Emily Abernathy, PhD

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@mw_avianecology Yay!! Congrats Martha!!

My parents, in-laws, and some siblings attended my PhD exit seminar yesterday! So fun celebrating this milestone with them! And SO awesome to finally call myself Dr. Zillig

Congratulations to Dr. Emily Abernathy from the Hull lab, who not only filed her dissertation today but also gave an awesome exit seminar on how she used genomics to better understand population structure and adaptation in Swainson's and Galapagos hawks! Yay, Emily!

Please Retweet! The Virginia Tech Shorebird Program (@VTShorebirds) is hiring a post doc! Piping plovers, their predators, and 🔥 Island! wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/piping-pl… *chicks were handled and banded with appropriate permits and using standardized research protocols

@et_phone_homo *destroy

Don’t 👏🏼 bring 👏🏼 expensive 👏🏼 dog 👏🏼 toys 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 park 👏🏼 bc 👏🏼 my 👏🏼 dog 👏🏼 will 👏🏼 play 👏🏼 with 👏🏼 it 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 I’ll 👏🏼 have 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 take 👏🏼 her 👏🏼 side 👏🏼

Our study on what fuels Merlin migration along the Pacific Coast is now online @IBIS_journal! @GGRO_raptors @GVLUCDavis @cmaylward @Burnabea @Teresa_Ely_ @rapfish onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

😭😭 The pain is real #AcademicTwitter! #AcademicChatter #phdchat @OpenAcademics

@amy_christina I didn't even realize you liked cupcakes

They're back!

@amy_christina Apparently they are probably Tasmanian Pademelons 😭

Who knew that in Jan 2021 my biggest fear while teaching would be hitting "End meeting for all" instead of "Leave breakout room".

Certain rat poisons are one of the leading causes of death for CA’s mountain lions. Today, Governor Newsom signed @AsmRichardBloom's #AB1788 to prohibit use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides. bit.ly/CAmountainlions

Exhibit of the Day: 19 islands. 10 species of gigantic tortoises. Welcome to the Galápagos Islands! Some Galápagos tortoises weigh >660 lbs, making them the world’s largest living tortoises. Today around 20,000 tortoises live across the Galápagos Islands. #MuseumFromHome🐢

Genomic sequencing of viruses from the #COVID19 pandemic can help reveal transmission patterns. Thanks to data sharing through @GISAID from groups all over the world, @nextstrain is now showing 1882 #SARSCoV2 genomes. This is an update on a few aspects of what we're seeing. 1/14

Support my amazing scientist friend @KatieM_Walker during her thesis defense on Tuesday!

Another reason birds are awesome: New study published in @NatureComms finds that parrots weigh probabilities to make decisions; "first time such skill has been shown outside of humans and great apes." theguardian.com/science/2020/m… #ornithology

Look at how awesome my labmate @jess_schlarbaum is!! 🤩

When you just want one part of your PhD to go right and then you find out the hawk genome you assembled may have chloroplasts in it.

The best kind of support when all of your analyses are at a stand still and nothing is going right! #PhDog #emotionalsupport Anyone else have a #PhDog that gets them through the day?! ☺️

Anyone in CA looking for a change in scenery? 😄