay peninsula. This species has a bright lime green color with black marking on the lip with a soft citrusy smell.
#coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer
#coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer
March 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Introduce you Mayer's Coelogyne ( Coelogyne mayeriana ) only native to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Malay peninsula. This species has a bright lime green color with black marking on the lip with a soft citrusy smell.
#coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer
#coelogynepandurata #orchidlover #plantlover #plantdaddy #plantexplorer
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Had a fun time writing this perspective with colleagues making a case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Conservation efforts can be directed at multiple ecological scales, from species to ecosystems. This Perspective calls for conservation at the scale of ecological communities or assemblages and discus...
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Had a fun time writing this perspective with colleagues making a case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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This nearly decade-old observation was finally identified as fly larva of the genus Rhyncomya thanks to the publication of a new scientific paper and it's our Observation of the Day! Seen in South Africa by peterwebb.
Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
February 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This nearly decade-old observation was finally identified as fly larva of the genus Rhyncomya thanks to the publication of a new scientific paper and it's our Observation of the Day! Seen in South Africa by peterwebb.
Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Read the discussion at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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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
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
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sea slug names for expecting parents:
Elysia
Doris
Calmella
Melibe
Verconia
Pauleo
Jorunna
Clione
Bermudella
Cyerce
Jason
Elysia
Doris
Calmella
Melibe
Verconia
Pauleo
Jorunna
Clione
Bermudella
Cyerce
Jason
my friend was brainstorming baby names inspired by nature so i sent them crab names and they rejected my list smh
Ranina
Maja
Varuna
Eriphia
Lybia
Daira
Thalamita
Lissa
Ixa
Thia
Ranina
Maja
Varuna
Eriphia
Lybia
Daira
Thalamita
Lissa
Ixa
Thia
August 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM
sea slug names for expecting parents:
Elysia
Doris
Calmella
Melibe
Verconia
Pauleo
Jorunna
Clione
Bermudella
Cyerce
Jason
Elysia
Doris
Calmella
Melibe
Verconia
Pauleo
Jorunna
Clione
Bermudella
Cyerce
Jason
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Here’s that excellent new ad from the United Auto Workers again, from the official UAW channel this time.
Fight For a Better Life
There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. The answer is solidarity.
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Here’s that excellent new ad from the United Auto Workers again, from the official UAW channel this time.